Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-12-03
The Astrophysical Journal, 710:1387-1394, 2010
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
31 pages; 9 figures; published in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/710/2/1387
With gravity, ionization, and radiation being considered, we perform 2.5D compressible resistive MHD simulations of chromospheric magnetic reconnection using the CIP-MOCCT scheme. The temperature distribution of the quiet-Sun atmospheric model VALC and the helium abundance (10%) are adopted. Our 2.5D MHD simulation reproduces qualitatively the temperature enhancement observed in chromospheric microflares. The temperature enhancement $\Delta T$ is demonstrated to be sensitive to the background magnetic field, whereas the total evolution time $\Delta t$ is sensitive to the magnitude of the anomalous resistivity. Moveover, we found a scaling law, which is described as $\Delta T/\Delta t \sim {n_H}^{-1.5} B^{2.1} {\eta_0}^{0.88}$. Our results also indicate that the velocity of the upward jet is much greater than that of the downward jet and the X-point may move up or down.
Chen Peng-Fei
Fang Chen
Jiang Rong Lin
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