IDEAL CURRENT LAYERS AND KINK INSTABILITY IN LINE-TIED CORONAL LOOPS |
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Authors: | BATY H |
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Institution: | (1) Observatoire Astronomique, 67000 Strasbourg, France |
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Abstract: | The development of the kink instability in line-tied coronal loops is studied using a cylindrical MHD code. When the twist of magnetic field lines of the initial configuration exceeds a critical value, an ideal kink mode develops and drives this unstable equilibrium towards a secondary bifurcated equilibrium containing an electric current concentration. Contrary to a periodic untied configuration where a current sheet is ideally generated, the current layer is non-singular with a non-zero thickness and a finite amplitude. This current concentration extends along all the loop length and takes the form of an helical ribbon of intense current. The numerical results give an algebraic linear-like scaling of the characteristics of the current layer (amplitude and thickness) as a function of the aspect ratio of the loop. An interpretation in terms of axial field-line bending of the three-dimensional kinked equilibrium is proposed. |
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