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Energy Storage and Instability in Magnetic Flux Tubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Takashi Sakurai*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo

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Now it is known that the solar corona consists of many loops which are believed to represent the structure of the magnetic field. Since the plasma is very tenuous in the corona, the equilibrium of the magnetic field is approximated by the force-free field:

Type
Part IV. Solar Transient Phenomena Affecting the Corona and Interplanetary Medium: - Theoretical Considerations
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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