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Charge transfer X‐rays in solar and stellar flares |
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| Authors: | JC Raymond |
| Abstract: | Most of the energy in a solar flare, and presumably a stellar flare as well, takes the form of a power law of energetic particles. The energetic electrons produce a bremsstrahlung continuum, while the most energetic nuclei produce gamma‐rays. Nuclei around 1 MeV/AMU can produce X‐rays during and after charge transfer with neutrals. This paper predicts the fluxes for some prominent X‐ray lines and compares them to existing spectra (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) |
| Keywords: | atomic processes stars: flare Sun: flares Sun: particle emission Sun: X‐rays gamma rays |