Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989soph..120..285f&link_type=abstract
Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 120, no. 2, 1989, p. 285-307.
Physics
83
Chromosphere, Coronal Loops, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Solar Flares, Solar Magnetic Field, Ablation, Current Density, Field Strength, H Alpha Line, Shock Waves, Solar Prominences
Scientific paper
Noncoplanar compressible reconnection theory is combined here with simple scaling arguments for ablation and radiative cooling to predict average properties of hot and cool flare loops as a function of the coronal vector magnetic field. For a coronal field strength of 100 G, the temperature of the hot flare loops decreases from 1.2 x 10 to the 7th K to 4.0 x 10 to the 6th K as the component of the coronal magnetic field perpendicular to the plane of the loops increases from 0 percent to 86 percent of the total field. When the perpendicular component exceeds 86 percent of the total field or when the altitude of the reconnection site exceeds 10 to the 6th km, flare loops no longer occur. Shock-enhanced radiative cooling triggers the formation of cool H-alpha flare loops with predicted densities of roughly 10 to the 13th/cu cm, and a small gap of roughly 1000 km is predicted to exist between the footpoints of the cool flare loops and the inner edges of the flare ribbons.
Forbes Terry G.
Malherbe Jean-Marie
Priest Eric R.
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