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Main Authors: Yang, Shangbin, Buechner, Joerg, Santos, Jean Carlo, Skala, Jan, Zhang, Hongqi
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18210
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author Yang, Shangbin
Buechner, Joerg
Santos, Jean Carlo
Skala, Jan
Zhang, Hongqi
author_facet Yang, Shangbin
Buechner, Joerg
Santos, Jean Carlo
Skala, Jan
Zhang, Hongqi
contents An instability criterion in the MHD with the open boundary of magnetic field is proposed in this paper. We use a series of linear force-free extrapolation field, in which the normal part of magnetic field is fixed, to obtain the linear fitting coefficient called relative alpha by using the co-joined value of magnetic free energy and magnetic flux at the open boundary ($E_f Φ^2$) and the square of relative magnetic helicity ($H_R^2$). We calculate this coefficient of the magnetic field above active regions NOAA~8210 and NOAA~11429 obtained by the photospheric-data-driven magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model. It is found that the fitting coefficient is a good proxy of the criterion to indicate the occurrence of instability after which the magnetic reconnection happens and caused the fast release of magnetic energy. We also applied this method to the continuous evolution of three-dimension magnetic field of NOAA~11158 based on the measurement of photospheric vector magnetic field of SDO/HMI by the Non-linear Force-Free (NLFF) extrapolation method. The calculated coefficient when the major flare happened based on the extrapolation data is very close to the expected ones, which perfectly reflects the occurrence of instability and the difference is even less than 7\%. This relative alpha is very helpful to evaluate how far it is from the instability in the MHD and quantitatively estimate the occurrence of solar eruption in the space weather forecast.
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spellingShingle Relative Alpha in the Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics (MHD) with open magnetic field boundary and its application to the solar eruption
Yang, Shangbin
Buechner, Joerg
Santos, Jean Carlo
Skala, Jan
Zhang, Hongqi
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
An instability criterion in the MHD with the open boundary of magnetic field is proposed in this paper. We use a series of linear force-free extrapolation field, in which the normal part of magnetic field is fixed, to obtain the linear fitting coefficient called relative alpha by using the co-joined value of magnetic free energy and magnetic flux at the open boundary ($E_f Φ^2$) and the square of relative magnetic helicity ($H_R^2$). We calculate this coefficient of the magnetic field above active regions NOAA~8210 and NOAA~11429 obtained by the photospheric-data-driven magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model. It is found that the fitting coefficient is a good proxy of the criterion to indicate the occurrence of instability after which the magnetic reconnection happens and caused the fast release of magnetic energy. We also applied this method to the continuous evolution of three-dimension magnetic field of NOAA~11158 based on the measurement of photospheric vector magnetic field of SDO/HMI by the Non-linear Force-Free (NLFF) extrapolation method. The calculated coefficient when the major flare happened based on the extrapolation data is very close to the expected ones, which perfectly reflects the occurrence of instability and the difference is even less than 7\%. This relative alpha is very helpful to evaluate how far it is from the instability in the MHD and quantitatively estimate the occurrence of solar eruption in the space weather forecast.
title Relative Alpha in the Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics (MHD) with open magnetic field boundary and its application to the solar eruption
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18210