Resistive tearing mode in coronal neutral sheets |
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| Authors: | Lutz Janicke |
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| Institution: | (1) Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany |
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| Abstract: | The apparent stability of coronal neutral sheets with respect to the resistive tearing mode has been attributed by previous authors to the influence of a weak normal component of the confining magnetic field. To check this hypothesis a normal mode analysis is performed applying rigorously singular perturbation technique. Allowance is made for a value of the normal component which is large measured in the appropriate units deduced from the dynamics of the one-dimensional tearing mode. The structure of the eigenmodes is completely changed: the singular layer decays into a broad band of filaments with antiparallel flow directions and spatial oscillations in the perturbed current density appear. Surprisingly, the growth rate is not changed. If parameters for a typical neutral sheet in the middle corona (0.5 solar radii) are inserted, the result is that no stabilization by a normal component occurs, if the value of the growth time predicted by the one-dimensional theory is far shorter than ten minutes - independent of the values assumed for the width of the neutral sheet or the resistivity. |
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