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太阳光球层的磁耗散谱和水平电流

Spectrum of Magnetic Dissipation and Horizontal Electric Currents in the Solar Photosphere

Valentyna Abramenko

摘要:

有人提出了太阳光球层水平电流的代用指标。利用高分辨率迈克尔逊多普勒成像仪(MDI)观测了一组演化的活动区(AR),得到了耗散谱\it和耗散的空间结构,即:从观测到的磁场的$B_z$分量计算斯托克斯耗散函数$ε(x,y)$。这些函数使我们能够计算出光球层中水平电流密度的(一部分)。结果表明,作为一个活跃的区域出现,大规模的水平电流逐渐产生,并确定了大量的耗散。当活动区衰减时,大尺度水平电流比小尺度水平电流衰减得更快。有源区中的水平电流密度在$<j_h > \sim (0.008 - 0.028)$ A/m $^2$的范围内,这与有源区中的垂直电流密度兼容。我们提出了两种可能的机制产生这样的水平电流在光球。其中之一是带电粒子在黑子周围水平面内等离子体压力梯度变化介质中的漂移运动。这样的漂移可以在太阳黑子周围产生准圆形的闭合水平电流。另一种可能性是在光球层中沿磁中性线的高度扭曲的水平磁结构内存在水平轴向电流。水平电流可能对光球/日冕耦合的动力学以及AR的非潜在性的估计有重要贡献。

英文摘要:

A proxy for horizontal electric currents in the solar photosphere was suggested. For a set of evolving active regions (ARs) observed with {\it Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)} Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) in the high resolution mode, the dissipation spectrum, $k^2E(k)$, and the spatial structure of dissipation, i.e., the Stokes dissipation function $ε(x,y)$, were calculated from the observed $B_z$ component of the magnetic field. These functions allowed us to calculate (a part of) the horizontal electric current density in the photosphere. It was shown that as an active region emerges, large-scale horizontal electric currents are gradually generated and determine a bulk of dissipation. When an active region decays, the large-scale horizontal currents decay faster than the small-scale ones. The density of horizontal currents in active regions is in the range of $<j_h > \sim (0.008 - 0.028)$ A/m$^2$, that is compatible with the density of vertical currents in active regions. We suggest two possible mechanisms for generation of such horizontal currents in the photosphere. One of them is the drift motions of charged particles in the medium of varying plasma pressure gradient in a horizontal plane at the periphery of a sunspot. Such a drift can produce quasi-circular closed horizontal currents around sunspots. Another possibility could be an existence of horizontal axial current inside a highly twisted horizontal magnetic structure laying in the photosphere along the magnetic neutral line. The horizontal currents may contribute significantly to the dynamics of the photosphere/corona coupling, as well as the estimation of non-potentiality of ARs.

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