细磁通量管运动的特征

从细胞量运动方程组导出了特征速度，特征线及其相容关系，这些结果是用特征线法研究细磁通量管运动的基础，也是正确提出定解问题的依据。表征细磁通量管横向波传播的特征速度与管内流动的Ａｌｆｖｅｎ Ｍａｃｈ数有关，当管内流速超过Ｋｅｌｖｉｎ－Ｈｅｌｍｈｏｌｔｚ不稳定性临界值时，不存在横向波模式。     

太阳光球磁亮点的基本特征研究及其对日冕加热的贡献

在太阳光球表面出现的磁亮点是目前观测手段能够分辨的最小磁结构,也被认为是日冕中的磁绳在光球足点运动的可靠示踪者。磁亮点的尺度约为100～300 km,寿命从几分钟到几十分钟。磁亮点被观测到不仅具有漩涡运动现象,还有很强的振荡现象。磁亮点是在磁通量管的对流坍缩过程中形成的,这已被观测和数值模拟所验证;磁亮点的运动导致其所在的磁通量管产生振荡,或者与其他磁通量管发生扭绞。理论上认为,这些振荡会以波的形式向色球和日冕传送能量,而磁通量管之间的扭绞会在色球和日冕中发生磁重联并释放能量,从而加热色球和日冕。为了解开日冕加热和色球加热等未解之谜,对磁亮点的研究显示出它特殊的重要性。对磁亮点的基本特征、形成原理、观测证据、光球磁亮点和太阳大气其他亮点之间的关系,以及磁亮点对日冕加热贡献等方面进行了介绍和讨论。     

太阳大气中环状结构的形状

根据力平衡条件,求得了与静止分层大气中一条孤立细磁通量管形状有关的一个积分,(1-M_a~2)Bcosθ=const.,这里M_a是阿尔芬马赫数,B是磁场强度,θ是管切向与水平方向的夹角,并简单地讨论了这个积分在等温与静平衡条件下的应用.     

基于太阳爆发灾变模型的数值实验

在Isenberg等人发展的灾变模型基础上根据接近真实的日冕环境,通过数值实验,对磁通量绳的平衡高度对光球磁场变化的响应开展了研究.利用NIRVANA程序进行了计算.日冕的等离子密度分布采用了一个半经验的模型,模拟中包含了物理耗散.考察了:磁通量绳的平衡位置及其演化特征;参考半径的变化对磁通量绳平衡位置的影响;磁通量绳内部平衡的性质以及在磁通量绳失去平衡之后一段时间内的动力学与运动学特征.结果表明:数值实验中得到的磁通量绳的平衡态位置与Isenberg等人的理论结果有微小的偏离,但是演化特征基本一致,在临界点处系统迅速失去平衡,向爆发态演化;参考半径的变化对磁通量绳平衡位置的影响与灾变模型给出的结果基本一致;磁通量绳在随着宏观磁结构演化的同时,还通过自身的调节达到内部平衡,当磁通量绳的内部和外部平衡都实现之后,系统整体也就达到了平衡状态;在爆发态下,磁通量绳的运动特征与Lin-Forbes模型和观测给出的结果一致,并且在通量绳的前方有快模激波出现;由于数值实验中包括了耗散,爆发过程中的磁能向其他形式能量的转换非常明显.     

通过建立自然坐标系确定磁云边界方法的探讨

通常卫星探测到的关于行星际空间磁场的数据都是在GSE坐标系(地心太阳黄道坐标系)里表示出来的．磁云是行星际日冕物质抛射事件的一个重要子集,它们的边界认证一直是磁云研究中感兴趣的问题之一．通过讨论坐标系转换确定磁云边界的方法,由磁云的磁通量管特征建立磁云自然坐标系,然后把行星际空间的磁场转换到磁云自然坐标系里．在磁云自然坐标系里磁云作为一个磁通量管的结构能够清晰地显示出来．结合磁云的等离子体特征就可以比较容易地把磁云和背景太阳风分辨出来,即确定了磁云的边界．     

类星体的横向运动

横向运动在红移中所起的作用,前人已经指出,本文进一步论证了按照相对论多普勒公式,无论角速度多大,天体的横向运动速度都不会超过光速.然后从包括横向多普勒效应在内的相对论多普勒公式及哈勃关系出发计算了观测到的类星体自行所相应的横向运动速度及距离.结果,类星体距离缩小到几个 Mpc 量级,视向速度减到10~2km/s 量级,而横向速度接近光速,相应地类星体线度与星系核相当(～0.2kpc).此外,假设与星系成协的类星体的超额红移是横向运动引起的,计算了它们可能的自行值.     

双重电流片和日冕瞬变

当背景磁场在日冕中存在零磁场线时,反向新磁通量的喷发将会产生双重电流片,包括零场区附近的磁场受到挤压而形成的横向电流片和新喷发场、原背景场之间形成的拱形电流片、本文用一对线偶极子来模拟背景场,用一对线磁荷来模拟反向喷发场,讨论了上述双重电流片的形成和演变过程。在电流片形成过程中,物质将向电流片集中。拱形电流片物质主要来自过渡层和光球层,并通过辐射损失进一步冷却,形成低温日珥环;横向电流片的物质则全部来自日冕,从而形成高温日冕环。以上结果可用来解释1984年4月14日观测到的日冕瞬变。     

恒星速度椭球分布律对旋涡星系的影响

本文讨论在考虑恒星速度椭球分布情形下旋涡星系的性质。由分析可知:旋涡星系的运动是恒星“气流”的紧卷旋涡式轴对称基本运动与密度波扰动的迭加,也即既有物质运动也有波的传播。当旋涡星系的旋臂为曳式时,它是旋闭的,并且恒星速度的椭球分布能导致星系密度波模式的不稳定。这种不稳定性提供了激发并维持星系密度波的一种机制,得以使且系旋臂长期维持。     

太阳光球磁通量南北不对称性研究

运用统计方法系统研究了1978-2002年太阳光球磁通量南北不对称性变化特征，发现其与太阳活动周有关．不对称值在太阳活动极小年要明显高于太阳活动极大年，并且磁通量变化总是由上升段的北半球占优逐渐过渡到下降段的南半球占优．另外运用小波变换方法详细讨论了这种不对称性变化可能存在的周期信息．     

磁通量喷发的大气响应Ⅰ.日冕物质喷射机制

本文对盔状冕流底部磁通量喷发的大气响应进行数值模拟。数值结果表明:在喷发磁场的作用下,原冕流中的物质将受到压缩并向上运动,形成高密度亮环结构,同时在环的前方出现快磁声波,在环的下方出现低密度暗区。据此我们认为,磁通量喷发可能是触发环形日冕物质喷射的一种重要机制。     

Global Simulations of Differentially Rotating Magnetized Disks: Formation of Low-beta Filaments and Structured Coronae

We examine the excitation of oscillations in the magnetic network of the Sun through the footpoint motion of photospheric magnetic flux tubes located in intergranular lanes. The motion is derived from a time series of high-resolution G-band and continuum filtergrams using an object-tracking technique. We model the response of the flux tube to the footpoint motion in terms of the Klein-Gordon equation, which is solved analytically as an initial value problem for transverse (kink) waves. We compute the wave energy flux in upward-propagating transverse waves. In general we find that the injection of energy into the chromosphere occurs in short-duration pulses, which would lead to a time variability in chromospheric emission that is incompatible with observations. Therefore, we consider the effects of turbulent convective flows on flux tubes in intergranular lanes. The turbulent flows are simulated by adding high-frequency motions (periods 5-50 s) with an amplitude of 1 km s(-1). The latter are simulated by adding random velocity fluctuations to the observationally determined velocities. In this case, we find that the energy flux is much less intermittent and can in principle carry adequate energy for chromospheric heating.     

The characteristics of motion of thin magnetic tubes

Starting from the equations of motion of a thin magnetic tube, the characteristic curves and velocities and compatibility relations are derived as basis for investigating its motion and for correctly formulating the problem of stationary solution. It is shown that the characteristic velocity of transverse waves is related to the Alfvén Mach number of the flow in the tube. When the flow velocity exceeds the critical value for the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, transverse waves cease to exist.     

Dynamical processes in flux tabes and their role in chromospheric heating

We model the dynamical interaction between magnetic flux tubes and granules in the solar photosphere which leads to the excitation of transverse (kink) and longitudinal (sausage) tube waves. The investigation is motivated by the interpretation of network oscillations in terms of flux tube waves. The calculations show that for magnetic field strengths typical of the network, the energy flux in transverse waves is higher than in longitudinal waves by an order of magnitude. But for weaker fields, such as those that might be found in internetwork regions, the energy fluxes in the two modes are comparable. Using observations of footpoint motions, the energy flux in transverse waves is calculated and the implications for chromospheric heating are pointed out.     

Kink Wave Propagation in Thin Isothermal Magnetic Flux Tubes

We investigated the propagation of kink waves in thin and isothermal expanding flux tubes in cylindrical geometry. By using the method of radial expansion for fluctuating variables we obtained a new kink wave equation. We show that including the radial component of the tube magnetic field leads to cutoff-free propagation of kink waves along thin flux tubes.     

Conditions for Propagation of Torsional Waves in Solar Magnetic Flux Tubes

Propagation of torsional waves along isothermal and initially-untwisted magnetic-flux tubes embedded in the solar atmosphere is studied analytically. Conditions for wave propagation along thin and wide magnetic-flux tubes are determined, and it is shown that the propagation along thin tubes is cutoff free; however, for wide tubes the propagation is affected by a cutoff frequency. A method to determine the cutoff frequency is presented and applied to a specific model of solar magnetic flux tubes. An interesting result is that the cutoff frequency is a local quantity in the model and that its value at a given height determines the frequency that torsional tube waves must have to propagate at this height.     

Alfvén waves in the solar atmosphere

The nonlinear propagation of Alfvén waves on open solar magnetic flux tubes is considered. The flux tubes are taken to be vertical and axisymmetric, and they are initially untwisted. The Alfvén waves are time-dependent axisymmetric twists. Their propagation into the chromosphere and corona is investigated by solving numerically a set of nonlinear time-dependent equations, which couple the Alfvén waves into motions parallel to the initial magnetic field (motion in the third coordinate direction is artificially suppressed). The principal conclusions are: (1) Alfvén waves can steepen into fast shocks in the chromosphere. These shocks can pass through the transition region into the corona, and heat the corona. (2) As the fast shocks pass through the transition region, they produce large-velocity pulses in the direction transverse to B _o. The pulses typically have amplitudes of 60 km s^–1 or so and durations of a few tens of seconds. Such features may have been observed, suggesting that the corona is in fact heated by fast shocks. (3) Alfvén waves exhibit a strong tendency to drive upward flows, with many of the properties of spicules. Spicules, and the observed corrugated nature of the transition region, may therefore be by-products of magnetic heating of the corona. (4) It is qualitatively suggested that Alfvén waves may heat the upper chromosphere indirectly by exerting time-dependent forces on the plasma, rather than by directly depositing heat into the plasma.     

Statistics of depleted flux tubes in the jovian magnetosphere

On many of its passes through the Io torus the Galileo spacecraft has detected the presence of what appear to be thin magnetic flux tubes with fields somewhat higher than their surroundings. On these flux tubes the magnetic pressure is sufficiently above the pressure of neighboring tubes that it is possible the plasma contributions to the pressure within these tubes are depleted. Due to their short duration, they are only detectable in high time-resolution magnetometer data. Herein we survey all high time-resolution data that are available over the full Galileo mission and present a final statistical study. These tubes occupy 0.32% of the torus outside the orbit of Io. None are found inside. Their strength indicates that the ratio of the thermal pressure to magnetic pressure in the outer torus is about 2%. Comparison of the observed electron density in the neighborhood of these tubes indicates that the ion temperature is in the range 30-100 eV, consistent with other estimates. The amount of magnetic flux transported by these thin tubes could supply the amount of magnetic flux mass-loaded and transported to the magnetotail if the inward velocity is about 300 times that of the outward transport. Finally, the thin flux tubes are found in clusters, as they would occur if they resulted from the breakup of larger flux tubes.     

The Importance of Photospheric Intense Flux Tubes for Coronal Heating

Dissipation of magnetic energy in the corona requires the creation of very fine scale-lengths because of the high magnetic Reynolds number of the plasma. The formation of current sheets is a natural possible solution to this problem and it is now known that a magnetic field that is stressed by continous photospheric motions through a series of equilibria can easily form such sheets. Furthermore, in a large class of 3D magnetic fields without null points there are locations, called quasi-separatrix layers (QSLs), where the field-line linkage changes drastically. They are the relevant generalisation of normal separatrices to configurations without nulls: along them concentrated electric currents are formed by smooth boundary motions and 3D magnetic reconnection takes place when the layers are thin enough. With a homogenous normal magnetic field component at the boundaries, the existence of thin enough QSL to dissipate magnetic energy rapidly requires that the field is formed by flux tubes that are twisted by a few turns. However, the photospheric field is not homogeneous but is fragmented into a large number of thin flux tubes. We show that such thin tubes imply the presence of a large number of very thin QSLs in the corona. The main parameter on which their presence depends is the ratio between the magnetic flux located outside the flux tubes to the flux inside. The thickness of the QSLs is approximately given by the distance between neighbouring flux tubes multiplied by the ratio of fluxes to a power between two and three (depending on the density of flux tubes). Because most of the photospheric magnetic flux is confined in thin flux tubes, very thin QSLs are present in the corona with a thickness much smaller than the flux tube size. We suggest that a turbulent resistivity is triggered in a QSL, which then rapidly evolves into a dynamic current sheet that releases energy by fast reconnection at a rate that we estimate to be sufficient to heat the corona. We conclude that the fragmentation of the photospheric magnetic field stimulates the dissipation of magnetic energy in the corona.     

Transverse motions and wave heating of the solar atmosphere

Periodic shaking or buffeting of magnetic flux tubes could generate magnetohydrodynamic waves which propagate along the flux tubes and dissipate energy in the chromosphere and/or corona. If we make an assumption that the G-band bright points represent flux tubes, then there should exist a relationship between the transverse motions and the brightening of these bright points. We tracked a total of 56 bright points, obtained their velocity and intensity power spectrum. We also estimated the r.m.s. velocity, average velocity, r.m.s. intensity and average intensity of these bright points. We do not see any clear evidence for a relationship between these estimated quantities.     

The emergence of magnetic flux

This paper first summarizes the morphology and dynamics of emerging flux regions and arch filament systems and then discusses detailed observations of a particular active region with emerging magnetic flux.The central part of the growing active region shows abnormal granulation and a weak magnetic field that, locally, is transverse. In the border zone, strong downward flows occur in the chromopshere and photosphere (small features with strong magnetic fields (faculae, pores) are formed here.) Near the leading and following edge, sunspots are formed by the coalescence of such small magnetic elements.The observational data are interpreted by means of a heuristic model of an emergent magnetic loop-shaped bundle consisting of many flux tubes. In this model we incorporate the theory of convective collapse and the buoyancy of flux tubes. The observed complexity in the structure and dynamics, including strong transverse fields and velocity shear, is attributed to the emergence of several flux regions within the active region at different orientations.