Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-09-04
Astrophys.J.690:748-757,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
27 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/690/1/748
The plasmoid-induced-reconnection model explaining solar flares based on bursty reconnection produced by an ejecting plasmoid suggests a possible relation between the ejection velocity of a plasmoid and the rate of magnetic reconnection. In this study, we focus on the quantitative description of this relation. We performed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of solar flares by changing the values of resistivity and the plasmoid velocity. The plasmoid velocity has been changed by applying an additional force to the plasmoid to see how the plasmoid velocity affects the reconnection rate. An important result is that the reconnection rate has a positive correlation with the plasmoid velocity, which is consistent with the plasmoid-induced-reconnection model for solar flares. We also discuss an observational result supporting this positive correlation.
Magara Tetsuya
Nishida Keisuke
Shibata Kazunari
Shimizu Masaki
Shiota Daikou
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