Measurements on a shock wave generated by a solar flare

Details Measurements on a shock wave generated by a solar flare Measurements on a shock wave generated by a solar flare

Nov 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982natur.300..237m&link_type=abstract

Nature, vol. 300, Nov. 18, 1982, p. 237-239.

Computer Science

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Shock Waves, Solar Flares, International Sun Earth Explorer 3, Solar Radio Emission, Velocity Measurement, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, X Rays

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Shock waves generated by intense solar flares may be driven by a large amount of ejected mass, about 5 x 10 to the 16th g, and the total energy involved may be of the order of 10 to the 32nd erg. The shocks may have initial velocities of the order of 2,000 km/s and, in their exodus through the corona, may be accompanied by fast-moving optical transients, the emission of highly characteristic radio signatures and the acceleration of particles to quasi-relativistic velocities. Here, a review is presented of data on a high-velocity shock generated by a flare on 18 August 1979, 1400 UT, and comments are provided on some previously deduced velocities for the shock. Attention is given to a model, based on current computer programs to account for the overall characteristics of the shock as it propagated through the corona and the interplanetary plasma.

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