Nonlinear MHD interactions in some solar coronal structures

Details Nonlinear MHD interactions in some solar coronal structures Nonlinear MHD interactions in some solar coronal structures

Jun 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995sowi.conf...60g&link_type=abstract

Academy of Sciences (USSR), International Solar Wind 8 Conference, p. 60

Physics

Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Magnetohydrodynamics, Shock Waves, Solar Corona, Solar Flares, Shock Wave Interaction, Solar Magnetic Field, Stellar Mass Ejection, Coronal Holes, Shock Wave Propagation

Scientific paper

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) interactions of solar coronal fast shock waves of flare and/or nonflare origin with the boundaries of such structures like the streamer and the coronal hole are considered. These boundaries are treated as MHD tangential discontinuities (TD). Different parameters of the observed corona are used. The general case of oblique interaction is studied. It is shown that a fast shock wave is usually refracted as a fast shock wave inside the coronal streamer. But for a special case of the velocity shear across a TD a slow shock wave may be generated. On the contrary the shock wave is refracted inside the coronal hole, indeed as a slow shock wave. The significance of different effects due to the interaction of fast and slow shock waves with the coronal magnetic field is noticed, especially at the time of coronal mass ejection (CME). Thus slow shock waves may help to 'open' the coronal magnetic field, and fast shock waves - to 'close' it. It is also shown, that an oblique fast MHD coronal shock wave may trigger an instability at the boundary of a streamer considered as a TD. It might have a relation with the observed abrupt process of disappearance of the streamer's boundary in the solar corona.

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