Theory of coronal streamer formation

Details Theory of coronal streamer formation Theory of coronal streamer formation

Nov 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992esasp.348...53k&link_type=abstract

In ESA, Proceedings of the First SOHO Workshop: Coronal Streamers, Coronal Loops, and Coronal and Solar Wind Composition p 53-61

Physics

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Magnetic Field Reconnection, Solar Corona, Solar Corpuscular Radiation, Solar Magnetic Field, Space Plasmas, Current Sheets, Neutral Currents, Photosphere, Soho Mission, Solar Physics

Scientific paper

Conceptually, coronal streamers can form (and disappear) by either of two distinct processes: plasma filling and outward distention of a pre-existing closed magnetic structure; and magnetic reconnection, for whatever reason, of an open bipolar field configuration. An argument that the majority of stable appearing streamers on the Sun at any time are in fact of the latter category, namely, open field structures undergoing gradual reconnection, is made. Quasi-steady (convectively relaxed) reconnection models may be required to explain the narrow high density cores exhibited by most streamers out to distances of many solar radii. Some of the observational signatures of reconnection within streamers, which the instrumentation aboard SOHO (Solar and Helospheric Observatory) may be capable of detecting, are discussed.

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