Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-11-28
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 730, Issue 1, article id. 47 (2011)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
7 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/730/1/47
In the paper by B\'arta et al. (arXive:astro-ph:/1011.4035, 2010) the authors addressed some open questions of the CSHKP scenario of solar flares by means of high-resolution MHD simulations. They focused, in particular, on the problem of energy transfer from large to small scales in decaying flare current sheet (CS). Their calculations suggest, that magnetic flux-ropes (plasmoids) are formed in full range of scales by a cascade of tearing and coalescence processes. Consequently, the initially thick current layer becomes highly fragmented. Thus, the tearing and coalescence cascade can cause an effective energy transfer across the scales. In the current paper we investigate whether this mechanism actually applies in solar flares. We extend the MHD simulation by deriving model-specific features that can be looked for in observations. The results of the underlying MHD model showed that the plasmoid cascade creates a specific hierarchical distribution of non-ideal/acceleration regions embedded in the CS. We therefore focus on the features associated with the fluxes of energetic particles, in particular on the structure and dynamics of emission regions in flare ribbons. We assume that the structure and dynamics of diffusion regions embedded in the CS imprint themselves into structure and dynamics of flare-ribbon kernels by means of magnetic-field mapping. Using the results of the underlying MHD simulation we derive the expected structure of ribbon emission and we extract selected statistical properties of the modelled bright kernels. Comparing the predicted emission and its properties with the observed ones we obtain a good agreement of the two.
Barta Miroslav
Büchner Jörg
Karlicky Marian
Kotrč Pavel
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