Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-04-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20011677
Recent observations of Krucker & Benz (1998) give strong support to Parker's hypothesis (Parker 1988) that small scale dissipative events make the main contribution to quiet Sun coronal heating. They also showed that these small scale events are associated not only with the magnetic network, but also with the cell interiors (Benz & Krucker, 1998). Taking into account in addition the results of the analysis performed by Priest with co-authors (Priest et al. 2000) who demonstrated that the heating is quasi-homogeneous along the arcs we come to the conclusion that the sources driving these dissipative events are also small scale sources. Typically they are of the order of or smaller than the linear scale of the events observed, that is smaller than 2000 km. To describe statistical properties of quiet Sun corona heating by microflares, nanoflares, and even smaller events, we consider a cellular automata model subject to uniform small scale driving and dissipation. The model consists of two elements, the magnetic field source supposed to be associated with the small scale hydrodynamic turbulence convected from the photosphere and local dissipation of small scale currents. The dissipation is assumed to be provided by either anomalous resistivity, when the current density exceeds a certain threshold value, or by the magnetic reconnection. The main problem considered is how the statistical characteristics of dissipated energy flow depend upon characteristics of the magnetic field source and on physical mechanism responsible for the magnetic field dissipation. As the threshold value of current is increased, we observe the transition from Gaussian statistics to power-law type. In addition, we find that the dissipation provided by reconnection results in stronger deviations from Gaussian distribution.
Krasnoselskikh Vladimir
Lefebvre Bertrand
Podladchikova Olena
Vilmer Nicole
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