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Over the decade we entered a brand new exploration part of sunlight flare physics, built with strong spacecraft similar to Yohkoh, SoHO, and hint that professional­ vide us detail-rich and high-resolution photos of sun flares in tender X-rays, demanding X -rays, and extreme-ultraviolet wavelengths. furthermore, the large-area and excessive­ sensitivity detectors at the Compton GRO spacecraft recorded an exceptional variety of high-energy photons from sunlight flares that surpasses all detected excessive­ strength resources taken jointly from the remainder of the universe, for which CGRO used to be in general designed to discover. besides the fact that, morphological descriptions of those beau­ tiful images and statistical catalogs of those large information of sun info wouldn't express us a lot knowing of the underlying physics, if we'd now not got down to quantify actual parameters from those facts and wouldn't topic those measurements to theoretical versions. traditionally, there has consistently been an unsatisfactory hole among conventional astronomy that dutifully describes the mor­ phology of observations, and the more moderen process of astrophysics, which starts off with actual strategies from first ideas and analyzes astronomical facts with the target to substantiate or disprove theoretical versions. during this evaluation we strive to bridge this yawning hole and target to give the new advancements in sunlight flare high-energy physics from a actual standpoint, structuring the observations and research effects in accordance with actual techniques, akin to particle acceleration, propagation, strength loss, kinematics, and radiation signatures.

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It is then reasonable to assume that these loops have a cylindrical symmetry, which yields an estimate of the line-of-sight depth z ~ w, so that the emission measure EM can be used to infer the electron density ne in such loops, EM = f n;(z)dz ~< ne >2 w . (13) If the soft X-ray source has a filling factor of less than unity, the so determined electron density represents only a lower limit. -~-~---, .. 0 Figure 21. Statistics of radio frequencies (left column), electron densities (middle column), and the ratio of radio-inferred to soft X-ray-inferred densities (right column).

O max0F2-6 , / -12L-_____~_ _ ____:_-----~ o w x ~ 00 Figure 25. Two-dimensional MHD simulation of dynamic magnetic reconnection, showing the magnetic field (left panels) and current density (right panels). Regions with anomalous resistivity are shown shaded in the magnetic field plot (at y=O) [from KIiem , KarIicky, and Benz, 2000]. , 1999c), which may be governed by similar MHD dynamics and could explain modulated particle acceleration. On the other side, recent flare observations with TRACE show also a high degree of spatial structuring, amounting up to some 100 postflare loops in larger flare events.

Karpen et al. 5-dimensional numerical MHD simulations of shear-driven magnetic reconnection in a double arcade with quadrupolar magnetic topology. For strong shear, the initial X-point was found to lengthen upward into a current sheet, which reconnects gradually for a while but then began to undergo multiple tearing. Several magnetic islands develop in sequence, move toward the ends of the sheet, and disappear through reconnection with the overlying and underlying field (Fig. 27). A second study with similar quadrupolar configuration PARTICLE KINEMATICS IN SOLAR FLARES 565$ sseo 53 575s 4_ Il: g 1100 .!

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