Direct Observation of High-Speed Plasma Outflows Produced by Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Impulsive Events
Wang, Tongjiang, Linhui Sui, and Jiong Qiu, Direct Observation of High-Speed Plasma Outflows Produced by Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Impulsive Events, ApJ, 661, L207-L210 (2007) (ADS)
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An illustration of yet another confirmation of the
cshkp geometry, and an important one: the high-resolution
SUMER spectrograph was pretty much forbidden to study solar flares, owing
to detector degradation, but sometimes it observed the corona above
a flare serendipitously.
SUMER sees Fe XVIII in a narrow source situated about where a
current sheet geometrically should
be.
Note that this observation had been anticipated as long ago as
1977, with most of the
key physical parameters quite well estimated.
An illustration of yet another confirmation of the cshkp geometry, and an important one: the high-resolution SUMER spectrograph was pretty much forbidden to study solar flares, owing to detector degradation, but sometimes it observed the corona above a flare serendipitously. SUMER sees Fe XVIII in a narrow source situated about where a current sheet geometrically should be. Note that this observation had been anticipated as long ago as 1977, with most of the key physical parameters quite well estimated.