The Sun as a Gamma-Ray Source

Rieger, E.; Rank, G.

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-04593-0_5

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“…It consists of two types: from electrons directly accelerated in the flare and from secondary electrons and positrons released in high-energy reactions (involving pion decay and muon production). For further details see, e.g., Rieger and Rank (2001). …”

Section: Gamma-rays (And White Light)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Space Weather: The Solar Perspective

Schwenn

2006

Living Rev. Solar Phys.

425

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The term space weather refers to conditions on the Sun and in the solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere that can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based technological systems and that can affect human life and health. Our modern hi-tech society has become increasingly vulnerable to disturbances from outside the Earth system, in particular to those initiated by explosive events on the Sun: Flares release flashes of radiation that can heat up the terrestrial atmosphere such that satellites are slowed down and drop into lower orbits, solar energetic particles accelerated to near-relativistic energies may endanger astronauts traveling through interplanetary space, and coronal mass ejections are gigantic clouds of ionized gas ejected into interplanetary space that after a few hours or days may hit the Earth and cause geomagnetic storms. In this review, I describe the several chains of actions originating in our parent star, the Sun, that affect Earth, with particular attention to the solar phenomena and the subsequent effects in interplanetary space.

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Section: Gamma-rays (And White Light)mentioning

confidence: 99%