Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009spd....40.2006k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #40, #20.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.853
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Supra-arcade downflows in X-ray and EUV flare emissions and post-eruption inflows in coronagraph data have been interpreted to be signatures of the downward reconnection outflow from a vertical (flare) current sheet. These downflows show an intermittent occurrence pattern, indicating that the reconnection is bursty in time or patchy in space, or both. We present MHD simulations of such reconnection in the realistic configuration of a vertical current sheet formed beneath and driven by an erupting flux rope. The reconnection is found to develop bursty outflows, both upward and downward, with the upward outflows generally showing the stronger variablity. While the reconnection starts early in the rise of the flux rope and its peak upward outflow velocity is closely correlated with the rope's rise velocity, the burstiness develops in a clear fashion only as the rope's height has increased from the initial position by about an order of magnitude, so that the current sheet has reached a sufficient vertical extent. The reconnection downflow shows a series of enhancements, each of them starting at a successively greater height from a newly developed magnetic X line. The plasma temporarily accelerated downward in such an enhancement soon turns into a gradual deceleration and then eventually comes to rest on top of previously accelerated plasma. These findings are consistent with the observations of intermittent downflows.
Kliem Bernhard
Linton Mark G.
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