Solar flares and the axion quark nugget dark matter model

Technically, the magnetic reconnection is ignited due to the shock wave which inevitably develops when the dark matter nuggets enter the solar atmosphere with velocity vAQN∼600km∕s which is much higher than the speed of sound cs, such that the Mach number M=vAQN∕cs≫1. These shock waves generate very strong and very short impulses expressed in terms of pressure Δp∕p∼M2 and temperature ΔT∕T∼M2 in vicinity of (would be) magnetic reconnection area. We find that this mechanism is consistent with X-ray observations as well as with observed jet like morphology of the initial stage of the flares. The mechanism is also consistent with the observed scaling of the flare distribution dN∼W−αdW as a function of the flare's energy W. We also speculate that the same nuggets may trigger the sunquakes which are known to be correlated with large flares.