High energy particle acceleration in solar flares — observational evidence

✍ Scribed by E. L. Chupp

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 510 KB
• Volume: 86
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0938
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00157212

✦ Synopsis

The recent gamma ray and neutron observatfons made by the SMM Gamma Ray Spectrometer are reviewed.

The implication these observations hold for understanding particle acceleration in solar flares are discussed. The data require that both electrons and ions must be accelerated together to relativistic energies and interact with matter in a time scale of seconds.