Temperature minimum heating in solar flares by resistive dissipation of Alfvén waves
Abstract
We examine the possibility that the strong heating produced at temperature-minimum levels during solar flares is due to resistive dissipation of Alfvén waves generated by the primary energy release process in the corona. It is shown how, for suitable parameters, these waves can carry their energy essentially undamped into the temperature-minimum layers and can then produce a degree of heating consistent with observations.
- Publication:
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Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00153426
- Bibcode:
- 1982SoPh...80...99E
- Keywords:
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- Energy Dissipation;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Solar Corona;
- Solar Flares;
- Solar Temperature;
- Solar Energy;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Wave Propagation;
- Solar Physics;
- Flare;
- Energy Release;
- Temperature Minimum;
- Solar Flare;
- Primary Energy