Mathematics – Complex Variables
Scientific paper
Aug 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994soph..153..217p&link_type=abstract
Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 153, no. 1-2, p. 217-235
Mathematics
Complex Variables
32
Current Sheets, Energy Transfer, Magnetic Energy Storage, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetic Flux, Photosphere, Stellar Models, X Ray Astronomy, Chromosphere, Complex Variables, Polarity, Ratios, Solar Corona, Solar Observatories
Scientific paper
A recent discovery from the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) has linked the cancellation of opposite polarity magnetic fragments in the photosphere (i.e., so-called cancelling magnetic features) to X-ray bright points and has stimulated the setting up of a converging flux model for the process. Cancelling magnetic features can occur between magnetic fragments of differing strengths in many different situations. Here, therefore, we model two opposite polarity fragments of different strengths in the photosphere by two unequal sources in an overlying uniform field. Initially in the pre-interaction phase these sources are assumed to be unconnected, but as they move closer together the interaction phase starts with an X-type neutral point forming, initially on the photosphere, then rising up into the chromosphere and corona before lowering back down to the photosphere. The capture phase then flows with the sources fully connected as they move together. Finally, after they come into contact, during the cancellation phase the weaker source is cancelled by part of the stronger source. The height of the X-type neutral point varies with the separation of the sources and the ratio of the source strengths, as do the positions of the neutral points before connection and after complete reconnection of the two sources. The neutral point is the location of magnetic reconnection and therefore energy release which is believed to power the X-ray bright point in the corona. By using a current sheet approximation, where it is assumed no reconnection takes place as the two sources move together, the total amount of energy released during reconnection may be estimated. The typical total free magnetic energy is found to be of the order of 1020 to 1021 J, which is as required for an X-ray bright point. It is also found that, as the ratio of the source strengths increases, the height of the X-type neutral point decreases, as do the total energy released, and the lifetime of the bright point.
Parnell Clare E.
Priest Eric R.
Titov Viacheslav S.
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