Magnetospheric substorms and solar flares |
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Authors: | S-I Akasofu |
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Institution: | (1) Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, 99701 Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Assuming that basic plasma processes associated with magnetospheric substorms and solar flares are similar and thus assuming also that a flare ribbon is produced by the impact of field-aligned current-carrying electrons on the chromosphere, a chain of processes leading to solar flares is considered, including the dynamo process in the photospheric level in the vicinity of bipolar sunspots, the formation of a sheet current in the lower coronal level, the interruption of the sheet current, the subsequent diversion of it to the chromosphere, the development of a potential drop along magnetic field lines, the acceleration of current-carrying electrons and their impact on the chromosphere, producing a pair of flare ribbons. |
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