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Solar Neutron Observations During the Coming Solar Maximum: A Plan on the Japan-China Collaborative Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2017

Kunitomo Sakurai
Kunitomo Sakurai*
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, kanagawa University Rokkakubashi, Yokohama 221, Japan

Abstract

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Neutrons are sometimes released from solar flares accompanied by generation of high energy protons and other nuclei and some of them occasionally reach the earth before they decay radioactively. Together with the satellite observations on gamma ray and neutron emissions associated with such flares, the ground-based observations of these neutrons give us a clue to understand the possible nuclear interactions of those protons and nuclei with gases ambient in the solar atmosphere. A review is given on the Japan-China collaborative program on the ground-based observations of these neutrons for the coming solar maximum, though there still remain obstacles to be resolved.

Type
Session II: Solar Flares
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 104 , Issue 2: Solar and Stellar Flares , 1989 , pp. 173 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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