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用分离器解释冕环膨胀的性质

Coronal Loop Expansion Properties Explained Using Separators

Joseph E. Plowman, Charles C. Kankelborg, Dana W. Longcope

摘要:

观测到的日冕环的一个令人困惑的特性是,它们沿长度方向的厚度大致恒定。各种研究发现,TRACE和SOHO观察到的环的长度方向上没有一致的宽度变化模式。这与对磁通量管膨胀特性的预期不一致,这表明环在其顶部最宽,在其脚部明显较窄。日冕环对应于太阳日冕中被某些过程优先加热的区域,因此这种观察到的特性可能与加热日冕的机制有关。能量沉积的一种方式是磁重联,它沿着称为分离器的磁力线发生。这些磁力线开始和结束于磁零点,因此在它们附近形成的环在它们的底部相对较宽。因此,由磁重联引起的日冕膨胀可能会复制在日冕环中观察到的令人困惑的膨胀特性。我们提出的分离器场线膨胀特性的Monte Carlo调查结果,比较它们所观察到的日冕环的属性。

英文摘要:

One puzzling observed property of coronal loops is that they are of roughly constant thickness along their length. Various studies have found no consistent pattern of width variation along the length of loops observed by TRACE and SOHO. This is at odds with expectations of magnetic flux tube expansion properties, which suggests that loops are widest at their tops, and significantly narrower at their footpoints. Coronal loops correspond to areas of the solar corona which have been preferentially heated by some process, so this observed property might be connected to the mechanisms that heat the corona. One means of energy deposition is magnetic reconnection, which occurs along field lines called separators. These field lines begin and end on magnetic null points, and loops forming near them can therefore be relatively wide at their bases. Thus, coronal energization by magnetic reconnection may replicate the puzzling expansion properties observed in coronal loops. We present results of a Monte Carlo survey of separator field line expansion properties, comparing them to the observed properties of coronal loops.

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