Energetics of Impulsive Solar Flares: Correlating BATSE Hard X-ray Bursts and the Solar Atmosphere's Soft X-ray Response

摘要

This investigation has involved the correlation of BATSE-observed solar hard X-ray emission with the characteristics of soft X-ray emitting plasma observed by the Yohkoh Bragg Crystal Spectrometers. The goals was to test the hypothesis that localized electron beam heating is the dominant energy transport mechanisms in impulsive flares, as formulated in the thick-target electron-heated model of Brown.