Energy transport and dynamics

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Aug 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994soph..153...55s&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 153, no. 1-2, p. 55-72

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Energy Transfer, Hydrodynamic Equations, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Flares, Solar Magnetic Field, Stellar Models, Chromosphere, Electron Beams, Gamma Ray Observatory, H Alpha Line, Line Spectra, Proton Beams, Solar Maximum Mission, Solar Radio Emission, Solar X-Rays, Spectrometers, X Ray Imagery

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We report findings concerning energy transport and dynamics in flares during the impulsive and gradual phases based on new ground-based and space observations (notably from Yohkoh). A preheating sometimes occurs during the impulsive phase. Ca XIX line shifts are confirmed to be good tracers of bulk plasma motions, although strong blue shifts are not as frequent as previously claimed. They often appear correlated with hard X-rays but, for some events, the concept that electron beams provide the whole energy input to the thermal component seems not to apply. Theory now yields: new diagnostics of low-energy proton and electric beams; accurate hydrodynamical modeling of pulse beam heating of the atmosphere; possible diagnostics of microflares (based on X-ray line ratio or on loop variability); and simulated images of chromospheric evaporation fronts. For the gradual phase, the continual reorganization of magnetic field lines over active regions determines where and when magnetic reconnection, the mechanism favored for energy release, will occur. Spatial and temporal fragmentation of the energy release, observed at different wavelengths, is considered to be a factor as well in energy transport and plasma dynamics.

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