Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995a%26a...299..912v&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.299, p.912
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Magnetohydrodynamics, Sun: Corona, Magnetic Fields
Scientific paper
It is shown that for the determination of the magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) stability of coronal magnetic fields, where the photospheric line-tying effect is a basic element of the physical description, it is important to consider modes of both low and high angular wave number m. In particular, when the equilibrium deviates from the force-free state, modes with high m may have higher growth rates than the m=1 (kink) mode. It is then possible that high-m modes become unstable when the field line length increases in the evolution of the equilibrium, while the m=1 mode remains stable. This is important because the high-m modes intrinsically lead to strong dissipation. This contrasts to the case of the one-dimensional infinite (i.e. not line-tied) cylinder, where it is sufficient to prove stability of the m=1 mode to guarantee stability for all modes m>1 (Newcomb 1960). In the line-tied case however, there exists no prior reason to only consider m=1 instabilities in coronal magnetic fields.
Hood Alan William
van der Linden Ronald A. M.
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