A Mechanism for the Build-Up of Flare Energy

Stenflo, JanĀ Olof, A Mechanism for the Build-Up of Flare Energy, Sol. Phys., 8, 115-118 (1969) (ADS)

The cartoon

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Perhaps a relic from J. O. Stenflo's early career, in which he followed up upon the Alfvén-Carlqvist cartoon, in order to study the inductive storage of magnetic energy in the corona. This of course is still a live-wire topic. The paper itself interestingly does not include mutual inductance among current threads, as seen in loop-loop models (and observations often enough as well). The decisive physics of inductive storage does not figure explicitly in the CSHKP concepts.

Date: 2020 January 12