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Anomalous Cooling of Coronal Loops with Turbulent Suppression of Thermal Conduction
Nicolas H. Bian, Jonathan M. Watters, Eduard P. Kontar +1
We investigate the impact of turbulent suppression of parallel heat conduction on the cooling of post-flare coronal loops. Depending on the value of the mean free path associ…
Effect of collisions and magnetic convergence on electron acceleration and transport in reconnecting twisted solar flare loops
M. Gordovskyy, P. K. Browning, E. P. Kontar +1
We study a model of particle acceleration coupled with an MHD model of magnetic reconnection in unstable twisted coronal loops. The kink instability leads to the formation of helic…
Particle acceleration and transport in reconnecting twisted loops in a stratified atmosphere
Mykola Gordovskyy, Philippa Browning, Eduard Kontar +1
Twisted coronal loops should be ubiquitous in the solar corona. Twisted magnetic fields contain excess magnetic energy, which can be released during magnetic reconnection, causing…
The Formation of Kappa-Distribution Accelerated Electron Populations in Solar Flares
Nicolas H. Bian, A. Gordon Emslie, Duncan J. Stackhouse +1
Driven by recent RHESSI observations of confined loop-top hard X-ray sources in solar flares, we consider stochastic acceleration of electrons in the presence of Coulomb collisions…