Beam Electrons as a source of Hα Flare Ribbons
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 31939888
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/ncomms15905
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 15905
- First page
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- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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5
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Solar flares are challenging to study from an instrumentation point-of-view (e.g. due to detector saturation). This paper reports the clearest indication to date that electron beams are travelling from the solar corona into the lower chromosphere, and thus provides constraints on these instrumental challenges. This led to instrument design innovation for the Solar-C_EUVST mission (via ST/T001461/1, £25k, collaborating with Teledyne e2v and via ST/V006037/1, £78k, to undertake bread-boarding tasks to inform the design of the engineering model), and played a key role in winning funding from UK Space Agency (“Laser Optical Communications for CubeSats”, £382k, in collaboration with ISOCOM Ltd).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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