The heating of a thermally conducting stratified medium. I - Self-gravitating gas threaded by magnetic fields

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Jul 1980

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 239, July 1, 1980, p. 360-376.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Cosmic Plasma, Gravitational Effects, Interstellar Gas, Nonuniform Plasmas, Plasma Equilibrium, Plasma Heating, Conductive Heat Transfer, Plasma Slabs, Stellar Coronas, Stratified Flow, Thermal Plasmas

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Two theoretical problems are presented to illustrate the equilibrium structure of a gravitating gas threaded by magnetic fields. The gas is heated everywhere at a rate proportional to the local density and cooled by thermal conduction channeled along the magnetic field. Emphasis is placed on the influence of anisotropic thermal conduction on the distribution of the gas. In the first problem, the magnetic field has straight field lines that are nearly parallel. The simple field line geometry allows us to calculate, in closed form, the equilibria configurations of a gas slab which is cooled nonuniformly by thermal conduction along field lines which leave the gas slab at varying angles. The problem involves the gas having a free boundary, which is one of the unknowns to be determined. A discussion is given of the set of all possible equilibria so constructed. In the second problem there is no electric current flowing in the gas but there is a potential magnetic field having curved field lines. Exact solutions of equilibriums are presented to illustrate the heating of stellar and galactic coronas.

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