A model of homologous confined and ejective eruptions involving kink instability and flux cancellation
- In this study, we model a sequence of a confined and a full eruption, employing the relaxed end state of the confined eruption of a kink-unstable flux rope as the initial condition for the ejective one. The full eruption, a model of a coronal mass ejection, develops as a result of converging motions imposed at the photospheric boundary, which drive flux cancellation. In this process, parts of the positive and negative external flux converge toward the polarity inversion line, reconnect, and cancel each other. Flux of the same amount as the canceled flux transfers to a flux rope, increasing the free magnetic energy of the coronal field. With sustained flux cancellation and the associated progressive weakening of the magnetic tension of the overlying flux, we find that a flux reduction of approximate to 11% initiates the torus instability of the flux rope, which leads to a full eruption. These results demonstrate that a homologous full eruption, following a confined one, can be driven by flux cancellation.
Author details: | Alshaimaa HassaninORCiDGND, Bernhard KliemORCiDGND, Norbert SeehaferORCiD, Tibor TörökORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac64a9 |
ISSN: | 2041-8205 |
ISSN: | 2041-8213 |
Title of parent work (English): | The astrophysical journal : an international review of spectroscopy and astronomical physics |
Publisher: | IOP Publ. Ltd. |
Place of publishing: | Bristol |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2022/04/21 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2024/01/29 |
Volume: | 929 |
Issue: | 2 |
Article number: | L23 |
Number of pages: | 7 |
Funding institution: | DAAD; DFG; NASA [80NSSC17K0016, 80NSSC18K1705, 80NSSC19K0082,; 80NSSC19K0860, 80NSSC20K1274]; NSF's PREEVENTS program [ICER-1854790];; NRL, NASA LWS grant [N0017319C2003, 80QTR19T0084]; LOreal-UNESCO For; Women in Science Young Talents Program-Egypt |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 52 Astronomie / 520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften |
5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
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License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |