Quasi-static and dynamic magnetic tension forces in arched, line-tied magnetic flux ropes
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Solar eruptions are often driven by magnetohydrodynamic instabilities such as the torus and kink instabilities that act on line-tied magnetic flux ropes. Recent laboratory experiments designed to study these eruptive instabilities have demonstrated the key role of both dynamic (Myers et al 2015 Nature 528, 526) and quasi-static (Myers et al 2016 Phys. Plasmas, in press) magnetic tension forces in contributing to the equilibrium and stability of line-tied magnetic flux ropes. In this paper, we synthesize these laboratory results and explore the relationship between the dynamic and quasi-static tension forces. While the quasi-static tension force is found to contribute to the flux rope equilibrium in a number of regimes, the dynamic tension force is substantial mostly in the so-called failed torus regime where magnetic self-organization events prevent the flux rope from erupting.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) (SC-24)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-09CH11466
- OSTI ID:
- 1366984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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