Particle acceleration in the process of eruptive opening and reconnection of magnetic fields
Svestka, Z., S. F. Martin, and R. A. Kopp, Particle acceleration in the process of eruptive opening and reconnection of magnetic fields, 91, 217-221 (1980) (ADS)
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Despite crummy conference-proceedings graphics, this clearly lays out the
key argument in favor of large-scale magnetic reconnection as an explanation
of flare ribbons: the behavior at the outer edges of the ribbons.
This key property was well-known to the Hα observers in the 1970s.
The basic scenario here (CSHKP) balefully dominates this Archive.
Either cartoonists lack initiative, or else there is something to it.
Švestka [1] was an early and enthusiastic supporter of these ideas.
The basic "proof" was in the relationship between the
"sporadic coronal condensations"
observed in the coronal "yellow line" (Ca XV) and interpreted as
X-ray sources via the Sudden Phase Anomaly
ionospheric effect, and the
Hα loop prominence systems described e.g. by Bruzek in the 1950s.
Note the cooling sequence neatly laid out, starting with some unknown magic
termed "neutral point particle acceleration."
Despite crummy conference-proceedings graphics, this clearly lays out the key argument in favor of large-scale magnetic reconnection as an explanation of flare ribbons: the behavior at the outer edges of the ribbons. This key property was well-known to the Hα observers in the 1970s.
The basic scenario here (CSHKP) balefully dominates this Archive. Either cartoonists lack initiative, or else there is something to it. Švestka [1] was an early and enthusiastic supporter of these ideas. The basic "proof" was in the relationship between the "sporadic coronal condensations" observed in the coronal "yellow line" (Ca XV) and interpreted as X-ray sources via the Sudden Phase Anomaly ionospheric effect, and the Hα loop prominence systems described e.g. by Bruzek in the 1950s. Note the cooling sequence neatly laid out, starting with some unknown magic termed "neutral point particle acceleration."
[1] Z. Švestka