The thermal and plasma-physical evolution of laminar current sheets formed in the solar atmosphere by emerging flux

Details The thermal and plasma-physical evolution of laminar current sheets formed in the solar atmosphere by emerging flux The thermal and plasma-physical evolution of laminar current sheets formed in the solar atmosphere by emerging flux

Sep 1992

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 396, no. 1, Sept. 1, 1992, p. 289-296.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Current Sheets, High Temperature Plasmas, Magnetic Flux, Solar Activity Effects, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Flares, Electron Energy, Ion Temperature, Time Dependence

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A time-dependent analysis of emerging flux is carried out, and the time evolution of both the current sheet energetics and the plasma state is calculated. This evolution is determined in two different regimes. In the first case the width of the current sheet is assumed to be independent of the sheet thermodynamics and is fixed by the initial conditions. In the second, the width of the current sheet is a function of the resistivity and is allowed to decrease to its minimum given by the electron gyroradius. In both cases the resistivity is computed according to the marginal stability hypothesis. In each case the thermodynamic evolution is found to be quite rapid, with the temperature increasing from 10,000 to 1,000,000 K in a second or less. In contrast to previous studies, it is found that the resistivity is not significantly enhanced by the current-driven plasma wave turbulence. It is concluded that a laminar current sheet cannot be responsible for the activity associated with emerging flux.

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