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Wound Magnetostatics and Flaring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C.M. Boily  and
D. Lynden-Bell
C.M. Boily
Affiliation:
I.U.C.A.A., Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
D. Lynden-Bell
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OHA

Abstract

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We discuss the winding of a force-free axisymmetric magnetic field rooted on a heavy conductor on z = 0. In quadrupolar symmetry the field expands in the half-space z > 0 and the toroidal flux concentrates on a conical surface. After a mean twist of 208°, the conical layer hosts large toroidal current loops with reversal of the magnetic flux on either side. The evolution of the field structure is described by scale-free static solutions B ~ r−(p+2), with p taking values between 0 and 2. The large expansion factor of the field structure is suggestive of flaring originating on the solar photosphere.

Keywords

mhdSolar flares
Type
Origin of Solar and Interplanetary Transients
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 154: Solar and Interplanetary Transients , 1996 , pp. 29 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997

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