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The streaming of solar flare particles and plasma in interplanetary space

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A review is given of the features of solar particle emissions which cause various terrestrial disturbances. Three types of corpuscular emissions, namely, solar cosmic rays, energetic storm protons and plasma clouds, are associated with intense solar flares. Outward streaming of the solar wind and of beams of enhanced activity originate from the quiescent solar corona. It is shown that these solar particles propagate through interplanetary space, being modulated in a systematic way by existing magnetic fields. Time variations of solar flare particle flux, and their energy spectrum, are discussed.

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Obayashi, T. The streaming of solar flare particles and plasma in interplanetary space. Space Sci Rev 3, 79–108 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00226645

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