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Coupling the solar surface and the corona: Coronal rotation, Alfvén wave-driven polar plumes

Rui F Pinto
  • Fonction : Auteur
Marco Velli
Andrea Verdini
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

The dynamical response of the solar corona to surface and sub-surface perturbations depends on the chromospheric stratification, and specifically on how efficiently these layers reflect or transmit incoming Alfvén waves. While it would be desirable to include the chromospheric layers in the numerical simulations used to study such phenomena, that is most often not feasible. We defined and tested a simple approximation allowing the study of coronal phenomena while taking into account a parametrised chromospheric reflectivity. We addressed the problems of the transmission of the surface rotation to the corona and that of the generation of polar plumes by Alfvén waves [1, 2]. We found that a high (yet partial) effective chromospheric reflectivity is required to properly describe the angular momentum balance in the corona and the way the surface differential rotation is transmitted upwards. Alfvén wave-driven polar plumes maintain their properties for a wide range of values for the reflectivity, but they become bursty (and eventually disrupt) when the limit of total reflection is attained.

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hal-02793738 , version 1 (05-06-2020)

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Rui F Pinto, Roland Grappin, Marco Velli, Andrea Verdini. Coupling the solar surface and the corona: Coronal rotation, Alfvén wave-driven polar plumes. Thirteenth International Solar Wind Conference, Jun 2012, Hawai, United States. pp.58-61, ⟨10.1063/1.4810989⟩. ⟨hal-02793738⟩
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