Particle acceleration and plasma heating at collisionless shocks in solar flares.
Abstract
Recent observations suggest that the energy release in solar flares may occur in many small bursts. If these bursts give rise to plasma heating, a large number of collisionless shocks will be generated. These shocks can individually heat plasma and accelerate particles, but the interaction of particles with many shocks as well as of shocks with each other can give rise to further heating and acceleration.
- Publication:
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Solar and Stellar Flares. Poster Papers
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989sasf.confP.325C
- Keywords:
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- Solar Flares: Particle Acceleration;
- Solar Flares: Shock Waves;
- Solar Flares: Energy Transfer