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《天文和天体物理学研究(英文版)》2017,(1)
One of the most puzzling problems in astrophysics is to understand the anomalous resistivity in collisionless magnetic reconnection that is believed extensively to be responsible for the energy release in various eruptive phenomena. The magnetic null point in the reconnecting current sheet, acting as a scattering center, can lead to chaotic motions of particles in the current sheet, which is one of the possible mechanisms for anomalous resistivity and is called chaos-induced resistivity. In many interesting cases, however, instead of the magnetic null point, there is a nonzero magnetic field perpendicular to the merging field lines, usually called the guide field, whose effect on chaos-induced resistivity has been an open problem. By use of the test particle simulation method and statistical analysis, we investigate chaos-induced resistivity in the presence of a constant guide field. The characteristics of particle motion in the reconnecting region, in particular, the chaotic behavior of particle orbits and evolving statistical features, are analyzed. The results show that as the guide field increases, the radius of the chaos region increases and the Lyapunov index decreases. However, the effective collision frequency, and hence the chaos-induced resistivity, reach their peak values when the guide field approaches half of the characteristic strength of the reconnection magnetic field. The presence of a guide field can significantly influence the chaos of the particle orbits and hence the chaos-induced resistivity in the reconnection sheet, which decides the collisionless reconnection rate. The present result is helpful for us to understand the microphysics of anomalous resistivity in collisionless reconnection with a guide field. 相似文献
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《Planetary and Space Science》1999,47(8-9):1101-1109
The ten-degree tilt of the Jovian magnetic dipole causes the magnetic equator to move back and forth across Jupiters rotational equator and the Galileo orbit that lies therein. Beyond about 24 Jovian radii, the equatorial current sheet thins and the magnetic structure changes from quasi-dipolar into magnetodisk-like with two regions of nearly radial but antiparallel magnetic field separated by a strong current layer. The magnetic field at the center of the current sheet is very weak in this region. Herein we examine the current sheet at radial distances from 24–55 Jovian radii. We find that the magnetic structure very much resembles the structure seen at planetary magnetopause and tail current sheet crossings. The magnetic field variation is mainly linear with little rotation of the field direction. At times there is almost no small-scale structure present and the normal component of the magnetic field is almost constant through the current sheet. At other times there are strong small-scale structures present in both the southward and northward directions. This small-scale structure appears to grow with radial distance and may provide the seeds for the explosive reconnection observed at even greater radial distances on the nightside. Beyond about 40 Jovian radii, the thin current sheet also appears to be almost constantly in oscillatory motion with periods of about 10 min. The amplitude of these oscillations also appears to grow with radial distance. The source of these fluctuations may be dynamical events in the more distant magnetodisk. 相似文献
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We study the magnetic field evolution and topology of the active region NOAA 10486 before the 3B/X1.2 flare of October 26, 2003, using observational data from the French–Italian THEMIS telescope, the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) onboard Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the Solar Magnetic Field Telescope (SMFT) at Huairou Solar Observation Station (HSOS), and the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE). Three dimensional (3D) extrapolation of photospheric magnetic field, assuming a potential field configuration, reveals the existence of two magnetic null points in the corona above the active region. We look at their role in the triggering of the main flare, by using the bright patches observed in TRACE 1600 Å images as tracers at the solar surface of energy release associated with magnetic reconnection at the null points. All the bright patches observed before the flare correspond to the low-altitude null point. They have no direct relationship with the X1.2 flare because the related separatrix is located far from the eruptive site. No bright patch corresponds to the high-altitude null point before the flare. We conclude that eruptions can be triggered without pre-eruptive coronal null point reconnection, and the presence of null points is not a sufficient condition for the occurrence of flares. We propose that this eruptive flare results from the loss of equilibrium due to persistent flux emergence, continuous photospheric motion and strong shear along the magnetic neutral line. The opening of the coronal field lines above the active region should be a byproduct of the large 3B/X1.2 flare rather than its trigger. 相似文献
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Using time dependent MHD simulations, we study the nature of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection in thin quasi-separatrix
layers (QSLs), in the absence of null points. This process is believed to take place in the solar atmosphere, in many solar
flares and possibly in coronal heating. We consider magnetic field configurations which have previously been weakly stressed
by asymmetric line-tied twisting motions and whose potential fields already possessed thin QSLs. When the line-tied driving
is suppressed, magnetic reconnection is solely due to the self-pinching and dissipation of narrow current layers previously
formed along the QSLs. A generic property of this reconnection process is the continuous slippage of magnetic field lines
along each other, while they pass through the current layers. This is contrary to standard null point reconnection, in which
field lines clearly reconnect by pair and abruptly exchange their connectivities. For sufficiently thin QSLs and high resistivities,
the field line footpoints slip-run at super-Alfvénic speeds along the intersection of the QSLs with the line-tied boundary,
even though the plasma velocity and resistivity are there fixed to zero. The slip-running velocities of a given footpoint
have a well-defined maximum when the field line crosses the thinnest regions of the QSLs. QSLs can then physically behave
as true separatrices on MHD time scales, since magnetic field lines can change their connections on time scales far shorter
than the travel-time of Alfvén waves along them. Since particles accelerated in the diffusive regions travel along the field
much faster than the Alfvén speed, slip-running reconnection may also naturally account for the fast motion of hard X-ray
sources along chromospheric ribbons, as observed during solar flares.
Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available for this article at 相似文献
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M. Hosseinpour 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2014,353(2):379-387
Three-dimensional (3D) magnetic reconnection is taking place commonly in astrophysical and space plasmas, especially in solar flares which are rich sources of highly energetic particles. One of the proposed mechanisms for steady-state 3D magnetic reconnection is “torsional spine reconnection”. By using the magnetic and electric fields for “torsional spine reconnection”, we numerically investigate the features of test particle acceleration with input parameters for the solar corona. We show that efficient acceleration of a relativistic proton is possible near the null point where it can gain up to 100 MeV of kinetic energy within a few milliseconds. However, varying the injection position results in different scenarios for proton acceleration. A proton is most efficiently accelerated when it is injected at the point where the magnetic field lines change their curvature in the fan plane. Moreover, a proton injected far away from the null point cannot be accelerated and, even in some cases, it is trapped in the magnetic field. In addition, adopting either spatially uniform or non-uniform localized plasma resistivity does not much influence the features of trajectory. 相似文献
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C. H. Mandrini P. Demoulin B. Schmieder E. E. Deluca E. Pariat W. Uddin 《Solar physics》2006,238(2):293-312
A major two-ribbon X17 flare occurred on 28 October 2003, starting at 11:01 UT in active region NOAA 10486. This flare was
accompanied by the eruption of a filament and by one of the fastest halo coronal mass ejections registered during the October–November
2003 strong activity period. We focus on the analysis of magnetic field (SOHO/MDI), chromospheric (NainiTal observatory and
TRACE), and coronal (TRACE) data obtained before and during the 28 October event. By combining our data analysis with a model
of the coronal magnetic field, we concentrate on the study of two events starting before the main flare. One of these events,
evident in TRACE images around one hour prior to the main flare, involves a localized magnetic reconnection process associated
with the presence of a coronal magnetic null point. This event extends as long as the major flare and we conclude that it
is independent from it. A second event, visible in Hα and TRACE images, simultaneous with the previous one, involves a large-scale
quadrupolar reconnection process that contributes to decrease the magnetic field tension in the overlaying field configuration;
this allows the filament to erupt in a way similar to that proposed by the breakout model, but with magnetic reconnection
occurring at Quasi-Separatrix Layers (QSLs) rather than at a magnetic null point.
Electronic supplementary material Electronic supplementary material is available for this article at and accessible for authorised users. 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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In this review paper we discuss several aspects of magnetic reconnection theory, focusing on the field-line motions that are
associated with reconnection. A new exact solution of the nonlinear MHD equations for reconnective annihilation is presented which represents a two-fold generalization of the previous solutions. Magnetic reconnection at null points by
several mechanisms is summarized, including spine reconnection, fan reconnection and separator reconnection, where it is pointed out that two common features of separator reconnection are the rapid flipping of magnetic field lines
and the collapse of the separator to a current sheet. In addition, a formula for the rate of reconnection between two flux
tubes is derived. The magnetic field of the corona is highly complex, since the magnetic carpet consists of a multitude of
sources in the photosphere. Progress in understanding this complexity may, however, be made by constructing the skeleton of the field and developing a theory for the local and global bifurcations between the different topologies. The eruption
of flux from the Sun may even sometimes be due to a change of topology caused by emerging flux break-out. A CD-ROM attached to this paper presents the results of a toy model of vacuum reconnection, which suggests that rapid flipping
of field lines in fan and separator reconnection is an essential ingredient also in real non-vacuum conditions. In addition,
it gives an example of binary reconnection between a pair of unbalanced sources as they move around, which may contribute significantly to coronal heating. Finally,
we present examples in TRACE movies of geometrical changes of the coronal magnetic field that are a likely result of large-scale
magnetic reconnection.
Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1005248007615 相似文献
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C.T. Russell 《Planetary and Space Science》2003,51(12):731-744
The solar wind is a magnetized flowing plasma that intersects the Earth's magnetosphere at a velocity much greater than that of the compressional fast mode wave that is required to deflect that flow. A bow shock forms that alters the properties of the plasma and slows the flow, enabling continued evolution of the properties of the flow on route to its intersection with the magnetopause. Thus the plasma conditions at the magnetopause can be quite unlike those in the solar wind. The boundary between this “magnetosheath” plasma and the magnetospheric plasma is many gyroradii thick and is surrounded by several boundary layers. A very important process occurring at the magnetopause is reconnection whereby there is a topological change in magnetic flux lines so that field lines can connect the solar wind plasma to the terrestrial plasma, enabling the two to mix. This connection has important consequences for momentum transfer from the solar wind to the magnetosphere. The initiation of reconnection appears to be at locations where the magnetic fields on either side of the magnetopause are antiparallel. This condition is equivalent to there being no guide field in the reconnection region, so at the reconnection point there is truly a magnetic neutral or null point. Lastly reconnection can be spatially and temporally varying, causing the region of the magnetopause to be quite dynamic. 相似文献
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Haidong Li Jiayan Yang Yunchun Jiang Yi Bi Zhining Qu Hechao Chen 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2018,363(2):26
We present a study of a mini-filament erupting in association with a circular ribbon flare observed by NVST and SDO/AIA on 2014 March 17. The filament was located at one footpoint region of a large loops. The potential field extrapolation shows that it was embedded under a magnetic null point configuration. First, we observed a brightening of the filament at the corresponding EUV images, close to one end of the filament. With time evolution, a circular flare ribbon was observed around the filament at the onset of the eruption, which is regarded as a signature of reconnection at the null point. After the filament activation, its eruption took the form of a surge, which ejected along one end of a large-scale closed coronal loops with a curtain-like shape. We conjecture that the null point reconnection may facilitate the eruption of the filament. 相似文献
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Numerical simulation of magnetic field reconnection at IMF sector boundaries shows that the reconnection line may be carried by the solar wind out of the region of the anomalous resistivity. This makes it possible to observe magnetic loops at the Earth's orbit open to the Sun as well as from it. Besides, it is shown that the current sheet in the vicinity of the reconnection line has to split into two currents.Experimental data on the structure of the sector boundaries are analyzed, and it is shown that the currents at sector boundaries are indeed often splitted.The thickness of the splitted boundaries may amount to 18×106 km; taking into account this value, the heliocentric distance of the region of anomalous resistivity in the interplanetary current sheet is estimated as 0.4–0.5 AU.The probability of observing magnetic loops open towards the Sun seems to be greater than that of loops open from the Sun, which suggests an essential asymmetry of the field reversal regions. 相似文献
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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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M. J. Owens 《Solar physics》2009,260(1):207-217
Magnetic clouds are a class of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (CME) predominantly characterised by a smooth rotation
in the magnetic field direction, indicative of a magnetic flux rope structure. Many magnetic clouds, however, also contain
sharp discontinuities within the smoothly varying magnetic field, suggestive of narrow current sheets. In this study we present
observations and modelling of magnetic clouds with strong current sheet signatures close to the centre of the apparent flux
rope structure. Using an analytical magnetic flux rope model, we demonstrate how such current sheets can form as a result
of a cloud’s kinematic propagation from the Sun to the Earth, without any external forces or influences. This model is shown
to match observations of four particular magnetic clouds remarkably well. The model predicts that current sheet intensity
increases for increasing CME angular extent and decreasing CME radial expansion speed. Assuming such current sheets facilitate
magnetic reconnection, the process of current sheet formation could ultimately lead a single flux rope becoming fragmented
into multiple flux ropes. This change in topology has consequences for magnetic clouds as barriers to energetic particle propagation. 相似文献
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We present a new model to explain how particles (solar energetic particles; SEPs), accelerated at a reconnection site that is not magnetically connected to the Earth, could eventually propagate along the well-connected open flux tube. Our model is based on the results of a low-β resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulation of a three-dimensional line-tied and initially current-free bipole, which is embedded in a non-uniform open potential field. The topology of this configuration is that of an asymmetric coronal null point, with a closed fan surface and an open outer spine. When driven by slow photospheric shearing motions, field lines, initially fully anchored below the fan dome, reconnect at the null point, and jump to the open magnetic domain. This is the standard interchange mode as sketched and calculated in 2D. The key result in 3D is that reconnected open field lines located in the vicinity of the outer spine keep reconnecting continuously, across an open quasi-separatrix layer, as previously identified for non-open-null-point reconnection. The apparent slipping motion of these field lines leads to formation of an extended narrow magnetic flux tube at high altitude. Because of the slip-running reconnection, we conjecture that if energetic particles would be traveling through, or be accelerated inside, the diffusion region, they would be successively injected along continuously reconnecting field lines that are connected farther and farther from the spine. At the scale of the full Sun, owing to the super-radial expansion of field lines below 3?R ⊙, such energetic particles could easily be injected in field lines slipping over significant distances, and could eventually reach the distant flux tube that is well-connected to the Earth. 相似文献
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New X-ray observations of the north polar region taken from the X-ray Telescope (XRT) of the Hinode spacecraft are used to analyze several time sequences showing small loop brightenings with a long ray above. We focus on
the formation of the jet and discuss scenarios to explain the main features of the events: the relationship with the expected
surface magnetism, the rapid and sudden radial motion, and possibly the heating, based on the assumption that the jet occurs
above a null point of the coronal magnetic field. We conclude that 2-D reconnection models should be complemented in order
to explain the observational details of these events and suggest that alternative scenarios may exist. 相似文献
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Transverse oscillatory motions and recurrence behavior in the chromospheric jets observed by Hinode/SOT are studied. A comparison is considered with the behavior that was noticed in coronal X-ray jets observed by Hinode/XRT. A jet like bundle observed at the limb in Ca II H line appears to show a magnetic topology that is similar to X-ray jets (i.e., the Eiffel tower shape). The appearance of such magnetic topology is usually assumed to be caused by magnetic reconnection near a null point. Transverse motions of the jet axis are recorded but no clear evidence of twist is appearing from the highly processed movie. The aim is to investigate the dynamical behavior of an incompressible magnetic X-point occurring during the magnetic reconnection in the jet formation region. The viscous effect is specially considered in the closed line-tied magnetic X-shape nulls. We perform the MHD numerical simulation in 2-D by solving the visco-resistive MHD equations with the tracing of velocity and magnetic field. A qualitative agreement with Hinode observations is found for the oscillatory and non-oscillatory behaviors of the observed solar jets in both the chromosphere and the corona. Our results suggest that the viscous effect contributes to the excitation of the magnetic reconnection by generating oscillations that we observed at least inside this Ca II H line cool solar jet bundle. 相似文献
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Based on a topological model for the magnetic field of a solar active region (AR), we suggest a criterion for the existence of magnetic null points on the separators in the corona. With the problem of predicting solar flares in mind, we have revealed a model parameter whose decrease means that the AR evolves toward a major eruptive flare. We analyze the magnetic field evolution for AR 9077 within two days before the Bastille Day flare on July 14, 2000. The coronal conditions are shown to have become more favorable for magnetic reconnection, which led to a 3B/X5.7 eruptive flare. 相似文献
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The role of null-point reconnection in a three-dimensional numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of solar emerging flux
is investigated. The model consists of a twisted magnetic flux tube rising through a stratified convection zone and atmosphere
to interact and reconnect with a horizontal overlying magnetic field in the atmosphere. Null points appear as the reconnection
begins and persist throughout the rest of the emergence, where they can be found mostly in the model photosphere and transition
region, forming two loose clusters on either side of the emerging flux tube. Up to 26 nulls are present at any one time, and
tracking in time shows that there is a total of 305 overall, despite the initial simplicity of the magnetic field configuration.
We find evidence for the reality of the nulls in terms of their methods of creation and destruction, their balance of signs,
their long lifetimes, and their geometrical stability. We then show that due to the low parallel electric fields associated
with the nulls, null-point reconnection is not the main type of magnetic reconnection involved in the interaction of the newly
emerged flux with the overlying field. However, the large number of nulls implies that the topological structure of the magnetic
field must be very complex and the importance of reconnection along separators or separatrix surfaces for flux emergence cannot
be ruled out. 相似文献
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N.V. ErkaevH.K. Biernat 《Planetary and Space Science》2003,51(12):745-755
The magnetized solar wind carries a large amount of energy but only a small fraction of it enters the magnetosphere and powers its dynamics. Numerous observations show that the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is a key parameter regulating the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction. The main factor determining the amount of energy extracted from the solar wind flow by the magnetosphere is the plasma flow structure in the region adjacent to the sunward side of the magnetopause. While compared to the energy of the solar wind flow the IMF magnetic energy is relatively weak, it is considerably enhanced in a thin layer next to the dayside magnetopause variously called the plasma depletion layer or magnetic barrier. Important features of this barrier/layer are (i) a pile-up of the magnetic field with (ii) a concurrent decrease of density, (iii) enhancement of proton temperature anisotropy, (iv) asymmetry of plasma flow caused by magnetic field tension, and (v) characteristic wave emissions (ion cyclotron waves). Importantly, the magnetic barrier can be considered as an energy source for magnetic reconnection. While the steady-state magnetic barrier has been extensively examined, non-steady processes therein have only been addressed by a few authors. We discuss here two non-steady aspects related to variations of the magnetic barrier caused by (i) a north-to-south rotation of the IMF, and (ii) by pulses of magnetic field reconnection at the magnetopause. When the IMF rotates smoothly from north-to-south, a transition layer is shown to appear in the magnetosheath which evolves into a thin layer bounded by sharp gradients in the magnetic field and plasma quantities. For a given reconnection rate and calculated parameters of the magnetic barrier, we estimate the duration and length scale of a reconnection pulse as a function of the solar wind parameters. Considering a sudden decrease of the magnetic field near the magnetopause caused by the reconnection pulse, we study the relaxation process of the magnetic barrier. We find that the relaxation time is longer than the duration of the reconnection pulse for large Alfvén-Mach numbers. 相似文献