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arXiv 1706.01804astro-ph.SR
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磁双极弱场中的日冕雨

Coronal rain in magnetic bipolar weak fields

Chun Xia, Rony Keppens, Xia Fang

摘要:

我们打算研究在一个具有代表性的双极磁场中日冕雨现象的基本物理,包括日冕雨滴的形成和动力学。利用MPI-AMRVAC程序,对太阳大气松弛到安静状态后,磁环足点上的强加热进行了三维辐射磁流体动力学(MHD)模拟。由于辐射热不稳定性,逐渐冷却和原位冷凝开始于回路顶部。第一个大规模的凝结环顶部遭受瑞利-泰勒不稳定性,并成为破碎成较小的斑点。团块垂直下落,拖动磁环,直到它们到达低β区域,并开始沿着从环顶部到环足点的环下落。对日冕雨滴的统计研究发现,质量小于10^10 g的小雨滴占主导地位。当斑点沿着磁环落到较低区域时,它们被拉伸并形成非均匀速度图案,其中可以看到反平行剪切图案沿着斑点的中心轴线形成。太阳动力学天文台大气成像组件模拟日冕雨的合成图像与真实观测结果非常相似,在热通道中呈现黑暗的降落团块,在冷通道中呈现明亮的雨滴。我们还发现密度不均匀性在日冕雨“阵雨”,这反映了所观察到的多股性质的日冕雨。

英文摘要:

We intend to investigate the underlying physics for the coronal rain phenomenon in a representative bipolar magnetic field, including the formation and the dynamics of coronal rain blobs. With the MPI-AMRVAC code, we performed three dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation with strong heating localized on footpoints of magnetic loops after a relaxation to quiet solar atmosphere. Progressive cooling and in-situ condensation starts at the loop top due to radiative thermal instability. The first large-scale condensation on the loop top suffers Rayleigh-Taylor instability and becomes fragmented into smaller blobs. The blobs fall vertically dragging magnetic loops until they reach low beta regions and start to fall along the loops from loop top to loop footpoints. A statistic study of the coronal rain blobs finds that small blobs with masses of less than 10^10 g dominate the population. When blobs fall to lower regions along the magnetic loops, they are stretched and develop a non-uniform velocity pattern with an anti-parallel shearing pattern seen to develop along the central axis of the blobs. Synthetic images of simulated coronal rain with Solar Dynamics Observatory Atmospheric Imaging Assembly well resemble real observations presenting dark falling clumps in hot channels and bright rain blobs in a cool channel. We also find density inhomogeneities during a coronal rain "shower", which reflects the observed multi-stranded nature of coronal rain.

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