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作为日冕加热机制标志的日冕雨

Coronal rain as a marker for coronal heating mechanisms

P. Antolin, K. Shibata

摘要:

据报道,在H-α,Ca II H和K或其他日冕雨色球线的观测可以追溯到天空实验室任务的日子。由于相对于背景的强度对比度很高(如果在边缘观察,则发射明亮,或者如果在圆盘上观察,则吸收黑暗),这些冷的斑点经常被观察到从活动区域上方的高日冕高度落下。对这一壮观现象的物理解释已经提出,这要归功于对具有足点集中加热的环路的数值模拟,这是一种在日冕中自然形成冷冷凝的加热情景。这种效应被称为“灾难性冷却”,是日冕雨的主要解释。在这项工作中,我们进一步研究这种现象和加热机制之间的联系在电晕。我们首先分析观测日冕雨在肢体中的Ca II H线进行的SOT仪器板上的日之出卫星。然后,我们比较观察与1.5维MHD模拟的环路被加热的小尺度离散事件集中向足点(这可能来自,例如,从磁重联事件),并在光球产生的阿尔文波。据发现,如果一个环加热主要是从阿尔芬波日冕雨被抑制,由于他们产生的特征均匀加热。因此,日冕雨不仅可以指示日冕环加热的空间分布,而且可以指示加热本身的媒介。因此,我们建议日冕雨作为日冕加热机制的标志。

英文摘要:

Reported observations in H-alpha, Ca II H and K or or other chromospheric lines of coronal rain trace back to the days of the Skylab mission. Offering a high contrast in intensity with respect to the background (either bright in emission if observed at the limb, or dark in absorption if observed on disk) these cool blobs are often observed falling down from high coronal heights above active regions. A physical explanation for this spectacular phenomenon has been put forward thanks to numerical simulations of loops with footpoint concentrated heating, a heating scenario in which cool condensations naturally form in the corona. This effect has been termed 'catastrophic cooling' and is the predominant explanation for coronal rain. In this work we further investigate the link between this phenomenon and the heating mechanisms acting in the corona. We start by analyzing observations of coronal rain at the limb in the Ca II H line performed by the SOT instrument on board of the Hinode satellite. We then compare the observations with 1.5-dimensional MHD simulations of loops being heated by small-scale discrete events concentrated towards the footpoints (that could come, for instance, from magnetic reconnection events), and by Alfven waves generated at the photosphere. It is found that if a loop is heated predominantly from Alfven waves coronal rain is inhibited due to the characteristic uniform heating they produce. Hence coronal rain may not only point to the spatial distribution of the heating in coronal loops but also to the agent of the heating itself. We thus propose coronal rain as a marker for coronal heating mechanisms.

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