Abstract
Abstract
Type II white-light flares (WLFs) have weak Balmer line emission and no Balmer jump. We carried out a set of radiative hydrodynamic simulations to understand how the hydrogen radiative losses vary with the electron-beam parameters and more specifically with the low-energy cutoff. Our results have revealed that for low-energy beams, the excess flare Lyman emission diminishes with increasing low-energy cutoff as the energy deposited into the top chromosphere is low compared to the energy deposited into the deeper layers. Some Balmer excess emission is always present and is driven primarily by direct heating from the beam with a minor contribution from Lyman continuum backwarming. The absence of Lyman excess emission in electron-beam driven models with high low-energy cutoff is a prominent spectral signature of type II WLFs.
Funder
European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme
Publisher
American Astronomical Society
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cited by
8 articles.
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