Alfvenic fronts and the turning-off of the energy release in solar flares

Wheatland, M. S. and D. B. Melrose, Alfvenic fronts and the turning-off of the energy release in solar flares, Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 11, 25-27 (1994) (ADS)

The cartoon

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A simple cartoon, rivaling in simplicity the offering seen in the Melrose-White cartoon, one of several from the otherwise obscure journal PASA in this Archive. It represents early thinking on electrodynamic theories of flare physics, which to the Archivist's point of view could be extremely helpful in understanding some of the problems left over from MHD (such as energy source, energy partition, momentum and energy transport, particle acceleration etc.). Here there is imagined to be a resistive circuit element at loop top (RC) that matches impedance with a subphotospheric source.

Date: 2007 July 25

Update: 2019 November 04