A Comparison of the Height Distribution of Solar Flare Hard X-Rays in Thick Target and Thermal Models.
Abstract
We compute the height structure of hard X-ray bremsstrahlung emission in solar flares for two different models of the bremsstrahlung production; viz. emission from a descending beam of non-thermal electrons, and thermal emission from a coronally confined hot plasma, respectively. It is shown how these two different bremsstrahlung models give rise to hard X-ray spatial distributions which are distinguishable by current instrumentation, and that therefore the models may be distinguished by such spatially resolved hard x-ray flux measurements. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA097138
Entities
People
- A. Gordon Emslie
Organizations
- Stanford University