AN EXPLANATION OF TRANSIENT BRIGHTENINGS BY MAGNETIC RECONNECTION THEORY

Authors
LI BQ LI XQ AI GX
Citation
Bq. Li et al., AN EXPLANATION OF TRANSIENT BRIGHTENINGS BY MAGNETIC RECONNECTION THEORY, Solar physics, 173(1), 1997, pp. 103-109
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Solar physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00380938
Volume
173
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
103 - 109
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-0938(1997)173:1<103:AEOTBB>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
It has been discovered that active regions commonly have numerous flar e-like transient loop brightenings. We use a magnetic reconnection the ory driven by a ponderamotive force with transverse plasmons on accoun t of the basic properties of a transient brightening: lifetime a few m inutes and total energy 10(25)-10(29) ergs. The numerical results are consistent with the observations.