Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006soph..233...45d&link_type=abstract
Solar Physics, Volume 233, Issue 1, pp.45-55
Physics
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Scientific paper
As demonstrated by many previous studies, a system consisting of an isolated coronal flux rope and a surrounding background magnetic field exhibits a catastrophic behavior. In particular, if the magnetic field of the system is force-free and axisymmetric in spherical geometry, the magnetic energy at the catastrophic point, referred to as the catastrophic energy threshold, is found to be larger than the corresponding partly or fully open field energy. This paper takes an octapole field as the background and introduces a flux rope within the central arcade of the octapole field. A relaxation method based on time-dependent ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations is used to find axisymmetric force-free field solutions in spherical geometry associated with the flux rope system. With respect to an increase of either the annular flux Φp or the axial flux Φϕ of the rope, the system exhibits a catastrophic behavior as expected, and the catastrophic energy threshold is larger than that of the corresponding partly open field, in which the central arcade is opened up, but the remainder remains closed. For a given octapole field, the energy threshold depends on either Φp or Φϕ at the catastrophic point, and it increases with increasing Φp or decreasing Φϕ. On the other hand, the extent to which the central bipolar component of the octapole field is open also affects the energy threshold. These results differ from those for the bipolar background field case, in which the catastrophic energy threshold is almost independent of the magnetic properties of the flux rope at the catastrophic points and the extent to which the background field is open. The reason for such a difference is briefly discussed.
Ding Yujie J.
Hu Yong-Qing
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