Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005a%26a...435..743s&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 435, Issue 2, May IV 2005, pp.743-752
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Acceleration Of Particles, Sun: Flares, Sun: X-Rays, Gamma Rays
Scientific paper
The energy of the thermal flare plasma and the kinetic energy of the non-thermal electrons in 14 hard X-ray peaks from 9 medium-sized solar flares have been determined from RHESSI observations.
The emissions have been carefully separated in the spectrum.
The turnover or cutoff in the low-energy distribution of electrons has been studied by simulation and fitting, yielding a reliable lower limit to the non-thermal energy.
It remains the largest contribution to the error budget.
Other effects, such as albedo, non-uniform target ionization, hot target, and cross-sections on the spectrum have been studied.
The errors of the thermal energy are about equally as large.
They are due to the estimate of the flare volume, the assumption of the filling factor, and energy losses.
Within a flare, the non-thermal/thermal ratio increases with accumulation time, as expected from loss of thermal energy due to radiative cooling or heat conduction.
Our analysis suggests that the thermal and non-thermal energies are of the same magnitude.
This surprising result may be interpreted by an efficient conversion of non-thermal energy to hot flare plasma.
Benz Arnold O.
Saint-Hilaire Pascal
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