Catastrophe versus instability for the eruption of a toroidal solar magnetic flux rope
arXiv:1404.5922 · doi:10.1088/0004-637X/789/1/46
Abstract
The onset of a solar eruption is formulated here as either a magnetic catastrophe or as an instability. Both start with the same equation of force balance governing the underlying equilibria. Using a toroidal flux rope in an external bipolar or quadrupolar field as a model for the current-carrying flux, we demonstrate the occurrence of a fold catastrophe by loss of equilibrium for several representative evolutionary sequences in the stable domain of parameter space. We verify that this catastrophe and the torus instability occur at the same point; they are thus equivalent descriptions for the onset condition of solar eruptions.
V2: update to conform to the published article; new choice for internal inductance of torus; updated Fig. 2; new Figs. 3, 5, and 8
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