Abstract
One of the most important physical processes on the Sun and/or near it is the acceleration of charged particles (electrons and ions) to high (relativistic) energies. This process is closely related, first of all, to the large-scale structure and dynamics of the atmosphere as a whole (macroscopic effects of magnetohydrodynamic nature). At another, microscopic level of consideration, acceleration is closely related to the intimate properties of solar magnetoplasma (microphysical processes of generation, for example, of local electric fields). It can even be argued that the acceleration process at the initial stage (from thermal velocities) is mainly determined by microscopic processes in the plasma, while the final stage (acceleration to the maximum possible energies) requires the presence of extended (large-scale) magnetic formations in the solar corona.
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Miroshnichenko, L. (2023). Acceleration of Particles on the Sun. In: Solar-Terrestrial Relations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22548-2_7
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