superthermal particles

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superthermal particles [¦sü·pər‚thər·məl ′pärd·ə·kəlz]

(astronomy)

Particles in the solar corona that have been accelerated by magnetic energy dissipation to very high energies, from 10²to 10⁶times the mean thermal energy of particles in the coronal gas.

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