Coronal implosions in solar eruptions and flares

Wang, J. T., Coronal implosions in solar eruptions and flares, (2018) (ADS)

The cartoon

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An exceedingly reductionist view of the flare implosion, from the author's PhD thesis. See also his more technical three scenarios version. The Archivist likes this simple one better because it dispenses with those frivolous field lines and also allows for energy conservation in the absence of the mystery (or window-dressing?) of magnetic reconnection.

Date: 2019 December 18