On the Expulsion of Corpuscular Streams of Solar Flares

Open Access

1 October 1950

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Vol. 110 (5) , 477-482
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/110.5.477

Abstract

A value is found for the minimum momentum density in a corpuscular stream which has been emitted from a flare and which causes a terrestrial magnetic storm. It is shown that radiation pressure alone will always be insufficient to expel such a stream from the Sun.

Keywords

SOLAR FLARE