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1 Coronal heating and energetics Magnetic structures in the solar corona Coronal heating, what does it mean? Flares and coronal cooling Observations of MHD waves in loops Dissipation processes in the corona Oscillations of coronal loops
2 Key player: coronal magnetic field Modelling by extrapolation (Potential, force-free, MHD) Closed loops and streamers Schrijver et al. Magnetic transition region (network) Coronal funnels and holes Title et al. Coronal model field Magnetic carpet
3 X-ray corona cool hot Yohkoh SXT 3-5 Million K
4 1-2 M K solar wind radiation Active corona in three EUV colours
5 Magnetically confined corona dominates solar emission in X-rays, EUV and radio soft X-rays hot coronal emission > 3 MK flares, hot quiescent coronal loops (Yohkoh, Hinode) EUV imaging (TRACE; EIT/SOHO; STEREO) evolution of 1 2 MK corona corona is very dynamic and fine structured coronagraphic imaging coronal mass ejections STEREO) onset of solar wind (LASCO/SOHO; HAO/Mauna Loa; EUV spectroscopy (SUMER, CDS/SOHO; Hinode) dynamics from average line shifts to explosive events temperatures, densities, abundances coronagraphic spectroscopy solar wind acceleration and heating solar wind origin (UVCS/SOHO)
6 Coronal scale height and magnetic field How the corona ~ 200 Mm = 4 H would look like with H = 47 Mm at 10 6 K! K Why do loops seem to have a rather constant intensity? > 70 % of loops cannot be in hydrostatic equilibrium! cooling loops of the 30 % that might be in equilibrium most have to k H = be heated at the foot points! (Peter, 2006) m g B T
7 Coronal heating: a buzzword Coronal heating? closed magnetic loops are observed at a wide range of temperatures diffuse corona radiating at 2 MK is not confined to bright loops polar plumes are observed at coronal temperatures in open magnetic structure, the coronal holes Small brightenings at a range of wavelenths special energy requirements in cool (10 4 K) prominence Time and space dependent
8 Coronal heating - an unsolved problem Why? Facing complexity and variability: Solar corona is non-uniform and highly structured Corona varies in time (magnetic activity cycle) Temporal and spatial changes occur on all scales Corona is far from thermal (collisional) equilibrium Coronal processes are dynamic and often nonlinear
9 Energy balance in the corona Coronal loops: Energy balance mainly between radiative cooling, mechanical heating and heat conduction V s = ds/dt R + ds/dt M + ds/dt C Coronal holes: Energy balance mainly between solar-wind losses and mechanical heating (F K + F G + F M ) = 0 F M = ρv sw (V 2 sw + V 2 )/2 V = 618 km/s
10 Energetics of the solar corona Parameter (erg cm -2 s -1 ) Chromospheric radiation loss Coronal hole (open) Active region (closed) Radiation 10 4 < 10 6 Conduction Solar wind (5-10) 10 5 ( < 10 5 ) Photosphere: erg cm -2 s erg cm -2 s -1 = 100 W m -2
11 Coronal heating, what does it mean? Mechanical and magnetic energy: Generation/release Transport/propagation Conversion/dissipation Magnetoconvection, restructuring of fields and magnetic reconnection Magnetohydrodynamic + plasma waves, shocks Ohmic + microturbulent heating, radiative cooling, resonance absorption
12 Collisional heating rates Chromosphere: N = cm -3, h G = 400 km. Perturbations: L = 200 km, B = 1 G, V = 1km/s, T = 1000 K. Viscosity: (erg cm -3 s -1 ) H V = η ( V/ L) 2 = Conduction: H C = κ T/( L) 2 = Joule: H J = j 2 /σ = (c/4π) 2 ( B/ L) 2 /σ = Radiative cooling: C R = N 2 Λ(T) = 10-1 erg cm -3 s -1 Smaller scale, L 200 m, required λ Coll 1 km Effective Reynolds number must be smaller by
13 Requirements on coronal transport Coronal plasma beta is low, β , --> strongly magnetized particles, which freely move parallel to B. Coulomb collisional transport, then diffusion coefficient: D c = (ρ e ) 2 ν e 1 m 2 s -1 with electron Larmor radius, ρ e 25 cm, and collision frequency, ν e 10 s -1 ; ρ p 10 m, B 1 G, n e 10 8 cm -3. Enhanced transport requires anomalous processes: Waves, turbulence, drifts, flows, stochastic fields..., ν e -> Ω e. Litwin & Rosner, ApJ 412, 375, 1993 Loop switch-on time: τ 1-10 s. Is the current channel scale comparable to transverse loop dimension, a 1000 km? Cross diffusion time: t D = a 2 /D s.
14 Coronal heating mechanisms Wave (AC) mechanisms (generation, propagation, non-uniformity) Sound waves, shocks (barometric stratification), turbulence Magnetoacoustic (body, surface), Alfvén (resonance absorption) Plasma (dispersive) waves (Landau damping), ion-cyclotron waves Current sheet (DC) mechanism (formation of sheets, flux emergence) Quasi-static current sheet formation in force-free fields Dynamic sheet formation driven by flux emergence Field-aligned currents (ohmic and anomalous resistivity) Heating by micro/nano/pico flares (magnetic field reconnection) Thermalization of energetic particles (Bremsstrahlung; radio to X-rays) Reconnection driven by colliding magnetic flux
15 MHD wave heating Coronal magnetic field rooted down in turbulent photosphere => Waves! Generation of MHD waves driven by magneto-convection Phase mixing due to gradients Absorption at small scales Process Alfvèn/fast magnetosonic Sound/slow magnetosonic Period/s < 5 < 200 Gravity 40 Conduction 600 Radiation 3000 Convection > 300
16 Detectability of coronal MHD waves Spatial (pixel size) and temporal (exposure/cadence) resolution be less than wavelengths and periods Spectral resolution to be sufficient to resolve Doppler shifts and broadenings (best, SUMER, 1-15 km/s) Spacecraft/Instrument Spatial Resolution, Minimum pixel size/ arcsec Temporal resolution, Maximal cadence/ s Spectral bands SOHO/EIT EUV SOHO/CDS 2 30 EUV SOHO/UVCS 12 seconds - hours EUV/FUV/WL SOHO/SUMER 1 10 EUV/FUV SOHO/LASCO C WL Yohkoh/SXT 4 a few SX Yohkoh/HXT HX TRACE EUV/FUV/WL Nakariakov, 2003
17 Oscillations of magnetic flux tube C T = C S V A (C S2 +V A2 ) -1/2 V A = B/(4πρ) 1/2 Magnetic and thermal pressure compressible incompressible B ρ Magnetic curvature force (tension) Roberts, 1991
18 Alfvén waves in solar chromosphere Mm F W = 100 Wm -2 T = s Hinode SOT CaII H nm 1 Transverse spicule motion 2 V A = 200 km/s T = s δv = 20 km/s DePontieu et al., 2007 Torsional flux-tube (kg) motion Jess et al., Science, 2009
19 Varying coronal Alfvén speed v A (h) Aschwanden, 2004
20 Alfven waves in prominence Hinode T = K Okamoto et al., Science, 2007 Ca II nm
21 Linear magnetohydrodynamic waves Background pressure equilibrium: Coupled linear wave equations (total pressure p T ): Alfven, sound, and tube wave phase speed: Roberts, 1985
22 Coronal heating mechanisms I Pressure equilibrium: p e = p i + B i2 /8π Gas pressure: p e 1 dyn/cm 2 Equipartition field: B i 1 kg Wave mode couplings --> Generation by turbulence Turbulent heating Shearing motion Decay into smaller vortices or flux tubes Heyvaerts & Priest, 1983
23 Coronal heating mechanisms II Resonant absoption of magnetoacoustic surface waves on a field gradient Phase mixing leads to current sheets and small scale gradients -> dissipation Generation of small scales by wave front tilting Ulmschneider, 1998
24 Coronal heating mechanisms III Heating by kinetic plasma waves Absorption of high-frequency waves Wave generation and transport? Damping rate: γ/ω f/ v Landau damping: ω - k v = 0 Cyclotron damping: ω - k v ± Ω = 0 Anisotropic protons in solar wind electrons with suprathermal tails Advantage: Processes occur at small scales, near the ion inertial length or gyroperiod, l = V A /Ω, τ = 2π/Ω Problem: Velocity distribution are unknown; in-situ evidence for non-thermal features ->
25 Detectability of plasma waves Spatial (pixel size) and temporal (exposure/cadence) resolution be less than wavelengths and periods --> presently not possible Spectral resolution is sufficient to resolve Doppler shifts and broadenings, due to the integrated effects of the unresolved highfrequeny turbulence with a line-of-side amplitude ξ, which leads to an effective ion temperature: T i,eff = T i + m i /(2k B )< ξ 2 > Shortest scales: Proton cyclotron wavelength 100 m in CH λ p = 2πv A /ω gp = 1434 [km] (n/cm -3 ) -1/2, P p = 2π/ω gp = 0.66 [ms] (B/G) -1 Largest scales: λ < L and P < T, where L is the extent of field of view and T the duration of observational sequence.
26 Wave spectrum generated by turbulent shaking of flux tubes Here α is the mixing length parameter, with λ= α H, and barometric scale height H. Photosphere: H=300 km. Thin flux tube oscillations -> torsional Alfvén waves Musielak & Ulmschneider, A&A, 386, 606, 2002
27 Wave amplitudes in numerical model Compressive wave amplitude relative to background in open plume versus height Slow magnetosonic wave amplitude versus height, with δv 0 = 0.02 C s, in a coronal magnetic loop Wave steepening Ofman et al., 1999 Nakariakov et al., 2000
28 Coronal cooling, what does it mean? Heating and cooling varies spatially and temporally! Radiative cooling: quiet emissions, flares, blinkers, brightenings, in UV, EUV, and X-rays Cooling through particles: solar wind, energetic ions and electrons Dense plasma in magnetic + gravitational confinement Dilute plasma escaping on open field lines
29 Multitude of small brightenings Active region transient brightenings (SXT), Explosive events (SUMER), EUV brightenings (EIT, TRACE), Blinkers (CDS). Explosive events (Innes et al., 1997) 2 x 10 5 K 60 s 160 kms -1 2 arcsec (1500 km) Blinkers (Harrison, 1997) 2 x 10 5 K 1000 s 20 kms arcsec (7500 km)
30 Solar flare in the corona Active loops Flare SOHO EIT Impulsive radiative cooling
31 Ubiquitous magnetic reconnection Parker s (1988) nanoflare concept Power-law of flare frequency f against energy E f(e) = f 0 E -α Spectral index, 1.5 < α < 2.5, for nanoflare dominated heating Self-organised criticality: Corona is modeled as an externally driven, dissipative dynamical system. Larger catastrophes are triggered by a chain reaction of many smaller events.
32 Reconnection in transition region unit = 500 km Doppler blue and red shift (±10 km/s) Field lines Current sheet Büchner and Nikutowski, 2004, 2005 Results from numerical multi-fluid simulation with anomalous resisitivity
33 Flare frequency (10-50 s -1 cm -2 erg -1 ) Flare energy spectra (power laws) f = E -α Exponent α Number (P) (K) 1.79 (0.08) 281 (A) (S) (C) Sun s luminosity erg/s Flare energy E (erg) Aschwanden et al., 2000
34 Coronal ultraviolet emission from multiple filamentary loops 1. Filamentary nature of loops is consequence of fine solar surface fields Transient localised heating with threshold Non-classical diffusive perpendicular transport by turbulence too slow Field line stochasticity... Relative rarity of loops, high contrast Litwin & Rosner, ApJ 412, 375, 1993 Well-defined transverse dimension
35 Measuring thermal structure of loops Yohkoh/SXT observations Spatially uniform heating Priest et al.,
36 Coronal heating - an unsolved problem Why? Incomplete and insufficient diagnostics: Only remote-sensing through photons (X-rays, extreme ultraviolet (EUV), visible, infrared) and electromagnetic waves (radio, plasma), and corpuscular radiation (solar wind, energetic particles) No coronal in-situ measurements, such as possible in other solar system plasmas (Earth s magnetosphere, solar wind,...)
37 Impulsively driven oscillations TRACE Period/s Decay time/s Amplitude/km Schrijver et al. (2002) and Aschwanden et al. (2002) provided extensive overview and analysis of many cases of flare-excited transversal oscillations of coronal loops.
38 Detection of longitudinal waves Intensity (density) variation: Slow magnetoacoustic waves TRACE Loop images in Fe 171 Å at 15 s cadence De Moortel et al., 2000
39 Loop oscillation properties Parameter Range Footpoint length Mm Footpoint width Mm Transit period s Propagation speed km s -1 Relative amplitude % Damping length Mm Energy flux mw m -2 De Moortel, Ireland and Walsh, 2002 Statistical overview of the ranges of the physical properties of 38 longitudinal oscillations detected at the base of large coronal loops (1 R S = 700 Mm).
40 Loop oscillations in solar corona Distance along slit ( km) Fe XIX radiance 50 arcsec above limb Fe XIX 1118 Å Doppler shift 2000/09/29 Time (240 minutes) Time -> Wang et al., 2002 Oscillations: blue <--> red
41 Damping of hot-loop oscillations SUMER: 49 cases in 27 events TRACE: 11 cases ± ± 0.21 T decay = 0.27 P T decay = 0.9 P T d ~ P T d ~ P 4/3 In agreement with higher dissipation rate, due to thermal conduction and viscosity, when T is higher. In agreement with dissipation by phase mixing for kink-mode oscillations. Wang et al., 2003 Ofman & Aschwanden, 2002
42 Summary Corona, a restless, complex nonuniform plasma and radiation environment dominated by the solar magnetic field Evidence for quasi-periodic stiff oscillations and waves through the entire solar atmosphere and in loops Many small-scale brightenings in a wide range of wavelengths and with a power-law distribution in energy Microscopic dissipation mechanism is unknown!
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