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Y.-M. Wang 《Space Science Reviews》2009,144(1-4):383-399
Coronal holes are low-density regions of the corona which appear dark in X-rays and which contain “open” magnetic flux, along which plasma escapes into the heliosphere. Like the rest of the Sun’s large-scale field, the open flux originates in active regions but is subsequently redistributed over the solar surface by transport processes, eventually forming the polar coronal holes. The total open flux and radial interplanetary field component vary roughly as the Sun’s total dipole strength, which tends to peak a few years after sunspot maximum. An inverse correlation exists between the rate of flux-tube expansion in coronal holes and the solar wind speed at 1 AU. In the rapidly diverging fields present at the polar hole boundaries and near active regions, the bulk of the heating occurs at low heights, leading to an increase in the mass flux density at the Sun and a decrease in the asymptotic wind speed. The quasi-rigid rotation of coronal holes is maintained by continual footpoint exchanges between open and closed field lines, with the reconnection taking place at the streamer cusps. At much lower heights within the hole interiors, “interchange reconnection” between small bipoles and the overlying open flux also gives rise to coronal jets and polar plumes. 相似文献
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We present a solar wind model which takes into account the possible origin of fast solar wind streams in coronal plumes. We treat coronal holes as being made up of essentially 2 plasma species, denser, warmer coronal plumes embedded in a surrounding less dense and cooler medium. Pressure balance at the coronal base implies a smaller magnetic field within coronal plumes than without. Considering the total coronal hole areal expansion as given, we calculate the relative expansion of plumes and the ambient medium subject to transverse pressure balance as the wind accelerates. The magnetic flux is assumed to be conserved independently both within plumes and the surrounding coronal hole. Magnetic field curvature terms are neglected so the model is essentially one dimensional along the coronal plumes, which are treated as thin flux-tubes. We compare the results from this model with white-light photographs of the solar corona and in-situ measurements of the spaghetti-like fine-structure of high-speed winds. 相似文献
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Since 1972, nearly continuous observations of coronal holes and their associated photospheric magnetic fields have been made using a variety of satellite and ground-based equipment. The results of comparisons of these observations are reviewed and it is demonstrated that the structure and evolution of coronal holes is basically governed by the large-scale distribution of photospheric magnetic flux. Non-polar holes form in the decaying remnants of bipolar magnetic regions in areas with a large-scale flux imbalance. There is strong indirect evidence that the magnetic field in coronal holes is always open to interplanetary space but not all open-field regions have associated coronal holes. The well-observed declining phase of the last solar cycle was characterized by stable magnetic field and coronal hole patterns which were associated with recurrent, high-speed wind streams and interplanetary magnetic field patterns at the Earth. The ascending phase of the current cycle has been characterized by transient magnetic field and coronal hole patterns which tend to occur at high solar latitudes. This shift in magnetic field and coronal hole patterns has resulted in a less obvious and more complicated association with high-speed wind streams at the Earth.Proceedings of the Symposium on Solar Terrestrial Physics held in Innsbruck, May–June 1978.Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation.Visiting Scientist, Kitt Peak National Observatory. 相似文献
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Y.-M. Wang 《Space Science Reviews》2012,172(1-4):123-143
Coronal holes can produce several types of solar wind with a variety of compositional properties, depending on the location and strength of the heating along their open magnetic field lines. High-speed wind is associated with (relatively) slowly diverging flux tubes rooted in the interiors of large holes with weak, uniform footpoint fields; heating is spread over a large radial distance, so that most of the energy is conducted outward and goes into accelerating the wind rather than increasing the mass flux. In the rapidly diverging open fields present at coronal hole boundaries and around active regions, the heating is concentrated at low heights and the temperature maximum is located near the coronal base, resulting in high oxygen freezing-in temperatures and low asymptotic wind speeds. Polar plumes have a strong additional source of heating at their bases, which generates a large downward conductive flux, raising the densities and enhancing the radiative losses. The relative constancy of the solar wind mass flux at Earth reflects the tendency for the heating rate in coronal holes to increase monotonically with the footpoint field strength, with very high mass fluxes at the Sun offsetting the enormous flux-tube expansion in active region holes. Although coronal holes are its main source, slow wind is also released continually from helmet streamer loops by reconnection processes, giving rise to plasma blobs (small flux ropes) and the heliospheric plasma sheet. 相似文献
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On 14 July 1998 TRACE observed transverse oscillations of a coronal loop generated by an external disturbance most probably caused by a solar flare. These oscillations were interpreted as standing fast kink waves in a magnetic flux tube. Firstly, in this review we embark on the discussion of the theory of waves and oscillations in a homogeneous straight magnetic cylinder with the particular emphasis on fast kink waves. Next, we consider the effects of stratification, loop expansion, loop curvature, non-circular cross-section, loop shape and magnetic twist. An important property of observed transverse coronal loop oscillations is their fast damping. We briefly review the different mechanisms suggested for explaining the rapid damping phenomenon. After that we concentrate on damping due to resonant absorption. We describe the latest analytical results obtained with the use of thin transition layer approximation, and then compare these results with numerical findings obtained for arbitrary density variation inside the flux tube. Very often collective oscillations of an array of coronal magnetic loops are observed. It is natural to start studying this phenomenon from the system of two coronal loops. We describe very recent analytical and numerical results of studying collective oscillations of two parallel homogeneous coronal loops. The implication of the theoretical results for coronal seismology is briefly discussed. We describe the estimates of magnetic field magnitude obtained from the observed fundamental frequency of oscillations, and the estimates of the coronal scale height obtained using the simultaneous observations of the fundamental frequency and the frequency of the first overtone of kink oscillations. In the last part of the review we summarise the most outstanding and acute problems in the theory of the coronal loop transverse oscillations. 相似文献
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Coronal plumes are believed to be essentially magnetic features: they are rooted in magnetic flux concentrations at the photosphere
and are observed to extend nearly radially above coronal holes out to at least 15 solar radii, probably tracing the open field
lines. The formation of plumes itself seems to be due to the presence of reconnecting magnetic field lines and this is probably
the cause of the observed extremely low values of the Ne/Mg abundance ratio.
In the inner corona, where the magnetic force is dominant, steady MHD models of coronal plumes deal essentially with quasi-potential
magnetic fields but further out, where the gas pressure starts to be important, total pressure balance across the boundary
of these dense structures must be considered.
In this paper, the expansion of plumes into the fast polar wind is studied by using a thin flux tube model with two interacting
components, plume and interplume. Preliminary results are compared with both remote sensing and solar wind in situ observations
and the possible connection between coronal plumes with pressure-balance structures (PBS) and microstreams is discussed.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Y. -M. Wang 《Space Science Reviews》1994,70(1-2):387-390
Empirical studies have shown that the solar wind speed at Earth is inversely correlated with the areal expansion rate of magnetic flux tubes near the Sun. Recent model calculations that include a self-consistent determination of the coronal temperature allow one to understand the physical basis of this relationship; they also suggest why the solar wind mass flux is relatively constant. 相似文献
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The Sun in Time 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
J. W. Harvey 《Space Science Reviews》2013,176(1-4):47-58
The Sun varies in time over at least twenty orders of magnitude. In this highly selective look at a vast subject, the focus is on solar variations related to the magnetic field structure of the heliosphere since these changes affect the propagation of cosmic rays in the heliosphere. The root of the changes is the magnetic field pattern near the solar surface. Some key aspects of the behavior of this pattern are reviewed. Recent solar activity has been unlike any experienced in living memory and several of the observed oddities are noted. Included here is a first attempt to directly compare three decades of magnetic field measurements in coronal holes with the heliospheric magnetic field at 1 AU. Results support the idea that nearly all the open magnetic flux from the Sun originates in coronal holes (including those close to active regions). 相似文献
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Large-scale Coronal Heating, Clustering of Coronal Bright Points, and Concentration of Magnetic Flux
By combining quiet-region Fe XII coronal images from SOHO/EIT with magnetograms from NSO/Kitt Peak and from SOHO/MDI, we show
that the population of network coronal bright points and the magnetic flux content of the network are both markedly greater
under the bright half of the large-scale quiet corona than under the dim half. These results (1) support the view that the
heating of the entire corona in quiet regions and coronal holes is driven by fine-scale magnetic activity (microflares, explosive
events, spicules) seated low in the magnetic network, and (2) suggest that this large-scale modulation of the magnetic flux
and coronal heating is a signature of giant convection cells.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Michael A. Raadu 《Space Science Reviews》1983,34(1):37-45
Mass motions below the photosphere drive the solar cycle which is associated with variations in the magnetic field structure and accompanying phenomena. In addition to semi-empirical models, dynamo theories have been used to explain the solar cycle. The emergence of magnetic field generated by these mechanisms and its expansion into the corona involves many plasma physical processes. Magnetic buoyancy aids the expulsion of magnetic flux. The corona may respond dynamically or by continually adjusting to a quasi-static force-free or pressure-balanced equilibrium. The formation and disruption of current sheets is significant for the overall structure of the coronal magnetic field and the physics of quiescent prominences. The corona has a fine structure consisting of magnetic loops. The structure and stability of these are important as they are one of the underlying elements which make up the corona. 相似文献
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Interchange reconnection at the Sun, that is, reconnection between a doubly-connected field loop and singly-connected or open field line that extends to infinity, has important implications for the heliospheric magnetic flux budget. Recent work on the topic is reviewed, with emphasis on two aspects. The first is a possible heliospheric signature of interchange reconnection at the coronal hole boundary, where open fields meet closed loops. The second aspect concerns the means by which the heliospheric magnetic field strength reached record-lows during the recent solar minimum period. A?new implication of this work is that interchange reconnection may be responsible for the puzzling, occasional coincidence of the heliospheric current sheet and the interface between fast and slow flow in the solar wind. 相似文献
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Martin A. Lee 《Space Science Reviews》2007,130(1-4):221-229
Gradual solar energetic particle (SEP) events are evidently accelerated by coronal/interplanetary shocks driven by coronal
mass ejections. This talk addresses the different factors which determine the composition of the accelerated ions. The first
factor is the set of available seed populations including the solar wind core and suprathermal tail, remnant impulsive events
from preceding solar flares, and remnant gradual events. The second factor is the fractionation of the seed ions by the injection
process, that is, what fraction of the ions are extracted by the shock to participate in diffusive shock acceleration. Injection
is a controversial topic since it depends on the detailed electromagnetic structure of the shock transition and the transport
of ions in these structured fields, both of which are not well understood or determined theoretically. The third factor is
fractionation during the acceleration process, due to the dependence of ion transport in the turbulent electromagnetic fields
adjacent to the shock on the mass/charge ratio. Of crucial importance in the last two factors is the magnetic obliquity of
the shock. The form of the proton-excited hydromagnetic wave spectrum is also important. Finally, more subtle effects on ion
composition arise from the superposition of ion contributions over the time history of the shock along the observer’s magnetic
flux tube, and the sequence of flux tubes sampled by the observer. 相似文献
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It is generally accepted that the energy that drives coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is magnetic in origin. Sheared and twisted
coronal fields can store free magnetic energy which ultimately is released in the CME. We explore the possibility of the specific
magnetic configuration of a magnetic flux rope of field lines that twist about an axial field line. The flux rope model predicts
coronal observables, including heating along forward or inverse S-shaped, or sigmoid, topological surfaces. Therefore, studying
the observed evolution of such sigmoids prior to, during, and after the CME gives us crucial insight into the physics of coronal
storage and release of magnetic energy. In particular, we consider (1) soft-X-ray sigmoids, both transient and persistent;
(2) The formation of a current sheet and cusp-shaped post-flare loops below the CME; (3) Reappearance of sigmoids after CMEs;
(4) Partially erupting filaments; (5) Magnetic cloud observations of filament material. 相似文献
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The magnetotail and substorms 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
The tail plays a very active and important role in substorms. Magnetic flux eroded from the dayside magnetosphere is stored here. As more and more flux is transported to the magnetotail and stored, the boundary of the tail flares more, the field strength in the tail increases, and the currents strengthen and move closer to the Earth. Further, the plasma sheet thins and the magnetic flux crossing the neutral sheet lessens. At the onset of the expansion phase, the stored magnetic flux is returned from the tail and energy is deposited in the magnetosphere and ionosphere. During the expansion phase of isolated substorms, the flaring angle and the lobe field strength decrease, the plasma sheet thickens and more magnetic flux crosses the neutral sheet.In this review, we discuss the experimental evidence for these processes and present a phenomenological or qualitative model of the substorm sequence. In this model, the flux transport is driven by the merging of the magnetospheric and interplanetary magnetic fields. During the growth phase of substorms the merging rate on the dayside magnetosphere exceeds the reconnection rate in the neutral sheet. In order to remove the oversupply of magnetic flux in the tail, a neutral point forms in the near earth portion of the tail. If the new reconnection rate exceeds the dayside merging rate, then an isolated substorm results. However, a situation can occur in which dayside merging and tail reconnection are in equilibrium. The observed polar cap electric field and its correlation with the interplanetary magnetic field is found to be in accord with open magnetospheric models. 相似文献
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Coronal hole boundaries are the interfaces between regions where the coronal magnetic field contains a significant component
which is open into the heliosphere and regions where the field is primarily closed. It is pointed out that there are constraints
on the magnetic field which opens into the heliosphere that must be satisfied in the corona: it must come into pressure equilibrium
in the high corona, and the component of the field which connects to the polar regions of the Sun must differentially rotate.
A model is presented in which satisfying these constraints determines which field lines are open and which are closed, and
thus where the polar coronal hole boundaries occur. Some of the consequences of this model are discussed.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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The evolution of open field regions on the Sun over the last cycle is illustrated by observations of coronal holes in SOHO
EIT images. The development of a large equatorial coronal hole near solar minimum is discussed, indicating the processes which
led to the appearance of open field regions at low latitude. The observed cosmic ray signature is presented and interpreted
in terms of the passage of the Earth through the streamer belt, which at this time had become distorted by the coronal hole
and associated active region. The times when such equatorial coronal holes might be expected to directly influence cosmic
ray counts in this way are seen to be limited to the approach to solar minimum, around minimum and the approach to maximum.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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J. L. Culhane 《Space Science Reviews》1995,72(1-2):17-28
Designed primarily to study solar activity, Yohkoh includes an X-ray telescope that obtains full-sun coronal images which show a range of features. Coronal X-ray emission-exclusive of flares, is notable for its variability even in the largest structures. A mass ejection event is related to magnetic field reconnection. Such events exhibit both accelerated and decelerated behaviour. Coronal hole temperatures are estimated from the filter ratio method. A plasma component at around 2.106 K is identified. X-ray emission is detected from the South polar coronal hole. A preliminary comparison of Spartan coronagraph images with Yohkoh data suggests that polar plumes or rays are not connected to bright points. 相似文献
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Guhathakurta Madhullika Sittler Ed Fisher Richard Kucera Theresa Gibson Sarah McComas Dave Skoug Ruth 《Space Science Reviews》2001,97(1-4):45-50
The large-scale coronal magnetic fields of the Sun are believed to play an important role in organizing the coronal plasma
and channeling the high and low speed solar wind along the open magnetic field lines of the polar coronal holes and the rapidly
diverging field lines close to the current sheet regions, as has been observed by the instruments aboard the Ulysses spacecraft from March 1992 to March 1997. We have performed a study of this phenomena within the framework of a semi-empirical
model of the coronal expansion and solar wind using Spartan, SOHO, and Ulysses observations during the quiescent phase of the solar cycle. Key to this understanding is the demonstration that the white
light coronagraph data can be used to trace out the topology of the coronal magnetic field and then using the Ulysses data to fix the strength of the surface magnetic field of the Sun. As a consequence, it is possible to utilize this semi-empirical
model with remote sensing observation of the shape and density of the solar corona and in situ data of magnetic field and
mass flux to predict values of the solar wind at all latitudes through out the solar system. We have applied this technique
to the observations of Spartan 201-05 on 1–2 November, 1998, SOHO and Ulysses during the rising phase of this solar cycle and speculate on what solar wind velocities Ulysses will observe during its polar passes over the south and the north poles during September of 2000 and 2001. In order to do
this the model has been generalized to include multiple streamer belts and co-located current sheets. The model shows some
interesting new results.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献