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Driving Layer of Solar Activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Jingxiu Wang
Jingxiu Wang*
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100012, China

Abstract

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There should be a driving layer on the Sun, in which the interaction between magnetic field and plasma motion would provide enough magnetic energy and necessary topology for the explosion of solar activity in the corona.

Although the exact location of the driving layer is not known, phenomenologically, the photosphere is acting, in many aspects, as the driving layer. Vector magnetic field measurements on the photosphere are greatly needed in clarifying the nature of the driving. Two elementary processes, flux emergence and cancellation, and one basic structure, magnetic interface between topology-independent magnetic loops, are key elements in the driving.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 12: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIVth General Assembly of the IAU, 2000 , 2002 , pp. 371 - 377
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2002

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