太阳耀斑磁重联的数值模拟

数值模拟了太阳耀斑中二维磁重联过程。结果表明,当重联Ｘ 点比较高时,演化过程能再现双带耀斑中耀斑环的运动等主要特征;当重联Ｘ 点比较低时,可解释致密耀斑的观测特征。结果还表明,耀斑环上升和重联点上升之间没有直接的联系。     

耀斑环动力学的数值研究

数值模拟了太阳耀斑环动力学演化的二维磁重联过程。结果表明,在重联Ｘ 点比较高时,演化过程能再现双带耀斑中的耀斑环活动;而重联Ｘ 点比较低时,演化情况能解释致密耀斑的观测特征     

太阳光球层磁重联的直接证据

本文首次给出了发生在太阳光球磁重联的一个直接的观测证据。 这一磁重联的观测特征是:(1)重联发生在一新浮现磁通量区的一极与极性相反的老磁通量之间;(2)重联前中性线附近磁剪切明显;(3)被重联两极为一对消磁结构,重联发生在稳定的磁通量损失数小时之后;(4)一个级别为C2.9的亚耀斑发生在重联之前。该耀斑以重联区为中心,双带离重联位置2～3万公里,直到耀斑极大相后14分钟,重联仍未发生;(5)重联后,磁对消速率呈增大趋势。     

太阳耀斑研究的新进展

近年来对太阳耀斑的研究取得了重要的进展，一些新的发 现主要来自高分辨率的观测，特别是来自“阳光”卫星的结果，综合的范围包括太阳耀斑中磁重联的新证据、硬Ｘ射线源的分类、Ｘ射线喷流的发现、环－环相互作用的证据以及对耀斑大气动力学过程的新认识等。     

太阳耀斑研究的新进展(英)

近年来对太阳耀斑的研究取得了重要的进展。一些新的发现主要来自高分辨率的观测，特别是来自"阳光"卫星的结果。综述的范围包括太阳耀斑中磁重联的新证据、硬X射线源（包括所谓的超热源）的分类、X射线喷流的发现、环－环相互作用的证据以及对耀斑大气动力学过程的新认识等。基于这些新的知识，讨论了有关耀斑模型的一些问题。     

耀斑与磁环拓扑界面附近的色球视向速度

在一些活动区中，耀斑与光球层磁对消的密切关系，已被观测确认，磁对消先于耀斑几小时到一天，此时，色球视向速度场呈现特定的式样，即在磁环拓扑界面上，出现紫移窄带，而耀斑亮块均落在拓扑界面两边的红移区，这一观测事实支持磁对消为低层大气的磁重联，并证实这种重联与日冕中的能量快速释放有密切关系。     

2个太阳爆发事件中磁准分界面的演化

磁准分界面(Quasi-Separatrix Layer,简称QSL)是3维磁结构中磁力线连接性发生显著改变的区域,观测表明它多数时候和耀斑带所在的位置符合得较好.有关这一结构和3维磁重联及耀斑关系的研究在近年来受到越来越多的关注.从QSL的理论出发,研究了2011年12月26日在活动区AR11384发生的一个C5.7级典型双带耀斑(事件1)和2015年6月22日发生在活动区AR12371处的一个M6.5级耀斑(事件2).结合SDO/AIA(Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly)观测到的多波段数据和SDO/HMI(Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager)观测到的矢量磁场数据,首先分别利用势场和非线性无力场对日冕的3维磁场结构进行了外推,并计算了活动区磁自由能的演化;然后基于势场和非线性无力场的外推结果计算了不同高度处磁压缩因子(magnetic squashing factor)Q的对数分布,并研究了不同高度磁准分界面与相应高度处观测到的耀斑带的演化关系.最后分析了2个耀斑事件的多波段演化特征,并计算得到事件2中磁力线的平均滑动速度在304?A波段和335?A波段分别为4.6 km·s~(-1)和6.3 km·s~(-1).研究发现:计算得到的磁准分界面在色球和日冕中的位置和相应高度观测到的耀斑带的位置符合得较好,而且各层次的磁准分界面与相应层次的耀斑亮带在时间上也有近乎一致的演化行为,这突显出了磁准分界面理论在3维磁重联和耀斑研究中的作用,并证实事件2耀斑能量的释放可能是通过发生在QSL处的磁重联进行的,同时说明,研究QSL对于理解2维磁重联和3维磁重联本质联系是至关重要的.     

太阳耀斑磁环动力学研究进展

讨论了磁环（电流环）在耀斑的贮能和释能过程中的重要作用，贮存于环中的磁能可能通过两种方式经由磁重联而散逸，即磁环的相互作用和环的扭转，并给出一些观测证据和理论分析结果。     

太阳耀斑环的收缩和剪切

分析了2个耀斑事件,这2个事件分别是2002年3月14日M5.7级和2003年10月29日X10级耀斑。这两个耀斑在紫外(Ultroviolet or UV,160.0 nm)或远紫外(Extremeultraviolet or EUV,17.1 nm)都具有双带结构,在硬X射线(Hard X-ray or HXR)能段有明显的共轭足点。通过"重心法",可以得到EUV双带以及硬X射线足点的位置。通过对这2个耀斑事件的初步分析,得到下面的结论:(1)耀斑脉冲期,这两个耀斑的共轭亮核和双带都具有明显的会聚运动,会聚运动延续了3～10 min。亮核或双带的分离运动发生在会聚运动后;(2)耀斑的硬X射线足点具有很强的剪切运动,并且在耀斑过程中,剪切角的变化持续减小。这些结果表明磁重联通常发生在剪切程度高的磁场区域。这些结果支持Ji(2007)的磁场模型,这个模型认为耀斑环的收缩运动是剪切磁场松弛引起的。     

1981年5月16日耀斑中的环弧系

本文研究了1981年5月16日质子耀斑中环弧系内的物质运动,环的形状大小以及在耀斑发展过程中双带走向和形状变化。结果表明:H_α环的一对足点都位于H_α亮带的内侧;在H_α环中环体两侧的物质都处于下落状态;在日面上看到的H_α亮环可能是亮带内边缘迅速膨胀的结果;耀斑前暗条最初不稳定的位置正是环弧系中环与纵向磁场中性线剪切最大的位置,也正是环面与太阳表面倾斜最大的地方;耀斑初始亮带走向与后期亮带的走向有一明显的交角,这可能是新磁流在日冕下层影响磁中性线走向的结果,并可能是该耀斑能量的一个重要的来源。     

Microwave Type III-Like Bursts as Possible Signatures of Magnetic Reconnection

Magnetic reconnection is commonly accepted to play a key role in flare energy release, but only poor information about the main characteristics of this process is available so far. An intrinsic feature of reconnection is plasma density enhancement in current sheets. A unique method to detect this effect is provided by analysis of drifting bursts, whose emission frequency is close to the local Langmuir frequency or its harmonics. With this purpose, we analyze a series of several tens of drifting microwave bursts during the 30 March 2001 flare. The burst drift rates range from −10 to 20 GHz s⁻¹. Using one-dimensional scans recorded with the SSRT interferometer at two different frequencies near 5.7 GHz, we have measured relative positions of burst sources and their velocities along a flare loop revealed from soft X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet images. It is argued that the contribution of the increasing density effect into the observed frequency drift rates is about 6 GHz s⁻¹, which is shown to be consistent with theoretical models of magnetic reconnection with reasonable boundary conditions.     

太阳的磁绳暗条和一个Ⅲb级耀斑

2000年9月14－18日在紫金山天文台赣榆观测站观测到太阳上有一个中小型活动区，黑子面积不大，但有一个奇特的活动区暗条，16日产生了一个Ⅲb级耀斑，有较强的地球物理效应。计算该区的磁结构，结果发现此磁绳状暗条与磁中性线附近低磁弧系相关，磁场在磁绳附近有强剪切，QSL分析显示三维磁重联能够在暗条附近出现，这可解释大耀斑的形成。     

Observational Characteristics of Radio Emission Related to Multi-polar Magnetic Configuration

We present a, large complex radio burst and its associated fast tune structures observed on 2001 April 10 in the frequency range of 0.65-7.6 GHz. The NoRH radio image observation shows very complex radio source structures which include preexisting, newly emerging, submerging/cancelling polarities and a bipolar, a tripolar (a 'bipolar + remote unipolar'), and a quadrupolar structure. This suggests that the radio burst is generated from a very complicated loop structure. According to the spectral and image observations, we assume that the beginning of this flare was caused by a single bipolar loop configuration with a 'Y-type' re-connection structure. A composite of radio continuum and fast time structures is contained in this flare. The various fast radio emission phenomena include normal and reverse drifting type III bursts, and slowly drifting and no-drift structures. The tripolar configurations may form a double-loop with a 'three-legged' structure, which is an important source of the various types of fast time structures. The two-loop reconnection model can lead simultaneously to electron acceleration and corona heating. We have also analyzed the behaviors of coronal magnetic polarities and the emission processes of different types radio emission qualitatively. Interactions of a bipolar or multi-polar loop are consistent with our observational results. Our observations favor the magnetic reconnection configurations of the 'inverted Y-type' (bipolar) and the 'three-legged' structures (tripolar or quadrupolar).     

Solar flares： radio and X-ray signatures of magnetic reconnection processes

This review summarizes new trends in studies of magnetic reconnection in solar flares. It is shown that plasmoids play a very important role in this primary flare process. Using the results of magnetohydrodynamic and particle-in-cell simulations, we describe how the plasmoids are formed, how they move and interact, and how a flare current sheet is fragmented into a cascade of plasmoids. Furthermore, it is shown that during the interactions of these plasmoids electrons are not only very efficiently accelerated and heated, but electromagnetic（radio） emission is also produced.We also describe possible mechanisms for the triggering of magnetic reconnection.The relevant X-ray and radio signatures of these processes（such as radio drifting pulsation structures, narrowband dm-spikes, and the loop-top and above-the-loop-top X-ray sources） are then described. It is shown that plasmoids can also be formed in kinked magnetic ropes. A mapping of X-points of the magnetic reconnection on the chromosphere（as e.g. a splitting of flare ribbons） is mentioned. Supporting EUV and white-light observations of plasmoids are added. The significance of all these processes for the fast magnetic reconnection and electron acceleration is outlined. Their role in fusion experiments is briefly mentioned.     

Derivation of flare magnetic field and density from two simultaneous frequency observations

We developed a simple model for a flare loop, which was used to fit the emission in the microwave (17 GHz) and millimetre-wave (80 GHz) ranges for the giant flare of 1991 June 4. The simplicity of the model enabled the exploration of a wide range of parameters in a reasonable time. It was possible, using the simple model, to derive from the 17- and 80-GHz data the magnetic field and the number density for every measurement point in the time range we chose to fit.     

Fast magnetic reconnection with Cowling’s conductivity

The aim of the present paper is to explore the mechanism of fast Sweet–Parker’s magnetic reconnection with the Cowling’s conductivity. Cowling derived the resistivity of plasma with three components: electrons, ions and neutral particles in magnetic field theoretically after Spitzer. The resistivity is much larger than the Spitzer’s. According to the idea of partially ionized plasmas ejected into the corona as the trigger of flares, we adopt Cowling’s Conductivity to Sweet–Parker’s reconnection model in this paper. The result shows that the reconnection rate can be improved a lot in solar corona and approaches the timescale of solar flare in the absence of anomalous resistivity.     

与耀斑双带重合的一对共轭电流带

利用SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)/HMI (Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager)观测到的矢量磁图,研究了与活动区AR12673上爆发的一个X9.3级耀斑(2017年9月6日)的相关电流分布和演化.结果显示,在该活动区的磁中性线两边存在一对方向相反的电流密度约为0.4 A/m~2的长电流带,可称其为一对共轭电流带.这对共轭电流带在耀斑发生之前、期间以及之后一直存在;并且观测到,该耀斑的两个亮带的位置几乎刚好与两个电流带重叠,它们的形状也极其相似. 9月6日电流总强度演化曲线表明,电流强度在X9.3级强耀斑爆发期间出现快速增加的现象,这种现象持续了几个小时.这一研究结果有力支持了磁准分界面(Quasi-Separatrix Layer, QSL) 3维重联模型.     

The shock-reprocessing model of electron acceleration in impulsive solar flares

We propose a new two-stage model for acceleration of electrons in solar flares. In the first stage, electrons are accelerated stochastically in a post-reconnection turbulent downflow. The second stage is the reprocessing of a subset of these electrons as they pass through a weakly compressive fast shock above the apex of the closed flare loop on their way to the chromosphere. We call this the 'shock-reprocessing' model. The model reproduces the sign and magnitude of the energy-dependent arrival time delays for both the pulsed and smooth component of impulsive solar flare X-rays, but requires either enhanced cooling or the presence of a loop-top trap to explain the concavity of the observed time delay energy relation for the smooth component. The model also predicts an emission site above the loop-top, as seen in the Masuda flare. The loop-top source distinguishes the shock-reprocessing model from previous models. The model makes testable predictions for the energy dependence of footpoint pulse strengths and the location and spectrum of the loop-top emission, and can account for the observed soft-hard-soft trend in the spectral evolution of footpoint emission. The model also highlights the concept that magnetic reconnection provides an environment which permits multiple acceleration processes. Which combination of processes operates within a particular flare may depend on the initial conditions that determine, for example, whether the reconnection downflow is turbulent or laminar. The shock-reprocessing model comprises one such combination.     

Flare ribbon expansion and energy release

We report a detailed examination about the relationship between the evolution of the Hα flare ribbons and the released magnetic energy during the April 10 2001 flare. In the Hα images, several bright kernels are observed in the flare ribbons. We identified the conjugated foot-points, by analyzing the lightcurves at each Hα kernels, and showed their connectivities during the flare. Then, based on the magnetic reconnection model, we calculated quantitatively the released energy by using the photospheric magnetic field strengths and separation speeds of the Hα flare ribbons. Finally, we examined the downward motions which are observed at the Hα kernels. We found that the stronger the red-asymmetry tends to be associated with the brighter the Hα kernel.     

Evolution of morphological features of CMEs deduced from catastrophe model of solar eruptions

We describe the evolution of morphological features of the magnetic configuration of CME according to the catastrophe model developed previously. For the parameters chosen for the present work, roughly half of the total mass is nominally contained in the initial flux rope, while the remaining plasma is brought by magnetic reconnection from the corona into the current sheet and from there into the CME bubble. The physical attributes of the difference in the observable features between CME bubble and flare loop system were studied. We tentatively identified distinguishable evolutionary features like the outer shell, the expanding bubble and the flux rope with the leading edge, void and core of the 3-component CME structure. The role of magnetic reconnection is discussed as a possible mechanism for the heating of the prominence material during eruptions. Several aspects of this explanation that need improvement are outlined.