INTRODUCTION
- Rearrangement of the photospheric magnetic fields is a necessary
condition for solar flares
- Fast magnetic reconnection in the corona is principal mechanism to
release energy
- Possibility of fast reconnection in the photosphere?
- Photospheric reconnection as a source for prominence plasma
(Litvinenko 1999)
- X-ray bright points (Priest et al. 1994)
- Chromospheric heating via photospheric reconnection?
(Aschwanden
et al. 2000)
- How much we know about the photospheric reconnection?
- Reconnection Rate - VA/n, where 1 < n <
103!
- Model for the photospheric reconnection - Sweet-Parker
reconnection?
©BBSO/NJIT Seminar on OCT 99, 2000