The standard solar flare model: reloaded! KU Leuven
Solar flares represent the most energetic explosions in our heliosphere and they emit copious amounts of electromagnetic radiation. The standard solar flare model in solar and high energy astrophysics textbooks, is a cartoon of all physical ingredients: magnetic fields that change connectivity, plasma dynamics, charged particle acceleration, and both thermal and non-thermal (e.g. bremsstrahlung) radiative processes. While these ingredients ...