Corrugation Instability of a Coronal Arcade |
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| Authors: | D Y Klimushkin V M Nakariakov P N Mager O K Cheremnykh |
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| Institution: | 1.Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences,Irkutsk,Russia;2.Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, Department of Physics,University of Warwick,Coventry,UK;3.St. Petersburg Branch, Special Astrophysical Observatory,Russian Academy of Sciences,St. Petersburg,Russia;4.Space Research Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,National Space Agency of Ukraine,Kiev,Ukraine |
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| Abstract: | We analyse the behaviour of linear magnetohydrodynamic perturbations of a coronal arcade modelled by a half-cylinder with an azimuthal magnetic field and non-uniform radial profiles of the plasma pressure, temperature, and the field. Attention is paid to the perturbations with short longitudinal (in the direction along the arcade) wavelengths. The radial structure of the perturbations, either oscillatory or evanescent, is prescribed by the radial profiles of the equilibrium quantities. Conditions for the corrugation instability of the arcade are determined. It is established that the instability growth rate increases with decreases in the longitudinal wavelength and the radial wave number. In the unstable mode, the radial perturbations of the magnetic field are stronger than the longitudinal perturbations, creating an almost circularly corrugated rippling of the arcade in the longitudinal direction. For coronal conditions, the growth time of the instability is shorter than one minute, decreasing with an increase in the temperature. Implications of the developed theory for the dynamics of coronal active regions are discussed. |
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