Proton acceleration in a single-loop disrupted during collision of two moving solitary magnetic kinks

Sakai, J. I. and A. Kakimoto, Proton acceleration in a single-loop disrupted during collision of two moving solitary magnetic kinks, A&A, 425, 333-343 (2004) (ADS)

The cartoon

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The MoSMaK of the cartoon legend, perhaps not common parlance, means "MOving Solitary MAgnetic Kink" (in case you were curious). To the Archivist's superficial view, this is another attempt to graft particles onto an MHD simulation via false physics. Maybe possible, maybe not. The work was stimulated by the RHESSI observational suggestion that proton and electron precipation have different spatial patterns. Generically it is in the same category as the Uchida-Shibata "sweeping pinch" model. As with this model, there is a desperate lack of explanation as to where the MoSMaKs come from, and why there are two of them present simultaneously. But such thinking may lead to an explanation of part of the problem even so.

Date: 2008 August 08

Update: 2019 November 27