OP "Michael Mozina"
Solar wrote: Mozina. I agree more with your idea of material that at previous times had been accelerated/etched into space and the immediate solar atmosphere being drawn back along electromagnetic field lines and z-pinch within the filaments. You can see in the below still from your link, which is stunning to say the least, that as the event begins material suspended in the solar atmosphere above the newly forming coronal hoops is aglow from the light of those hoops. To me it signifies that an atmosphere is there, some aspects of which, did not react to the hoops.
If you watch the coronal loop activity in high resolution Hinode CAII-H SOT images, you'll notice that it's a very dynamic process. Materials flow up and down these electrified plasma paths. The material flows change direction in very short periods of time. The loops "crash' to the surface once the electron flows stop, or change. That behavior makes total sense when we recognize that there is electron flow involved in this process, but it blew the minds of the mainstream who tried to explain this plasma behavior only in terms of magnetic fields from a sun that provided all the power for this event. We can't explain that plasma flow behavior until we recognize that the sun's coronal is interacting with the universe, and there is an electronic interaction process in play.
http://solar-b.nao.ac.jp/news/061127Pre ... 0_0715.mpg
There are magnetic fields in play, as well as electrical currents to consider. The loops tend to form concentric threaded "ropes" according to Alfven, that are arranged by the ionization potential of each element. What you'd end up with in loops are concentric "tornado-like" threads of spinning plasma that carry current from one place to another.It appears that as the hoops progress; material within the immediate atmosphere is drawn (inflow) along the hoops and the dark streaking begins to form in a timely fashion after the "inflow" appears to have enough time to reach the hoops as they pass overhead. I think you are correct that z-pinch is going on inside the hoops but to me that would then seem to make what appears to be an "inflow" to possibly be Marklund convection of the surrounding area. Especially with regard to iron dust within the solar atmosphere. In the below still it seems that all three aspects are present i.e. the current flowing through the loops, the atmosphere set aglow, and the "inflow" of plasma overhead.
The EM influences of these loops on outside materials is chaotic, but I'm sure it's attractive as well. Those darker "tadpoles" of matter that you saw flowing into the previous image seem to be "drawn' to the electrically active areas of the surface.
If you watch the first Trace RD image on my website closely, you'll notice an "etching" process occur along the lower right side of the image, and you'll see "dust" blowing around in the plasma wind that travels roughly from the bottom right toward the upper left side of the image. That "dust" si very obvious right after the CME event. You can even see it's effect on the surface reflection patterns when the dust start to settle back to the surface. That first TRACE RD image is very revealing IMO.*If* true this is interesting further in relation to the Sun possibly having an iron surface because the etching of that surface would seem to produce a dusty-iron rich plasma atmosphere. Which is what some solar activities often resemble with movies from SOHO, TRACE etc. The 'ground' around these events is always puzzling in this regard because as the 'surface' is etched the spicules vanish as if they are so many little storms stemming from a conductive layer of such a dusty-iron plasma. You can see this with the electrified 'river' that flows into the foreground.
http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/movies/T171_000828.avi
http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/TRACEpodarchive4.html
IMO, the greatest amount of fusion in the loops is P-P fusion, but there are also CNO fusion processes going on inside that loop as Carbon from the surface is fused into Nitrogen and then Oxygen inside the loops.Another interesting point is the possible hydrogen production/ P-P fusion processes. hehe... Yeah, I like that.
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512633
Note that these fusion processes are primarily occurring in electrical activity at the surface, but that same kind of thing could also be going on inside the core.