Hot-Plasma Ejections Associated with Compact-Loop Solar Flares

This cartoon historically has great significance, because it has had amazingly wide circulation as the icon of the CSHKP model. Shibata-san audaciously called this model a "unified theory" of flares, never mind that it was mainly a cartoon. Many of the other cartoons in this Archive simply embellish this pioneering effort in various ways, sometimes adding features, to try and make it a "theory of everything." The S in CSHKP stands for Sturrock, of course, but the initials could include an M, an HPR, an A, this S, a Y, and probably many others (a G, a D, or another C? Or yet another S!), but who could remember the CSHKMHPRASYGDCS model? See Anzer-Pneuman for a clearly drawn early predecessor.

      Note please that there are no open fields, and so no discussion of SEPs is possible in this framework. This follows from the basic bipolar configuration of the pre-event magnetic field in CSHKP, which starts with photospheric anchors at both ends of any field line. Open fields can result, but only on an Alfvénic time scale, whereas SEPs have super-Alfvénic speeds. There also is a badly flubbed prediction, at the cartoon level, of a stationary type II radio burst at the hypothesized termination shock; this is commonly not observed, even though it should always be present at the point where the outflow stagnates (hashed bubble at loop top here).

      As a small technical note, the Archivist remarks on the obvious error in perpective.
Two of the four footpoints appear to be tilted, as one would expect in 3D, whereas the other two are flat.
Probably this is just a clue that the model imagined is really 2D in nature. The fact that one footpoint (the leftmost) appears to be hanging up above the limb (the horizontal line?) is also a bit unsettling.