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CHAPTER 9: ON SOLAR CORONAL HEATING MECHANISMS

Physics of the Sun and Its Atmosphere, 2008
U Narain
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Mechanisms of solar coronal heating

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 1991
A major problem in astrophysical plasma physics is to explain how the outer atmosphere, the corona, of the Sun is heated to temperatures of millions of degrees Kelvin. It is accepted that the heating mechanism is magnetic, with the energy source being turbulent motions below the solar surface.
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Scaling of heating rates in solar coronal loops

Nature, 1995
THE gas of the solar corona is at a temperature of several million degrees, orders of magnitude hotter than the underlying photosphere. The nature of the physical process that heats the solar corona (and the coronae of solar-type stars more generally) has been a long-standing puzzle.
James A Klimchuk, Klimchuk James A
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Solar coronal heating by magnetosonic waves

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2001
Solar coronal heating by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves is investigated. ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray emission lines of the corona show non-thermal broadenings. The wave rms velocities inferred from these observations are of the order of 25–60 km s−1. Assuming that these values are not negligible, we solved MHD equations in a quasi-linear approximation,
Pekunlu, ER, Cakirli, O, Ozetken, E
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Coronal Heating and Solar Wind

1965
We have now to consider the heat carried mechanically in the chromosphere and corona and hope to explain in this way the heating of these two regions. It can be said that the present theories give a picture of the temperature in the chromosphere and corona which show all the main features of the observed temperature distribution.
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Nonlinear wave heating of solar coronal loops.

Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1997
The heating of magnetically closed structures (loops) in the solar corona by the resonant absorption of incident waves is studied by means of numerical simulations in the framework of nonlinear resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is shown that the dynamics in the resonant layer is indeed very nonlinear for typical coronal parameters. The effect of
Poedts, S., Goedbloed, J.P.
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Solar Coronal Heating by Dissipating Current Sheets

Physica Scripta, 2004
It is shown that the lower-hybrid turbulence produced by the lower-hybrid-drift wave instability at current sheets can heat electrons and ions in the solar corona.
R. Bingham, P. K. Shukla, D. S. Spicer
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Effect of areal expansion and coronal heating on the solar wind

Space Science Reviews, 1994
Empirical studies have shown that the solar wind speed at Earth is inversely correlated with the areal expansion rate of magnetic flux tubes near the Sun. Recent model calculations that include a self-consistent determination of the coronal temperature allow one to understand the physical basis of this relationship; they also suggest why the solar wind
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Intermittent heating in a model of solar coronal loops

Solar Physics, 2000
X-ray and EUV observations of the solar corona reveal a very complex and dynamic environment where there are many examples of structures that are believed to outline the Sun's magnetic field. In this present study, the authors investigate the temporal response of the temperature, density and pressure of a solar coronal plasma contained within a ...
R.W. Walsh, S. Galtier
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Solar Coronal Heating by Magnetic Flux Interaction

1994
A Converging Flux Model for heating X-ray bright points (and possibly coronal loops and coronal holes) is proposed which also accounts for the cancelling magnetic features that are usually observed to be present in the photosphere below bright points.
E. R. Priest, C. E. Parnell, G. J. Rickard   +2 more
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