Issue |
A&A
Volume 446, Number 1, January IV 2006
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Page(s) | 327 - 331 | |
Section | The Sun | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053826 | |
Published online | 09 January 2006 |
Repetitive occurrence of explosive events at a coronal hole boundary
1
Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, N. Ireland e-mail: jgd@arm.ac.uk
2
Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, RO-040557 Bucharest 28, Romania
Received:
14
July
2005
Accepted:
20
September
2005
SUMER/SoHO data taken at a coronal hole boundary show a repetitive explosive event occurrence rate of around 3 min increasing to over 5 min towards the end of the activity. We suggest that the neighbouring oppositely directed closed and open field lines at the coronal hole boundary undergo repetitive reconnection seen as a sequence of explosive events. The repetitive reconnection may be triggered by transverse oscillations of the flux tubes in the closed field line region. These oscillations periodically separate and bring together the closed and open field lines on the two sides of the coronal hole boundary. An important indicator favouring the interpretation in terms of a kink mode is the observed increase in the oscillation period.
Key words: Sun: activity: / Sun: oscillations / Sun: transition region / Sun: UV radiation / line: profiles
© ESO, 2006
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