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Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical journal letters Année : 2015

Critical Decay Index at the Onset of Solar Eruptions

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Magnetic flux ropes are topological structures consisting of twisted magnetic field lines that globally wrap around an axis. The torus instability model predicts that a magnetic flux rope of major radius R undergoes an eruption when its axis reaches a location where the decay index-d B d R ln ln ex () ()of the ambient magnetic field B ex is larger than a critical value. In the current-wire model, the critical value depends on the thickness and timeevolution of the current channel. We use magnetohydrodynamic simulations to investigate whether the critical value of the decay index at the onset of the eruption is affected by the magnetic flux rope's internal current profile and/or by the particular pre-eruptive photospheric dynamics. The evolution of an asymmetric, bipolar active region is driven by applying different classes of photospheric motions. We find that the critical value of the decay index at the onset of the eruption is not significantly affected by either the pre-erupitve photospheric evolution of the active region or the resulting different magnetic flux ropes. As in the case of the current-wire model, we find that there is a " critical range " [1.3–1.5], rather than a " critical value " for the onset of the torus instability. This range is in good agreement with the predictions of the current-wire model, despite the inclusion of line-tying effects and the occurrence of tether-cutting magnetic reconnection.
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hal-01328644 , version 1 (08-06-2016)

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Francesco Zuccarello, Guillaume Aulanier, Stuart Gilchrist. Critical Decay Index at the Onset of Solar Eruptions. The Astrophysical journal letters, 2015, 814 (2), pp.126. ⟨10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/126⟩. ⟨hal-01328644⟩
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