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Contribution Poster (WITHDRAWN)
SOURCES OF EFEECTIVE PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN SOLAR FLARES:OBSERVATIONAL ASPECT
Speakers
- Dr. Alexei OSOKIN
Primary authors
- Dr. Alexei OSOKIN (Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University)
Co-authors
- Prof. Moisey LIVSHITS (Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave)
Abstract content
This investigation is a continuation of the statistic analysis of the Solar Proton Event Catalogue. We studied spectra of proton growing/increases, which are indentificated with the logarithm of the particle fluxes ratio above the 100 and 10 MeV, i.e. with value of \delta = \lg (F_{100} / F_{10} ), for 172 powerful events when conditions for particles to leave the corona and to propagate into interplanetary space are auspicously/opportunely. Distribution of number of flares over the \delta is Gaussian with comparatively small spread over the \delta. Its maximum corresponds to an excess of the maximal flux at 10 MeV above the 100 MeV flux by a factor of 30. An existence of a distilled/definite spectrum is an evidence for afact that noth the soft and the harder protons are accelerated effectively during the explosive phase of the flare rather due to one/single mechanism. Low height of a location of the general acceleration follows from a carried out by us study of flare loop sizes for M2 - X4 events registered by HXT Yohkoh at the range above 50 keV. There is some excess of the softer events out of the Gaussian distribution. During these flares post-eruptive phenomena are well expressed. For them the value \delta does correlate with an introduced by us total duration of the flare. Thus, during solar flares there two sources of particle acceleration, workig at the explosive and post-eruprive phases at low and large heights correspondingly. In the second of the sources, directly seen during some prolonged flares and a "filament ejection"-like phenomena, protons are accelerated only to energies of 10-30 MeV.