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The stability of force-free magnetic fields with cylindrical symmetry in the context of solar flares

โœ Scribed by Ulrich Anzer

Publisher
Springer
Year
1968
Tongue
English
Weight
789 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
0038-0938

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โœฆ Synopsis

The problem of the accumulation and storage of the energy released in solar flares is discussed; it is propose d that convective energy of the photosphere is transformed into magnetic energy of the chromosphere and corona. The consequences of a large ratio of magnetic pressure to gas pressure are investigated. In this case the field must be approximately force-free. The only suitable force-free fields which allow an analytical treatment are those of cylindrical symmetry. The stability of these fields is studied with the energy principle. It is shown that they are always unstable due to kink type instabilities. The shape of the unstable perturbations is described in detail and an upper limit for their amplitude is estimated. The consequences for the proposed mechanism of energy storage are briefly discussed.

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