Nonlinear Alfvén wave model of spicules and coronal heating

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Sun:Chromosphere, Sun:Corona, Sun:Magnetic Fields, Sun:Oscillations

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We review the theoretical studies of the Alfvén wave model of spicules and coronal heating, mainly based on the papers by Kudoh & Shibata (1999), Saito et al. (2001) and Moriyasu et al. (2004) which performed MHD numerical simulations of nonlinear Alfvén waves propagating along a magnetic flux tube in the solar atmosphere. Kudoh & Shibata (1999) and Saito et al. (2001) found that, if the root mean square of the perturbation is greater than ~ 1 km s-1 in the photosphere, (1) the transition region is lifted up to more than ~ 5000 km (i.e., the spicule is produced), (2) the energy flux sufficient for heating the quiet corona (~ 3.0 × 105 ergs s-1 cm-2) is transported into the corona by Alfvén waves. Moriyasu et al. (2004) demonstrated that a hot corona is created in an initially cool loop as a result of the nonlinear Alfvén waves produced near the photosphere. We conclude that the nonlinear Alfvén wave model is the promising model of spicules and coronal heating.

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