[Loops] summaries on nanoflare debates in "coronalloopworkshops"

Petrus Martens pmartens at cfa.harvard.edu
Fri Mar 6 11:10:07 MST 2009


Art,

Neat!

> little. If the energy is deposited in the transition region, it rapidly
> "evaporates" the upper chromosphere and sends a visible structure into
> the corona.

At what speed?

Piet



  If the energy is deposited in the corona, it conducts down
> to the transition region with little loss and causes the same effect.
> The results are new, so I need to study them for more subtle differences.
> Art
> 
> Mitchell Berger wrote:
>> Jim,
>>  (By the way, the secondary instability work is Dahlburg,
>> KLIMCHUK, and Antiochos!!!)  Ooops!
>>
>> So maybe it is possible that the place most favoured by the corona to
>> relieve its stresses is at the base. Or maybe there
>> is another possibility, that reconnections in the corona send jets of
>> energetic particles downwards, where they boil the chromospheric
>> material and send that material upwards.
>> In this case, we might first observe what is happening at the
>> chromosphere, because of the much greater densities there -- has this
>> been ruled out?
>> Cheers
>> Mitch
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> 


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