Collisionless Reconnection and High‐Energy Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares
The Astrophysical Journal1997Vol. 485(2), pp. 859–868
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Abstract
Observations with the Hard X-Ray Telescope (HXT) and the Soft X-Ray Telescope (SXT) on board Yohkoh show that the reconnection process is common to impulsive and gradual flares. We apply the collisionless reconnection theory—more exactly, the model of a high-temperature turbulent-current sheet (HTTCS)—to the coronal conditions derived from the Yohkoh data on the site and mechanism of magnetic energy transformation into kinetic and thermal energies of "superhot" plasma and accelerated particles. We consider the reconnecting current sheet as the source of flare energy and the first-step mechanism in a two-step acceleration of electrons and ions to high energies.
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