The need for focused, hard X-ray investigations of the Sun
Whitepaper #129 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: solar physics.
by Lindsay Glesener, Albert Y. Shih, Amir Caspi, Ryan Milligan, Hugh Hudson, Mitsuo Oka, Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, Fan Guo, Dan Ryan, Eduard Kontar, Astrid Veronig, Laura A. Hayes, Andrew Inglis, Leon Golub, Nicole Vilmer, Dale Gary, Hamish Reid, Iain Hannah, Graham S. Kerr, Katharine K. Reeves, Joel Allred, Silvina Guidoni, Sijie Yu, Steven Christe, Sophie Musset, Brian Dennis, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, P. S. Athiray, Juliana Vievering, Stephen White, Amy Winebarger, James Drake, Natasha Jeffrey, Spiro Antiochos, Jessie Duncan, Yixian Zhang, Meriem Alaoui, Paulo J. A. Simões, Marina Battaglia, William Setterberg, Reed Masek, Thomas Y. Chen, Marianne Peterson, Säm Krucker, Manuela Temmer, Pascal Saint-Hilaire, Vahe Petrosian, Trevor Knuth, and Christopher Moore
Published onJul 31, 2023
The need for focused, hard X-ray investigations of the Sun
Understanding accelerated particles at the Sun is one of the most important problems in heliophysics. Flare-accelerated particles have huge energies; are an important source of particles in the heliosphere; and are the most important corollary to other areas of high-energy astrophysics. This paper describes the scientific motivation for X-ray studies of particle acceleration at the Sun.
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