太陽フレアは,大きな冠体内のほぼすべての電子を加速します
Gregory D Fleishman1, Gelu M Nita2, Bin Chen2
1Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. gfleishm@njit.edu.
Nature
|June 8, 2022
まとめ
太陽フレアでは電子が加速しますが 厳密なX線観測では 電子が加速しません 電子加速の全体積を明らかにし,それを示す
科学分野:
- 太陽物理学
- プラズマ天体物理学
- 高エネルギー天体物理学
背景:
- 太陽フレアは磁気エネルギーを放出し 電子を加速します
- 硬いX線観測は密度の高い領域に限られ,加速電子が欠けている可能性があります.
- 以前の研究では,電子の加速量を完全に解明することができなかった.
研究 の 目的:
- 太陽フレア中の電子加速の 空間的範囲を決定する
- 熱と非熱の電子の分布を調査する
- 磁気エネルギーの放出と粒子加速の関係を理解する
主な方法:
- 空間解析のためのマイクロ波観測を用いた.
- 熱と非熱の電子の分布を導いた.
- 観測された電子分布とフレアプラズマの性質を比較した.
主要な成果:
- 主に非熱電子で満たされた 独特の体積を特定しました
- この加速量は熱プラズマの 枯渇を観察した.
- この体積は周囲の 典型的なフレアプラズマから隔離されている
結論:
- マイクロ波観測は 太陽フレアの完全な電子加速領域を明らかにします
- 効率的な電子加速は,熱プラズマのない放出された磁気エネルギーの量で発生します.
- この発見は,限られた観測量に基づいた以前の仮定に異議を唱える.
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