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Are Prominences Formed by Flux Convergence?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Numerical 3D resistive MHD experiments are used to investigate the dynamical properties of a quadrupolar magnetic field, as the two dipolar regions are pushed together. A current concentration is formed between the approaching flux concentrations and, when reconnection starts, material is lifted against gravity. As it rises the material spreads out along the polarity inversion line and forms a prominence-like structure.
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- Birth and Death of Filaments
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 167: New Perspectives on Solar Prominences , 1998 , pp. 282 - 285
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998
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