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确定MaGIXS观测到的X射线亮点的纳米耀斑加热频率

Determining the nanoflare heating frequency of an X-ray Bright Point observed by MaGIXS

Biswajit Mondal, P. S. Athiray, Amy R. Winebarger, Sabrina L. Savage, Ken Kobayashi, Stephen Bradshaw, Will Barnes, Patrick R. Champey, Peter Cheimets, Jaroslav… 展开作者

Biswajit Mondal, P. S. Athiray, Amy R. Winebarger, Sabrina L. Savage, Ken Kobayashi, Stephen Bradshaw, Will Barnes, Patrick R. Champey, Peter Cheimets, Jaroslav Dudik, Leon Golub, Helen E. Mason, David E. McKenzie, Christopher S. Moore, Chad Madsen, Katharine K. Reeves, Paola Testa, Genevieve D. Vigil, Harry P. Warren, Robert W. Walsh, Giulio Del Zanna

AI总结:

本研究通过HYDRAD模拟和MaGIXS、AIA、XRT观测数据,确定X射线亮点的纳米耀斑加热频率,发现平均延迟1500-3000秒的高频事件主导加热,并验证了MaGIXS和XRT的高灵敏度。

摘要:

纳米耀斑被认为是能够将太阳日冕加热至数百万开尔文温度的主要候选机制之一。单个纳米耀斑难以用当前一代仪器直接探测,但可以通过将模拟的纳米耀斑加热等离子体发射与观测发射进行比较来推断其存在。利用HYDRAD日冕环模拟,我们对Marshall掠射X射线光谱仪(MaGIXS)观测到的X射线亮点(XBP)的发射进行了建模,并结合太阳动力学天文台(SDO)上搭载的大气成像组件(AIA)以及Hinode天文台上搭载的X射线望远镜(XRT)的最近可用观测数据。日冕环的长度和磁场强度通过对SDO上搭载的日震与磁成像仪(HMI)观测到的光球磁图的线性无力场外推得出。假设每个环受到随机纳米耀斑的加热,其大小和频率由环长度和磁场强度决定。随后将模拟结果与AIA、XRT和MaGIXS的实测强度进行比较和匹配。我们的模型结果表明,所研究的XBP的观测发射可以很好地由平均延迟时间为1500秒至3000秒的纳米耀斑分布来匹配,这表明加热由高频事件主导。此外,我们证明了MaGIXS和XRT在利用该方法诊断加热频率方面具有高灵敏度,而AIA的波段被发现灵敏度最低。

英文摘要:

Nanoflares are thought to be one of the prime candidates that can heat the solar corona to its multi-million kelvin temperature. Individual nanoflares are difficult to detect with the present generation instruments, however their presence can be inferred by comparing simulated nanoflare-heated plasma emissions with the observed emission. Using HYDRAD coronal loop simulations, we model the emission from an X-ray bright point (XBP) observed by the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS), along with nearest-available observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and X-Ray Telescope (XRT) onboard Hinode observatory. The length and magnetic field strength of the coronal loops are derived from the linear-force-free extrapolation of the observed photospheric magnetogram by Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard SDO. Each loop is assumed to be heated by random nanoflares, whose magnitude and frequency are determined by the loop length and magnetic field strength. The simulation results are then compared and matched against the measured intensity from AIA, XRT, and MaGIXS. Our model results indicate the observed emissions from the XBP under study could be well matched by a distribution of nanoflares with average delay times 1500 s to 3000 s, which suggest that the heating is dominated by high-frequency events. Further, we demonstrate the high sensitivity of MaGIXS and XRT to diagnose the heating frequency using this method, while AIA passbands are found to be the least sensitive.

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