Expulsion of magnetized plasmas from coronae
Abstract
Recent MHD analytic treatments are adduced in a physical accounting of the mechanism by which magnetized plasma is sporadically spilled out of the sun's gravitational bounds. The same physical process is suggested to occur in the white light transient phenomena of other coronae. The coronal transient is interpreted as the outflow of a gravitationally unbound, preexisting hydromagnetic structure in the corona. The observed white light density structure is a part of this moving, preexisting structure, and the ambient atmosphere is swept upward and sideways by a large scale outflow.
- Publication:
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Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields: Origins and Coronal Effects
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983IAUS..102..467L
- Keywords:
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- Magnetohydrodynamics;
- Solar Corona;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Solar Wind;
- Coronal Loops;
- Flow Velocity;
- Solar Physics