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Full-Text Articles in The Sun and the Solar System
New Promise For Electron Bulk Energization In Solar Flares: Preferential Fermi Acceleration Of Electrons Over Protons In Reconnection-Driven Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Ted La Rosa, Ronald L. Moore, James A. Miller, Steven N. Shore
New Promise For Electron Bulk Energization In Solar Flares: Preferential Fermi Acceleration Of Electrons Over Protons In Reconnection-Driven Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Ted La Rosa, Ronald L. Moore, James A. Miller, Steven N. Shore
Faculty Articles
The hard X-ray luminosity of impulsive solar flares indicates that electrons in the low corona are bulk energized to energies of order 25 keV. LaRosa & Moore pointed out that the required bulk energization could be produced by cascading MHD turbulence generated by Alfvénic outflows from sites of strongly driven reconnection. LaRosa, Moore, & Shore proposed that the compressive component of the cascading turbulence dissipates into the electrons via Fermi acceleration. However, for this to be a viable electron bulk energization mechanism, the rate of proton energization by the same turbulence cannot exceed the electron energization rate. In this paper …
Stochastic Electron Acceleration By Cascading Fast Mode Waves In Impulsive Solar Flares, James A. Miller, Ted N. La Rosa, Ronald L. Moore
Stochastic Electron Acceleration By Cascading Fast Mode Waves In Impulsive Solar Flares, James A. Miller, Ted N. La Rosa, Ronald L. Moore
Faculty Articles
We present a model for the acceleration of electrons from thermal to ultrarelativistic energies during an energy release fragment in an impulsive solar flare. Long-wavelength low-amplitude fast mode waves are assumed to be generated during the initial flare energy release (by, for example, large-scale restructuring of the magnetic field). These waves nonlinearly cascade to higher wavenumbers and eventually reach the dissipation range, whereupon they are transit-time damped by electrons in the tail of the thermal distribution. The electrons, in turn, are energized out of the tail and into substantially higher energies. We find that for turbulence energy densities much smaller …
Estimating Milky-Way Dark Matter: Its Amount And Distribution, Jeffery E. Clayton, Sue Ellen Mccloskey, Wilfred J. Braithwaite
Estimating Milky-Way Dark Matter: Its Amount And Distribution, Jeffery E. Clayton, Sue Ellen Mccloskey, Wilfred J. Braithwaite
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
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Basic Astronomy Labs, Terry L. Smith, Michael D. Reynolds, Jay S. Huebner
Basic Astronomy Labs, Terry L. Smith, Michael D. Reynolds, Jay S. Huebner
Physics Faculty Research and Scholarship
Providing the tools and know-how to apply the principles of astronomy first-hand, these 43 laboratory exercises each contain an introduction that clearly shows budding astronomers why the particular topic of that lab is of interest and relevant to astronomy. About one-third of the exercises are devoted solely to observation, and no mathematics is required beyond simple high school algebra and trigonometry.Organizes exercises into six major topics—sky, optics and spectroscopy, celestial mechanics, solar system, stellar properties, and exploration and other topics—providing clear outlines of what is involved in the exercise, its purpose, and what procedures and apparatus are to be used. …