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在太阳耀斑中在环顶和足点源的非热电子速率对电子加速和输运的影响

Implications for electron acceleration and transport from non-thermal electron rates at looptop and footpoint sources in solar flares

Paulo J. A. Simões, Eduard P. Kontar

摘要:

硬X射线(HXR)辐射源与电子加速和输运的相互关系是高能太阳耀斑物理研究的主要问题之一。对太阳耀斑的空间分辨观测经常表明存在分离良好的韧致辐射源,即所谓的日冕源和足点源。利用空间分辨的X射线观测资料和最近改进的成像技术,我们详细研究了几个观测良好的太阳耀斑的空间分辨电子分布。选定的耀斑可以被解释为具有标准的几何形状与色球HXR足点源相关的厚目标X射线发射和日冕源的热和薄目标韧致辐射的组合为特征。使用成像光谱技术,我们推导出的特征电子速率和光谱指数所需的解释冠状和足点X射线源。我们发现,在脉冲阶段,电子率在looptop是几倍(1.7-8倍)高于在脚点。结果表明,足够数量的电子加速的环顶解释沉淀到脚点,并意味着电子积累在环顶。我们讨论了这些结果的磁捕获,俯仰角散射,和注入性能。我们的结论是,加速的电子必须受到磁捕获和/或俯仰角散射,保持一小部分人口被困在日冕环内。这些研究结果提出了强有力的约束,在日冕源的粒子输运,并提供定量限制在日冕源的deka-keV电子捕获/散射。

英文摘要:

The interrelation of hard X-ray (HXR) emitting sources and the underlying physics of electron acceleration and transport presents one of the major questions in high-energy solar flare physics. Spatially resolved observations of solar flares often demonstrate the presence of well-separated sources of bremsstrahlung emission, so-called coronal and footpoint sources. Using spatially resolved X-ray observations by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) and recently improved imaging techniques, we investigate in detail the spatially resolved electron distributions in a few well-observed solar flares. The selected flares can be interpreted as having a standard geometry with chromospheric HXR footpoint sources related to thick-target X-ray emission and the coronal sources characterised by a combination of thermal and thin-target bremsstrahlung. Using imaging spectroscopy techniques, we deduce the characteristic electron rates and spectral indices required to explain the coronal and footpoint X-ray sources. We found that, during the impulsive phase, the electron rate at the looptop is several times (a factor of 1.7-8) higher than at the footpoints. The results suggest that a sufficient number of electrons accelerated in the looptop explain the precipitation into the footpoints and imply that electrons accumulate in the looptop. We discuss these results in terms of magnetic trapping, pitch-angle scattering, and injection properties. Our conclusion is that the accelerated electrons must be subject to magnetic trapping and/or pitch-angle scattering, keeping a fraction of the population trapped inside the coronal loops. These findings put strong constraints on the particle transport in the coronal source and provide quantitative limits on deka-keV electron trapping/scattering in the coronal source.

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