Evolution of relative magnetic helicity New boundary conditions for the vector potential

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985815:_____/18:00495891

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628108" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628108</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628108" target="_blank" >10.1051/0004-6361/201628108</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evolution of relative magnetic helicity New boundary conditions for the vector potential

Original language description

Context. For a better understanding of the dynamics of the solar corona, it is important to analyse the evolution of the helicity of the magnetic field. Since the helicity cannot be directly determined by observations, we have recently proposed a method to calculate the relative magnetic helicity in a finite volume for a given magnetic field, which however required the flux to be balanced separately on all the sides of the considered volume. Aims. We developed a scheme to obtain the vector potential in a volume without the above restriction at the boundary. We studied the dissipation and escape of relative magnetic helicity from an active region. Methods. In order to allow finite magnetic fluxes through the boundaries, a Coulomb gauge was constructed that allows for global magnetic flux balance. The property of sinusoidal function was used to obtain the vector potentials at the 12 edges of the considered rectangular volume extending above an active region. We tested and verified our method in a theoretical fore-free magnetic field model. Results. We applied the new method to the former calculation data and found a difference of less than 1.2%. We also applied our method to the magnetic field above active region NOAA 11429 obtained by a new photospheric-data-driven magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model code GOEMHD3. We analysed the magnetic helicity evolution in the solar corona using our new method. We find that the normalized magnetic helicity (H-1 Phi(2)) is equal to 0.038 when fast magnetic reconnection is triggered. This value is comparable to the previous value (0.029) in the MHD simulations when magnetic reconnection happened and the observed normalized magnetic helicity (0.036) from the eruption of newly emerging active regions. We find that only 8% of the accumulated magnetic helicity is dissipated after it is injected through the bottom boundary. This is in accordance with theWoltjer conjecture. Only 2% of the magnetic helicity injected from the bottom boundary escapes through the corona. This is consistent with the observation of magnetic clouds, which could take magnetic helicity into the interplanetary space. In the case considered here, several halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and two X-class solar flares originate from this active region.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Astronomy and Astrophysics

ISSN

1432-0746

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2018

Issue of the periodical within the volume

617

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

"nestrankovano"

UT code for WoS article

000432981300002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85047744005