Energy and equilibrium of electric currents in the solar atmosphere

Details Energy and equilibrium of electric currents in the solar atmosphere Energy and equilibrium of electric currents in the solar atmosphere

Feb 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991kfnt....7...21l&link_type=abstract

Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel (ISSN 0233-7665), vol. 7, Jan.-Feb. 1991, p. 21-29. In Russian.

Physics

Current Sheets, Photosphere, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Corona, Equilibrium Methods, Gravitational Effects, Solar Activity, Virial Theorem

Scientific paper

The paper examines an expression, following from the virial theorem, for the magnetic energy of a large-scale current, in particualr of a current sheet above the photosphere in an active region. It is shown that the erroneous conclusion that this energy is equal to the gravitational energy of the current is based on an unjustified application of the mirror currents model to the solar atmosphere. It is further shown that, when correctly used, the virial theorem admits the presence of equilibrium currents in the solar atmosphere; the energy of these currents can be large enough to explain flare activity.

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