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Heyvaerts和Priest最近提出了一个线性无力场演化的简化模型来定量计算磁拱脚点做缓慢的剪切运动所引起的日冕加热。由于他们在能量的计算中漏掉了一些二阶项,并且保留了导致位移无界的磁场的线性演化项,本文对他们的工作进行了修正,同时还对脚点运动引起的磁拱无力场演化进行了进一步探讨。本文主要结果如下:(1)得到的加热效率(即耗散能量在光球供给能量中所占比例)比Heyvaerts和Priest所得结果大。(2)磁拱无力场的无耗散线性演化是不可能的。(3)由磁场位形具体说明了非线性无力场发生磁力线重联的可能性,并指出最容易发生磁力线重联的高度大约为一个磁拱宽度。 相似文献
2.
A model of forced magnetic reconnection in a force-free magnetic field is considered, which allows calculation of the magnetic
energy release during the current sheet reconnection. The dependence of this energy on characteristics of the magnetic configuration
has been studied, and it was found that the released energy becomes very large when the field is near the marginal tearing
stability. A persistent plasma heating provided by ongoing external driving and internal reconnection is also derived. It
shows a typical relaxation-type dependence on the driving frequency, with dissipation becoming most efficient when the time-scales
of the driving and reconnection are comparable. Possible implications of the obtained results for the problem of solar coronal
heating are discussed.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
3.
The temperature and density are obtained for coronal plasma in thermal and hydrostatic equilibrium and located in a force-free magnetic arcade. The isotherms are found to be inclined to the magnetic field lines and so care should be taken in inferring the magnetic structure from observed emission.When the coronal pressure becomes too great, the equilibrium ceases to exist and the material cools to form a quiescent prominence. The same process can be initiated at low heating rates when the width or shear of the arcade exceeds a critical value.We suggest that the prominence should be modelled as a dynamic structure with plasma always draining downwards. Material is continually sucked up along field lines of the ambient arcade and into the region lacking a hot equilibrium, where it cools to form new prominence material. 相似文献
4.
In this paper we extend previous work of Browning and Priest (1984, 1986) by studying the equilibrium path of twisted and untwisted thin flux tubes in a stratified, isothermal atmosphere using as the ambient field a linear force-free field. When an untwisted flux tube is considered, we find that shearing the magnetic arcade provides a different form to change the parameter which characterizes the external atmosphere, but at the same time this introduces a limitation in the width allowed for the external arcade. Also, the critical width found for the different analytical cases considered is always greater than one arch of the ambient arcade which prevents an eruption inside the arcade. In the case of twisted flux tubes, an analytical solution can be found for the critical
c
, which separates regimes of strong and weak gravity, and the shape of the flux tube is now dependent on , a parameter which represents the magnetic field enhancement of the loop at the photosphere. 相似文献
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The generally accepted scenario for the events leading up to a two-ribbon flare is that a magnetic arcade (supporting a plage filament) responds to the slow photospheric motions of its footpoints by evolving passively through a series of (largely) force-free equilibria. At some critical amount of shear the configuration becomes unstable and erupts outwards. Subsequently, the field closes back down in the manner modelled by Kopp and Pneuman (1976); but the main problem has been to explain the eruptive instability.The present paper analyses the magnetohydrodynamic stability of several possible arcade configurations, including the dominant stabilizing effect of line-tying at the photospheric footpoints. One low-lying force-free structure is found to be stable regardless of the shear; also some of the arcades that lie on the upper branch of the equilibrium curves are shown to be stable. However, another force-free configuration appears more likely to represent the preflare structure. It consists of a large flux tube, anchored at its ends and surrounded by an arcade, so that the field transverse to the arcade axis contains a magnetic island. Such a configuration is found to become unstable when either the length of the structure, the twist of the flux tube, or the height of the island becomes too great; the higher the tube is situated, the smaller is the twist required for instability. 相似文献
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S. -I. Akasofu 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1988,144(1-2):303-309
The presently prevailing theories of solar flares rely on the hypothetical presence of magnetic flux tubes beneath the photosphere and the two subsequent hypotheses, their emergence above the photosphere and explosive magnetic reconnection, converting magnetic energy carried by the flux tubes to solar flare energy. In this paper, we discuss solar flares from an entirely different point of view, namely in terms of power supply by a dynamo process in the photosphere. By this process, electric currents flowing along the magnetic field lines are generated and the familiar ‘force-free’ fields or the ‘sheared’ magnetic fields are produced. Upward field-aligned currents thus generated are carried by downward streaming electrons; these electrons can excite hydrogen atoms in the chromosphere, causing the optical Hα flares or ‘low temperature flares’. It is thus argued that as the ‘force-free’ fields are being built up for the magnetic energy storage, a flare must already be in progress. 相似文献
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The heating of the solar corona by resistive turbulence of coronal magnetic fields is considered. The theory of this process, based on the Taylor-Heyvaerts-Priest hypothesis and a magnetic relaxation equation, is developed. Such an approach allows one to obtain the successive magnetic reconnection configurations and energy balance of the coronal magnetic field in response to prescribed motions of the photospheric footpoints. Two specific models of the coronal magnetic configuration are investigated, namely an array of closely packed flux tubes and a two-dimensional magnetic arcade. 相似文献
8.
Maxim Lyutikov 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,346(2):540-554
The X-ray activity of anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft γ-ray repeaters may result from the heating of their magnetic corona by direct currents dissipated by magnetic reconnection. We investigate the possibility that X-ray flares and bursts observed from anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft γ-ray repeaters result from magnetospheric reconnection events initiated by development of the tearing mode in magnetically dominated relativistic plasma. We formulate equations of resistive force-free electrodynamics, discuss the relation of the latter to ideal electrodynamics, and give examples of both ideal and resistive equilibria. Resistive force-free current layers are unstable towards the development of small-scale current sheets where resistive effects become important. Thin current sheets are found to be unstable due to the development of the resistive force-free tearing mode. The growth rate of the tearing mode is intermediate between the short Alfvén time-scale τA and a long resistive time-scale τR : Γ∼ 1/(τR τA )1/2 , similar to the case of non-relativistic non-force-free plasma. We propose that growth of the tearing mode is related to the typical rise time of flares, ∼10 ms. Finally, we discuss how reconnection may explain other magnetar phenomena and ways to test the model. 相似文献
9.
In this paper the effect of a small magnetic element approaching the main body of a solar filament is considered through non-linear
force-free field modeling. The filament is represented by a series of magnetic dips. Once the dips are calculated, a simple
hydrostatic atmosphere model is applied to determine which structures have sufficient column mass depth to be visible in Hα.
Two orientations of the bipole are considered, either parallel or anti-parallel to the overlying arcade. The magnetic polarity
that lies closest to the filament is then advected towards the filament. Initially for both the dominant and minority polarity
advected elements, right/left bearing barbs are produced for dextral/sinsitral filaments. The production of barbs due to dominant
polarity elements is a new feature. In later stages the filament breaks into two dipped sections and takes a highly irregular,
non-symmetrical form with multiple pillars. The two sections are connected by field lines with double dips even though the
twist of the field is less than one turn. Reconnection is not found to play a key role in the break up of the filament. The
non-linear force-free fields produce very different results to extrapolated linear-force free fields. For the cases considered
here the linear force-free field does not produce the break up of the filament nor the production of barbs as a result of
dominant polarity elements. 相似文献
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We analyze radio observations, magnetograms and extrapolated field line maps, Hα filtergrams, and X-ray observations of two
flare events (6 February 1992 in AR 7042 and 25 October 1994 in AR 7792) and study properties, evolution and energy release
signatures of sigmoidal loop systems. During both events, the loop configuration seen in soft X-ray (SXR) images changes from
a preflare sigmoidal shape to a relaxed post-flare loop system. The underlying magnetic field system consists of a quadrupolar
configuration formed by a sheared arcade core and a remote field concentration. We demonstrate two possibilities: a sigmoidal
SXR pattern can be due to a single continuous flux tube (the 1992 event). Alternatively, it can be due to a set of independent
loops appearing like a sigmoid (the 1994 event). In both cases, the preflare and post-flare loops can be well reproduced by
a linear force-free field and potential field, respectively, computed using preflare magnetograms. We find that thermal and
non-thermal flare energy release indicators of both events become remarkably similar after applying spatial and temporal scale
transformations. Using the spatial scaling between both events we estimated that the non-thermal energy release in the second
event liberated about 1.7 times more energy per unit volume. A two-and-a-half times faster evolution indicates that the rate
of the energy release per unit volume is more than four times higher in this event. A coronal type II burst reveals ignition
and propagation of a coronal shock wave. In contrast, the first event, which was larger and released about a 10 times more
energy during the non-thermal phase, was associated with a CME, but no type II burst was recorded. During both events, in
addition to the two-ribbon flare process an interaction was observed between the flaring arcade and an emerging magnetic flux
region of opposite polarity next to the dominant leading sunspot. The arcade flare seems to stimulate the reconnection process
in an `emerging flux-type' configuration, which significantly contributes to the energy release. This regime is characterized
by the quasiperiodic injection of electron beams into the surrounding extended field line systems. The repeated beam injections
excite pulsating broadband radio emission in the decimetric-metric wavelength range. Each radio pulse is due to a new electron
beam injection. The pulsation period (seconds) reflects the spatial scale of the emerging flux-type field configuration. Since
broadband decimetric-metric radio pulsations are a frequent radio flare phenomenon, we speculate that opposite-polarity small-scale
flux intrusions located in the vicinity of strong field regions may be an essential component of the energy release process
in dynamic flares. 相似文献
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Two possible limiting scenarios are proposed for the production of a coronal mass ejection. In the first the magnetic field around a prominence evolves until it loses equilibrium and erupts, which drives reconnection below the prominence and an eruption of the overlying magnetic arcade. In the second a large-scale magnetic arcade evolves until it loses equilibrium and erupts, thereby causing a prominence to erupt. In general it is likely to be the non-equilibrium of the coupled system which creates the eruption. Furthermore, large quiescent prominences are expected to be centred within the magnetic bubble of a coronal mass ejection whereas when active-region prominences erupt they are likely to be located initially to one side of the bubble.A model is set up for the eruption of a magnetically coupled prominence and coronal mass ejection. This represents a development of the Anzer and Pneuman (1982) model by overcoming two limitations of it, namely that: it is not globally stable initially and so one wonders how it can be set up in a stable way before the eruption; it has reconnection driving the CME whereas recent observations suggest that the reverse may be happening. In our model we assume that magnetic reconnection below the prominence is driven by the eruption and the driver is magnetic non-equilibrium in the coupled prominence-mass ejection system. The prominence is modelled as a twisted flux tube and the mass ejection as an overlying void and magnetic bubble. Two different models of the prominence are considered. In one a globally stable equilibrium becomes unstable when a threshold magnetic flux below the prominence is exceeded and, in the other, equilibrium ceases to exist. In both cases, the prominence and mass-ejection accelerate upwards before reaching constant velocities in a manner that is consistent with observations. It is found that the greater the reconnection that is driven by the eruption, the higher is the final speed. 相似文献
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We present a method to include stereoscopic information about the three-dimensional structure of flux tubes into the reconstruction of the coronal magnetic field. Due to the low plasma beta in the corona we can assume a force-free magnetic field, with the current density parallel to the magnetic field lines. Here we use linear force-free fields for simplicity. The method uses the line-of-sight magnetic field on the photosphere as observational input. The value of is determined iteratively by comparing the reconstructed magnetic field with the observed structures. The final configuration is the optimal linear force-free solution constrained by both the photospheric magnetogram and the observed plasma structures. As an example we apply our method to SOHO MDI/EIT data of an active region. In the future it is planned to apply the method to analyse data from the SECCHI instrument aboard the STEREO mission. 相似文献
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Bentley R.D. Klein K.-L. van Driel-Gesztelyi L. Démoulin P. Trottet G. Tassetto P. Marty G. 《Solar physics》2000,193(1-2):227-245
As it crossed the solar disk in May and June 1998, AR 8227 was tracked by TRACE, Yohkoh, SOHO, and many ground-based observatories. We have studied how the evolution of the magnetic field resulted in changes in activity in the corona. In particular, we examine how the evolving field may have led to the acceleration of electrons which emit noise storms observed by the Nançay Radio Heliograph between 30 May and 1 June 1998, in the absence of any flare. The magnetic changes were related to moving magnetic features (MMFs) in the vicinity of the leading spot and are related to the decay of this spot. Within the limits of the instrumental capabilities, the location in time and space of the radio emissions followed the changes observed in the photospheric magnetograms. We have extrapolated the photospheric magnetic field with a linear force-free approximation and find that the active region magnetic field was very close to being potential. These computations show a complex magnetic topology associated to the MMFs. The observed photospheric evolution is expected to drive magnetic reconnection in such complex magnetic topology. We therefore propose that the MMFs are at the origin of the observed metric noise-storms. 相似文献
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The main theoretical studies of the process involved in solar flares have been made in the two-dimensional approximation. However, the preliminary studies made with three field components suggest that reconnection could take place in the separatrices, the separator (intersection of separatrices) being a privileged location for this process. As a consequence the sites of flare kernels must be located on the intersections of the separatrices with the photosphere. Therefore, in order to understand the role of interacting large-scale structures in solar flares, we have analysed the topology of three-dimensional potential and linear force-free fields. The magnetic field has been modelled by a distribution of charges or dipoles located below the photosphere. This modelling permits us to define the field connectivity by the charges or the dipoles at both ends of every field line.We found that the appearance of a separator above the photosphere is more likely when a parasitic bipole emerges outside the axis that joins the main polarities and when the field lines are characteristic of a field created by dipoles. The separatrices derived in the potential and force-free hypothesis have different shapes. However, in the strong field regions where flares usually occur, the separatrices of the potential and force-free field models become closer. This property makes possible the use of the potential field, as a first estimate, for computing the location in the photosphere of the separatrices and for comparing this location with the position of observed H kernels. Displacements of the separatrices of a force-free field result from modifications of the free energy of the field. Then force-free fields have the further capability of predicting the kernel displacement. In all cases a configuration suitable for prominence support is found above the separator. 相似文献
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Reliable measurements of the solar magnetic field are restricted to the level of the photosphere. For about half a century attempts have been made to calculate the field in the layers above the photosphere, i.e. in the chromosphere and in the corona, from the measured photospheric field. The procedure is known as magnetic field extrapolation. In the superphotospheric parts of active regions the magnetic field is approximately force-free, i.e. electric currents are aligned with the magnetic field. The practical application to solar active regions has been largely confined to constant-α or linear force-free fields, with a spatially constant ratio, α, between the electric current and the magnetic field. We review results obtained from extrapolations with constant-α force-free fields, in particular on magnetic topologies favourable for flares and on magnetic and current helicities. Presently, different methods are being developed to calculate non-constant-α or nonlinear force-free fields from photospheric vector magnetograms. We also briefly discuss these methods and present a comparison of a linear and a nonlinear force-free magnetic field extrapolation applied to the same photospheric boundary data. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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The nature of three-dimensional reconnection when a twisted flux tube erupts during an eruptive flare or coronal mass ejection is considered. The reconnection has two phases: first of all, 3D “zipper reconnection” propagates along the initial coronal arcade, parallel to the polarity inversion line (PIL); then subsequent quasi-2D “main-phase reconnection” in the low corona around a flux rope during its eruption produces coronal loops and chromospheric ribbons that propagate away from the PIL in a direction normal to it. One scenario starts with a sheared arcade: the zipper reconnection creates a twisted flux rope of roughly one turn (\(2\pi \) radians of twist), and then main-phase reconnection builds up the bulk of the erupting flux rope with a relatively uniform twist of a few turns. A second scenario starts with a pre-existing flux rope under the arcade. Here the zipper phase can create a core with many turns that depend on the ratio of the magnetic fluxes in the newly formed flare ribbons and the new flux rope. Main phase reconnection then adds a layer of roughly uniform twist to the twisted central core. Both phases and scenarios are modeled in a simple way that assumes the initial magnetic flux is fragmented along the PIL. The model uses conservation of magnetic helicity and flux, together with equipartition of magnetic helicity, to deduce the twist of the erupting flux rope in terms the geometry of the initial configuration. Interplanetary observations show some flux ropes have a fairly uniform twist, which could be produced when the zipper phase and any pre-existing flux rope possess small or moderate twist (up to one or two turns). Other interplanetary flux ropes have highly twisted cores (up to five turns), which could be produced when there is a pre-existing flux rope and an active zipper phase that creates substantial extra twist. 相似文献
17.
Yun-Tung Lau 《Solar physics》1993,148(2):301-324
We study the magnetic field-line topology in a class of solar flare models with four magnetic dipoles. By introducing a series of symmetry-breaking perturbations to a fully symmetric potential field model, we show that isolated magnetic nulls generally exist above the photosphere. These nulls are physically important because they determine the magnetic topology above the photosphere. In some special cases, there may be a single null above the photosphere with quasi two-dimensional properties. For such a model, aquasi null line connects the null to the photosphere. In the limit of small non-ideal effects, boundary layers and current sheetsmay develop along the quasi null line and the associated separatrix surfaces. Field lines can then reconect across the quasi null line, as in two-dimensional reconnection. In a more general force-free case, the field contains a pair of nulls above the photosphere, with a field line (theseparator) connecting the two nulls. In the limit of small non-ideal effects, boundary layers and current sheets develop along the separator and the associated separatrix surfaces. The system exhibits three-dimensional reconnection across the separator, over which field lines exchange identity. The separatrices are related to preferable sites of energy release during solar flares. 相似文献
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Various topological features, for example magnetic null points and separators, have been inferred as likely sites of magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in the solar atmosphere. In fact, magnetic reconnection is not constrained to solely take place at or near such topological features and may also take place in the absence of such features. Studies of particle acceleration using non-topological reconnection experiments embedded in the solar atmosphere are uncommon. We aim to investigate and characterise particle behaviour in a model of magnetic reconnection which causes an arcade of solar coronal magnetic field to twist and form an erupting flux rope, crucially in the absence of any common topological features where reconnection is often thought to occur. We use a numerical scheme that evolves the gyro-averaged orbit equations of single electrons and protons in time and space, and simulate the gyromotion of particles in a fully analytical global field model. We observe and discuss how the magnetic and electric fields of the model and the initial conditions of each orbit may lead to acceleration of protons and electrons up to 2 MeV in energy (depending on model parameters). We describe the morphology of time-dependent acceleration and impact sites for each particle species and compare our findings to those recovered by topologically based studies of three-dimensional (3D) reconnection and particle acceleration. We also broadly compare aspects of our findings to general observational features typically seen during two-ribbon flare events. 相似文献
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Force-free magnetic fields can be computed by making use of a new numerical technique, in which the fields are represented
by a boundary integral equation based on a specific Green's function. Vector magnetic fields observed on the photospheric
surface can be taken as the boundary conditions of this equation. In this numerical computation, the following two points
are emphasized: (1) A new method for data reduction is proposed, for removing uncertainties in boundary data and determining
the parameter in this Green's function, which is important for solving the boundary integral equation. In this method, the
transverse components of the observed boundary field are calibrated with a linear force-free field model without changing
their azimuth. (2) The computed 3-D fields satisfy the divergence-free and force-free conditions with high precision. The
alignment of these field lines is mostly in agreement with structures in Hα and Yohkoh soft X-ray images. Since the boundary data are calibrated with a linear force-free field model, the computed 3-D magnetic
field can be regarded as a quasi-linear force-free field approximation. The reconstruction of 3-D magnetic field in active
region NOAA 7321 was taken as an example to quantitatively exhibit the capability of our new numerical technique. 相似文献
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Observation of a 3d Magnetic Null Point in the Solar Corona 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
A saddle-like structure is clearly discerned in SOHO EIT images in the Fe wavebands in the active region NOAA 8113, from 6 to 10 December 1997, when the active region reached the solar limb. It appears after the emergence of a small patch of parasitic polarity near the footpoints of the loops forming the outer boundary of an arcade. There is a 3D null point in the center of the saddle. The height of the null is in good agreement with the relationship between the parasitic flux and the background magnetic field. In spite of the fact that a saddle-like or hyperbolic magnetic configuration is usually assumed as the necessary condition for magnetic field-line reconnection and magnetic energy release, no additional heating is observed inside the saddle structure. Moreover, interior parts of the saddle seem to be darker than the neighbouring loops of the arcade. 相似文献