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Particle Orbits, Trapping, and Acceleration in a Filamentary Current Sheet Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Bernhard Kliem*
Affiliation:
Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, GermanyE-mail:bkliem@aip.de

Abstract

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Test particle orbits in the two-dimensional Fadeev equilibrium with a perpendicular electric field added are analyzed to show that impulsive bursty reconnection, which has been proposed as a model for fragmentary energy release in solar flares, may account also for particle acceleration to (near) relativistic energies within a fraction of a second. The convective electric field connected with magnetic island dynamics can play an important role in the acceleration process.

Subject headings: acceleration of particles — MHD — plasmas — Sun: corona — Sun: flares

Type
Poster Papers
Copyright
Copyright © The American Astronomical Society 1994

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