Particle distributions and X-ray spectra in single or multiple solar current sheets

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Jul 2007

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 378, Issue 3, pp. 1019-1030.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Acceleration Of Particles, Radiation Mechanisms: Non-Thermal, Sun: Flares, Sun: X-Rays, Gamma-Rays

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The acceleration of charged particles in a site of magnetic reconnection is analysed by detailed numerical simulations. Single or multiple encounters of the particles with Harris-type reconnecting current sheets (RCSs) are modelled as an overall stochastic process taking place within an active region. RCS physical parameters are selected in a parameter space relevant to solar flares. Initially, the charged particles form a thermal (Maxwellian) distribution corresponding to coronal temperature ~=2 × 106 K. Our main goal is to investigate how the acceleration process changes the shape of the particles' kinetic energy distribution. The evolution of the kinetic energy distribution, calculated numerically after one encounter of the particles with a single RCS, is found to be in good agreement with our previously published analytical formulae. In the case of consecutive encounters, we find that the kinetic distribution tends to converge to a practically invariant form after a relatively small number of encounters. We construct a discrete stochastic process that reproduces the numerical distributions and we provide a theoretical interpretation of the asymptotic convergence of the energy distribution. We finally compute the theoretical X-ray spectra that would be emitted by the simulated particles in a thick target model of radiation.

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