Radiation signatures from a locally energized flaring loop
Emslie, A. G. and L. Vlahos, Radiation signatures from a locally energized flaring loop, ApJ, 242, 359-373 (1980) (ADS)
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If one dumps a lot of energy into the top of a coronal magnetic loop - never
mind how, just for speculation's sake - what happens?
This paper lays it all out, as well as people could do three decades ago...
can they do any
better now?
The "turbulent fronts" with reverse currents and free-streaming tail particles
sounds like it is at the limit of our modern knowledge, ca. 1980.
Here the Roman numerals refer to distinct regions in the authors' simplfied
treatment of the structure.
The cartoon critically mis-labels the
"open field line", never mind the
obvious fact that a turbulent ion-acoustic
front would destroy the
field-line concept itself; the outermost line is either a closed field
or else it is drawn with the wrong sense of curvature (convex, not concave-up).
If one dumps a lot of energy into the top of a coronal magnetic loop - never mind how, just for speculation's sake - what happens? This paper lays it all out, as well as people could do three decades ago... can they do any better now? The "turbulent fronts" with reverse currents and free-streaming tail particles sounds like it is at the limit of our modern knowledge, ca. 1980. Here the Roman numerals refer to distinct regions in the authors' simplfied treatment of the structure.
The cartoon critically mis-labels the "open field line", never mind the obvious fact that a turbulent ion-acoustic front would destroy the field-line concept itself; the outermost line is either a closed field or else it is drawn with the wrong sense of curvature (convex, not concave-up).