Hydromagnetic buoyancy force in the solar atmosphere |
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| Authors: | Tyan Yeh |
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| Institution: | (1) Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, 80309 Boulder, CO, USA |
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| Abstract: | An extraneous magnetized body, either a flux tube or a plasmoid, immersed in the solar atmosphere is subjected to a hydromagnetic buoyancy force. It results from the peripheral inhomogeneity of ambient hydromagnetic pressure, which is caused or enhanced by the presence of the extraneous body. This extra-caused force acts at various mass elements of the immersed body through its distribution as a nearly uniform force density, just like the gravitational force. Since hydromagnetic buoyancy force comprises hydrostatic buoyancy force, hydrodynamic lift force, and magnetostatic diamagnetic force, this constitutes a magnetohydrodynamic generalization of Archimedes' principle which deals with hydrostatic buoyancy force.In the solar atmosphere hydromagnetic buoyancy force has an obliquely upward direction, with a component in the direction opposite to the downward gravity. It provides an upward force to counterbalance or even to exceed the downward gravitational force. Such an upward force is the dynamic cause for the stationary equilibrium of quiescent prominences and outward motion of coronal transients. |
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