arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 1104.2997astro-ph.SR
收藏

作为低太阳大气中耀斑加速高能电子诊断的硬X射线足点尺寸和位置

Hard X-ray footpoint sizes and positions as diagnostics of flare accelerated energetic electrons in the low solar atmosphere

Marina Battaglia, Eduard P. Kontar

摘要:

太阳耀斑中的硬X射线(HXR)辐射几乎完全来自耀斑区域的一小部分,即磁环的足点。利用RHESSI对太阳耀斑足点的观测,确定了6个近临边事件足点的径向位置和大小随能量的变化,以研究耀斑加速电子的输运和色球层的性质。HXR可见性前向拟合允许在HXR范围内的不同能量下找到沿着和垂直于扩口回路的磁场的HXR足迹点的位置/高度和尺寸。我们发现,在一半的分析事件,一个明确的趋势,降低的高度源的能量found. Supposed碰撞厚靶运输,HXR源位于600和1200公里以上的光球光子能量分别为120和25 keV之间。在其他事件中,作为能量函数的位置在不确定性范围内是恒定的。垂直尺寸(沿电子传播的路径)的范围从1.3到8弧秒,这是高达4倍大于厚目标模型的预测,即使在HXR源的位置/高度与碰撞厚目标模型一致的事件。磁镜,碰撞俯仰角散射和X射线散射的结果进行了讨论作为潜在的解释。

英文摘要:

The hard X-ray (HXR) emission in solar flares comes almost exclusively from a very small part of the flaring region, the footpoints of magnetic loops. Using RHESSI observations of solar flare footpoints, we determine the radial positions and sizes of footpoints as a function of energy in six near-limb events to investigate the transport of flare accelerated electrons and the properties of the chromosphere. HXR visibility forward fitting allows to find the positions/heights and the sizes of HXR footpoints along and perpendicular to the magnetic field of the flaring loop at different energies in the HXR range. We show that in half of the analyzed events, a clear trend of decreasing height of the sources with energy is found. Assuming collisional thick-target transport, HXR sources are located between 600 and 1200 km above the photosphere for photon energies between 120 and 25 keV respectively. In the other events, the position as a function of energy is constant within the uncertainties. The vertical sizes (along the path of electron propagation) range from 1.3 to 8 arcseconds which is up to a factor 4 larger than predicted by the thick-target model even in events where the positions/heights of HXR sources are consistent with the collisional thick-target model. Magnetic mirroring, collisional pitch angle scattering and X-ray albedo are discussed as potential explanations of the findings.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑