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1.
The magnetosonic modes of magnetic plasma structures in the solar atmosphere are considered taking into account steady flows of plasma in the internal and external media and using a slab geometry. The investigation brings nearer the theory of magnetosonic waveguides, in such structures as coronal loops and photospheric flux tubes, to realistic conditions of the solar atmosphere. The general dispersion relation for the magnetosonic modes of a magnetic slab in magnetic surroundings is derived, allowing for field-aligned steady flows in either region. It is shown that flows change both qualitatively and quantitatively the characteristics of magnetosonic modes. The flow may lead to the appearance of a new type of trapped mode, namelybackward waves. These waves are the usual slab modes propagating in the direction opposite to the internal flow, but advected with the flow. The disappearance of some modes due to the flow is also demonstrated.The results are applied to coronal and photospheric magnetic structures. In coronal loops, the appearance of backward slow body waves or the disappearance of slow body waves, depending upon the direction of propagation, is possible if the flow speed exceeds the internal sound speed ( 300 km s–1). In photospheric tubes, the disappearance of fast surface and slow body waves may be caused by an external downdraught of about 3 km s–1. 相似文献
2.
Digitized synoptic charts of photospheric magnetic fields were analyzed for the past 4 incomplete solar activity cycles (1969–2000).
The zonal structure and cyclic evolution of large-scale solar magnetic fields were investigated using the calculated values
of the radial B
r, |B
r|, meridional B
θ, |B
θ|, and azimuthal B
φ, |B
φ| components of the solar magnetic field averaged over a Carrington rotation (CR). The time–latitude diagrams of all 6 parameters
and their correlation analysis clearly reveal a zonal structure and two types of the meridional poleward drift of magnetic
fields with the characteristic times of travel from the equator to the poles equal to ∼16–18 and ∼2–3 years. A conclusion
is made that we observe two different processes of reorganization of magnetic fields in the Sun that are related to generation
of magnetic fields and their subsequent redistribution in the process of emergence from the field generation region to the
solar surface. Redistribution is supposed to be caused by some external forces (presumably, by sub-surface plasma flows in
the convection zone). 相似文献
3.
Using a well-known method for calculating the propagation of waves in an inhomogeneous medium, we have managed to reduce the
problem of wave propagation in pulsar magnetospheres to a system of two ordinary differential equations that allow the polarization
characteristics of the radio emission to be quantitatively described for any magnetic field structure and an arbitrary density
profile of the outflowing plasma. We confirm that for ordinary pulsars (period P ∼ 1 s, magnetic field B
0 ∼ 1012 G, particle production multiplicity parameter λ ∼ 104), the polarization is formed inside the light cylinder at a distance of the order of a thousand neutron star radii. For reasonable
magnetic field strengths and plasma densities on the emission propagation path, the degree of circular polarization is found
to be ∼5–20%, in good agreement with observations. 相似文献
4.
The astrophysical jet experiment at Caltech generates a T=2–5 eV, n=1021–1022 m−3 plasma jet using coplanar disk electrodes linked by a poloidal magnetic field. A 100 kA current generates a toroidal magnetic
field; the toroidal field pressure inflates the poloidal flux surface, magnetically driving the jet. The jet travels at up
to 50 km/s for ∼20–25 cm before colliding with a cloud of initially neutral gas. We study the interaction of the jet and the
cloud in analogy to an astrophysical jet impacting a molecular cloud. Diagnostics include magnetic probe arrays, a 12-channel
spectroscopic system and a fast camera with optical filters. When a hydrogen plasma jet collides with an argon target cloud,
magnetic measurements show the magnetic flux compressing as the plasma jet deforms. As the plasma jet front slows and the
plasma piles up, the density of the frozen-in magnetic flux increases. 相似文献
5.
M. Yu. Piotrovich Yu. N. Gnedin T. M. Natsvlishvili N. A. Silant’ev 《Astronomy Letters》2010,36(6):389-395
We analyze the spectropolarimetric observations of 12 candidates for quasars from the spectroscopic database of the SDSS Catalog.
The magnetic fields of these objects are estimated in the context of a theory that includes the Faraday rotation of the polarization
plane on the mean free path of a photon in the outflow from an accretion disk. As a result, we have determined the column
density in the outflow, N
H ∼ 6 × 1023 cm−2, and the radial, B ∼ 1 G, and toroidal, B ∼ 600 G, magnetic fields. 相似文献
6.
Recent observations with EUV imaging instruments such as SOHO/EIT and TRACE have shown evidence for flare-like processes at
the bottom end of the energy scale, in the range of E
th≈1024–1027 erg. Here we compare these EUV nanoflares with soft X-ray microflares and hard X-ray flares across the entire energy range.
From the observations we establish empirical scaling laws for the flare loop length, L(T)∼T, the electron density, n
e(T)∼T
2, from which we derive scaling laws for the loop pressure, p(T)∼T
3, and the thermal energy, E
th∼T
6. Extrapolating these scaling laws into the picoflare regime we find that the pressure conditions in the chromosphere constrain a height level for flare loop footpoints, which scales
with h
eq(T)∼T
−0.5. Based on this chromospheric pressure limit we predict a lower cutoff of flare loop sizes at L
∖min≲5 Mm and flare energies E
∖min≲1024 erg. We show evidence for such a rollover in the flare energy size distribution from recent TRACE EUV data. Based on this
energy cutoff imposed by the chromospheric boundary condition we find that the energy content of the heated plasma observed
in EUV, SXR, and HXR flares is insufficient (by 2–3 orders of magnitude) to account for coronal heating. 相似文献
7.
A number of independent arguments indicate that the toroidal flux system responsible for the sunspot cycle is stored at the
base of the convection zone in the form of flux tubes with field strength close to 105 G. Although the evidence for such strong fields is quite compelling, how such field strength can be reached is still a topic
of debate. Flux expulsion by convection should lead to about the equipartition field strength, but the magnetic energy density
of a 105-G field is two orders of magnitude larger than the mean kinetic energy density of convective motions. Line stretching by
differential rotation (i.e., the “Ω effect” in the classical mean-field dynamo approach) probably plays an important role, but arguments based on energy considerations show that it does not seem feasible
that a 105-G field can be produced in this way. An alternative scenario for the intensification of the toroidal flux system in the overshoot
layer is related to the explosion of rising, buoyantly unstable magnetic flux tubes, which opens a complementary mechanism for magnetic-field intensification.
A parallelism is pointed out with the mechanism of “convective collapse” for the intensification of photospheric magnetic
flux tubes up to field strengths well above equipartition; both mechanisms, which are fundamentally thermal processes, are
reviewed. 相似文献
8.
Photospheric motion shears or twists solar magnetic fields to increase magnetic energy in the corona, because this process may change a current-free state of a coronal field to force-free states which carry electric current. This paper analyzes both linear and nonlinear two-dimensional force-free magnetic field models and derives relations of magnetic energy buildup with photospheric velocity field. When realistic data of solar magnetic field (B
0 103 G) and photospheric velocity field (v
max 1 km s–1) are used, it is found that 3–4 hours are needed to create an amount of free magnetic energy which is of the order of the current-free field energy. Furthermore, the paper studies situations in which finite magnetic diffusivities in photospheric plasma are introduced. The shearing motion increases coronal magnetic energy, while the photospheric diffusion reduces the energy. The variation of magnetic energy in the coronal region, then, depends on which process dominates. 相似文献
9.
This paper presents the model equations governing the nonlinear interaction between dispersive Alfvén wave (DAW) and magnetosonic
wave in the low-β plasmas (β≪m
e/m
i; known as inertial Alfvén waves (IAWs); here
\upbeta = 8pn0T /B02\upbeta = 8\pi n_{0}T /B_{0}^{2} is thermal to magnetic pressure, n
0 is unperturbed plasma number density, T(=T
e≈T
i) represents the plasma temperature, and m
e(m
i) is the mass of electron (ion)). This nonlinear dynamical system may be considered as the modified Zakharov system of equations
(MZSE). These model equations are solved numerically by using a pseudo-spectral method to study the nonlinear evolution of
density cavities driven by IAW. We observed the nonlinear evolution of IAW magnetic field structures having chaotic behavior
accompanied by density cavities associated with the magnetosonic wave. The relevance of these investigations to low-β plasmas
in solar corona and auroral ionospheric plasmas has been pointed out. For the auroral ionosphere, we observed the density
fluctuations of ∼ 0.07n
0, consistent with the FAST observation reported by Chaston et al. (Phys. Scr.
T84, 64, 2000). The heating of the solar corona observed by Yohkoh and SOHO may be produced by the coupling of IAW and magnetosonic wave via filamentation process as discussed here. 相似文献
10.
We analyze the influence of neutrino helicity conversion, ν
L → ν
R, on the neutrino flux from a supernova attributable to the interaction of the Dirac neutrino magnetic moment with a magnetic
field.We show that if the neutrino has a magnetic moment in the interval 10−13μB < μν < 10−12μB and provided that a magnetic field of ∼1013–1014 G exists in the supernova envelope, a peculiar kind of time evolution of the neutrino signal from the supernova attributable
to the resonance transition ν
L → ν
R in the magnetic field of the envelope can appear. 相似文献
11.
The structure of the AGN object 1803+784 has been investigated at a wavelength of 7 mm with a limiting angular resolution
reaching 20 μas. The ejector nozzle surrounded by a ring structure, an accretion disk, has been identified. The nozzle size
is ∼0.1 pc, the diameter of the ring structure is ∼1.4 pc, and its width is ∼0.25 pc. The reaction of the plasma flow produces
a multimode precession responsible for the conical helical structure of the jet with a variable step and a curved axis. The
viewing angle of the flow ejection is ∼40°. The central part of the ejected flow moving along the axis accelerates to a relativistic
velocity. The apparent velocity reaches 12 s at a distance of ∼1 mas or ∼6 pc from the ejector. The outer part of the flow
moves along a helix around a high-velocity component whose step is a factor of 4 smaller, because the longitudinal velocity
is relatively low. The plasma is ejected almost toward the observer, as confirmed by its high brightness temperature T
b ≈ 8 × 1013 K and highly beamed emission. The polarized emission from the nozzle is axisymmetric. The orientation of the polarization
of the flow along the whole length is aligned with the direction of its motion, suggesting the excitation of a ring magnetic
field around it and self-focusing. 相似文献
12.
We present an analysis of the evolution of the thermal flare plasma during the 14 July 2000, 10 UT, Bastille Day flare event,
using spacecraft data from Yohkoh/HXT, Yohkoh/SXT, GOES, and TRACE. The spatial structure of this double-ribbon flare consists of a curved arcade with some 100 post-flare
loops which brighten up in a sequential manner from highly-sheared low-lying to less-sheared higher-lying bipolar loops. We
reconstruct an instrument-combined, average differential emission measure distribution dEM(T)/dT that ranges from T=1 MK to 40 MK and peaks at T
0=10.9 MK. We find that the time profiles of the different instrument fluxes peak sequentially over 7 minutes with decreasing
temperatures from T≈30 MK to 1 MK, indicating the systematic cooling of the flare plasma. From these temperature-dependent relative peak times
t
peak(T) we reconstruct the average plasma cooling function T(t) for loops observed near the flare peak time, and find that their temperature decrease is initially controlled by conductive
cooling during the first 188 s, T(t)∼[1+(t/τcond)]−2/7, and then by radiative cooling during the next 592 s, T(t)∼[1−(t/τrad)]3/5. From the radiative cooling phase we infer an average electron density of n
e=4.2×1011 cm−3, which implies a filling factor near 100% for the brightest observed 23 loops with diameters of ∼1.8 Mm that appear simultaneously
over the flare peak time and are fully resolved with TRACE. We reproduce the time delays and fluxes of the observed time profiles
near the flare peak self-consistently with a forward-fitting method of a fully analytical model. The total integrated thermal
energy of this flare amounts to E
thermal=2.6×1031 erg.
Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1014257826116 相似文献
13.
Jana Kašparová Marian KarlickÝ Eduard P. Kontar Richard A. Schwartz Brian R. Dennis 《Solar physics》2005,232(1-2):63-86
A multi-wavelength spatial and temporal analysis of solar high-energy electrons is conducted using the August 20, 2002 flare
of an unusually flat (γ1 = 1.8) hard X-ray spectrum. The flare is studied using RHESSI, Hα, radio, TRACE, and MDI observations with advanced methods
and techniques never previously applied in the solar flare context. A new method to account for X-ray Compton backscattering
in the photosphere (photospheric albedo) has been used to deduce the primary X-ray flare spectra. The mean electron flux distribution
has been analysed using both forward fitting and model-independent inversion methods of spectral analysis. We show that the
contribution of the photospheric albedo to the photon spectrum modifies the calculated mean electron flux distribution, mainly
at energies below ∼100 keV. The positions of the Hα emission and hard X-ray sources with respect to the current-free extrapolation
of the MDI photospheric magnetic field and the characteristics of the radio emission provide evidence of the closed geometry
of the magnetic field structure and the flare process in low altitude magnetic loops. In agreement with the predictions of
some solar flare models, the hard X-ray sources are located on the external edges of the Hα emission and show chromospheric
plasma heated by the non-thermal electrons. The fast changes of Hα intensities are located not only inside the hard X-ray
sources, as expected if they are the signatures of the chromospheric response to the electron bombardment, but also away from
them. 相似文献
14.
We present the results of a search for carbon recombination lines in the Galaxy at 34.5 MHz (C575α) made using the dipole
array at Gauribidanur near Bangalore. Observations made towards 32 directions resulted in detections of lines, in absorption
at nine positions. Followup observations at 328 MHz (C272α) using the Ooty Radio Telescope detected these lines in emission.
A VLA D-array observation of one of the positions at 330 MHz yielded no detection implying a lower limit of 10′ for the angular
size of the line forming region.
The longitude-velocity distribution of the observed carbon lines indicate that the line forming regions are located mainly
between 4 kpc and 7 kpc from the Galactic centre. Combining our results with published carbon recombination line data near
76 MHz (Erickson, McConnell & Anantharamaiah 1995), we obtain constraintson the physical parameters of the line forming regions.
We find thatif the angular size of the line forming regions is ≥ 4°, then the range of parameters that fit the data are:T
e
=20–40 K,n
e
∼ 0.1–0.3 cm−3 and pathlengths ∼ 0.07–0.9 pc which may correspond to thin photodissociated regions around molecular clouds. On the other
hand, if the line forming regions are ∼ 2° in extent, then warmer gas (T
e
∼ 60–300 K) with lower electron densities (n
e
∼ 0.03–0.05 cm−3) extending over several tens of parsecs along the line of sight and possibly associated with atomic HI gas can fit the data.
Based on the range of derived parameters, we suggest that the carbon line regions are most likely associated with photo-dissociation
regions. 相似文献
15.
The radio recombination line intensities of heavy elements of helium, carbon and oxygen are calculated with accounting for
dielectronic recombination. Dielectronic recombination rates are determined accurate to the second order of a perturbation
theory and the rates are described as function of principal quantum number for helium-like atom or ion. Balance equations
are solved for the departure coefficients from LTE bn. The collision and spontaneous transition rates are accounted for the balance equations, in which non-equilibrium distribution
source is dielectronic recombination. Non-equilibrium amplification coefficients are found as functions of a medium temperature,
density and ion charge z = 1–3 for radio recombination lines.
Optical depths are calculated for the heavy element low-frequency lines with the numbers 300 > n > 1200. For the chosen electronic temperatures and densities Te = 0.8× 104–10× 104 K, Ne = 0.05–0.1 cm−3 the line optical depth is determined by the values τL∼ 0.1× 10−4–100× 10−4. Calculated for free-free transition rates, the optical depth is given by using the value τff∼ 10−2τL. 相似文献
16.
A large equatorial coronal streamer observed in the outer corona (3R
) grew in brightness and size during successive limb passages between October 6, 1973 and January 10, 1974 (solar rotations 1606–1611). Unlike previous studies of streamers and their photospheric associations, no definite surface feature could be identified in the present case. This suggests that the streamer is associated with the large scale photospheric magnetic field. Comparison of the streamer growth with observed underlying photospheric magnetic flux changes indicated that as the streamer increased in brightness, areal extent, and density, the photospheric magnetic flux decreased. Three possible explanations for the streamer's growth are presented; the conceptually simplest being that the decrease in photospheric field results in an opening of the flux tubes under the streamer which permits an increased mass flux through the streamer.The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
17.
We studied the behavior of magnetic field, horizontal motion and helicity in a fast emerging flux region NOAA 10488 which
eventually forms a δ spot. It is found that the rotation of photospheric footpoints forms in the earlier stage of magnetic
flux emergence and the relative shear motion of different magnetic flux systems appears later in this active region (AR).
Therefore the emerging process of the AR can be separated into two phases: rotation and shear. We have computed the magnetic
helicity injected into the corona using the local correlation tracking (LCT) technique. Furthermore we determined the vertical
component of current helicity density and the vertical component of induction electric fields Ez = (V× B)z in the photosphere. Particularly we have presented the comparison of the injection rate of magnetic helicity and the variation
of the current helicity density. The main results are as follows: (1) The strong shear motion (SSM) between the new emerging
flux system and the old one brings more magnetic helicity into the corona than the twisting motions. (2) After the maturity
of the main bipolar spots, their twist decreases and the SSM becomes dominant and the major contributor of magnetic non-potentiality
in the solar atmosphere in this AR. (3) The positions of the maxima of Ez (about 0.1 ∼ 0.2 V cm−1) shift from the twisting areas to the areas showing SSMs as the AR evolved from the rotation phase to the shear one, but
no obvious correlation is found between the kernels of Hα flare and Ez for the M1.6 flare in this AR. (4) The coronal helicity inferred from the horizontal motion of this AR amounts to −6 × 1043 Mx2. It is comparable with the coronal helicity of ARs producing flares with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) or helicity carried
away by magnetic clouds (MCs) reported in previous studies (Nindos, Zhang, and Zhang, 2003; Nindos and Andrews, 2004). In
addition, the formation of the δ configuration in this AR belongs to the third formation type indicated by Zirin and Liggett
(1987), i.e., collision of opposite polarities from different dipoles, and can be naturally explained by the SSM. 相似文献
18.
We present the results of our infrared observations of WR 140 (=V1687 Cyg) in 2001–2010. Analysis of the observations has
shown that the J brightness at maximum increased near the periastron by about 0
m
.3; the M brightness increased by ∼2
m
in less than 50 days. The minimum J brightness and the minimum L and M brightnesses were observed 550–600 and 1300–1400 days after the maximum, respectively. The JHKLM brightness minimum was observed in the range of orbital phases 0.7–0.9. The parameters of the primary O5 component of the
binary have been estimated to be the following: R(O5) ≈ 24.7R
⊙, L(O5) ≈ 8 × 105
L
⊙, and M
bol(O5) ≈ −10
m
. At the infrared brightness minimum, T
g ∼ 820–880 K, R
g ≈ 2.6 × 105
R
⊙, the optical depth of the shell at 3.5 μm is ∼5.3 × 10−6, and its mass is ≈1.4 × 10−8
M
⊙. At the maximum, the corresponding parameters are ∼1300 K, 8.6 × 104
R
⊙, ∼2 × 10−4, and ∼6 × 10−8
M
⊙; the mean rate of dust inflow (condensation) into the dust structure is ∼3.3 × 10−8
M
⊙ yr−1. The mean escape velocity of the shell from the heating source is ∼103 km s−1 and the mean dispersal rate of the shell is ∼1.1 × 10−8
M
⊙ yr−1. 相似文献
19.
Analysis of the Interball-1 spacecraft data (1995 – 2000) has shown that the solar wind ion flux sometimes increases or decreases abruptly by more than
20% over a time period of several seconds or minutes. Typically, the amplitude of such sharp changes in the solar wind ion
flux (SCIFs) is larger than 0.5×108 cm−2 s−1. These sudden changes of the ion flux were also observed by the Solar Wind Experiment (SWE), on board the Wind spacecraft, as the solar wind density increases and decreases with negligible changes in the solar wind velocity. SCIFs occur
irregularly at 1 AU, when plasma flows with specific properties come to the Earth’s orbit. SCIFs are usually observed in slow,
turbulent solar wind with increased density and interplanetary magnetic field strength. The number of times SCIFs occur during
a day is simulated using the solar wind density, magnetic field, and their standard deviations as input parameters for a period
of five years. A correlation coefficient of ∼0.7 is obtained between the modelled and the experimental data. It is found that
SCIFs are not associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs), corotating interaction regions (CIRs), or interplanetary shocks;
however, 85% of the sector boundaries are surrounded by SCIFs. The properties of the solar wind plasma for days with five
or more SCIF observations are the same as those of the solar wind plasma at the sector boundaries. One possible explanation
for the occurrence of SCIFs (near sector boundaries) is magnetic reconnection at the heliospheric current sheet or local current
sheets. Other probable causes of SCIFs (inside sectors) are turbulent processes in the slow solar wind and at the crossings
of flux tubes. 相似文献
20.
The BL Lac-type object 3C 66A was observed at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory during the international project OJ-94.
Observations were made over 10 nights from February through December 2003 at the Cassegrain focus of the 125-cm AZT-11 telescope
with a photopolarimeter capable of simultaneous measurements in the UBVRI bands. In the course of our measurements the brightness
of the object increased by more than 1 magnitude in all these bands. Its color indices varied and the degree of polarization
decreased from ∼16% in February to ∼3% at the end of our observations. In December 2003 a rapid change in the position angle
from 15° to 40° was noticed. The spectral energy distribution Fn is well described by a power law with a spectral index a (Fν ∝ ν
−α
. The increase in brightness was accompanied by a reduction in the spectral index. The most probable mechanism for the observed
changes in the brightness, degree of polarization, and spectral index may be a decrease in the magnetic field strength or
a change in its configuration owing to a increase in the chaotic component of the field.
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Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 41–59 (February 2006). 相似文献