Turbulent photospheric motions drive the solar magnetic field to twist and tangle, making magnetic stresses continuously grow in the corona. Thin magnetic flux tubes can become kink-unstable and magnetic energy can be released through impulsive and widespread heating events. It has been recently established that the kink-instability can propagate to nearby flux tubes and determine an avalanche process to involve larger scale coronal loops. The initial helical current sheet progressively fragments in a turbulent way into smaller scale sheets. Their turbulent dissipation leads to a sequence of a-periodic heat pulses, similar to nanoflare storms. These magnetic processes are highly dynamic and non linear, and can be modelled with time-dependent 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations on high performance computing systems. Predictions to compare with solar observations require advances on two fronts. The modeling must include all important physical ingredients and a complete plasma atmosphere to derive realistic observables. The observations must resolve into sufficiently small temporal and spatial scales in the relevant spectral bands. Cozzo et al. (2023) describe a detailed 3D MHD model which allows for the derivation of observables in the EUV band. The EUV spectrometer on the forth-coming MUSE mission is tailored for probing plasma structure and dynamics at sub-arcsecond resolution with sampling rates of few seconds. In this work we show preliminary EUV diagnostics of the scenario obtained from our model for the MUSE mission.

Cozzo, G.; Reid, J.; Pagano, P.; Reale, F.; Hood, A.W.; Argiroffi, C.; Petralia, A.; Alaimo, E.; D’Anca, F.; Sciortino, L.; Todaro, M.; Lo Cicero, U.; Barbera, M.; Testa, P.; De Pontieu, B. (11-15 December 2023).MUSE EUV spectroscopy of a kink-unstable coronal loop system.

MUSE EUV spectroscopy of a kink-unstable coronal loop system

Gabriele Cozzo;Paolo Pagano;Fabio Reale;Costanza Argiroffi;Edoardo Alaimo;Luisa Sciortino;Marco Barbera;

Abstract

Turbulent photospheric motions drive the solar magnetic field to twist and tangle, making magnetic stresses continuously grow in the corona. Thin magnetic flux tubes can become kink-unstable and magnetic energy can be released through impulsive and widespread heating events. It has been recently established that the kink-instability can propagate to nearby flux tubes and determine an avalanche process to involve larger scale coronal loops. The initial helical current sheet progressively fragments in a turbulent way into smaller scale sheets. Their turbulent dissipation leads to a sequence of a-periodic heat pulses, similar to nanoflare storms. These magnetic processes are highly dynamic and non linear, and can be modelled with time-dependent 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations on high performance computing systems. Predictions to compare with solar observations require advances on two fronts. The modeling must include all important physical ingredients and a complete plasma atmosphere to derive realistic observables. The observations must resolve into sufficiently small temporal and spatial scales in the relevant spectral bands. Cozzo et al. (2023) describe a detailed 3D MHD model which allows for the derivation of observables in the EUV band. The EUV spectrometer on the forth-coming MUSE mission is tailored for probing plasma structure and dynamics at sub-arcsecond resolution with sampling rates of few seconds. In this work we show preliminary EUV diagnostics of the scenario obtained from our model for the MUSE mission.
MHD coronal-loops solar-corona EUV-spectroscopy
Cozzo, G.; Reid, J.; Pagano, P.; Reale, F.; Hood, A.W.; Argiroffi, C.; Petralia, A.; Alaimo, E.; D’Anca, F.; Sciortino, L.; Todaro, M.; Lo Cicero, U.; Barbera, M.; Testa, P.; De Pontieu, B. (11-15 December 2023).MUSE EUV spectroscopy of a kink-unstable coronal loop system.
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