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The occurrence and possible meaning of the ‘nimbus’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. Houtgast
J. Houtgast*
Affiliation:
Sterrewacht ‘Sonnenborgh’, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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There are few observations of cases in which a nimbus has developed around a solar flare of major importance. Speculations have been made about the nature of this obscuring cloud. We shall give here some consequences of the assumption that we have to do with scattering by a cloud of electrons, ejected together with the protons during the formation of the flare.

Type
Part VI: Transient Phenomena
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 35: Structure and Development of Solar Active Regions , 1968 , pp. 483 - 484
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1968 

References

Houtgast, J. (1962) Bull. astr. Inst. Netherl., 17, 56.Google Scholar
Houtgast, J. (1963) in The Solar Corona, Symposium No. 16 of I.A.U., Ed. by Evans, John W., p. 231.Google Scholar