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We discuss the preheating phase of solar flares triggered by emerging magnetic flux. We consider the development of microinstabilities in the diffusion region during the emergence process and we propose four different types of reconnection, by which we explain the preheating, as well as the impulsive phase of flares. We find that during the emergence of new magnetic flux the current sheet will not jump from the initial classical state to a fully turbulent one, but will remain in a marginally turbulent state which may develop either gradually or impulsively depending on the conditions of emergence. As a consequence of this, we find that four cases of reconnection are indeed possible: a week gradual heating, a weak impulsive process, a gradual preheating followed by an impulsive phase, and violent bursty reconnection.The expansion rate of the diffusion region, the duration of the gradual phase, the magnetic energy release, and the energy deposition rate in coronal loops during the gradual phase are derived under simplifying assumptions and applied to X-ray and UV observations of flares from the Solar Maximum Mission.On leave from the Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, Nanjing, The People's Republic of China. 相似文献
2.
Magnetic field enters the corona from the interior of the Sun through isolated magnetic features on the solar surface. These features correspond to the tops of submerged magnetic flux tubes, and coronal field lines often connect one flux tube to another, defining a pattern of inter-linkage. Using a model field, in which flux tubes are represented as point magnetic charges, it is possible to quantify this inter-linkage. If the coronal field were current-free then motions of the magnetic features would change the inter-linkage through implicit (vacuum) magnetic reconnection. Without reconnection the conductive corona develops currents to avoid changing the flux linkage. This current forms singular layers (ribbons) flowing along topologically significant field lines called separators. Current ribbons store magnetic energy as internal stress in the field: the amount of energy stored is a function of the flux tube displacement. To explore this process we develop a model called the minimum-current corona (MCC) which approximates the current arising on a separator in response to displacement of photospheric flux. This permits a model of the quasi-static evolution of the corona above a complex active region. We also introduce flaring to rapidly change the flux inter-linkage between magnetic features when the internal stress on a separator becomes too large. This eliminates the separator current and releases the energy stored by it. Implementation of the MCC in two examples reveals repeated flaring during the evolution of simple active regions, releasing anywhere from 1027–1029 ergs, at intervals of hours. Combining the energy and frequency gives a general expression for heat deposition due to flaring (i.e., reconnection). 相似文献
3.
We outline a method to determine the direction of solar open flux transport that results from the opening of magnetic clouds
(MCs) by interchange reconnection at the Sun based solely on in-situ observations. This method uses established findings about i) the locations and magnetic polarities of emerging MC footpoints, ii) the hemispheric dependence of the helicity of MCs, and iii) the occurrence of interchange reconnection at the Sun being signaled by uni-directional suprathermal electrons inside MCs.
Combining those observational facts in a statistical analysis of MCs during solar cycle 23 (period 1995 – 2007), we show that
the time of disappearance of the northern polar coronal hole (1998 – 1999), permeated by an outward-pointing magnetic field,
is associated with a peak in the number of MCs originating from the northern hemisphere and connected to the Sun by outward-pointing
magnetic field lines. A similar peak is observed in the number of MCs originating from the southern hemisphere and connected
to the Sun by inward-pointing magnetic field lines. This pattern is interpreted as the result of interchange reconnection
occurring between MCs and the open field lines of nearby polar coronal holes. This reconnection process closes down polar
coronal hole open field lines and transports these open field lines equatorward, thus contributing to the global coronal magnetic
field reversal process. These results will be further constrainable with the rising phase of solar cycle 24. 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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B. von Rekowski C. E. Parnell E. R. Priest 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,369(1):43-56
Two-dimensional numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a cancelling magnetic feature (CMF) and the associated coronal X-ray bright point (XBP) are presented. Coronal magnetic reconnection is found to produce the Ohmic heating required for a coronal XBP. During the BP phase where reconnection occurs above the base, about 90–95 per cent of the magnetic flux of the converging magnetic bipole cancels at the base. The last ≈5 to 10 per cent of the base magnetic flux is cancelled when reconnection occurs at the base. Reconnection happens in a time-dependent way in response to the imposed converging footpoint motions. A potential field model gives a good first approximation to the qualitative behaviour of the system, but the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) experiments reveal several quantitative differences: for example, the effects of plasma inertia and a pressure build-up in-between the converging bipole are to delay the onset of coronal reconnection above the base and to lower the maximum X -point height. 相似文献
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We analyze the multiwavelength observations of an M2.9/1N flare that occurred in the active region (AR) NOAA 11112 in the vicinity of a huge filament system on 16 October 2010. SDO/HMI magnetograms reveal the emergence of a bipole (within the existing AR) 50 hours prior to the flare event. During the emergence, both the positive and negative sunspots in the bipole show translational as well as rotational motion. The positive-polarity sunspot shows significant motion/rotation in the south-westward/clockwise direction, and we see continuously pushing/sliding of the surrounding opposite-polarity field region. On the other hand, the negative-polarity sunspot moves/rotates in the westward/anticlockwise direction. The positive-polarity sunspot rotates ≈?70° within 30 hours, whereas the one with negative polarity rotates ≈?20° within 10 hours. SDO/AIA 94 Å EUV images show the emergence of a flux tube in the corona, consistent with the emergence of the bipole in HMI. The footpoints of the flux tube were anchored in the emerging bipole. The initial brightening starts at one of the footpoints (western) of the emerging loop system, where the positive-polarity sunspot pushes/slides towards a nearby negative-polarity field region. A high speed plasmoid ejection (speed ≈?1197 km?s?1) was observed during the impulsive phase of the flare, which suggests magnetic reconnection of the emerging positive-polarity sunspot with the surrounding opposite-polarity field region. The entire AR shows positive-helicity injection before the flare event. Moreover, the newly emerging bipole reveals the signature of a negative (left-handed) helicity. These observations provide unique evidence of the emergence of twisted flux tubes from below the photosphere to coronal heights, triggering a flare mainly due to the interaction between the emerging positive-polarity sunspot and a nearby negative-polarity sunspot by the shearing motion of the emerging positive sunspot towards the negative one. Our observations also strongly support the idea that the rotation can most likely be attributed to the emergence of twisted magnetic fields, as proposed by recent models. 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
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Several laboratory experiments on magnetic field line reconnection are briefly reviewed. Emphasis is placed on the double inverse pinch device (DIPD) in which magnetic flux is built up during a quiescent reconnection phase and then abruptly transferred during an impulsive reconnection phase. Scaling estimates show that this impulsive phase corresponds to a solar release of 1030 ergs in 102 seconds with the production of GeV potentials. The trigger for the impulsive flare is a conduction mode instability (ion-acoustic) which abruptly changes the resistance of the neutral point region when the reconnection current density reaches a critical value.Some results are presented from another reconnection device which has exactly antiparallel fields at the boundaries. This flat plate device develops one x-type neutral point rather than tearing into many neutral points. The reconnection rate is more quiescent than in the DIPD. A mild conduction mode instability occurs. The results suggest that regions with flattened boundary fields may not be as conducive to flares as regions with more curved fields. 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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G. Valori L. M. Green P. Démoulin S. Vargas Domínguez L. van Driel-Gesztelyi A. Wallace D. Baker M. Fuhrmann 《Solar physics》2012,278(1):73-97
We study the flux emergence process in NOAA active region 11024, between 29 June and 7 July 2009, by means of multi-wavelength
observations and nonlinear force-free extrapolation. The main aim is to extend previous investigations by combining, as much
as possible, high spatial resolution observations to test our present understanding of small-scale (undulatory) flux emergence,
whilst putting these small-scale events in the context of the global evolution of the active region. The combination of these
techniques allows us to follow the whole process, from the first appearance of the bipolar axial field on the east limb, until
the buoyancy instability could set in and raise the main body of the twisted flux tube through the photosphere, forming magnetic
tongues and signatures of serpentine field, until the simplification of the magnetic structure into a main bipole by the time
the active region reaches the west limb. At the crucial time of the main emergence phase high spatial resolution spectropolarimetric
measurements of the photospheric field are employed to reconstruct the three-dimensional structure of the nonlinear force-free
coronal field, which is then used to test the current understanding of flux emergence processes. In particular, knowledge
of the coronal connectivity confirms the identity of the magnetic tongues as seen in their photospheric signatures, and it
exemplifies how the twisted flux, which is emerging on small scales in the form of a sea-serpent, is subsequently rearranged
by reconnection into the large-scale field of the active region. In this way, the multi-wavelength observations combined with
a nonlinear force-free extrapolation provide a coherent picture of the emergence process of small-scale magnetic bipoles,
which subsequently reconnect to form a large-scale structure in the corona. 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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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
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E. R. Priest 《Solar physics》1976,47(1):41-75
Current sheets have been suggested as the site for flare energy release because they can convert magnetic energy very rapidly into both heat and directed plasma energy. Also they contain electric fields with the potential of accelerating particles to high energies.The basic properties of current sheets are first reviewed. For instance, magnetic flux may be carried into a current sheet and annihilated. An exact solution for such a process in an infinitely long sheet has been found; it describes the annihilation of fields which are inclined at any angle, not just 180°. Moreover, field lines which are expelled from the ends of a current sheet can be described as having been reconnected. The only workable model for fast reconnection in the solar atmosphere, namely Petschek's mechanism, has recently been put on a firm foundation; it gives a reconnection rate which depends on the electrical conductivity but is typically a tenth or a hundredth of the Alfvén speed. A current sheet may be formed when the sources of an initially potential field start to move; a simple analytic technique for finding the position and shape of such a sheet in two dimensions now exists. Finally, a sheet with no transverse magnetic field component is subject to the tearing-mode instability, which rapidly produces a series of loops in the field.The main ways in which current sheets have been used for solar flare models is described. Syrovatskii's mechanism relies on the increase of the electric current density during the formation of a sheet, to a value in excess of the critical value j
* for the onset of microinstabilities. But Anzer has recently demonstrated that the critical value is most unlikely to be reached during the initial formation process. Sturrock, on the other hand, has advocated the occurrence of the tearing-mode instability in an open streamer-like configuration (which may result from the eruption of a force-free field). But recent observations do not point to that as the relevant configuration. Rather, they suggest that flares are triggered by the emergence of new magnetic flux from below the solar photosphere. This has led Heyvaerts, Priest, and Rust (1976) to propose a new emerging flux model, according to which, as more and more flux emerges, so reconnection occurs, producing some preflare heating. When the current sheet reaches such a height (around the transition region) that its current density exceeds j
*, then the impulsive phase of the flare is triggered. The main phase is caused by an enhanced level of magnetic energy conversion in a turbulent current sheet. The type of flare depends on the magnetic environment in which the emerging flux finds itself. A surge flare results if the flux appears near a strong unipolar region such as a simple sunspot, whereas a two ribbon flare may be produced by flux emergence near an active region filament, in which case the main phase energy is released from the field that surrounds the filament. 相似文献
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The aim of this paper is to look at the magnetic helicity structure of an emerging active region and show that both emergence and flaring signatures are consistent with a same sign for magnetic helicity. We present a multiwavelength analysis of an M1.6 flare occurring in the NOAA active region 10365 on 27 May 2003, in which a large new bipole emerges in a decaying active region. The diverging flow pattern and the “tongue” shape of the magnetic field in the photosphere with elongated polarities are highly suggestive of the emergence of a twisted flux tube. The orientation of these tongues indicates the emergence of a flux tube with a right-hand twist (i.e., positive magnetic helicity). The flare signatures in the chromosphere are ribbons observed in Hα by the MSDP spectrograph in the Meudon solar tower and in 1600 Å by TRACE. These ribbons have a J shape and are shifted along the inversion line. The pattern of these ribbons suggests that the flare was triggered by magnetic reconnection at coronal heights below a twisted flux tube of positive helicity, corresponding to that of the observed emergence. It is the first time that such a consistency between the signatures of the emerging flux through the photosphere and flare ribbons has been clearly identified in observations. Another type of ribbons observed during the flare at the periphery of the active region by the MSDP and SOHO/EIT is related to the existence of a null point, which is found high in the corona in a potential field extrapolation. We discuss the interpretation of these secondary brightenings in terms of the “breakout” model and in terms of plasma compression/heating within large-scale separatrices. 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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L. K. Harra T. Magara H. Hara S. Tsuneta T. J. Okamoto A. J. Wallace 《Solar physics》2010,263(1-2):105-119
Active region magnetic flux that emerges to the photosphere from below will show complexity in the structure, with many small-scale fragmented features appearing in between the main bipole and then disappearing. Some fragments seen will be absorbed into the main polarities and others seem to cancel with opposite magnetic field. In this paper we investigate the response of the corona to the behaviour of these small fragments and whether energy through reconnection will be transported into the corona. In order to investigate this we analyse data from the Hinode space mission during flux emergence on 1?–?2 December 2006. At the initial stages of flux emergence several small-scale enhancements (of only a few pixels size) are seen in the coronal line widths and diffuse coronal emission exists. The magnetic flux emerges as a fragmented structure, and coronal loops appear above these structures or close to them. These loops are large-scale structures – most small-scale features predominantly stay within the chromosphere or at the edges of the flux emergence. The most distinctive feature in the Doppler velocity is a strong ring of coronal outflows around the edge of the emerging flux region on the eastern side which is either due to reconnection or compression of the structure. This feature lasts for many hours and is seen in many wavelengths. We discuss the implications of this feature in terms of the onset of persistent outflows from an active region that could contribute to the slow solar wind. 相似文献
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L. K. Harra V. Archontis E. Pedram A. W. Hood D. L. Shelton L. van Driel-Gesztelyi 《Solar physics》2012,278(1):47-71
In this paper we analyse the flux emergence that occurred in the following polarity area of an active region on 1 – 2 December
2006. Observations have revealed the existence of fast outflows at the edge of the emerging flux region. We have performed
3-D numerical simulations to study the mechanisms responsible for these flows. The results indicate that these outflows are
reconnection jets or pressure-driven outflows, depending on the relative orientation of the magnetic fields in contact (i.e. the emerging flux and the active region’s field which is favourable for reconnection on the west side and nearly parallel
with the pre-existing field on the east side of the emerging flux). In the observations, the flows are larger on the west
side until late in the flux emergence, when the reverse is true. The simulations show that the flows are faster on the west
side, but do not show the east flows increasing with time. There is an asymmetry in the expansion of the emerging flux region,
which is also seen in the observations. The west side of the emerging flux region expands faster into the corona than the
other side. In the simulations, efficient magnetic reconnection occurs on the west side, with new loops being created containing
strong downflows that are clearly seen in the observations. On the other side, the simulations show strong compression as
the dominant mechanism for the generation of flows. There is evidence of these flows in the observations, but the flows are
stronger than the simulations predict at the later stages. There could be additional small-angle reconnection that adds to
the flows from the compression, as well as reconnection occurring in larger loops that lie across the whole active region. 相似文献
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A major solar active event called Bastille Day Event occurred in AR 9077 on July 14, 2000. Simultaneous occurrence of a filament
eruption, a flare and a coronal mass ejection was observed in this event. Previous analyses of this event show that before
the event, there existed an activation and eruption of a huge trans-equatorial filament, which might play a crucial role in
triggering the Bastille Day event. This implies that independent flux systems are closely related to and affect each other,
which has encouraged us to investigate the catastrophic behavior of a multiple coronal flux rope system with the use of a
2.5-D time-dependent MHD model. A force-free field that contains three separate coronal flux ropes is taken to be the initial
state. Starting from this state, we increase either the annular or the axial flux of a certain flux rope to examine the catastrophic
behavior of the system in two regimes, the ideal MHD regime and the resistive MHD regime. It is found that a catastrophe occurs
if the flux exceeds a certain critical value, or the magnetic energy of the system exceeds a certain threshold: the rope of
interest breaks away from the base and escapes to infinity, leaving a current sheet below. Moreover, the destiny of the remainder
flux ropes relies on whether reconnection takes place across the current sheet. In the ideal MHD regime, i.e., in the absence of reconnection, these ropes remain to be attached to the base in equilibrium, whereas in the resistive MHD
regime they abruptly erupt upward during reconnection and escape to infinity. Reconnection causes the field lines to close
back to the base and thus changes the background field outside the attached flux ropes in such a way that the constraint on
these ropes is substantially relaxed and the corresponding catastrophic energy threshold is reduced accordingly, leading to
a catastrophic eruption of these ropes. Since magnetic reconnection is generally inevitable when a current sheet forms and
develops through an eruption of one flux rope, the eruption of this flux rope must lead to an eruption of the others. This
provides an example to demonstrate the interaction between several independent magnetic flux systems in different regions,
as implied by the Bastille Day event, and may serve as a possible mechanism for sympathetic events occurring on the Sun. 相似文献
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The associations of flares to flux emergence and cancellation have been further examined and clarified with the aid of complete time sequences of vector magnetograms of an active region for a 4-day period around the central meridian passage.It is found that the emergence of new flux and its driven flux cancellation with existing flux is a wholly inseparable, elementary process in the active region, favorable for flare occurence. The early discovery ofstructures magnetique evolutive (Martreset al., 1968) is confirmed and identified to be the net result of this process.All events of flux cancellation appear in the interface of two topologically separated magnetic loops. Direct indications of magnetic reconnection between two cancelling components in the photospheric layer are identified. The cancellation is most likely a slow reconnection in the lower atmosphere of the Sun. The quite popular view of interpreting flux cancellation as a pure flux submergence could not fit the magnetic topology learned from alignments of the transverse magnetic field. In this sense, the association of flares to flux cancellation seems to represent a coupling of the slow reconnection in the lower atmosphere to the fast reconnection higher in the corona.This slow reconnection can even take place below the photosphere. In one case, an inferred sub-photospheric reconnection eventually prevents one pole of an emerging flux region with the polarity opposite to the background from showing up at the photospheric level.Six of all eight flares which appeared in this period are spatially and temporally associated with the emergence of new flux and its driven cancellation. They might be divided into two groups. The first group of flares appears at the early phase of flux emergence and in close proximity to the cancelling site between new and old flux; the second ones appear after several hours of flux cancellation, centering around the cancelling site. 相似文献
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The rate of two-dimensional flux pile-up magnetic reconnection is known to be severely limited by gas pressure in a low-beta plasma of the solar corona. As earlier perturbational calculations indicated, however, the pressure limitation should be less restrictive for three-dimensional flux pile-up. In this paper the maximum rate of reconnection is calculated in the approximation of reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD), which is valid in the solar coronal loops. The rate is calculated for finite-magnitude reconnecting fields in the case of a strong axial field in the loop. Gas pressure effects are ignored in RMHD but a similar limitation on the rate of magnetic merging exists. Nevertheless, the magnetic energy dissipation rate and the reconnection electric field can increase by several orders of magnitude as compared with strictly two-dimensional pile-up. Though this is still not enough to explain the most powerful solar flares, slow coronal transients with energy release rates of order 1025– 1026 erg s–1and heating of quiet coronal loops are within the compass of the model. 相似文献