The magnetic nature of solar flares

Priest, E. R. and T. G. Forbes, The magnetic nature of solar flares, A&ARv, 10, 313-377 (2002) (ADS)

The cartoon

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The CSHKP representation in the 2002 review by the theoretical masters of this genre. In American architectural terms, it is kind of a cross between the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Denver Interntional Airport, This serves to emphasize the geometrical distinction between the inherently 3D flux-rope structure of the ejection, and the closely 2D structure of the loop arcade. The 2D form of this process had already been well-recognized as early as 1971 by Strauss & Papagiannis among others. See the Gosling for a decade-later elucidation of how this mapping might work, the Forbes-Malherbe cartoon for a decades-earlier consideration of the physics via numerical simulations.

Date: 2020 December 15