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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The small amount of magnetic energy directly converted by the reconnection electric field is converted to heat or non-thermal particles which are both confined to field lines very effectively. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The small amount of magnetic energy directly converted by the reconnection electric field is converted to heat or non-thermal particles which are both confined to field lines very effectively. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Most of the energy release occurs later, through the retraction of field lines following reconnection (Ref. [1]). </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Most of the energy release occurs later, through the retraction of field lines following reconnection (Ref. [1]). </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_reconnection Petschek's] model this occurs within a steady outflow jet bounded by rotational discontinuities enclosing only reconnected field lines. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_reconnection Petschek's] model this occurs within a steady outflow jet bounded by </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== The Model ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== The Model ==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Our recent theoretical work (Ref. [3], the basis of this Nugget) has revealed a novel mechanism by which magnetic reconnection can transport energy onto unreconnected field lines surrounding the current sheet. In contrast to earlier treatments, this model <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</del>assumes<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </del>patchy, unsteady reconnection. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Our recent theoretical work (Ref. [3], the basis of this Nugget) has revealed a novel mechanism by which magnetic reconnection can transport energy onto unreconnected field lines surrounding the current sheet. In contrast to earlier treatments, this model <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">simply </ins>assumes <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a </ins>patchy, unsteady reconnection <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">process</ins>. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The flux reconnected in a single patch forms a tube or bundle which retracts in a complex manner (not simply relating pairs of field lines) through the current sheet. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The flux reconnected in a single patch forms a tube or bundle which retracts in a complex manner (not simply relating pairs of field lines) through the current sheet. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The assembly of retracting flux tubes, formed from multiple retracting tubes, is the unsteady version of Petschek's steady outflow jet. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The assembly of retracting flux tubes, formed from multiple retracting tubes, is the unsteady version of Petschek's steady outflow jet. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Unlike the steady version, however, the retracting tubes will create moving deformations in the magnetized layer surrounding the current sheet. The response of the plasma to these moving deformations can lead to heating.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Unlike the steady version, however, the retracting tubes will create moving deformations in the magnetized layer surrounding the current sheet. The response of the plasma to these moving deformations can lead to heating.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Figure 1<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>shows in blue a typical tube of unreconnected flux deformed by the presence of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a </del>intruding, retracting flux tube (black circle) moving though the current sheet (thicker red layer). </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Figure 1 shows <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</ins>in blue<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">) </ins>a typical tube of unreconnected flux deformed by the presence of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">an </ins>intruding, retracting flux tube (black circle) moving though the current sheet (thicker red layer). </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The downward motion of the intrusion creates a constriction in the surrounding tubes, which moves relative to the plasma at their far ends. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The downward motion of the intrusion creates a constriction in the surrounding tubes, which moves relative to the plasma at their far ends. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>(The action of the moving constriction resembles that in a [http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.fl.03.010171.000305?journalCode=fluid peristaltic pump], so we refer to the flow as a ''peristaltic flow''). The ends are assumed to be stationary while the constriction moves downward. The response to this moving constriction is similar to the response if flow had been driven from the far bottom through a stationary constriction: the classic de Laval nozzle problem. For downflow speeds of order the acoustic sound speed the flow is transonic at the narrowest portion as shown in Fig. 2. The condition necessary for transonic flow is achieved through a leading shock ahead of (below) the intrusion. This is a moving shock that propagates downward relative to the constriction. The flow then returns to the downstream state through a shock/rarefaction-wave combination, which propagates upward away from the constriction. These shocks in the peristaltic flow are termed "peristaltic shocks".</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>(The action of the moving constriction resembles that in a [http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.fl.03.010171.000305?journalCode=fluid peristaltic pump], so we refer to the flow as a ''peristaltic flow''). </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.engapplets.vt.edu/fluids/CDnozzle/cdinfo.html </ins>de Laval nozzle<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>problem. For downflow speeds of order the acoustic sound speed the flow is transonic at the narrowest portion as shown in Fig. 2. The condition necessary for transonic flow is achieved through a leading shock ahead of (below) the intrusion. This is a moving shock that propagates downward relative to the constriction. The flow then returns to the downstream state through a shock/rarefaction-wave combination, which propagates upward away from the constriction. These shocks in the peristaltic flow are termed "peristaltic shocks".</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Fig5.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Fig. 2: Flow Mach number (top) and density (bottom) along a flux tube plotted as a thick black curve. The flow enters with a specified speed (red). It shocks onto the transonic curve (blue) to pass the point of maximum constriction (z=0). It then shocks onto an intermediate flow line (violet) and returns to the original state (red) via a rarefaction wave.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Fig5.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Fig. 2: Flow Mach number (top) and density (bottom) along a flux tube plotted as a thick black curve. The flow enters with a specified speed (red). It shocks onto the transonic curve (blue) to pass the point of maximum constriction (z=0). It then shocks onto an intermediate flow line (violet) and returns to the original state (red) via a rarefaction wave.]]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Shocks will heat the flux layer surrounding the current sheet, ultimately driving chromospheric evaporation there: the natural response of a coronal equilibrium subjected to additional heating. As subsequent flux tubes retract through the current sheet they will drive new shocks which will deposit more heat in the layer surrounding the current sheet. Eventually evaporation will raise its density to the point that it can radiate the additional heat deposited by repeated peristaltic shocks. This will form the layer of enhanced emission akin to those observed to surround actual current sheets. Moreover, when flux from this layer is eventually reconnected its pre-reconnection density will be higher than the ambient corona at a similar height. The energy conversion in this tube will occur in the presence of enhanced density. This novel scenario suggest a density enhancement that increases gradually as the flare progresses: early reconnection will occur on field lines which have not been subjected to peristaltic shocking.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Shocks will heat the flux layer surrounding the current sheet, ultimately driving chromospheric evaporation there: the natural response of a coronal equilibrium subjected to additional heating. As subsequent flux tubes retract through the current sheet they will drive new shocks which will deposit more heat in the layer surrounding the current sheet. Eventually evaporation will raise its density to the point that it can radiate the additional heat deposited by repeated peristaltic shocks. This will form the layer of enhanced emission akin to those observed to surround actual current sheets. Moreover, when flux from this layer is eventually reconnected its pre-reconnection density will be higher than the ambient corona at a similar height. The energy conversion in this tube will occur in the presence of enhanced density. This novel scenario suggest a density enhancement that increases gradually as the flare progresses: early reconnection will occur on field lines which have not been subjected to peristaltic shocking.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>For a perfectly circular intrusion shocks are produced by this mechanism only for descent speeds between 1 and 1.92 times the acoustic sound speed. This is significantly slower than the Alfven speed, so the surrounding field distortion is assumed to be current-free and to track the intrusion motion. The parallel flows driven by the moving distortion (i.e. the peristaltic flows) represent a kind of resonant non-linear coupling between fast magnetosoinc (FM) waves (the distortions) and slow magnetosonic (SM) modes (the flows and shocks). While FM waves cross field lines naturally, it is their resonant coupling that permits them to drive flows that shock and heat the plasma in the surrounding field. Thus heating by peristaltic shocking simply represents one possible fate for a fraction of the reconnection energy which is converted into fast magnetosonic waves <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(Longcope and Tarr 2012)</del>. It is deposited in a thicker layer surrounding the reconnecting current sheet.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>For a perfectly circular intrusion shocks are produced by this mechanism only for descent speeds between 1 and 1.92 times the acoustic sound speed. This is significantly slower than the Alfven speed, so the surrounding field distortion is assumed to be current-free and to track the intrusion motion. The parallel flows driven by the moving distortion (i.e. the peristaltic flows) represent a kind of resonant non-linear coupling between fast magnetosoinc (FM) waves (the distortions) and slow magnetosonic (SM) modes (the flows and shocks). While FM waves cross field lines naturally, it is their resonant coupling that permits them to drive flows that shock and heat the plasma in the surrounding field. Thus heating by peristaltic shocking simply represents one possible fate for a fraction of the reconnection energy which is converted into fast magnetosonic waves. It is deposited in a thicker layer surrounding the reconnecting current sheet.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Linton, M.G. and Longcope, D.W. <i>ApJ</i> <b>642</b>, 1177 (2006)</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[1] [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010SoPh..267..107L "A Quantitative Model of Energy Release and Heating by Time-dependent, Localized Reconnection in a Flare with Thermal Loop-top X-ray Source"]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[1] [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010SoPh..267..107L "A Quantitative Model of Energy Release and Heating by Time-dependent, Localized Reconnection in a Flare with Thermal Loop-top X-ray Source"]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Longcope, D. and Tarr, L., <i>ApJ</i> <b>756</b>, 64 (2012)</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[2] [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJ...519L..93M "X-Ray Observations of Motions and Structure above a Solar Flare Arcade"]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[2] [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJ...519L..93M "X-Ray Observations of Motions and Structure above a Solar Flare Arcade"]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Savage, S.L., McKenzie, D.E. and Reeves, K.K. <i>ApJ</i> <b>747</b>, L40 (2012)</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[3] </ins>[http://<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">adsabs</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">harvard.edu</ins>/abs/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2013arXiv1308</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5026S "Peristaltic Pumping near Post-CME Supra-Arcade Current Sheets"</ins>]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Scott, R. B. and Longcope, D. W. and McKenzie, D. E., eprint </del>[http://<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">arxiv</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</del>/abs/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1308</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5026</del>] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">arXiv:1308.5026 (2013)</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This could also explain the high emission measure in the fan above a flaring arcade. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This could also explain the high emission measure in the fan above a flaring arcade. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>In this scenario the fan would not correspond to the current sheet itself, but rather to a layer of pre-heated, and pre-loaded plasma surrounding the current sheet. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>In this scenario the fan would not correspond to the current sheet itself, but rather to a layer of pre-heated, and pre-loaded plasma surrounding the current sheet. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It is through this layer that supra-arcade downflows appear to descend, leaving behind them some form of trail or wake (Ref. [2]).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It is through this layer that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the remarkable [http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Supra-Arcade_Downflows </ins>supra-arcade downflows<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>appear to descend, leaving behind them some form of trail or wake (Ref. [2]).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== The Model ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== The Model ==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Our recent theoretical work (Ref. [3], the basis of this Nugget) has revealed a novel mechanism by which magnetic reconnection can transport energy onto unreconnected field lines surrounding the current sheet. In contrast to earlier treatments, this model ''assumes'' patchy, unsteady reconnection. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Our recent theoretical work (Ref. [3], the basis of this Nugget) has revealed a novel mechanism by which magnetic reconnection can transport energy onto unreconnected field lines surrounding the current sheet. In contrast to earlier treatments, this model ''assumes'' patchy, unsteady reconnection. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The flux reconnected in a single patch forms a tube or bundle which retracts in a complex manner (not simply relating pairs of field lines) through the current sheet. The assembly of retracting flux tubes, formed from multiple retracting tubes, is the unsteady version of Petschek's steady outflow jet. Unlike the steady version, however, the retracting tubes will create moving deformations in the magnetized layer surrounding the current sheet. The response of the plasma to these moving deformations can lead to heating.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The flux reconnected in a single patch forms a tube or bundle which retracts in a complex manner (not simply relating pairs of field lines) through the current sheet. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The assembly of retracting flux tubes, formed from multiple retracting tubes, is the unsteady version of Petschek's steady outflow jet. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Unlike the steady version, however, the retracting tubes will create moving deformations in the magnetized layer surrounding the current sheet. The response of the plasma to these moving deformations can lead to heating.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Figure 1. shows in blue a typical tube of unreconnected flux deformed by the presence of a intruding, retracting flux tube (black circle) moving though the current sheet (thicker red layer). The curve along the left edge shows the cross-sectional area of the blue tube. The maximum deformation, at the widest portion of the intrusion (z=0), reduces the area of the blue tube by nearly half. The curve along the bottom shows the maximum constriction for all the field lines in the unreconnected field. There is a layer about equal to the intruder's diameter where this constriction is significant; this is far thicker than the current sheet itself (red layer in the middle).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Figure 1. shows in blue a typical tube of unreconnected flux deformed by the presence of a intruding, retracting flux tube (black circle) moving though the current sheet (thicker red layer). </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The curve along the left edge shows the cross-sectional area of the blue tube. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The maximum deformation, at the widest portion of the intrusion (z=0), reduces the area of the blue tube by nearly half. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The curve along the bottom shows the maximum constriction for all the field lines in the unreconnected field. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>There is a layer about equal to the intruder's diameter where this constriction is significant; this is far thicker than the current sheet itself (red layer in the middle).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Fig3.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Fig. 1: Flux tubes in layer surrounding a current sheet (thick red curve) deformed by a descending intrusion (black disk). One flux tube is outlined in blue and its cross sectional area is shown as a blue curve along the left edge.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Fig3.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Fig. 1: Flux tubes in layer surrounding a current sheet (thick red curve) deformed by a descending intrusion (black disk). One flux tube is outlined in blue and its cross sectional area is shown as a blue curve along the left edge.]]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The downward motion of the intrusion creates a constriction in the surrounding tubes, which moves relative to the plasma at their far ends. (The action of the moving constriction resembles that in a peristaltic pump, so we refer to the flow as a peristaltic flow). The ends are assumed to be stationary while the constriction moves downward. The response to this moving constriction is similar to the response if flow had been driven from the far bottom through a stationary constriction: the classic de Laval nozzle problem. For downflow speeds of order the acoustic sound speed the flow is transonic at the narrowest portion as shown in Fig. 2. The condition necessary for transonic flow is achieved through a leading shock ahead of (below) the intrusion. This is a moving shock that propagates downward relative to the constriction. The flow then returns to the downstream state through a shock/rarefaction-wave combination, which propagates upward away from the constriction. These shocks in the peristaltic flow are termed "peristaltic shocks".</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The downward motion of the intrusion creates a constriction in the surrounding tubes, which moves relative to the plasma at their far ends. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>(The action of the moving constriction resembles that in a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.fl.03.010171.000305?journalCode=fluid </ins>peristaltic pump<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>, so we refer to the flow as a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>peristaltic flow<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>). The ends are assumed to be stationary while the constriction moves downward. The response to this moving constriction is similar to the response if flow had been driven from the far bottom through a stationary constriction: the classic de Laval nozzle problem. For downflow speeds of order the acoustic sound speed the flow is transonic at the narrowest portion as shown in Fig. 2. The condition necessary for transonic flow is achieved through a leading shock ahead of (below) the intrusion. This is a moving shock that propagates downward relative to the constriction. The flow then returns to the downstream state through a shock/rarefaction-wave combination, which propagates upward away from the constriction. These shocks in the peristaltic flow are termed "peristaltic shocks".</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Fig5.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Fig. 2: Flow Mach number (top) and density (bottom) along a flux tube plotted as a thick black curve. The flow enters with a specified speed (red). It shocks onto the transonic curve (blue) to pass the point of maximum constriction (z=0). It then shocks onto an intermediate flow line (violet) and returns to the original state (red) via a rarefaction wave.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Fig5.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Fig. 2: Flow Mach number (top) and density (bottom) along a flux tube plotted as a thick black curve. The flow enters with a specified speed (red). It shocks onto the transonic curve (blue) to pass the point of maximum constriction (z=0). It then shocks onto an intermediate flow line (violet) and returns to the original state (red) via a rarefaction wave.]]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This steady jet does little to transmit energy across field lines onto the unreconnected flux.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This steady jet does little to transmit energy across field lines onto the unreconnected flux.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>RHESSI's high time-cadence observations showing spectra and evolution of loop-top sources have frequently led investigators to conclude that non-thermal particle acceleration and propagation occurs in the presence of densities already enhanced by chromospheric evaporation. This conclusion is difficult to reconcile with the hypothesis that magnetic reconnection supplies the energy for both the evaporation and the particle acceleration. The energy release on a given field line can last only as long as its retraction. Retraction proceeds, according to all theories, at the Alfven speed, and thus much faster than evaporative flows. The energy release would thus end before evaporation could raise the density at the site of particle acceleration.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>RHESSI's high time-cadence observations showing spectra and evolution of loop-top sources have frequently led investigators to conclude that non-thermal particle acceleration and propagation occurs in the presence of densities already enhanced by chromospheric evaporation <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(see, for example, [http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/?page=article&article_id=47 earlier Nuggets])</ins>. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This conclusion is difficult to reconcile with the hypothesis that magnetic reconnection supplies the energy for both the evaporation and the particle acceleration. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The energy release on a given field line can last only as long as its retraction. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Retraction proceeds, according to all theories, at the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfvén_wave </ins>Alfven speed<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>, and thus much faster than evaporative flows. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The energy release would thus end before evaporation could raise the density at the site of particle acceleration.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>One possible resolution to this paradox would be a mechanism by which energy released by reconnection could be somehow transported across field lines onto the unreconnected flux. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>Such a mechanism would permit some evaporation in advance of the actual reconnection energy release on those field lines. This could also explain the high emission measure in the fan above a flaring arcade. In this scenario the fan would not correspond to the current sheet itself, but rather to a layer of pre-heated, and pre-loaded plasma surrounding the current sheet. It is through this layer that supra-arcade downflows appear to descend, leaving behind them some form of trail or wake (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">McKenzie and Hudson 1999, Savage et al</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2012</del>).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>One possible resolution to this paradox would be a mechanism by which energy released by reconnection could be somehow transported across field lines onto the unreconnected flux. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Such a mechanism would permit some evaporation in advance of the actual reconnection energy release on those field lines. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>In this scenario the fan would not correspond to the current sheet itself, but rather to a layer of pre-heated, and pre-loaded plasma surrounding the current sheet. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It is through this layer that supra-arcade downflows appear to descend, leaving behind them some form of trail or wake (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ref</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[2]</ins>).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Recent </del>theoretical work (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Scott et al</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2013</del>) has revealed a novel mechanism by which magnetic reconnection can transport energy onto unreconnected field lines surrounding the current sheet. In contrast to earlier treatments, this model assumes patchy, unsteady reconnection. The flux reconnected in a single patch forms a tube or bundle which retracts through the current sheet <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(Linton and Longcope 2006)</del>. The assembly of retracting flux tubes, formed from multiple retracting tubes, is the unsteady version of Petschek's steady outflow jet. Unlike the steady version, however, the retracting tubes will create moving deformations in the magnetized layer surrounding the current sheet. The response of the plasma to these moving deformations can lead to heating.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Our recent </ins>theoretical work (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ref</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[3], the basis of this Nugget</ins>) has revealed a novel mechanism by which magnetic reconnection can transport energy onto unreconnected field lines surrounding the current sheet. In contrast to earlier treatments, this model <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>assumes<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>patchy, unsteady reconnection. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The flux reconnected in a single patch forms a tube or bundle which retracts <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in a complex manner (not simply relating pairs of field lines) </ins>through the current sheet. The assembly of retracting flux tubes, formed from multiple retracting tubes, is the unsteady version of Petschek's steady outflow jet. Unlike the steady version, however, the retracting tubes will create moving deformations in the magnetized layer surrounding the current sheet. The response of the plasma to these moving deformations can lead to heating.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Figure 1. shows in blue a typical tube of unreconnected flux deformed by the presence of a intruding, retracting flux tube (black circle) moving though the current sheet (thicker red layer). The curve along the left edge shows the cross-sectional area of the blue tube. The maximum deformation, at the widest portion of the intrusion (z=0), reduces the area of the blue tube by nearly half. The curve along the bottom shows the maximum constriction for all the field lines in the unreconnected field. There is a layer about equal to the intruder's diameter where this constriction is significant; this is far thicker than the current sheet itself (red layer in the middle).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Figure 1. shows in blue a typical tube of unreconnected flux deformed by the presence of a intruding, retracting flux tube (black circle) moving though the current sheet (thicker red layer). The curve along the left edge shows the cross-sectional area of the blue tube. The maximum deformation, at the widest portion of the intrusion (z=0), reduces the area of the blue tube by nearly half. The curve along the bottom shows the maximum constriction for all the field lines in the unreconnected field. There is a layer about equal to the intruder's diameter where this constriction is significant; this is far thicker than the current sheet itself (red layer in the middle).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">McKenzie, D</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">E</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and Hudson, H. S., <i>ApJ<</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">i> <b>519<</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">b>, L93 (1999)</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[2] [http://adsabs</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">harvard</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">edu</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">abs</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1999ApJ...519L..93M "X-Ray Observations of Motions and Structure above a Solar Flare Arcade"]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Savage, S.L., McKenzie, D.E. and Reeves, K.K. <i>ApJ</i> <b>747</b>, L40 (2012)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Savage, S.L., McKenzie, D.E. and Reeves, K.K. <i>ApJ</i> <b>747</b>, L40 (2012)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Scott, R. B. and Longcope, D. W. and McKenzie, D. E., eprint [http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5026] arXiv:1308.5026 (2013)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Scott, R. B. and Longcope, D. W. and McKenzie, D. E., eprint [http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5026] arXiv:1308.5026 (2013)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Background ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Background ==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>In standard models of magnetic reconnection virtually all of the released energy remains on those field lines that have reconnected. The small amount of magnetic energy directly converted by the reconnection electric field is converted to heat or non-thermal particles which are both confined to field lines very effectively. Most of the energy release occurs later, through the retraction of field lines following reconnection (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">see Longcope et al</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2010</del>). In Petschek's model this occurs within a steady outflow jet bounded by rotational discontinuities enclosing only reconnected field lines. This steady jet does little to transmit energy across field lines onto the unreconnected flux.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>In standard models of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_reconnection </ins>magnetic reconnection<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>virtually all of the released energy remains on those field lines that have reconnected. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The small amount of magnetic energy directly converted by the reconnection electric field is converted to heat or non-thermal particles which are both confined to field lines very effectively. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Most of the energy release occurs later, through the retraction of field lines following reconnection (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ref</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[1]</ins>). </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>In <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_reconnection </ins>Petschek's<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>model this occurs within a steady outflow jet bounded by rotational discontinuities enclosing only reconnected field lines. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>RHESSI's high time-cadence observations showing spectra and evolution of loop-top sources have frequently led investigators to conclude that non-thermal particle acceleration and propagation occurs in the presence of densities already enhanced by chromospheric evaporation <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(ee eg. Sui et al. 2006)</del>. This conclusion is difficult to reconcile with the hypothesis that magnetic reconnection supplies the energy for both the evaporation and the particle acceleration. The energy release on a given field line can last only as long as its retraction. Retraction proceeds, according to all theories, at the Alfven speed, and thus much faster than evaporative flows. The energy release would thus end before evaporation could raise the density at the site of particle acceleration.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>RHESSI's high time-cadence observations showing spectra and evolution of loop-top sources have frequently led investigators to conclude that non-thermal particle acceleration and propagation occurs in the presence of densities already enhanced by chromospheric evaporation. This conclusion is difficult to reconcile with the hypothesis that magnetic reconnection supplies the energy for both the evaporation and the particle acceleration. The energy release on a given field line can last only as long as its retraction. Retraction proceeds, according to all theories, at the Alfven speed, and thus much faster than evaporative flows. The energy release would thus end before evaporation could raise the density at the site of particle acceleration.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>One possible resolution to this paradox would be a mechanism by which energy released by reconnection could be somehow transported across field lines onto the unreconnected flux. Such a mechanism would permit some evaporation in advance of the actual reconnection energy release on those field lines. This could also explain the high emission measure in the fan above a flaring arcade. In this scenario the fan would not correspond to the current sheet itself, but rather to a layer of pre-heated, and pre-loaded plasma surrounding the current sheet. It is through this layer that supra-arcade downflows appear to descend, leaving behind them some form of trail or wake (McKenzie and Hudson 1999, Savage et al. 2012).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>One possible resolution to this paradox would be a mechanism by which energy released by reconnection could be somehow transported across field lines onto the unreconnected flux. Such a mechanism would permit some evaporation in advance of the actual reconnection energy release on those field lines. This could also explain the high emission measure in the fan above a flaring arcade. In this scenario the fan would not correspond to the current sheet itself, but rather to a layer of pre-heated, and pre-loaded plasma surrounding the current sheet. It is through this layer that supra-arcade downflows appear to descend, leaving behind them some form of trail or wake (McKenzie and Hudson 1999, Savage et al. 2012).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Linton, M.G. and Longcope, D.W. <i>ApJ</i> <b>642</b>, 1177 (2006)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Linton, M.G. and Longcope, D.W. <i>ApJ</i> <b>642</b>, 1177 (2006)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Longcope, D</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">W</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Des Jardins, A</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">C</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Carranza-Fulmer, T</del>. and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Qiu</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">J., </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[1] [http://adsabs</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">harvard</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">edu/abs/2010SoPh</ins>..<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">267.</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">107L "A Quantitative Model of Energy Release </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Heating by Time-dependent</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Localized Reconnection in a Flare with Thermal Loop-top X-ray Source"]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><i>Sol. Phys</i> <b>267</b>, 107 (2010)</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Scott, R. B. and Longcope, D. W. and McKenzie, D. E., eprint [http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5026] arXiv:1308.5026 (2013)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Scott, R. B. and Longcope, D. W. and McKenzie, D. E., eprint [http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5026] arXiv:1308.5026 (2013)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The downward motion of the intrusion creates a constriction in the surrounding tubes, which moves relative to the plasma at their far ends. (The action of the moving constriction resembles that in a peristaltic pump, so we refer to the flow as a peristaltic flow). The ends are assumed to be stationary while the constriction moves downward. The response to this moving constriction is similar to the response if flow had been driven from the far bottom through a stationary constriction: the classic de Laval nozzle problem. For downflow speeds of order the acoustic sound speed the flow is transonic at the narrowest portion as shown in Fig. 2. The condition necessary for transonic flow is achieved through a leading shock ahead of (below) the intrusion. This is a moving shock that propagates downward relative to the constriction. The flow then returns to the downstream state through a shock/rarefaction-wave combination, which propagates upward away from the constriction. These shocks in the peristaltic flow are termed "peristaltic shocks".</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The downward motion of the intrusion creates a constriction in the surrounding tubes, which moves relative to the plasma at their far ends. (The action of the moving constriction resembles that in a peristaltic pump, so we refer to the flow as a peristaltic flow). The ends are assumed to be stationary while the constriction moves downward. The response to this moving constriction is similar to the response if flow had been driven from the far bottom through a stationary constriction: the classic de Laval nozzle problem. For downflow speeds of order the acoustic sound speed the flow is transonic at the narrowest portion as shown in Fig. 2. The condition necessary for transonic flow is achieved through a leading shock ahead of (below) the intrusion. This is a moving shock that propagates downward relative to the constriction. The flow then returns to the downstream state through a shock/rarefaction-wave combination, which propagates upward away from the constriction. These shocks in the peristaltic flow are termed "peristaltic shocks".</div></td></tr>
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</table>DanaLongcopehttps://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php?title=Peristaltic_Shocks:_a_model&diff=6362&oldid=prevDanaLongcope at 23:31, 10 September 20132013-09-10T23:31:31Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The result of the two shocks and single rarefaction wave in the unreconnected field may be seen in the evolving density structure shown in Fig. 3. A region of enhanced density builds up in front of the descending intrusion. A longer tail of reduced density persists in the wake of the intrusion. The red curve to the right of each panel, showing the density along that flux tube traced in white, exhibits abrupt jumps at the two peristaltic shocks and the rapidly receding rarefaction wave.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The result of the two shocks and single rarefaction wave in the unreconnected field may be seen in the evolving density structure shown in Fig. 3. A region of enhanced density builds up in front of the descending intrusion. A longer tail of reduced density persists in the wake of the intrusion. The red curve to the right of each panel, showing the density along that flux tube traced in white, exhibits abrupt jumps at the two peristaltic shocks and the rapidly receding rarefaction wave.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Fig6.jpg|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">400px</del>|thumb|center|Fig. 3: Plasma density (color scale) around the descending intrusion (black disk) at three different times. The red curve along the right of each panel shows the density along the flux tube outlined in white.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[File:Fig6.jpg|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">600px</ins>|thumb|center|Fig. 3: Plasma density (color scale) around the descending intrusion (black disk) at three different times. The red curve along the right of each panel shows the density along the flux tube outlined in white.]]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Shocks will heat the flux layer surrounding the current sheet, ultimately driving chromospheric evaporation there: the natural response of a coronal equilibrium subjected to additional heating. As subsequent flux tubes retract through the current sheet they will drive new shocks which will deposit more heat in the layer surrounding the current sheet. Eventually evaporation will raise its density to the point that it can radiate the additional heat deposited by repeated peristaltic shocks. This will form the layer of enhanced emission akin to those observed to surround actual current sheets. Moreover, when flux from this layer is eventually reconnected its pre-reconnection density will be higher than the ambient corona at a similar height. The energy conversion in this tube will occur in the presence of enhanced density. This novel scenario suggest a density enhancement that increases gradually as the flare progresses: early reconnection will occur on field lines which have not been subjected to peristaltic shocking.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Shocks will heat the flux layer surrounding the current sheet, ultimately driving chromospheric evaporation there: the natural response of a coronal equilibrium subjected to additional heating. As subsequent flux tubes retract through the current sheet they will drive new shocks which will deposit more heat in the layer surrounding the current sheet. Eventually evaporation will raise its density to the point that it can radiate the additional heat deposited by repeated peristaltic shocks. This will form the layer of enhanced emission akin to those observed to surround actual current sheets. Moreover, when flux from this layer is eventually reconnected its pre-reconnection density will be higher than the ambient corona at a similar height. The energy conversion in this tube will occur in the presence of enhanced density. This novel scenario suggest a density enhancement that increases gradually as the flare progresses: early reconnection will occur on field lines which have not been subjected to peristaltic shocking.</div></td></tr>
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