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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 915, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abff57
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- Academy of Finland at University of Oulu [330064 QUASARE, 321882 ESPERA]
- NSF [AST-1910354]
- NASA [80NSSC18K1128]
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The study found that both solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) contribute to the production of subrelativistic and relativistic protons near the Sun. There is a statistical correlation between the gamma-ray fluences of delayed events observed by Fermi/LAT and the products of corresponding CME speed and the square root of the soft X-ray flare magnitude.
During the 24th solar cycle, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has observed a total of 27 solar flares possessing delayed gamma-ray emission, including the exceptionally well-observed flare and coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2017 September 10. Based on the Fermi/LAT data, we plot, for the first time, maps of possible sources of the delayed >100 MeV gamma-ray emission of the 2017 September 10 event. The long-lasting gamma-ray emission is localized under the CME core. The gamma-ray spectrum exhibits intermittent changes in time, implying that more than one source of high-energy protons was formed during the flare-CME eruption. We find a good statistical correlation between the gamma-ray fluences of the Fermi/LAT-observed delayed events and the products of corresponding CME speed and the square root of the soft X-ray flare magnitude. Data support the idea that both flares and CMEs jointly contribute to the production of subrelativistic and relativistic protons near the Sun.
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