On generation of high-frequency Alfvén waves in the solar corona

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Jun 1999

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The solar wind nine conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 471, pp. 325-328 (1999).

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We discuss a source for high-frequency Alfvén waves, associated with twisted magnetic loops emerging on the solar surface and reconnecting with the open field. We identify the loops with the ephemeral regions (small-scale bipoles) observed by ground-based instruments and by SOHO. To characterize the loops we employ the concept of a minimum energy state for topologically complex fields. Our estimates of the power that can be released and the range of wave frequencies marginally agree with models of coronal heating and acceleration of the solar wind by high-frequency Alfvén waves. We suggest that severe requirements on the upper-bound frequency, used in these models, can be relaxed by taking into account the energy released due to reconnections within magnetic loops whose footpoints are twisted by surface convective motions. This presentation updates our more extended discussion of the source of coronal heating (1).

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