Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-m6dg7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-18T20:22:37.721Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Nonlinear Mode Coupling of Resistive Instability and the Flares of February 4 and 6, 1986

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

X.H. Deng  and
S. Wang
X.H. Deng
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, University of science and Technology of China, HeFei, 230026
S. Wang
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, University of science and Technology of China, HeFei, 230026

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

In this paper, we propose a mechanism of solar flare based on the 3-D nonlinear mode coupling of resistive tearing instability. The results show that the nonlinear coupling of tearing modes leads the rapid destabilization of some high modes. Furthermore, tearing mode turbulence is formed and anomalous resistivity is produced, which in turn, quickens the development of tearing instability and accelerate the magnetic reconnection process. It is suggested that the fast magnetic reconnection as a mechanism of solar flare may be associated with this self-excited process caused by the nonlinear mode coupling of tearing instability in the solar corona. Using our model, we successfully explain all the main typical characters of the flares of February 4 and 6, 1986.

Type
Session 6. Flares and Transients
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 141: The Magnetic and Velocity Fields of Solar Active Regions , 1993 , pp. 401 - 403
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

References

Carreras, B., Hicks, H. R., Holmes, J. A., Waddell, B. V. 1980, Phys. Fluids, 23(9), 1811.Google Scholar
Stix, T. H. 1976, Phys. Rev. Lett., 36, 521.Google Scholar
Strauss, H. R. 1976, Phys. Fluids, 19, 134.Google Scholar
Strauss, H. R. and Otani, N. F. 1988, Astrophys. J., 326, 418.Google Scholar
Spicer, D.S. 1981, Solar Physics, 70, 149.Google Scholar
Zirin, H. 1988, Astrophysics of the sun, Cambridge university Press.Google Scholar