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Coronal heating by stochastic magnetic pumping
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Sturrock, P. A. Uchida, Y. |
| Copyright Year | 1980 |
| Description | Recent observational data cast serious doubt on the widely held view that the Sun's corona is heated by traveling waves (acoustic or magnetohydrodynamic). It is proposed that the energy responsible for heating the corona is derived from the free energy of the coronal magnetic field derived from motion of the 'feet' of magnetic field lines in the photosphere. Stochastic motion of the feet of magnetic field lines leads, on the average, to a linear increase of magnetic free energy with time. This rate of energy input is calculated for a simple model of a single thin flux tube. The model appears to agree well with observational data if the magnetic flux originates in small regions of high magnetic field strength. On combining this energy input with estimates of energy loss by radiation and of energy redistribution by thermal conduction, we obtain scaling laws for density and temperature in terms of length and coronal magnetic field strength. |
| File Size | 682861 |
| Page Count | 19 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19800019786 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2p60cp9g |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1980-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Solar Physics Magnetic Flux Photosphere Solar Corona Magnetohydrodynamics Solar Flares Theoretical Physics Magnetohydrodynamic Waves Stochastic Processes Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |