A model for heating the super-hot corona in solar active regions
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| author | Lu, Zekun Chen, Feng Ding, M. D. Wang, Can Dai, Yu Cheng, Xin |
| author_facet | Lu, Zekun Chen, Feng Ding, M. D. Wang, Can Dai, Yu Cheng, Xin |
| contents | What physical mechanisms heat the outer solar or stellar atmosphere to million-Kelvin temperatures is a fundamental but long-standing open question. In particular, the solar corona in active region cores contains an even hotter component reaching ten million Kelvin, manifesting as persistent coronal loops in extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray images, which imposes a more stringent energy budget. Here, we present a self-consistent coronal heating model using a state-of-the-art three-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulation. We find that the continuous magnetic flux emergence in active regions keeps driving magnetic reconnections that release energy impulsively but, on time average, persistently. As a result, numerous sub-structures are heated to ten million Kelvin and then evolve independently, which collectively form long-lived and stable coronal loops as in observations. This provides a heating model explaining the origin of the super-hot coronal plasma and the persistence of hot coronal loops in emerging active regions. |
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| spellingShingle | A model for heating the super-hot corona in solar active regions Lu, Zekun Chen, Feng Ding, M. D. Wang, Can Dai, Yu Cheng, Xin Solar and Stellar Astrophysics What physical mechanisms heat the outer solar or stellar atmosphere to million-Kelvin temperatures is a fundamental but long-standing open question. In particular, the solar corona in active region cores contains an even hotter component reaching ten million Kelvin, manifesting as persistent coronal loops in extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray images, which imposes a more stringent energy budget. Here, we present a self-consistent coronal heating model using a state-of-the-art three-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulation. We find that the continuous magnetic flux emergence in active regions keeps driving magnetic reconnections that release energy impulsively but, on time average, persistently. As a result, numerous sub-structures are heated to ten million Kelvin and then evolve independently, which collectively form long-lived and stable coronal loops as in observations. This provides a heating model explaining the origin of the super-hot coronal plasma and the persistence of hot coronal loops in emerging active regions. |
| title | A model for heating the super-hot corona in solar active regions |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05252 |