[Loops] summaries on nanoflare debates in "coronal loop workshops"

[Petrus Martens]

Marco et al.,

> this is an interesting conversation. My tuppence: parker nanoflares  
> work precisely in unipolar reasons, as it is the tangential stresses  
> which are relaxed in the original parker scenario.

Agreed, that is certainly what Parker described.  The problem I have with
the Parker scenario is:  why loops?  Why not a uniform distribution of
nanoflares throughout the AR?  "Why loops?" also applies to any mechanism
that places the origin of the heating in the upper chromosphere or below.

Stick and slip reconnection along separators, a scenario that Dana
Longcope has been working on for years, answers the "Why loops?" question
seamlessly.  I am aware of course that observational studies have so far
found no clear relation between separators and loops, except in flaring
loops.  This may be a resolution issue, or an issue related to the large
amount of horizontal flux missed in magnetograms.  Or there is no such
relation, in which case we are back where we started.

Cheers,

Piet




  The presence of multiple polarities
> changes this in a way which has never been quantitatively estimated.
> I would like to point you to the 2008/07 papers by Rappazzo and myself  
> which I believe contain the only scalings for the Parker flt scenario
> which have numerical simulation confirmation.
> 
> @ARTICLE{2008ApJ...677.1348R, author = {{Rappazzo}, A.~F. and {Velli},  
> M. and {Einaudi}, G. and {Dahlburg}, R.~B. }, title = "{Nonlinear  
> Dynamics of the Parker Scenario for Coronal Heating}", journal =  
> {\apj}, archivePrefix = "arXiv", eprint = {0709.3687}, keywords =  
> {Magnetohydrodynamics: MHD, Sun: Corona, Sun: Magnetic Fields,  
> Turbulence}, year = 2008, month = apr, volume = 677, pages =  
> {1348-1366}, doi = {10.1086/528786}, adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ...677.1348R 
> }, adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System} }
> 
> On Mar 5, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Harry Warren wrote:
> 
>> Markus et al.,
>>
>> It is unambiguous that there is a lot of dynamic activity going on  
>> in the
>> transition region. However:
>>
>> . . . a significant fraction of the Sun's magnetic flux closes at low
>> heights (several Mm), so it is unclear how much of this activity is  
>> related
>> to what we see in the corona.
>>
>> . . . my impression of SOT magnetic field measurements is that  
>> active region
>> plage (where many active region loops are rooted) is unipolar. It is  
>> hard to
>> see how small-scale reconnection in the transition region could be  
>> important
>> here. I could be wrong about this! I'm sure that an SOT person could  
>> provide
>> a more definitive answer.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Harry
>>
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>>
>> From: loops-bounces at mithra.physics.montana.edu
>> [mailto:loops-bounces at mithra.physics.montana.edu] On Behalf Of  
>> Markus J.
>> Aschwanden
>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:16 AM
>> To: Hugh Hudson; A mailing list for scientists involved in the  
>> observation
>> and modeling of solar loop structures
>> Subject: [Loops] summaries on nanoflare debates in "coronal loop  
>> workshops"
>>
>> Dear Hugh,
>>
>> Jim Klimchuk sent a great summary of the current status of a  
>> nanoflare model
>> around,
>> so it deals with all the PROs. An outside reader who wants to hear  
>> both
>> sides might be
>> interested to hear also the CONs, which you could find in the ApJ  
>> Letter
>> entitled
>> "An observational test that disproves coronal nanoflare heating  
>> models"
>> (Aschwanden
>> 2008, ApJ 672, L135). The arguments made therein do not dismiss  
>> nanoflares
>> altogether, but come to the conclusion that they occur in the  
>> transition
>> region,
>> rather than in the corona (as Parker originally suggested).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Markus
>>
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Klimchuk, James A. (GSFC-6710) wrote:
>>
>>
>> Dear loops friends,
>>
>>      Here is a paper I wrote for the Hinode II conference  
>> proceedings.  In
>> it, I try to do three things:  (1) review the arguments leading to the
>> conclusion that warm EUV loops must by bundles of strands heated by  
>> storms
>> of nanoflares (the flow chart some of you have asked about); (2)  
>> reconcile
>> the isothermal/multi-thermal debate in terms of the duration of the
>> nanoflare storm; and (3) address the possibility that loops can be  
>> explained
>> by thermal nonequilibrium.  Comments are welcomed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James A. Klimchuk
>>
>> ____________________________________________
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