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تسجيل مستخدم جديدThe Role of Magnetic Fields in Transient Seismic Emission Driven by Atmospheric Heating in Flares
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Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros JCMO
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2013
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The physics of transient seismic emission in flares remains largely mysterious. Its discoverers proposed that these sunquakes are the signature of a shock driven by thick-target heating of the flaring chromosphere. H-{alpha} observations show evidence for such a shock. However, simulations of shocks driven by impulsive chromospheric heating show withering radiative losses as the shock proceeds downward. The compression of the shocked gas heats and increases its density, making it more radiative. So, radiative losses increase radically with the strength of the shock. This has introduced doubt that sufficient energy from such a shock can penetrate into the solar interior to match that indicated by the helioseismic signatures. We point out that simulations of acoustic transients driven by impulsive heating have no account for magnetic fields characteristic of transient-seismic-source environments. These must have a major impact on the seismic flux conducted into the solar interior. A strong horizontal magnetic field, for example, greatly increases the compressional modulus of the chromospheric medium. This greatly reduces compression of the gas, hence the radiative losses as the transient passes through it. This could explain the strong affinity of seismic sources to regions of strong, highly inclined penumbral magnetic fields. The role of inclined magnetic fields, then, is fundamental to our understanding of the role of impulsive heating in transient seismic emission.
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