Investigation of Quasi-periodic Variations in Hard X-Rays of Solar Flares. II. Further Investigation of Oscillating Magnetic Traps |
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| Authors: | J Jakimiec M Tomczak |
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| Institution: | (1) Astronomical Institute, University of Wrocław, ul. Kopernika 11, 51-622 Wrocław, Poland |
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| Abstract: | In our recent paper (Jakimiec and Tomczak, Solar Physics
261, 233, 2010) we investigated quasi-periodic oscillations of hard X-rays during the impulsive phase of solar flares. We have come to the
conclusion that they are caused by magnetosonic oscillations of magnetic traps within the volume of hard-X-ray (HXR) loop-top
sources. In the present paper we investigate four flares that show clear quasi-periodic sequences of the HXR pulses. We also
describe our phenomenological model of oscillating magnetic traps to show that it can explain the observed properties of the
HXR oscillations. The main results are the following: i) Low-amplitude quasi-periodic oscillations occur before the impulsive
phase of some flares. ii) The quasi-periodicity of the oscillations can change in some flares. We interpret this as being
due to changes of the length of oscillating magnetic traps. iii) During the impulsive phase a significant part of the energy
of accelerated (non-thermal) electrons is deposited within a HXR loop-top source. iv) The quick development of the impulsive
phase is due to feedback between the pressure pulses by accelerated electrons and the amplitude of the magnetic-trap oscillation.
v) The electron number density and magnetic field strength values obtained for the HXR loop-top sources in several flares
fall within the limits of N≈(2 – 15)×1010 cm−3, B≈(45 – 130) gauss. These results show that the HXR quasi-periodic oscillations contain important information about the energy
release in solar flares. |
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