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arXiv 2007.10649astro-ph.SR
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太阳日冕磁场的最小螺旋度

The Minimal Helicity of Solar Coronal Magnetic Fields

A. R. Yeates

摘要:

位场外推法被广泛地用作太阳日冕磁场的最小能量模型。作为与其他磁场进行比较的参考,它们--根据任何合理的定义--都没有全局(符号)磁螺旋度。在这里,我们调查的内部拓扑结构,没有被捕获的整体螺旋积分,通过分裂成个人场线螺旋。这些计算使用位场外推从磁记录观测太阳周期24,以及一个简单的说明性模型的一个单一的双极区域的偶极背景。我们发现,局部补丁的场线螺旋度主要来自强活动区域和它们的叠加场之间的联系,使总的无符号螺旋度与光球和开放通量的产品相关。在每个活跃区域内,正螺旋度和负螺旋度可能是不平衡的,但有符号螺旋度只有无符号螺旋度的十分之一左右。有趣的是,在第24周,有一个明显的峰值,在无符号螺旋度造成的一个单一的大活动区。平均而言,总的无符号螺旋度在考虑的分辨率是大约两倍的典型的有符号螺旋度的一个真正的活动区域,根据非潜在的模型在文献中。

英文摘要:

Potential field extrapolations are widely used as minimum-energy models for the Sun's coronal magnetic field. As the reference to which other magnetic fields are compared, they have -- by any reasonable definition -- no global (signed) magnetic helicity. Here we investigate the internal topological structure that is not captured by the global helicity integral, by splitting it into individual field line helicities. These are computed using potential field extrapolations from magnetogram observations over Solar Cycle 24, as well as for a simple illustrative model of a single bipolar region in a dipolar background. We find that localised patches of field line helicity arise primarily from linking between strong active regions and their overlying field, so that the total unsigned helicity correlates with the product of photospheric and open fluxes. Within each active region, positive and negative helicity may be unbalanced, but the signed helicity is only around a tenth of the unsigned helicity. Interestingly, in Cycle 24, there is a notable peak in unsigned helicity caused by a single large active region. On average, the total unsigned helicity at the resolution considered is approximately twice the typical signed helicity of a single real active region, according to non-potential models in the literature.

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