Thick-Target Processes and White-Light Flares
Abstract
Observations indicate that fast electrons in solar flares, which cause the hard X-ray burst and the impulsive microwave burst, lose energy predominantly by collisional processes. This requires a thick-target theory of the emission, for which the electron spectrum inferred from the X-ray spectrum becomes 1.5 powers steeper than in the usual thin-target theory.
- Publication:
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Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 1972
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00153384
- Bibcode:
- 1972SoPh...24..414H
- Keywords:
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- Flare;
- Optical Depth;
- Solar Flare;
- Fast Electron;
- Continuum Emission