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Heating of the solar corona by MHD waves has been investigated. Taking account of dissipation mechanisms self-consistently,
a new general dispersion relation has been derived for waves propagating in a homogeneous plasma. Solution of this sixth-order
dispersion relation provides information on how the damping of both slow and fast mode waves depends upon the plasma density,
temperature, field strength, and angle of propagation relative to the background magnetic field. Wave quantities with and
without dissipation are presented. In particular, we consider one of the most important clues from space observations that
viscosity of coronal plasma may be orders of magnitude different from its classical value in heating of the corona by MHD
waves. 相似文献
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E.R. Pekünlü Ö. Çak&#;rl&#; E. Özetken 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,326(2):675-685
Solar coronal heating by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves is investigated. ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray emission lines of the corona show non-thermal broadenings. The wave rms velocities inferred from these observations are of the order of 25–60 km s−1 . Assuming that these values are not negligible, we solved MHD equations in a quasi-linear approximation, by retaining the lowest order non-linear term in rms velocity. Plasma density distribution in the solar corona is assumed to be inhomogeneous. This plasma is also assumed to be permeated by dipole-like magnetic loops. Wave propagation is considered along the magnetic field lines. As dissipative processes, only the viscosity and parallel (to the local magnetic field lines) heat conduction are assumed to be important. Two wave modes emerged from the solution of the dispersion relation. The fast mode magneto-acoustic wave, if originated from the coronal base can propagate upwards into the corona and dissipate its mechanical energy as heat. The damping length-scale of the fast mode is of the order of 500 km. The wave energy flux associated with these waves turned out to be of the order of 2.5×105 ergs cm−2 s−1 which is high enough to replace the energy lost by thermal conduction to the transition region and by optically thin coronal emission. The fast magneto-acoustic waves prove to be a likely candidate to heat the solar corona. The slow mode is absent, in other words cannot propagate in the solar corona. 相似文献
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It has long been suggested on theoretical grounds that MHD waves must occur in the solar corona, and have important implications for coronal physics. An unequivocal identification of such waves has however proved elusive, though a number of events were consistent with an interpretation in terms of MHD waves. Recent detailed observations of waves in events observed by SOHO and TRACE removes that uncertainty, and raises the importance of MHD waves in the corona to a higher level. Here we review theoretical aspects of how MHD waves and oscillations may occur in a coronal medium. Detailed observations of waves and oscillations in coronal loops, plumes and prominences make feasible the development of coronal seismology, whereby parameters of the coronal plasma (notably the Alfvén speed and through this the magnetic field strength) may be determined from properties of the oscillations. MHD fast waves are refracted by regions of low Alfvén speed and slow waves are closely field-guided, making regions of dense coronal plasma (such as coronal loops and plumes) natural wave guides for MHD waves. There are analogies with sound waves in ocean layers and with elastic waves in the Earth's crust. Recent observations also indicate that coronal oscillations are damped. We consider the various ways this may be brought about, and its implications for coronal heating. 相似文献
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The propagation characteristics of MHD fast-mode disturbances, which can emanate from flare regions, are computed for realistic conditions of the solar corona at the times of particular flares. The path of a fast-mode disturbance is determined by the large-scale (global) coronal distributions of magnetic field and density, and can be computed by a general raytracing procedure (eikonal equation) adapted to MHD. We use the coronal (electron) density distribution calculated from daily K-coronameter data, and the coronal magnetic field calculated under the current-free approximation from magnetograph measurements of the photospheric magnetic field. We compare the path and time-development of an MHD fast-mode wavefront emitted from the flare region (as calculated from a realistic model corona for the day of the observed Moreton wave event) with actual observations of the Moreton wave event, and find that the Moreton wave can be identified with the rapidly moving intersection of the coronal fast-mode wavefront and the chromosphere (as hypothesized in our previous paper); the directivity (anisotropic propagation), as well as other characteristics of the propagation of the Moreton wave can be successfully explained.sponsored by the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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We consider the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) interactions of solar coronal fast shock waves of flare and/or nonflare origin with the boundaries of coronal streamers and coronal holes. Boundaries are treated as MHD tangential discontinuities (TD). Different parameters of the observed corona are used in the investigation. The general case of the oblique interaction is studied.It is shown that a solar fast shock wave must be refracted usually as a fast shock wave inside the coronal streamer. For the special case of the velocity shear across TD, a slow shock wave is generated. On the contrary, the shock wave refracted inside the coronal hole is indeed a slow shock wave.The significance of different effects due to the interaction of fast and slow shock waves on the coronal magnetic field is noticed, especially at the time of a coronal mass ejection (CME). It is also shown, that an oblique fast MHD coronal shock wave may trigger an instability at the boundary of a streamer considered as a TD. It might have a relation with the observed process of abrupt disappearance of the streamer's boundary in the solar corona.On leave from the Academy of Sciences, Central Astronomical Observatory Pulkovo, 196140, St. Petersburg, Russia. 相似文献
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Observations show that small-amplitude prominence oscillations are usually damped after a few periods. This phenomenon has been theoretically investigated in terms of non-ideal magnetoacoustic waves, non-adiabatic effects being the best candidates to explain the damping in the case of slow modes. We study the attenuation of non-adiabatic magnetoacoustic waves in a slab prominence embedded in the coronal medium. We assume an equilibrium configuration with a transverse magnetic field to the slab axis and investigate wave damping by thermal conduction and radiative losses. The magnetohydrodynamic equations are considered in their linearised form and terms representing thermal conduction, radiation and heating are included in the energy equation. The differential equations that govern linear slow and fast modes are numerically solved to obtain the complex oscillatory frequency and the corresponding eigenfunctions. We find that coronal thermal conduction and radiative losses from the prominence plasma reveal as the most relevant damping mechanisms. Both mechanisms govern together the attenuation of hybrid modes, whereas prominence radiation is responsible for the damping of internal modes and coronal conduction essentially dominates the attenuation of external modes. In addition, the energy transfer between the prominence and the corona caused by thermal conduction has a noticeable effect on the wave stability, radiative losses from the prominence plasma being of paramount importance for the thermal stability of fast modes. We conclude that slow modes are efficiently damped, with damping times compatible with observations. On the contrary, fast modes are less attenuated by non-adiabatic effects and their damping times are several orders of magnitude larger than those observed. The presence of the corona causes a decrease of the damping times with respect to those of an isolated prominence slab, but its effect is still insufficient to obtain damping times of the order of the period in the case of fast modes. 相似文献
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We investigate the propagation of MHD waves in a magnetised plasma in a weakly stratified atmosphere, representative of hot
coronal loops. In most earlier studies, a time-independent equilibrium was considered. Here we abandon this restriction and
allow the equilibrium to develop as a function of time. In particular, the background plasma is assumed to be cooling due
to thermal conduction. The cooling is assumed to occur on a time scale greater than the characteristic travel times of the
perturbations. We investigate the influence of cooling of the background plasma on the properties of magneto–acoustic waves.
The MHD equations are reduced to a 1D system modelling magneto–acoustic modes propagating along a dynamically cooling coronal
loop. A time-dependent dispersion relation that describes the propagation of the magneto–acoustic waves is derived using the
WKB theory. An analytic solution for the time-dependent amplitude of waves is obtained, and the method of characteristics
is used to find an approximate analytical solution. Numerical calculations of the analytically derived solutions are obtained
to give further insight into the behaviour of the MHD waves in a system with a variable, time-dependent background. The results
show that there is a strong damping of MHD waves and the damping also appears to be independent of the position along the
loop. Studies of MHD wave behaviour in a time-dependent backgrounds seem to be a fundamental and very important next step
in the development of MHD wave theory that is applicable to a wide range of situations in solar physics. 相似文献
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With modern imaging and spectral instruments observing in the visible, EUV, X-ray, and radio wavelengths, the detection of
oscillations in the solar outer atmosphere has become a routine event. These oscillations are considered to be the signatures
of a wave phenomenon and are generally interpreted in terms of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. With multiwavelength observations
from ground- and space-based instruments, it has been possible to detect waves in a number of different wavelengths simultaneously
and, consequently, to study their propagation properties. Observed MHD waves propagating from the lower solar atmosphere into
the higher regions of the magnetized corona have the potential to provide excellent insight into the physical processes at
work at the coupling point between these different regions of the Sun. High-resolution wave observations combined with forward
MHD modeling can give an unprecedented insight into the connectivity of the magnetized solar atmosphere, which further provides
us with a realistic chance to reconstruct the structure of the magnetic field in the solar atmosphere. This type of solar
exploration has been termed atmospheric magnetoseismology. In this review we will summarize some new trends in the observational
study of waves and oscillations, discussing their origin and their propagation through the atmosphere. In particular, we will
focus on waves and oscillations in open magnetic structures (e.g., solar plumes) and closed magnetic structures (e.g., loops and prominences), where there have been a number of observational highlights in the past few years. Furthermore, we
will address observations of waves in filament fibrils allied with a better characterization of their propagating and damping
properties, the detection of prominence oscillations in UV lines, and the renewed interest in large-amplitude, quickly attenuated,
prominence oscillations, caused by flare or explosive phenomena. 相似文献
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Propagation of hydromagnetic disturbances in the solar corona and Moreton's wave phenomenon 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Yutaka Uchida 《Solar physics》1968,4(1):30-44
Moreton's wave phenomenon, observed to propagate across the solar disk during certain solar flares, may be explained as the intersection line between an expanding coronal wavefront surface and the chromosphere: The propagation of a hydromagnetic disturbance in a spherically symmetric model corona with a radial magnetic field is studied in the WKB-approximation, and the propagation paths of wavepackets, the shape of the wavefronts expanding in time, and the variation of the direction of material oscillation along the paths are discussed for disturbances in hydromagnetic wave modes. It is shown that the wavefront expanding in fast-mode in the corona has a circular intersection line with the chromosphere, which sweeps on the solar surface with a velocity and a direction of material oscillation just favorable for explaining the observed features of the phenomenon. 相似文献
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Yutaka Uchida 《Solar physics》1974,39(2):431-449
The propagation of the weak MHD fast-mode shock emitted into the corona by flares at their explosive phase is computer-simulated. It is shown as the result that the shock wave is refracted towards the low Alfvén velocity regions pre-existing in the corona, and the strength of the shock, which is otherwise weak, is drastically enhanced on encountering low- V A regions due to the focussing effect by refraction and also due to the lowered propagation velocity of the shock in such regions. It is expected that electron acceleration takes place in such a drastic strengthening of the shock, leading to the local excitation of plasma waves and eventually to the occurrence of radio bursts at such locations. Such locations of shock strength enhancement, when computed by using HAO realistic models of coronal density and magnetic field of the day of certain type II burst events, actually coincide roughly with the observed positions of type II bursts. Peculiar configurations of type II burst sources as well as their occurrence even beyond the horizon of the responsible flare are explained consistently by the large scale refraction and the local enhancement of the shock due to the global and local distribution of Alfvén velocity in the corona. A unified interpretation is given for the occurrence of type II bursts and Moreton's wave phenomena, and also the relation of our MHD fast-mode disturbance with other flare-associated dynamical phenomena is discussed. 相似文献
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The problem of phase mixing of shear Alfvén waves is revisited taking into account dissipative phenomena specific for the solar corona. In regions of space plasmas where the dynamics is controlled by the magnetic field, transport coefficients become anisotropic with transport mechanism having different behavior and magnitude depending on the orientation with respect to the ambient magnetic field. Taking into account realistic values for dissipative coefficients we obtain that the previous results derived in context of torsional Alfvén wave phase mixing are actually heavily underestimated so phase mixing cannot be used to explain the damping of torsional Alfvén waves and heating of open coronal structures. The presented results indicate that in order for phase mixing to still be a viable mechanism to explain heating or wave damping unrealistic assumptions have to be made. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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The damping of fast kink oscillations of solar coronal loops attributable to the radiation of MHD waves into the surroundings is considered in the thin-tube approximation. The oscillation damping decrement is calculated both by using a new energy method and by solving the dispersion equation for magnetic-tube eigenmodes. The two approaches are in good agreement under appropriate assumptions. The damping is negligible if MHD waves are radiated perpendicular to the magnetic field. The low Q factor of the loop oscillations in active regions found with the TRACE space telescope is associated with the generation of running waves that propagate along magnetic field lines. 相似文献
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Nagendra Kumar Pradeep Kumar Shiv Singh Anil Kumar 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》2008,29(1-2):243-248
We study the propagation and dissipation of slow magnetoacoustic waves in an inhomogeneous viscous coronal loop plasma permeated by uniform magnetic field. Only viscosity and thermal conductivity are taken into account as dissipative processes in the coronal loop. The damping length of slow-mode waves exhibit varying behaviour depending upon the physical parameters of the loop in an active region AR8270 observed by TRACE. The wave energy flux associated with slow magnetoacoustic waves turns out to be of the order of 106 erg cm?2 s?1 which is high enough to replace the energy lost through optically thin coronal emission and the thermal conduction below to the transition region. It is also found that only those slow-mode waves which have periods more than 240s provide the required heating rate to balance the energy losses in the solar corona. Our calculated wave periods for slow-mode waves nearly match with the oscillation periods of loop observed by TRACE. 相似文献
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Excess heating of the active region solar atmosphere is interpreted by the decay of MHD slow-mode waves produced in the corona through the non-linear coupling of Alfvén waves supplied from subphotospheric layers. It is stressed that the Alfvén-mode waves may be very efficiently generated directly in the convection layer under the photosphere in magnetic regions, and that such magnetic regions, at the same time, provide the ‘transparent windows’ for Alfvén waves in regard to the Joule and frictional dissipations in the photospheric and subphotospheric layers. Though the Alfvén waves suffer considerable reflection in the chromosphere and in the transition layer, a certain fraction of this large flux is propagated out to the corona, and a large velocity amplitude exceeding the local Alfvén velocity is attained during the propagation along the magnetic tubes of force into a region of lower density and weaker magnetic field. The otherwise divergence-free velocity field in Alfvén waves gets involved in such a case with a compressional component (slow-mode waves) which again is of considerable velocity amplitude relative to the local acoustic velocity when estimated by using the formulation for non-linear coupling between MHD wave modes derived by Kaburaki and Uchida (1971). Therefore, the compressional waves thus produced through the non-linear coupling of Alvén waves will eventually be thermalized to provide a heat source. The introduction of this non-linear coupling process and the subsequent thermalization of thus produced slow-mode waves may provide means of converting the otherwise dissipation-free Alfvén mode energy into heat in the corona. The liberated heat will readily be redistributed by conduction along the magnetic lines of force, with higher density as a consequence of increased scale height, and thus the loop-like structure of the coronal condensations (or probably also the thread-like feature of the general corona) may be explained in a natural fashion. 相似文献
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We investigate the effect of a variable, i.e. time-dependent, background on the standing acoustic (i.e. longitudinal) modes generated in a hot coronal loop. A theoretical model of 1D geometry describing the coronal loop is applied. The background temperature is allowed to change as a function of time and undergoes an exponential decay with characteristic cooling times typical for coronal loops. The magnetic field is assumed to be uniform. Thermal conduction is assumed to be the dominant mechanism for damping hot coronal oscillations in the presence of a physically unspecified thermodynamic source that maintains the initial equilibrium. The influence of the rapidly cooling background plasma on the behaviour of standing acoustic (longitudinal) waves is investigated analytically. The temporally evolving dispersion relation and wave amplitude are derived by using the Wenzel–Kramers–Brillouin theory. An analytic solution for the time-dependent amplitude that describes the influence of thermal conduction on the standing longitudinal (acoustic) wave is obtained by exploiting the properties of Sturm–Liouville problems. Next, numerical evaluations further illustrate the behaviour of the standing acoustic waves in a system with a variable, time-dependent background. The results are applied to a number of detected loop oscillations. We find a remarkable agreement between the theoretical predictions and the observations. Despite the emergence of the cooling background plasma in the medium, thermal conduction is found to cause a strong damping for the slow standing magneto–acoustic waves in hot coronal loops in general. In addition to this, the increase in the value of thermal conductivity leads to a strong decay in the amplitude of the longitudinal standing slow MHD waves. 相似文献
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We study a nonlinear mechanism for the excitation of kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs) by fast magneto-acoustic waves (FWs) in the
solar atmosphere. Our focus is on the excitation of KAWs that have very small wavelengths in the direction perpendicular to
the background magnetic field. Because of their small perpendicular length scales, these waves are very efficient in the energy
exchange with plasmas and other waves. We show that the nonlinear coupling of the energy of the finite-amplitude FWs to the
small-scale KAWs can be much faster than other dissipation mechanisms for fast wave, such as electron viscous damping, Landau
damping, and modulational instability. The nonlinear damping of the FWs due to decay FW = KAW + KAW places a limit on the
amplitude of the magnetic field in the fast waves in the solar corona and solar-wind at the level B/B
0∼10−2. In turn, the nonlinearly excited small-scale KAWs undergo strong dissipation due to resistive or Landau damping and can
provide coronal and solar-wind heating. The transient coronal heating observed by Yohkoh and SOHO may be produced by the kinetic Alfvén waves that are excited by parametric decay of fast waves propagating from
the reconnection sites. 相似文献
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The MHD instabilities of a temperature-anisotropic coronal plasma are considered. We show that aperiodic mirror instabilities
of slow MHD waves can develop under solar coronal conditions for weak magnetic fields (B < 1 G) and periodic ion-acoustic instabilities can develop for strong magnetic fields (B > 10 G). We have found the instability growth rates and estimated the temporal and spatial scales of development and decay
of the periodic instability. We show that the instabilities under consideration can play a prominent role in the energy balance
of the corona and may be considered as a large-scale energy source of the wave coronal heating mechanism. 相似文献
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H. C. Spruit 《Solar physics》1982,75(1-2):3-17
Propagation speeds are derived for the wave modes of a thin magnetic tube in an otherwise homogeneous magnetized or unmagnetized fluid. These results generalize results obtained by previous authors. There are three types of wave, a (torsional) Alfvén wave and two waves which are specific for the thin tube. These are named the longitudinal and transversal tube waves, according to their polarization properties. They can be camped by radiating an MHD or acoustic wave into the surroundings of the tube. Conditions for occurrence of this acoustic damping, and the damping rates, are derived. The behavior of the waves in the solar convection zone and corona is discussed. 相似文献
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The normal mode spectrum for the linearized MHD equations is investigated for a plasma in a cylindrical equilibrium. The equations describing these normal modes are solved numerically using a finite element code. The ballooning equations that describe localized modes are manipulated and a dispersion relation derived. It is shown that as the axial wave numberk is increased, the fundamental thermal and Alfvén modes can coalesce to form overstable magnetothermal modes. The ratio between the magnetic and thermal terms is varied and the existence of the magnetothermal modes examined. The corresponding growth rates are predicted by a WKB solution to the ballooning equations. The existence of these magnetothermal modes may be significant in the eruption of prominences into solar flares. 相似文献