PARTICLE ACCELERATION PHENOMENA IN ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS Pulsed Acceleration in Solar Flare.pdfVIP

Version Jan THE ASTR OPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES IAU Collo quium Univ Maryland College ParkMD January PARTICLE ACCELERATION PHENOMENA IN ASTR OPHYSICAL PLASMAS Pulsed Acceleration in Solar Flares Markus J Aschwanden 1 University of Maryland Astronomy Department Col lege Park MD Arnold O Benz2 Institute of Astronomy Federal Institute of Technology ETH CH Zurich Switzerland Brian R Dennis3 Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics NASAGoddard Space Flight Center Code Greenbelt MD ABSTRACT We study the nonlinear dynamics of particle acceleration in solar ares by analyzing the time series of various quasip erio dic radio signatures during ares In particular we present the radio and hard Xray data of ares which supp ort the following tentative conclusions Particle acceleration and injection into magnetic lo ops o ccurs intrinsically in a pulsed mo de with a typical p erio d of s pro duced by a single spatially coherent nonlinear system eg electric AC eld rather than by a sto chastic system with many spatially indep endent comp onents eg a statistical are pro duced by a fragmented primary energy release The nonlinear quasip erio dic mo de of pulsed particle acceleration and injection into a coronal lo op can b e stabilized by an MHD wave oscillation mo de by phaselo cking if b oth p erio ds are close to each other Pulsed injection of electron b eams into a coronal lo op triggers or excites nonlinear relaxational oscillations of