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 _______________________________________________ Loops mailing list Loops@solar.physics.montana.edu https://mithra.physics.montana.edu/mailman/listinfo/loops