Chromospheric Magnetic Reconnection and Its Possible Relationship to Coronal Heating
Sturrock, P. A., Chromospheric Magnetic Reconnection and Its Possible Relationship to Coronal Heating, ApJ, 521, 451-459 (1999) (ADS)
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Not necessarily a flare cartoon, but rather an attempt to elucidate
some physics.
This paper proposes that magnetic reconnection could happen in the
chromosphere.
It makes sense because the resistivity, though low, is relatively
high where ion-neutral coupling can matter.
So if reconnection had to happen somewhere this would seem to be a hint.
Why aren't there more cartoons of flare reconnection in which it is the
footpoint fieldss that meet and do the dirty work?
What is there in the corona to force flux tubes together?
This paper generally analyzes chromospheric reconnection as a source of
high-frequency Alfvén waves, for example, or Joule heating.
Not necessarily a flare cartoon, but rather an attempt to elucidate some physics. This paper proposes that magnetic reconnection could happen in the chromosphere. It makes sense because the resistivity, though low, is relatively high where ion-neutral coupling can matter. So if reconnection had to happen somewhere this would seem to be a hint. Why aren't there more cartoons of flare reconnection in which it is the footpoint fieldss that meet and do the dirty work? What is there in the corona to force flux tubes together? This paper generally analyzes chromospheric reconnection as a source of high-frequency Alfvén waves, for example, or Joule heating.