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Particle acceleration by a solar flare termination shock

Published:2015-12-04 Issue:6265 Volume:350 Page:1238-1242
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Chen Bin¹,Bastian Timothy S.²,Shen Chengcai¹,Gary Dale E.³,Krucker Säm⁴⁵,Glesener Lindsay⁴⁶

Affiliation:

1. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

2. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA.

3. New Jersey Institute of Technology, 323 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.

4. University of California, Berkeley, 7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

5. University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Bahnhofstrasse 6, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland.

6. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 116 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

Abstract

Electron acceleration in solar flares Magnetic reconnection during a solar flare releases energy into the Sun's atmosphere, some of which is converted into accelerated particles in the plasma. Chen et al. combined radio and ultraviolet observations of a solar flare to identify the termination shock region where electrons are accelerated to relativistic speeds. They confirmed these results with magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. This improved knowledge of the mechanism behind flares improves our understanding of the solar wind and space weather. Science , this issue p. 1238

Funder

NSF

NASA

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)

NSF SHINE

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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