Force-Free Magnetic Arcades Relevant to Two-Ribbon Solar Flares

Priest, E. R. and A. M. Milne, Force-Free Magnetic Arcades Relevant to Two-Ribbon Solar Flares, Sol. Phys., 65, 315-346 (1980) (ADS)

The cartoon

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An early cartoon from a great source of MHD illustrations, Eric Priest! Here the authors are illustrating how a sheet current can separate an emerging non-potential field from an overlying potential field arising in a distinct photospheric domain, presumably.

Date: 2006 December 28

Update: 2019 November 27