Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jkas...36s..13c&link_type=abstract
Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society, vol. 36, S1, pp. S13-S20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Sun: Magnetic Fields, Sun: Chromosphere, Sun: Corona, Magnetic Reconnection
Scientific paper
Observations have indicated that magnetic reconnection may occur frequently in the photosphere and chromosphere as well as in the solar corona. The observed features include cancelling magnetic features seen in photospheric magnetograms, and different kinds of small-scale activities such as UV explosive events and EUV jets. By integrating the observed parameters of these features with the Sweet-Parker reconnection theory, an attempt is made to clarify the nature of chromospheric magnetic reconnection. Our results suggest that magnetic reconnection may be occurring at many different levels of the photosphere and chromosphere without a preferred height and at a faster speed than is predicted by the Sweet-Parker reconnection model using the classical value of electric conductivity. Introducing an anomalous magnetic diffusivity 10-100 times the classical value is one of the possible ways of explaining the fast reconnection as inferred from observations.
Chae Jongchul
Moon Yong Jae
Park So-Young
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