Electron Acceleration and Plasma Heating in Solar Flares

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May 2010

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #404.28; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.904

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Collisional coupling of electrons decreases with the increase of the electron energy. The generic electron distribution in a non-equilibrium plasma therefore includes two components: a quasi-thermal component at low energies and a power-law component at high energies. In the context of stochastic electron acceleration by plasma turbulence in the solar corona and with the assumption that the thermal and power-law components are responsible for the observed gradual and impulsive X-ray emissions, respectively, we will show how the electron acceleration efficiency may be extracted from RHESSI observations of flaring loops. This work is supported by the EU's SOLAIRE Research and Training Network at the University of Glasgow (MTRN-CT-2006-035484).

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