Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010mnras.406.1140k&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 406, Issue 2, pp. 1140-1145.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Sun: Corona, Sun: Coronal Mass Ejections (Cmes), Sun: Flares, Sun: Surface Magnetism
Scientific paper
We show that the general class of Double Beltrami (DB) states, which are the lowest energy equilibria of Hall magnetohydrodynamics, can have characteristics similar to those of active regions in the solar corona and is capable of undergoing a catastrophe that can cause a solar eruption, such as a flare or coronal mass ejection (CME). We then show that the qualitative evolution of the DB state is consistent with that of a solar eruption. Finally, we make two quantitative comparisons of DB states to CMEs, which are the simplest result of the catastrophe. First, we show that the DB expansion by a factor of 1-2 before the catastrophe is consistent with the increase in the height of the leading edges of Large-Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO C1) CMEs in the quasi-equilibrium stage. Secondly, we use the assumption that DB states are randomly chosen from the allowed phase space of coronal structures to predict that the probability of a coronal structure erupting is 0.046. Identifying active regions with DB states and using observational constraints to estimate that the state is replaced every 60min by emerging loops results in a CME rate of 11d-1, which is in reasonable agreement with the actual rate of about 6d-1 at solar maximum.
Kagan David
Mahajan Swadesh M.
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