Publication Date:
2019-07-12
Description:
A simple model of the effect of slow photospheric motions on the coronal magnetic field is examined. In this model, a magnetic field is stretched between two conducting plates and slow tangential displacements of the plates cause the field to evolve quasi-statically. If the field is treated as a continuum, the interior magnetic topology is uniquely specified by the displacement of the boundaries, while the topology of a field made up of discrete flux tubes is not determined by the boundary displacement. Treating the field as a continuum, it is found that small perturbations of a constant vertical or weakly sheared field can come to an equilibrium free of singularities if the separation between the plates is finite.
Keywords:
SOLAR PHYSICS
Type:
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X); 312; 423-430
Format:
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