Interaction of an Erupting Filament with the Ambient Magnetoplasma and Escape of Electron Beams

Vršnak, Bojan, Alexander Warmuth, Darije Maričić, Wolfgang Otruba, and Vladimir Ruždjak, Interaction of an Erupting Filament with the Ambient Magnetoplasma and Escape of Electron Beams, Sol. Phys., 217, 187-198 (2003) (ADS)

The cartoon

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This is another in the tradition of the Heyvaerts, Priest and Rust cartoon, with the wrinkle here being the application not to emerging flux (ie, something on a small scale, as in an X-ray jet) but instead to a quiet-Sun filament eruption. Here, to my mind, the act of reconnection is a little bit harder to understand because of the lower stresses in the corona (as opposed to the lower solar atmosphere, where they are of course still small).

      Note that "NA" here means "New Arcade", not "Not Applicable".

Date: 2004 February 19

Update: 2019 December 04