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太阳风中的扭曲磁通量管

Twisted magnetic flux tubes in the solar wind

Teimuraz Zaqarashvili, Zoltán Vörös, Yasuhito Narita, Roberto Bruno

摘要:

太阳风中的磁通量管在从太阳表面传输时会发生扭曲,在太阳表面,由于光球运动,这些管会发生扭曲。提出了利用磁扭曲管通过卫星时的总压(热压+磁压)变化来探测磁扭曲管的方法。我们发现,几个观察到的扭曲管的总压类似于理论预期的配置文件。孤立磁管的扭曲可以解释管壁处磁场方向的突变。我们还发现了一些证据表明,通量管壁可以与等离子体的局部加热和质子和电子温度升高。对于与帕克螺旋线对齐的管,可以从磁场方向的变化来估计扭曲角。扭曲管的稳定性分析表明,具有均匀扭曲的管的临界扭曲角为70 $^0$,但由于管相对于太阳风流的运动,该角度可以进一步减小。扭曲较强的管子不稳定到扭结不稳定,因此它们可能达不到1AU。

英文摘要:

Magnetic flux tubes in the solar wind can be twisted as they are transported from the solar surface, where the tubes are twisted owing to photospheric motions. It is suggested that the twisted magnetic tubes can be detected as the variation of total (thermal+magnetic) pressure during their passage through observing satellite. We show that the total pressure of several observed twisted tubes resembles the theoretically expected profile. The twist of isolated magnetic tube may explain the observed abrupt changes of magnetic field direction at tube walls. We have also found some evidence that the flux tube walls can be associated with local heating of the plasma and elevated proton and electron temperatures. For the tubes aligned with the Parker spiral, the twist angle can be estimated from the change of magnetic field direction. Stability analysis of twisted tubes shows that the critical twist angle of the tube with a homogeneous twist is 70$^0$, but the angle can further decrease owing to the motion of the tube with regards to the solar wind stream. The tubes with a stronger twist are unstable to the kink instability, therefore they probably can not reach 1 AU.

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