Release of solar cosmic rays from the corona: Rayleigh-Taylor instability and reconnection

Journal Article · Wed Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 1983 · Astrophys. J.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1086/161085· OSTI ID:5668371

Mullan, D J

We point out that the coronal bottle model (including Rayleigh-Taylor instability and reconnection) proposed by Schatten and Mullan for propagation and release of solar cosmic rays (SCR) is useful for interpreting data on the durations t/sub s/ of type II radio bursts compiled recently by Kahler. In particular, a natural release time scale (t/sub r/approx.10/sup 3/) which plays a key role in the bottle model allows a significant ordering of Kahler's data: essentially all flare shocks having t/sub s/>t/sub r/ release solar particles into interplanetary space, while essentially all flare shocks which release no energetic particles into interplanetary space have t/sub s/

• Research Organization: Bartol Research Foundation of The Franklin Institute, University of Delaware
• OSTI ID: 5668371
• Journal Information: Astrophys. J.; (United States), Vol. 269:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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