Linear MHD stability of infinitely long coronal flux tubes

DOI10.1007/BF00648384MaRDI QIDQ1113754zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. D. Sneyd, I. J. D. Craig

Publication date 1989

Published in Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00648384

zbMATH Keywords

coronal loopseigenvalueshelical kink modesTwisted magnetic flux

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Review text

Twisted magnetic flux tubes are often used to model the field in coronal loops, and much attention has been given to analysing their stability. Previous astrophysical studies have concentrated on establishing the existence of an instability or determining stability bounds, and little information seems available on the associated eigenvalues, which give crucial information on the energy released. This paper develops methods of determining eigenvalues for infinitely long flux tubes. The most striking feature of the results is that the eigenvalues are always small - of order \(10^{-2}\) (in dimensionless units) even for the fastest helical kink modes \((m=1)\). The more localized higher-m modes have even smaller eigenvalues. A family of flux tubes with field line twist proportional to \(r^{\nu}\) is investigated, and it appears that the most energetic instabilities occur in the Gold-Hoyle tube with uniform twist \((\nu =0)\). Implications of these results are discussed.

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