Abstract The γ-ray spectrometer on board the Solar Maximum Mission detected a large number of solar flares with γ-ray emission in the 10–100 MeV range. A smaller number of these events displayed evidence of a hardening of the photon spectrum around 70 MeV indicating the presence of neutral pion decay γ-rays. We consider thick-target calculations of the interaction of accelerated protons with the ambient solar atmosphere to address the production of this pion decay radiation.


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    Title :

    Interpretation of solar flare γ-Ray continuum observations


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 13 , 9 ; 259-262


    Publication date :

    1993-01-01


    Size :

    4 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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