The Flares of August 1972
Abstract
We present the analysis of observations of the August flares at Big Bear and Tel Aviv, involving monochromatic movies, magnetograms and spectra. In each flare the observations fit a model of particle acceleration in the chromosphere with emission produced by impact and by heating by the energetic electrons and protons. The region showed inverted polarity and high gradients from birth, and flares appear due to strong magnetic shears and gradients across the neutral line produced by sunspot motions. Post flare loops show a strong change from sheared, force-free fields parallel to potential-field-like loops, perpendicular to the neutral line above the surface.
- Publication:
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Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 1973
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00152736
- Bibcode:
- 1973SoPh...32..173Z
- Keywords:
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- Flare;
- Neutral Line;
- Magnetic Shear;
- Impulsive Wave;
- Flare Loop