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热不平衡能解释日冕环吗?

Can Thermal Nonequilibrium Explain Coronal Loops?

J. A. Klimchuk, J. T. Karpen, S. K. Antiochos

摘要:

任何成功的日冕环模型都必须解释许多观测到的性质。对于暖循环(~ 1 MK),这些包括:1.过剩密度,2.平坦的温度曲线,3.超流体静力学尺度高度,4.非结构化强度分布,和5. 1000--5000 s寿命。我们研究是否热不平衡可以重现的意见进行流体动力学模拟的基础上稳定的日冕加热,随高度呈指数下降。我们考虑单片和多股循环。这些模拟成功地再现了观测结果的某些方面,包括超额密度,但每一个都至少在一个关键方面失败了。整体模型有太多的强度结构,而多链模型要么太结构化,要么太长寿。我们的研究结果似乎排除了广泛存在的加热,这是高度集中的低日冕和稳定或准稳定(缓慢变化或脉冲与快速节奏)。如果主要的加热机制具有这些性质,那么活跃区域将具有非常不同的外观。然而,热不平衡可能在连续性和灾难性冷却事件中起重要作用(例如,日冕雨)占据了日冕体积的一小部分。然而,模型和冷却事件观测之间的明显不一致还有待理解。

英文摘要:

Any successful model of coronal loops must explain a number of observed properties. For warm (~ 1 MK) loops, these include: 1. excess density, 2. flat temperature profile, 3. super-hydrostatic scale height, 4. unstructured intensity profile, and 5. 1000--5000 s lifetime. We examine whether thermal nonequilibrium can reproduce the observations by performing hydrodynamic simulations based on steady coronal heating that decreases exponentially with height. We consider both monolithic and multi-stranded loops. The simulations successfully reproduce certain aspects of the observations, including the excess density, but each of them fails in at least one critical way. Monolithic models have far too much intensity structure, while multi-strand models are either too structured or too long-lived. Our results appear to rule out the widespread existence of heating that is both highly concentrated low in the corona and steady or quasi-steady (slowly varying or impulsive with a rapid cadence). Active regions would have a very different appearance if the dominant heating mechanism had these properties. Thermal nonequilibrium may nonetheless play an important role in prominences and catastrophic cooling events (e.g., coronal rain) that occupy a small fraction of the coronal volume. However, apparent inconsistencies between the models and observations of cooling events have yet to be understood.

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