Bibcode
Karpen, Judith T.; Luna, M.; DeVore, C.
Referencia bibliográfica
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #220, #202.03
Fecha de publicación:
5
2012
Número de citas
0
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Descripción
We have developed a comprehensive, multi-threaded, three-dimensional
model of the plasma dynamics and energetics of a prominence and its
overlying arcade (Luna et al. 2012). In this model, the basic magnetic
structure is that of two interacting sheared arcades, while the cool
condensations comprising the prominence are formed by the well-studied
thermal nonequilibrium mechanism. In a given filament-channel flux tube,
the mass is evaporated from the chromosphere by heating localized near
the footpoints, and condenses in the form of transient blobs or a
persistent thread. Our previous studies of thermal nonequilibrium used
steady or impulsive heating functions with no dependence on local
physical variables. However, parametric active-region models with steady
heating proportional to B/L, where B is the flux-tube magnetic field
strength at the heated footpoint and L is the flux-tube length, yield
the best agreement with observations (e.g., Schrijver et al. 2004). We
have determined the effects of this active-region heating function on
our model for the formation and evolution of prominence mass. We have
also expanded the range of our computational domain to include more of
the overlying arcade (the so-called “cavity”), and have
increased the number of selected flux tubes from 125 to 533. We will
illustrate the time-dependent plasma behavior produced by the B/L
heating function with synthetic images in several AIA passbands, and
compare the resulting prominence properties with those predicted by our
model with flux-tube-independent heating.