The need for focused, hard X-ray investigations of the Sun

Glesener, L. et al. (2023) The need for focused, hard X-ray investigations of the Sun. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 55(3), (doi: 10.3847/25c2cfeb.78fa7c49)

Abstract

Understanding accelerated particles at the Sun is one of the most important problems in heliophysics. Flare-accelerated particles have huge energies; are an important source of particles in the heliosphere; and are the most important corollary to other areas of high-energy astrophysics. This paper describes the scientific motivation for X-ray studies of particle acceleration at the Sun.

• Item Type: Articles
• Keywords: Vol. 55, Issue 3 (Heliophysics 2024 Decadal Whitepapers)
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Kontar, Professor Eduard and Hudson, Dr Hugh and Simoes, Dr Paulo and Hannah, Dr Iain
• Authors: Glesener, L., Shih, A. Y., Caspi, A., Milligan, R., Hudson, H., Oka, M., Buitrago-Casas, J. C., Guo, F., Ryan, D., Kontar, E., Veronig, A., Hayes, L. A., Inglis, A., Golub, L., Vilmer, N., Gary, D., Reid, H., Hannah, I., Kerr, G. S., Reeves, K. K., Allred, J., Guidoni, S., Yu, S., Christe, S., Musset, S., Dennis, B., Oliveros, J. C. M., Athiray, P. S., Vievering, J., White, S., Winebarger, A., Drake, J., Jeffrey, N., Antiochos, S., Duncan, J., Zhang, Y., Alaoui, M., Simoes, P. J. A., Battaglia, M., Setterberg, W., Masek, R., Chen, T. Y., Peterson, M., Krucker, S., Temmer, M., Saint-Hilaire, P., Petrosian, V., Knuth, T., and Moore, C.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
• Publisher: American Astronomical Society
• ISSN: 0002-7537
• ISSN (Online): 0002-7537
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 55(3)
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence