Forward modeling of the coronal response to reconnection in an X-ray bright point
Abstract
We use MDI magnetic field observations and the theory of reconnection through a separator to constrain a numerical simulation of an X-ray bright point observed in EUV by TRACE. A gasdynamic model is employed to describe the corona and transition region in the bright point loop. Nonlocal effects such as opacity and ambipolar diffusion are important to the transition region; these effects are approximated locally by modification of the radiative loss and thermal conduction. A straightforward comparison of measured light curves versus those generated by the simulation shows that the reconnection model is unable to account for the observations.
- Publication:
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Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1023/A:1005205807984
- Bibcode:
- 1999SoPh..190...59K
- Keywords:
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- Magnetic Field;
- Thermal Conduction;
- Field Observation;
- Transition Region;
- Light Curf