The need for focused, hard X-ray investigations of the Sun

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العنوان: The need for focused, hard X-ray investigations of the Sun
المؤلفون: Glesener, Lindsay, Shih, Albert Y., Caspi, Amir, Milligan, Ryan, Hudson, Hugh, Oka, Mitsuo, Buitrago-Casas, Juan Camilo, Guo, Fan, Ryan, Dan, Kontar, Eduard, Veronig, Astrid, Hayes, Laura A., Inglis, Andrew, Golub, Leon, Vilmer, Nicole, Gary, Dale, Reid, Hamish, Hannah, Iain, Kerr, Graham S., Reeves, Katharine K., Allred, Joel, Guidoni, Silvina, Yu, Sijie, Christe, Steven, Musset, Sophie, Dennis, Brian, Oliveros, Juan Carlos Martínez, Athiray, P. S., Vievering, Juliana, White, Stephen, Winebarger, Amy, Drake, James, Jeffrey, Natasha, Antiochos, Spiro, Duncan, Jessie, Zhang, Yixian, Alaoui, Meriem, Simões, Paulo J. A., Battaglia, Marina, Setterberg, William, Masek, Reed, Chen, Thomas Y., Peterson, Marianne, Krucker, Säm, Temmer, Manuela, Saint-Hilaire, Pascal, Petrosian, Vahe, Knuth, Trevor, Moore, Christopher S.
المصدر: Bulletin of the AAS, Vol. 55, Issue 3, Whitepaper #129 (14pp); 2023 July 31
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Astrophysics
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics - Plasma Physics, Physics - Space Physics
الوصف: Understanding the nature of energetic particles in the solar atmosphere is one of the most important outstanding problems in heliophysics. Flare-accelerated particles compose a huge fraction of the flare energy budget; they have large influences on how events develop; they are an important source of high-energy particles found in the heliosphere; and they are the single most important corollary to other areas of high-energy astrophysics. Despite the importance of this area of study, this topic has in the past decade received only a small fraction of the resources necessary for a full investigation. For example, NASA has selected no new Explorer-class instrument in the past two decades that is capable of examining this topic. The advances that are currently being made in understanding flare-accelerated electrons are largely undertaken with data from EOVSA (NSF), STIX (ESA), and NuSTAR (NASA Astrophysics). This is despite the inclusion in the previous Heliophysics decadal survey of the FOXSI concept as part of the SEE2020 mission, and also despite NASA's having invested heavily in readying the technology for such an instrument via four flights of the FOXSI sounding rocket experiment. Due to that investment, the instrumentation stands ready to implement a hard X-ray mission to investigate flare-accelerated electrons. This white paper describes the scientific motivation for why this venture should be undertaken soon.
Comment: White paper submitted to the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033; 15 pages, 5 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.3847/25c2cfeb.78fa7c49
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05447
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2306.05447
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.3847/25c2cfeb.78fa7c49