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Nonlinear Alfvén wave model of spicules and coronal heating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2007

Takahiro Kudoh
Takahiro Kudoh*
Affiliation:
Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan email:kudoh@th.nao.ac.jp
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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.

Keywords

Sun:chromosphereSun:coronaSun:magnetic fieldsSun:oscillations
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S247: Waves & Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere: Heating and Magneto-Seismology , September 2007 , pp. 195 - 200
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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