Implications of high-energy neutron observations from solar flares
Abstract
The time-dependent flux of high-energy neutrons discovered from the solar flare of 1980 June 21 provides a new technique for determining the total number and energy spectrum of accelerated protons and nuclei at the Sun. The implications of these observations on gamma-ray emission, relativistic electron spectrum and number, proton and electron energy contents, and the location of the interaction region are also examined.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- October 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1086/184126
- Bibcode:
- 1983ApJ...273L..41R
- Keywords:
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- Gamma Ray Spectra;
- High Energy Interactions;
- Neutron Flux Density;
- Particle Acceleration;
- Solar Corpuscular Radiation;
- Solar Flares;
- Solar Neutrons;
- Energetic Particles;
- Energy Spectra;
- Particle Production;
- Relativistic Electron Beams;
- Solar Protons;
- Solar Spectra;
- Solar Physics