Coronal heating by stochastic magnetic pumping

Details Coronal heating by stochastic magnetic pumping Coronal heating by stochastic magnetic pumping

Jun 1980

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Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Photosphere, Solar Corona, Solar Flares, Magnetic Flux, Magnetohydrodynamics, Stochastic Processes, Theoretical Physics

Scientific paper

Recent observational data cast serious doubt on the widely held view that the Sun's corona is heated by traveling waves (acoustic or magnetohydrodynamic). It is proposed that the energy responsible for heating the corona is derived from the free energy of the coronal magnetic field derived from motion of the 'feet' of magnetic field lines in the photosphere. Stochastic motion of the feet of magnetic field lines leads, on the average, to a linear increase of magnetic free energy with time. This rate of energy input is calculated for a simple model of a single thin flux tube. The model appears to agree well with observational data if the magnetic flux originates in small regions of high magnetic field strength. On combining this energy input with estimates of energy loss by radiation and of energy redistribution by thermal conduction, we obtain scaling laws for density and temperature in terms of length and coronal magnetic field strength.

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