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Periodic Acceleration of Electrons in the 1998 November 10 Solar Flare

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Published 2001 October 30 © 2001. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.
, , Citation A. Asai et al 2001 ApJ 562 L103 DOI 10.1086/338052

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Abstract

We present an examination of the multiwavelength observation of a C7.9 flare that occurred on 1998 November 10. This is the first imaging observation of the quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs). Four bursts were observed with the hard X-ray telescope aboard Yohkoh and the Nobeyama Radioheliograph during the impulsive phase of the flare. In the second burst, the hard X-ray and microwave time profiles clearly showed a QPP. We estimated the Alfvén transit time along the flare loop using the images of the soft X-ray telescope aboard Yohkoh and the photospheric magnetograms and found that the transit time was almost equal to the period of the QPP. We therefore suggest, based on a shock acceleration model, that variations of macroscopic magnetic structures, such as oscillations of coronal loops, affect the efficiency of particle injection/acceleration.

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