Heating of the Solar Corona by Dissipative Alfven Solitons

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2006-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604507v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.96:175003,2006; Erratum-ibid.99:089901,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 4 color figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.175003 10

Solar photospheric convection drives myriads of dissipative Alfven solitons (hereinafter called alfvenons) capable of accelerating electrons and ions to energies of hundreds of keV and producing the X-ray corona. Alfvenons are exact solutions of two-fluid equations for a collisionless plasma and represent natural accelerators for conversion of the electromagnetic energy flux driven by convective flows into kinetic energy of charged particles in space and astrophysical plasmas. Their properties have been experimentally verified in the magnetosphere, where they accelerate auroral electrons to tens of keV.

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