Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-dh8gc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-07T23:05:05.887Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

A Model for Solar Flares Invoking Weak Double Layers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J. I. Khan*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, N.S.W. 2006

Abstract

A simple model for solar flares is described which invokes many ion-acoustic double layers in the source region. The ability of the model to explain some of the observed characteristics of solar flares is discussed, particular attention being paid to the well-observed high-energy flare examined by de Jager et al. (1987).

Type
Theoretical
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1989

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Alfvén, H., (1981), Cosmic Plasma, D. Reidel Publ. Co., Dordrecht, Netherlands.Google Scholar
Alfvén, H., and Carlqvist, P., (1967), Solar Phys., 1, 220.Google Scholar
Bailey, A. III., and Hershkowitz, N., (1988), Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barnes, C., Hudson, M. K., and Lotko, W., (1985), Phys. Fluids 28, 1055.Google Scholar
Block, L. P., (1978), Astrophys. Space Sci., 55, 59.Google Scholar
Boström, R., Gustafsson, G., Holback, B., Holmgren, G., Koskinen, H., and Kintner, P., (1988), Preprint 105, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala Division.Google Scholar
Carlqvist, P., (1969), Solar Phys., 7, 377.Google Scholar
Carlqvist, P., (1979), Solar Phys., 63, 353.Google Scholar
de Jager, C., (1988), Preprint. Proc. 20th Int. Cosmic Ray Conf. Moscow.Google Scholar
de Jager, C., Kuijpers, J., Correia, E., and Kaufmann, P., (1987), Solar Phys., 110, 317.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
deLoach, A. C, Hagyard, M. J., Rabin, D., Moore, R. L., Smith, J.B. Jr., West, E. A. and Tandberg-Hanssen, E., (1984), Solar Phys., 91, 235.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Haisch, B. M., Bruner, M. E., Hagyard, M. J., and Bonnet, R. M., (1986), Astrophys. J., 300, 428.Google Scholar
Hershkowitz, N., (1985), Space Sci. Rev., 41, 351.Google Scholar
Kaufmann, P., Correia, E., Costa, J. E. R., Zodi Vaz, A. M., and Dennis, B. R., (1985), Nature 313, 380.Google Scholar
Kocharov, L. G., and Kocharov, G. E., (1984), Space Sci. Rev., 38, 89.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rabin, D., and Moore, R., (1984), Astrophys. J., 285, 359.Google Scholar
Ramaty, R., Colgate, S. A., Dulk, G. A., Hoyng, P., Knight, J. W., Lin, R. P., Melrose, D.B., Orrall, F., Paizis, C., Shapiro, P. R., Smith, D. F., and van Hollebeke, M., (1980), in Sturrock, P. A. (ed.), Solar Flares, Colorado Associated University Press, Boulder, p. 117.Google Scholar
Rosner, R., Golub, L., Coppi, B., and Vaiana, G. S., (1978), Astrophys. J., 222, 317.Google Scholar
Sato, T., and Okuda, H., (1980), Phys. Rev. Lett., 44, 740.Google Scholar
Sato, T., and Okuda, H., (1981), J. Geophys. Res., 86, 3357.Google Scholar
Smith, R. A., (1985), in Kundu, M. R. and Holman, G. D. (eds.), ‘Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities in Astrophysics’, IAU Symp., 107, 113.Google Scholar
Smith, R. A., and Goertz, C. K., (1978), J. Geophys. Res., 83 2617.Google Scholar
Temerin, M., Cerny, K., Lotko, W., and Mozer, F. S., (1982), Phys. Rev. Lett., 48, 1175.Google Scholar