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G. W. Pneuman 《Solar physics》1982,78(2):229-241
A theory of two-ribbon solar flares is presented which identifies the primary energy release site with the tops of the flare loops. The flare loops are formed by magnetic reconnection of a locally opened field configuration produced by the eruption of a pre-flare filament. Such eruptions are commonly observed about 15 min prior to the flare itself. It is proposed that the flare loops represent the primary energy release site even during the earliest phase of the flare, i.e., the flare loops are in fact the flare itself.Based upon the supposition that the energy release at the loop tops is in the form of Joulean dissipation of magnetic energy at the rising reconnection site, a quantitative model of the energy release process is developed based upon an analytic reconnecting magnetic field geometry believed to represent the basic process. Predicted curves of energy density vs time are compared with X-ray observations taken aboard Skylab for the events of 29 July, 13 August, and 21 August in 1973. Considering the crudity of the model, the comparisons appear reasonable. The predicted field strengths necessary to produce the observed energy density curves are also reasonable, being in the range 100–1000 G.The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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In this paper, we study multiwavelength observations of an M6.4 flare in Active Region NOAA 11045 on 7 February 2010. The space- and ground-based observations from STEREO, SoHO/MDI, EIT, and Nobeyama Radioheliograph were used for the study. This active region rapidly appeared at the north-eastern limb with an unusual emergence of a magnetic field. We find a unique observational signature of the magnetic field configuration at the flare site. Our observations show a change from dipolar to quadrapolar topology. This change in the magnetic field configuration results in its complexity and a build-up of the flare energy. We did not find any signature of magnetic flux cancellation during this process. We interpret the change in the magnetic field configuration as a consequence of the flux emergence and photospheric flows that have opposite vortices around the pair of opposite polarity spots. The negative-polarity spot rotating counterclockwise breaks the positive-polarity spot into two parts. The STEREO-A 195 Å and STEREO-B 171 Å coronal images during the flare reveal that a twisted flux tube expands and erupts resulting in a coronal mass ejection (CME). The formation of co-spatial bipolar radio contours at the same location also reveals the ongoing reconnection process above the flare site and thus the acceleration of non-thermal particles. The reconnection may also be responsible for the detachment of a ring-shaped twisted flux tube that further causes a CME eruption with a maximum speed of 446 km/s in the outer corona. 相似文献
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Satellite observations of the heliospheric current sheet indicate that the internal structure of sector boundaries is a very complex structure with many directional discontinuities in the magnetic field. This implies that the heliospheric current sheet is not a single surface but a constantly changing layer with a varying number of current sheets. In this paper, we investigate magnetic reconnection caused by the resistive tearing mode instability in non-periodic multiple current sheets by using two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation. The results show that it is complex unsteady magnetic reconnection. Accompanying the nonlinear development of the tearing mode, the width of each magnetic island in multiple current sheets increases with time, and this leads to new magnetic reconnection. At the same time, the width of each current sheet increases, and the current intensity decreases gradually. Finally, the reverse current disappears, and a big magnetic island is formed in the central region. This process is faster when the separation between the current sheets is smaller. We suggest that the occurrence of multiple directional discontinuities observed at sector boundary crossings in the heliosphere may be associated with the magnetic islands and plasmoids caused by magnetic reconnection in multiple current sheets. 相似文献
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A topological model with magnetic reconnection at two separators in the corona is used to account for the recently discovered changes of the photospheric magnetic field in the active region NOAA 9077 during the July 14, 2000 flare. The model self-consistently explains the following observed effects: (1) the magnetic field strength decreases on the periphery of the active region but increases in its inner part near the neutral line of the photospheric magnetic field; (2) the center-of-mass positions of the fields of opposite (northern and southern) polarities converge; and (3) the magnetic flux of the active region decreases after the flare. The topological model gives not only a qualitative interpretation of the flare phenomena (the structure of the interacting magnetic fluxes in the corona, the location of the energy sources, the shape of the flare ribbons and kernels in the chromosphere and photosphere), but also correct quantitative estimates of the large-scale processes that form the basis for solar flares. The electric field emerging in the flare during large-scale reconnection is calculated. The electric field strength correlates with the observed intensity of the hard X-ray bremsstrahlung, suggesting an electron acceleration as a result of reconnection. 相似文献
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Jun Lin 《Solar physics》2004,222(1):115-136
Kopp–Pneuman-type magnetic configurations, which include a vertical current sheet, with various background fields are investigated. Dissipation of the current sheet as a result of magnetic reconnection produces bright flare ribbons on the solar disk and a growing flare loop system in the corona. In principle, the growth of flare loop system is governed by a reconnection process only, and the behavior of flare ribbons is also controlled by the background field. The flare ribbons may appear either separate or attached to one another at the onset of the flare depending on the background field distribution on the boundary surface. We calculate the decrease in height that magnetic field lines undergo after they have reconnected to form closed loops. Following previous practice, we refer to this decrease as field line shrinkage. Unlike the motions of flare ribbons, the shrinkage of flare loops depends weakly on the background field. Individual loops always shrink fastest at the moment it is produced by reconnection and just starts to leave the current sheet. The earlier the loop forms, the more and faster it shrinks. The relevant observations are explained on the basis of our calculations, and the aspects of the explanation that need improvement are also discussed. 相似文献
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We analyze in detail the X2.6 flare that occurred on 2005 January 15 in the NOAA AR 10720 using multiwavelength observations. There are several interesting properties of the flare that reveal possible two-stage magnetic reconnection similar to that in the physical picture of tether-cutting, where the magnetic fields of two separate loop systems reconnect at the flare core region, and subsequently a large flux rope forms, erupts, and breaks open the overlying arcade fields. The observed manifestations include: (1) remote Hα brightenings appear minutes before the main phase of the flare; (2) separation of the flare ribbons has a slow and a fast phase, and the flare hard X-ray emission appears in the later fast phase; (3) rapid transverse field enhancement near the magnetic polarity inversion line (PIL) is found to be associated with the flare. We conclude that the flare occurrence fits the tether-cutting reconnection picture in a special way, in which there are three flare ribbons outlining the sigmoid configuration. We also discuss this event in the context of what was predicted by Hudson et al. (2008), where the Lorentz force near the flaring PIL drops after the flare and consequently the magnetic field lines there turn to be more horizontal as we observed. 相似文献
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Yohkoh observations strongly suggest that electron acceleration in solar flares occurs in magnetic reconnection regions in the corona above the soft X-ray flare loops. Unfortunately, models for particle acceleration in reconnecting current sheets predict electron energy gains in terms of the reconnection electric field and the thickness of the sheet, both of which are extremely difficult to measure. It can be shown, however, that application of Ohm's law in a turbulent current sheet, combined with energy and Maxwell's equations, leads to a formula for the electron energy gain in terms of the flare power output, the magnetic field strength, the plasma density and temperature in the sheet, and its area. Typical flare parameters correspond to electron energies between a few tens of keV and a few MeV. The calculation supports the viewpoint that electrons that generate the continuum gamma-ray and hard X-ray emissions in impulsive solar flares are accelerated in a large-scale turbulent current sheet above the soft X-ray flare loops. 相似文献
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报道了由Ｙｏｈｋｏｈ软Ｘ射线望远镜（ＳＸＴ）和日本国立天文台（ＮＡＯＪ）的太阳耀斑望远镜（ＳＦＴ）于１９９２年６月４日共同记录到的一次耀斑前相的磁重连过程．理论预言的重连所必需的磁力线被携带进入电流片的入流运动,热等离子体从电流耗散区（重连区）被排出的出流运动,出流引起的蒸发流动和Ｈ 耀斑核,以及磁力线开放等现象均在观测中得到证实．在分析观测事实的基础上,提出磁力线重连的唯象模型． 相似文献
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The subtle interactions between the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and transverse plasmons are investigated. It is shown that there is a resistive instability by the plasmon's soliton in a current sheet, which eventually turns into an eruptive instability at the magnetic field reconnection. In the case of ion-acoustic turbulence, the high temperature current sheet model must adopt the aromalous conductivity instead of the Coulomb conductivity. The numerical results are consistent with the observations obtained by Hanaoka (1994). Thus the flare caused by X-ray loop coalescence can be basically interpreted by this model of magnetic field reconnection driven by ponderomotive force. 相似文献
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Every two-ribbon flare observed during the Skylab period produced an observable coronal transient, provided the flare occurred close enough to the limb. The model presented here treats these two events as a combined process. Transients that occur without flares are believed to involve magnetic fields that are too weak to produce significant chromospheric emission. Adopting the hypothesis that the rising flare loop systems observed during two-ribbon flares are exhibiting magnetic reconnection, a model of a coronal transient is proposed which incorporates this reconnection process as the driving force. When two oppositely directed field lines reconnect a lower loop is created rooted to the solar surface (the flare loop) and an upper disconnected loop is produced which is free to rise. The magnetic flux of these upper loops is proposed as the driver for the transient. The force is produced by the increase in magnetic pressure under the filament and transient.A quantitative model is developed which treats the transient configuration in terms of four distinct parts- the transient itself with its magnetic field and material, the region just below the transient but above the filament, the filament with its magnetic field, and the reconnected flux beneath the filament. Two cases are considered - one in which all the prominence material rises with the transient and one in which the material is allowed to fall out of the transient. The rate of rise of the neutral line during the reconnection process is taken from the observations of the rising X-ray flare loop system during the 29 July, 1973 flare. The MHD equations for the system are reduced to four non-linear ordinary coupled differential equations which are solved using parameters believed to be realistic for solar conditions. The calculated velocity profiles, widths, etc., agree quite well with the observed properties of coronal transients as seen in white light. Since major flares are usually associated with a filament eruption about 10–15 min before the flare and since this model associates the transient with the filament eruption, we suspect that the transient is actually initiated some time before the actual flare itself.The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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Kazunari Shibata 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1998,264(1-4):129-144
The solar X-ray observing satellite Yohkoh has discovered various new dynamic features in solar flares and corona, e.g., cusp-shaped
flare loops, above-the-loop-top hard X-ray sources, X-ray plasmoid ejections from impulsive flares, transient brightenings
(spatially resolved microflares), X-ray jets, large scale arcade formation associated with filament eruption or coronal mass
ejections, and so on. It has soon become clear that many of these features are closely related to magnetic reconnection. We
can now say that Yohkoh established (at least phenomenologically) the magnetic reconnection model of flares. In this paper,
we review various evidence of magnetic reconnection in solar flares and corona, and present unified model of flares on the
basis of these new Yohkoh observations.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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We employ a 2 1/2-dimensional reconnection model to analyse different aspects of the energy release in two-ribbon flares. In particular, we investigate in which way the systematic change of inflow region variables, associated with the vertical elongation of current sheet, affects the flare evolution. It is assumed that as the transversal magnetic field decreases, the ambient plasma-to-magnetic pressure ratio increases, and the reconnection rate diminishes. As the transversal field decreases due to the arcade stretching, the energy release enhances and the temperature rises. Furthermore, the magnetosonic Mach number of the reconnection outflow increases, providing the formation of fast mode standing shocks above the flare loops and below the erupting flux rope. Eventually, in the limit of a very small transversal field the reconnection becomes turbulent due to a highly non-linear response of the system to small fluctuations of the transversal field. The turbulence results in the energy release fragmentation which increases the release efficiency, and is likely to be responsible for the impulsive phase of the flare. On the other hand, as the current sheet stretches to larger heights, the ambient plasma-to-magnetic pressure ratio increases which causes a gradual decrease of the reconnection rate, energy release rate, and temperature in the late phase of flare. The described magnetohydrodynamical changes affect also the electron distribution function in space and time. At large reconnection rates (impulsive phase of the flare) the ratio of the inflow-to-outflow magnetic field strength is much smaller than at lower reconnection rates (late phase of the flare), i.e., the corresponding loss-cone angle becomes narrower. Consequently, in the impulsive phase a larger fraction of energized electrons can escape from the current sheet downwards to the chromosphere and upwards into the corona – the dominant flare features are the foot-point hard X-ray sources and type III radio bursts. On the other hand, at low reconnection rates, more particles stay trapped in the outflow region, and the thermal conduction flux becomes strongly reduced. As a result, a superhot loop-top, and above-the-loop plasma appears, as sometimes observed, to be a dominant feature of the gradual phase. 相似文献
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P. Démoulin C. H. Mandrini M. G. Rovira J. C. Hénoux M. E. Machado 《Solar physics》1994,150(1-2):221-243
We present a detailed analysis of the magnetic topology of AR 2776 together with Hα UV, X-rays, and radio observations of the November 5, 1980 flares in order to understand the role of the active region large-scale
topology on the flare process. As at present the coronal magnetic field is modeled by an ensemble of sub-photospheric sources
whose positions and intensities are deduced from a least-square fit between the computed and observed longitudinal magnetic
fields. Charges and dipole representations are shown to lead to similar modeling of the magnetic topology provided that the
number of sources is great enough. However, for AR 2776, departure from a potential field has to be taken into account, therefore
a linear force-free field extrapolation is used.
The locations of the four bright off-band Hα kernels in quadrupolar active regions have been studied previously. In this new study the active region is bipolar and shows
a two-ribbon structure. We show that these two ribbons are a consequence of the bipolar photospheric field (the four kernels
of quadrupolar regions merge into two bipolar regions). The two ribbons are found to be located at the intersection of the
separatrices with the chromosphere when the shear, deduced from the fibril direction, is taken into account.
This study supports the hypothesis that magnetic energy is stored in field-aligned currents and released by magnetic reconnection
at the location of the separator, before being transported along field lines to the chromospheric level. It is also possible
that part of the magnetic energy could be stored and released on the separatrices. Our study shows that meeting just one of
two conditions- the presence of intense coronal currents or of a separator in a magnetic field configuration - is not sufficient
for flaring. In order to release the stored energy, the coronal currents need either to be formed along the separatrices or
to be transported towards the separator or separatrices. The location of the observed photospheric current concentrations
on the computed separatrices supports this view.
Member of the Carrera del Investigador Científico, CONICET. 相似文献
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Marcos E. Machado Boris V. Somov Marta G. Rovira Cornelis De Jager 《Solar physics》1983,85(1):157-184
We discuss the spatial and temporal characteristics of X-ray flares occurring in the active region NOAA2372 from April 6 to 13, 1980. The flares are seen to extend in most cases across the whole active complex, involving several magnetic features. They originate in an intermediate bipole, between the two main sunspots of the active region, where high magnetic shear was detected. A rapid expansion is seen in some cases, in conjunction with the start of the impulsive hard X-ray bursts. We also detect, in the late phases of some of the events, a large soft X-ray structure overlying the whole active region, which also shows up as a noise storm region at metric wavelengths. These large loops cool by heat conduction but, in some cases, Hα condensations seem to appear, probably as a result of magnetic compression and a condensation mode of the thermal instability. The topological aspects of the field configuration are discussed, in the context of flare models invoking magnetic reconnection at the site of the primary energy release. In such a model, the intermediate bipole is the natural site of initial magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration and heating. In one particular case of a flare observed at the limb, we find possible evidence of particle acceleration in a neutral sheet at the boundary between two clearly defined magnetic structures. 相似文献
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In this paper, we present a study of the correlation between the speed of flare ribbon separation and the magnetic flux density
during the 10 April 2001 solar flare. The study includes the section of the neutral line containing the flare core and its
peripheral area. This event shows clear two-ribbon structure and inhomogeneous magnetic fields along the ribbons, so the spatial
correlation and distribution of the flare and magnetic parameters can be studied. A weak negative correlation is found between
the ribbon separation speed (V
r) and the longitudinal magnetic flux density (B
z
). This correlation is the weakest around the peak of the flare. Spatially, the correlation is also weakest at the positions
of the hard X-ray (HXR) sources. In addition, we estimate the magnetic reconnection rate (electric field strength in the reconnection
region E
rec) by combining the speed of flare ribbons and the longitudinal magnetic flux density. During flare evolution, the time profiles
of the magnetic reconnection rate are similar to that of the ribbon separation speed, and the speeds of ribbon separation
are relatively slow in the strong magnetic fields (i.e., V
r is negatively correlated with B
z
). However, along the flare ribbons, E
rec fluctuates in a small range except near the HXR source. A localized enhancement of the reconnection rate corresponds to the
position of the HXR source. 相似文献
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K. G. Ivanov 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1974,31(2):287-294
The theory of strong discontinuities in plasma with anisotropic pressure is applied for interpretation of the recent plasma and magnetic experiments on the boundary and in the tail of the magnetosphere. The properties of the discontinuities are described. It is supposed that on the boundary and in the tail of the magnetosphere anisotropic discontinuities occur with a nonzero normal component of the magnetic field. The general consequence of this assumption is the existence of the magnetospheric surface flow expanding from the subsolar point. The consequence does not contradict the data obtained on IMP 5. For the investigation of the low latitude part of the flow, the use of electrostatic analysers is desirable with the entrance oriented along the magnetospheric surface. The well-known qualitative scheme of the hydrodynamical flow with strong discontinuities in the tail is generalized by means of the three anisotropic discontinuities: the contact one coinciding with the magnetic neutral sheet, and the two discontinuities with the nonzero normal flow of the mass simulating the boundary of the plasma sheet. The result of the scheme of the components of the bulk velocity in the plasma sheet agrees with the recent observations on the Vela 4B. The scheme connects the well-known phenomena of the blocking and the thinning of the plasma sheet in the initial phase of the substorm. According to the general principles of the reconnection the dynamical dissipation is decreased by the blocking of the flow in the plasma sheet. The decrease leads to a drift of the plasma sheet boundary in the neutral sheet direction. The reverse picture is probably a result of a relaxation of the blocking. 相似文献
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We present H and coronal X-ray images of the large two-ribbon flare of 25–26 June, 1992 during its long-lasting gradual decay phase. From these observations we deduce that the 3-D magnetic field configuration late in this flare was similar to that at and before the onset of such large eruptive bipolar flares: the sheared core field running under and out of the flare arcade was S-shaped, and at least one elbow of the S looped into the low corona. From previous observations of filament-eruption flares, we infer that such core-field coronal elbows, though rarely observed, are probably a common feature of the 3-D magnetic field configuration late in large two-ribbon flares. The rare circumstance that apparently resulted in a coronal elbow of the core field being visible in H in our flare was the occurrence of a series of subflares low in the core field under the late-phase arcade of the large flare; these subflares probably produced flaring arches in the northern coronal elbow, thereby rendering this elbow visible in H. The observed late-phase 3-D field configuration presented here, together with the recent sheared-core bipolar magnetic field model of Antiochos, Dahlburg, and Klimchuk (1994) and recent Yohkoh SXT observations of the coronal magnetic field configuration at and before the onset of large eruptive bipolar flares, supports the seminal 3-D model for eruptive two-ribbon flares proposed by Hirayama (1974), with three modifications: (1) the preflare magnetic field is closed over the filament-holding core field; (2) the preflare core field has the shape of an S (or backward S) with coronal elbows; (3) a lower part of the core field does not erupt and open, but remains closed throughout flare, and can have prominent coronal elbows. In this picture, the rest of the core field, the upper part, does erupt and open along with the preflare arcade envelope field in which it rides; the flare arcade is formed by reconnection that begins in the middle of the core field at the start of the eruption and progresses from reconnecting closed core field early in the flare to reconnecting opened envelope field late in the flare. 相似文献
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B. V. Somov 《Solar System Research》2006,40(2):85-92
A review of current questions related to the problem of large solar flares is given. The basic physical principles applied in numerical simulation of flares are presented and illustrated. The main attention is given to the phenomenon of magnetic reconnection in large-scale current layers at separators of magnetic field in the corona. This phenomenon is demonstrated within the framework of the Rainbow topological model. The model provides the possibility of explaining specific features of large-scale reconnection as a physical process that makes it possible to accumulate large energy in the form of the magnetic energy of current layers before a flare and to quickly transform this energy to the kinetic energy of particles during a flare. The secondary effects in the solar atmosphere caused by energy fluxes from reconnecting current layers are also discussed. These consequences of the primary energy release are responsible for the flare pattern observed in X-ray, optical, UV, and other spectral ranges. 相似文献
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Magnetic reconnection can take place between two plasma regions with antiparallel magnetic field components. In a time-dependent reconnection event, the plasma outflow region consists of a leading bulge region and a trailing reconnection layer. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) discontinuities, including rotational discontinuities, can be formed in both the bulge region and the trailing layer. In this paper, we suggest that the rotational discontinuities observed in the solar wind may be generated by magnetic reconnection associated with microflares in coronal holes. The structure of the reconnection layer is studied by solving the one-dimensional Riemann problem for the evolution of an initial current sheet after the onset of magnetic reconnection as well as carrying out two-dimensional MHD simulations. As the emerging magnetic flux reconnects with ambient open magnetic fields in the coronal hole, rotational discontinuities are generated in the region with open field lines. It is also found that in the solar corona with a low plasma beta ( 0.01), the magnetic energy is converted through magnetic reconnection mostly into the plasma bulk-flow energy. Since more microflares will generate more rotational discontinuities and also supply more energy to the solar wind, it is expected that the number of rotational discontinuities observed in the solar wind would be an increasing function of solar wind speed. The observation rate of rotational discontinuities generated by microflares is estimated to be dN
RD/dt - f/63 000 s (f > 1) at 1 AU. The present mechanism favors the generation of rotational discontinuities with a large shock normal angle. 相似文献