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Model Predictions for Magnetic Shear Changes During Solar Flares

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

T.G. Forbes
T.G. Forbes*
Affiliation:
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA

Abstract

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Magnetic shear is sometimes defined observationally as the rotation of the photospheric vector magnetic field away from the field direction of a corresponding potential state. It is often assumed that the observational shear is a direct measure of the energy stored in coronal currents. However, this is not true in general as is illustrated here by considering the changes in observational shear in a variety of flare models. Some of these models predict rotations in the photospheric transverse field which are too small to be detected by present day instruments, but other models predict relatively large rotations in highly localized regions. In principle, observations of the transverse field might confirm or eliminate models in the latter group.

Type
Session 7. Magnetic Shear and Electric Currents
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 141: The Magnetic and Velocity Fields of Solar Active Regions , 1993 , pp. 415 - 424
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

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