Tanaka, K., High-Energy Observations of Solar Flares, Ap&SS, 118, 101-113 (1986) (ADS)
(click on the image for a larger version)
In this paper
Katsuo Tanaka
summarized his views of the imaging and spectroscopy results from Hinotori
in particular.
The cartoon really is similar to the CSHKP type, and
Hirayama is
cited, but it is clear from the discussion that Tanaka was thinking of
multiple reconnections within a sheared flux bundle as the key ingredient,
rather than the opening-and-closing of the large-scale fields.
This seemingly obvious improvement was not immediately taken on
board, it seems.
He also appealed to gravitational force as a means for anchoring the structure,
as espoused by Low and others.
In that sense this cartoon, as drawn, implies that the energy for the
eruption must have come from the gravitational potential energy
of the filament mass.
That now seems less likely.
If that were the case, no reconnection would be needed, would it?
Katsuo Tanaka had learned of his terminal case of leukemia three years
before this cartooon was published.
He worked as hard as he could up to the end.
In this paper Katsuo Tanaka summarized his views of the imaging and spectroscopy results from Hinotori in particular. The cartoon really is similar to the CSHKP type, and Hirayama is cited, but it is clear from the discussion that Tanaka was thinking of multiple reconnections within a sheared flux bundle as the key ingredient, rather than the opening-and-closing of the large-scale fields. This seemingly obvious improvement was not immediately taken on board, it seems. He also appealed to gravitational force as a means for anchoring the structure, as espoused by Low and others. In that sense this cartoon, as drawn, implies that the energy for the eruption must have come from the gravitational potential energy of the filament mass. That now seems less likely. If that were the case, no reconnection would be needed, would it?
Katsuo Tanaka had learned of his terminal case of leukemia three years before this cartooon was published. He worked as hard as he could up to the end.