Onset of the Magnetic Explosion in Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections

Moore, Ronald L., Alphonse C. Sterling, Hugh S. Hudson, and James R. Lemen, Onset of the Magnetic Explosion in Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections, ApJ, 552, 833-848 (2001) (ADS)

The cartoon

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An all-time classic treatment of the CSHKP theme, judging by citation count of this paper (more than 600!). The Archivist was a co-author of this paper, which helps to account for its muddled prose, but not a co-artist of the cartoon. Is there anything novel in this? Moore himself has spent a lifetime refining these ideas, perhaps as introduced earliest and most completely by Hirayama. Note that this paper was about the explosion, but almost simultaneously the Archivist was writing about the implosion!

Date: 2021 February 04