A new paradigm for solar coronal heating

Details A new paradigm for solar coronal heating A new paradigm for solar coronal heating

2009-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4546v1

Europhys.Lett.86:39001,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/86/39001

The solar coronal heating problem refers to the question why the temperature of the Sun's corona is more than two orders of magnitude higher than that of its surface. Almost 70 years after the discovery, this puzzle is still one of the major challenges in astrophysics. The current basic paradigm of coronal heating is unable to explain all the observational features of the heating. Here we argue that a new paradigm is required to solve the puzzle in a self-consistent manner. The alternative approach is based on the kinetic theory of drift waves. We show, with qualitative and quantitative arguments, that the drift waves have the potential to satisfy all coronal heating requirements.

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