Ionization non-equilibrium plasma during magnetic reconnection in solar corona

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[7519] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Flares

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Hinode can provide us both of the stored magnetic field energy in corona before magnetic reconnection and the most part of energy post reconnection stage. On the other hand, there is not enough observational knowledge of the physical parameters in the reconnection region. The inflow into the reconnection region, the temperature of the plasma in the reconnection region, and the temperatures and densities of the plasma jets predicted by reconnection, have not been quantitatively measured in sufficient. EIS on Hinode may provide some answers if solar cycle 24 ever produces a solar maximum. But it is important to answer why the most observation cannot detect the predicted flow or temperature in the reconnection region. One of the reasons why we cannot observe inside the magnetic reconnection region is due to its darkness. Generally we can see the bright cusp-like structure during solar flare, although the reconnection region is faint/blind. One may think that the temperature in the reconnection region is enough higher than that of cusp-like flare loops. Thus the wavelength of emission from reconnection region is different from flare loops. However, this is not entirely true. Magnetic reconnection causes rapid heating. Thus ionization cannot reach to the equilibrium stage. We have calculated the ionization process in the down stream of Petschek type magnetic reconnection. From our result, we can clearly see that plasma cannot reach the ionization equilibrium in the down stream of slow-mode shock. The typical emissions from magnetic reconnection region are FeIXX or FeXX, although the plasma temperature is equal to 40MK. The typical temperature and density of post flare loops are 10 MK and 10^11 /cc, and the dominant emissions from post flare loops are from FeIXX to FeXXIII. Thus the wavelength of emission from reconnection region is not so much different from post flare loops. We will discuss how the emissions from reconnection region looks like by using several ionization calculations of magnetic reconnection.

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