Electron precipitation and mass motion in the 1991 June 9 white-light flare

Autor: Eijiro Hiei, J. F. de La Beaujardiere, Takashi Sakurai, Richard C. Canfield, Kiyoshi Ichimoto, Thomas R. Metcalf
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Solar Physics. 151:389-392
ISSN: 1573-093X
0038-0938
DOI: 10.1007/bf00679084
Popis: We use H alpha line profiles as a diagnostic of mass motion and nonthermal electron precipitation in the white-light flare (WLF) of 1991 June 9 01:34 UT. We find only weak downflow velocities (approximately equals 10km/s) at the site of white-light emission, and comparable velocities elsewhere. We also find that electron precipitation is strongest at the WLF site. We conclude that continuum emission in this flare was probably caused by nonthermal electrons and not by dynamical energy transport via a chromospheric condensation.
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