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日珥螺纹中弯曲扭折波的空间阻尼

Spatial Damping of Propagating Kink Waves in Prominence Threads

R. Soler, R. Oliver, J. L. Ballester

摘要:

横向振荡和传播波经常被观察到的线程的太阳磁/细丝,并已被解释为扭结磁流体动力学(MHD)模式。本文研究了在横向不均匀和部分电离日珥线中传播的扭折磁流体动力学波的空间阻尼。共振吸收和离子中性碰撞(考林扩散)是考虑的阻尼机制。考虑日珥条件,数值求解了部分电离磁通量管中共振扭折波的色散关系。在薄管近似和薄边界近似下,得到了波长和阻尼长度随扭折模频率变化的解析表达式。对于通常报道的线程振荡周期,共振吸收是一个有效的机制,扭结模式的空间阻尼,而离子中性碰撞有一个次要的作用。Cowling扩散在传播和阻尼中占主导地位,其周期比观察到的要短得多。共振吸收可以解释在日珥线中观察到的扭结波的空间阻尼。通过将观测到的波长和阻尼长度与理论预测值进行比较,可以估计出丝的横向不均匀长度尺度。然而,忽略横向不均匀层中密度分布的形式会导致不均匀性长度尺度的确定不准确。

英文摘要:

Transverse oscillations and propagating waves are frequently observed in threads of solar prominences/filaments and have been interpreted as kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes. We investigate the spatial damping of propagating kink MHD waves in transversely nonuniform and partially ionized prominence threads. Resonant absorption and ion-neutral collisions (Cowling's diffusion) are the damping mechanisms taken into account. The dispersion relation of resonant kink waves in a partially ionized magnetic flux tube is numerically solved by considering prominence conditions. Analytical expressions of the wavelength and damping length as functions of the kink mode frequency are obtained in the Thin Tube and Thin Boundary approximations. For typically reported periods of thread oscillations, resonant absorption is an efficient mechanism for the kink mode spatial damping, while ion-neutral collisions have a minor role. Cowling's diffusion dominates both the propagation and damping for periods much shorter than those observed. Resonant absorption may explain the observed spatial damping of kink waves in prominence threads. The transverse inhomogeneity length scale of the threads can be estimated by comparing the observed wavelengths and damping lengths with the theoretically predicted values. However, the ignorance of the form of the density profile in the transversely nonuniform layer introduces inaccuracies in the determination of the inhomogeneity length scale.

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