Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Sep 2001
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Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.375, p.1065-1074 (2001)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Sun: Prominences, Magnetohydrodynamics
Scientific paper
Field-aligned electric currents (FAC) are assumed to support various prominence configurations and it is usually supposed that the quiescent prominence (QP) destabilisation can be initiated by some plasma instability. In this work we study another possibility of QP destabilisation connected with FAC changes. Such a destabilisation may occur when FAC flowing along a loop-shaped QP structure are intensified by bouncing surface MHD modes, presumably generated by motions in the photosphere under, or adjacent to, the QP. The MHD disturbances at the prominence ``feet'' propagate upwards as Alfven waves and surface modes. We study the possibility that the generated MHD modes, which carry FAC, bounce in the loop-shaped QP structure, provided that they undergo multiple reflection at the prominence feet. This is an interesting physical situation leading to intensification of FAC and promising to be another source of QP destabilisation.
Bocchialini Karine
Dermendjiev V. N.
Detchev M.
Nenovski P.
Vial Jean-Claude
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