Conveners
Day 1 / Session 1
- Tadayuki Takahashi (Univ. of Tokyo)
We are planning a new solar satellite mission, "PhoENiX", for understanding of particle acceleration during magnetic reconnection. The main observation targets of this mission are solar flares. The scientific objectives of this mission are (1) to identify particle acceleration sites, (2) to investigate temporal evolution of particle acceleration, and (3) to characterize properties of...
The gamma-ray binary systems are a new class of compact binary systems established in the middle of the 2000s, owing to the development of GeV/TeV gamma-ray telescopes. They show non-thermal emission peaking above 1 MeV in their SEDs, which is completely different from X-ray binaries. This feature indicates that efficient electron particle acceleration takes place in these binaries, and its...
Solar flares may be the best-known examples of the explosive conversion of magnetic energy into bulk motion, plasma heating, and particle acceleration via magnetic reconnection. The energy source for all flares is the highly sheared magnetic field of a filament channel above a polarity inversion line (PIL). During the flare, this shear field becomes the so-called reconnection guide field...
