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Magnetic flaring in the pre-main sequence Sun and implications for the early solar system

Eric D. Feigelson·Gordon P. Garmire·Steven H. Pravdo
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To address the role of energetic processes in the solar nebula, we provide a detailed characterization of magnetic flaring in stellar analogs of the pre-main sequence Sun based on 23 hours observations of 43 analogs of the young Sun in the Orion Nebula Cluster obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We find the X-ray luminosities are strongly elevated over main sequence levels with average = 30.3 erg/s and = -3.9 (0.5-8 keV), and dozens of flares are present. Analogs of the <= 1 My old pre-main sequence Sun exhibit X-ray flares 10^{1.5} times more powerful and 10^{2.5} times more frequent than the most powerful flares seen on the contemporary Sun. Extrapolating the solar relationship between X-ray luminosity and proton fluence, we infer that the young Sun exhibited a 10^5-fold enhancement in energetic protons compared to contemporary levels. Unless the flare geometries are unfavorable, this inferred proton flux on the disk is sufficient to produce the observed meteoritic abundances of several important short-lived radioactive isotopes. Our study thus strengthens the astronomical foundation for local proton spallation models of isotopic anomalies in carbonaceous chondritic meteorites. The radiation, particles and shocks produced by the magnetic reconnection flares seen with Chandra may also have flash melted meteoritic chondrules and produced excess 21-Ne seen in meteoritic grains.

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Eric D. Feigelson, Gordon P. Garmire, Steven H. Pravdo. 2002-02-01. Magnetic flaring in the pre-main sequence Sun and implications for the early solar system. https://doi.org/10.1086/340340

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