Solar corona heating by axion quark nugget dark matter
In this work we advocate for the idea that two seemingly unrelated 80-year-old mysteries\textemdashthe nature of dark matter and the high temperature of the million degree solar corona\textemdashmay have resolutions that lie within the same physical framework. The current paradigm is that the corona is heated by nanoflares, which were originally proposed as miniature versions of the observed solar flares. It was recently suggested that the nanoflares could be identified as annihilation events of the nuggets from the axion ...
Raza, Nayyer; Van Waerbeke, Ludovic; Zhitnitsky, Ariel;
Published by: Physical Review D Published on: 11/2018
YEAR: 2018   DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.103527
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics; Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus
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