A Circuit Model for Filament Eruptions and Two-Ribbon Flares
Martens, P. C. H. and N. P. M. Kuin, A Circuit Model for Filament Eruptions and Two-Ribbon Flares, Sol. Phys., 122, 263-302 (1989) (ADS)
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The cartoon from this classic paper is comprehensive in its attention to detail,
but does leave the third dimension for others to elucidate.
What phenomenon can have been left out?
Although the coils at the bottom, apparently sticking into the solar
photosphere, could easily represent a current system capable of
providing coronal stress, the authors have eccentrically chosen to
label these coils "flare ribbons".
The flare inspiring this work was SOL1981-05-16 (SMM/HXIS), and this
very intelligent and comprehensive paper preceded the big observational
advances about to come from Yohkoh/SXT and then RHESSI.
The paper addresses circuit theory in a serious way, in spite of the general
lack of interest in the Alfven-Carlqvist
innovation (which it does not cite).
It also could not discuss the Melrose
analysis (which paper, in turn, does not cite the present one).
The Archivist nevertheless definitely recommends this paper as a fundamental contribution.
The cartoon from this classic paper is comprehensive in its attention to detail, but does leave the third dimension for others to elucidate. What phenomenon can have been left out? Although the coils at the bottom, apparently sticking into the solar photosphere, could easily represent a current system capable of providing coronal stress, the authors have eccentrically chosen to label these coils "flare ribbons".
The flare inspiring this work was SOL1981-05-16 (SMM/HXIS), and this very intelligent and comprehensive paper preceded the big observational advances about to come from Yohkoh/SXT and then RHESSI. The paper addresses circuit theory in a serious way, in spite of the general lack of interest in the Alfven-Carlqvist innovation (which it does not cite). It also could not discuss the Melrose analysis (which paper, in turn, does not cite the present one). The Archivist nevertheless definitely recommends this paper as a fundamental contribution.