Montmerle, Thierry, Nicolas Grosso, Yohko Tsuboi, and Katsuji Koyama, Rotation and X-Ray Emission from Protostars, ApJ, 532, 1097-1110 (2000) (ADS)
(click on the image for a larger version)
Not a solar flare cartoon, but one showing how rotation and magnetic
activity may develop in a protostellar system.
The sequence 1-5 shows a field line gets sheared by its line tying at the accretion
disk (shaded), eventually boola-boola blunko! - reconnecting.
The accretion disk, with its large inertia and possibly flexible electrodynamics,
offers theoretical developments beyond what the Sun can illustrate.
This process still might resemble what one could get not from line-tying in an
accretion disk, but in some subphotospheric coupling region for the solar case.
Not a solar flare cartoon, but one showing how rotation and magnetic activity may develop in a protostellar system. The sequence 1-5 shows a field line gets sheared by its line tying at the accretion disk (shaded), eventually boola-boola blunko! - reconnecting. The accretion disk, with its large inertia and possibly flexible electrodynamics, offers theoretical developments beyond what the Sun can illustrate. This process still might resemble what one could get not from line-tying in an accretion disk, but in some subphotospheric coupling region for the solar case.