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Solar Flares: High-Energy Radiation and Particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Erich Rieger*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Institutfìir extraterrestrische Physik, 8046 Garching, F.R.G.

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Due to the Sun's proximity flares can be investigated in the gamma-ray regime and flare generated particles can be measured in space and related to particular events. In this review paper we focus on the problem of particle acceleration by using as observational ingredients: the fluxes and spectra of particles inferred from gamma-ray measurements and observed in interplanetary space, the temporal characteristics of flares at high-energy X- and gamma-rays and the distribution of gamma-ray flares over the solar disc.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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