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日珥线的热不稳定性

The Thermal Instability of Solar Prominence Threads

Roberto Soler, Jose Luis Ballester, Marcel Goossens

摘要:

在高分辨率的图像中,太阳黑子和暗条的精细结构看起来像又细又长的线。在对细丝的H-α观测中,一些细丝在它们似乎褪色并最终消失之前只能观察到5 - 20分钟,这表明这些细丝的寿命可能很短。不稳定性的存在可能是这种快速消失的原因。在这里,我们研究的日珥线程的热不稳定性作为其突然消失的H-α观测的解释。我们将日珥线建模为一个磁管,日珥条件嵌入日冕环境中。我们假设在横向方向上的物理性质的变化,使温度和密度连续变化从内部到外部的值在一个不均匀的过渡层,代表特定的双折射电晕过渡区(PCTR)的线程。我们使用非绝热和电阻磁流体动力学方程,其中包括由于热传导平行和垂直于磁场,辐射损耗,加热,和磁扩散的条款。我们结合分析和数值方法来研究线性扰动的平衡态,专注于不稳定的热解决方案。我们发现,热模式是不稳定的PCTR的温度高于80,000 K,大约。这些模式与温度扰动有关,由于等离子体的快速加热或冷却,温度扰动会导致平衡的变化。对于典型的突出参数,不稳定的时间尺度是几分钟的顺序,是独立的线程的PCTR内的温度分布的形式。这一结果表明,热不稳定性可能发挥了重要的作用,在观察线程的寿命短。

英文摘要:

The fine structure of solar prominences and filaments appears as thin and long threads in high-resolution images. In H-alpha observations of filaments, some threads can be observed for only 5 - 20 minutes before they seem to fade and eventually disappear, suggesting that these threads may have very short lifetimes. The presence of an instability might be the cause of this quick disappearance. Here, we study the thermal instability of prominence threads as an explanation of their sudden disappearance from H-alpha observations. We model a prominence thread as a magnetic tube with prominence conditions embedded in a coronal environment. We assume a variation of the physical properties in the transverse direction, so that the temperature and density continuously change from internal to external values in an inhomogeneous transitional layer representing the particular prominence-corona transition region (PCTR) of the thread. We use the nonadiabatic and resistive magnetohydrodynamic equations, which include terms due to thermal conduction parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field, radiative losses, heating, and magnetic diffusion. We combine both analytical and numerical methods to study linear perturbations from the equilibrium state, focusing on unstable thermal solutions. We find that thermal modes are unstable in the PCTR for temperatures higher than 80,000 K, approximately. These modes are related to temperature disturbances that can lead to changes in the equilibrium due to rapid plasma heating or cooling. For typical prominence parameters, the instability time scale is of the order of a few minutes and is independent of the form of the temperature profile within the PCTR of the thread. This result indicates that thermal instability may play an important role for the short lifetimes of threads in the observations.

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