Siphon Flows in Coronal Loops - Part One - Adiabatic Flow
Cargill, P. J. and E. R. Priest, Siphon Flows in Coronal Loops - Part One - Adiabatic Flow, Sol. Phys., 65, 251-269 (1980) (ADS)
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Sorry - still more CSHKP, but there may have been new wrinkles here in this
early and influential cartoon.
It does miss the dimple at the stagnation point of the reconnection outflow,
a minor feature discovered later in the simulations but
probably never observed in any direct sense.
This is a nice symmetric and minimalist version of CSHKP,
and the point P is mercifully not described in detail.
Note the wavy lines marked "fast particles" - these are probably not
energetically dominant particles as in the
Elliot cartoon, but more likely
kinetic
Alfvén waves.
The cartoon is a bit fishy in a at least one way:
why should the "HOT" part be cusp-shaped, since the energy comes from
the shocks?? In this sort of model the heating results from dipolarization and
the operation of the slow shocks, so the rounded field lines should
be hotter than the pointy ones.
Sorry - still more CSHKP, but there may have been new wrinkles here in this early and influential cartoon. It does miss the dimple at the stagnation point of the reconnection outflow, a minor feature discovered later in the simulations but probably never observed in any direct sense.
This is a nice symmetric and minimalist version of CSHKP, and the point P is mercifully not described in detail. Note the wavy lines marked "fast particles" - these are probably not energetically dominant particles as in the Elliot cartoon, but more likely kinetic Alfvén waves. The cartoon is a bit fishy in a at least one way: why should the "HOT" part be cusp-shaped, since the energy comes from the shocks?? In this sort of model the heating results from dipolarization and the operation of the slow shocks, so the rounded field lines should be hotter than the pointy ones.