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Connecting a Star’s Convection Zone with its Corona
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
Abstract
This paper discusses problems which have as their uniting theme the need to understand the coupling between a stellar convection zone and a magnetically dominated corona above it. Interest is concentrated on how the convection drives the atmosphere above, loading it with the currents that give rise to flares and other forms of coronal activity. The role of boundary conditions appears to be crucial, suggesting that a global understanding of the magnetic field system is necessary to explain what is observed in the corona. Calculations are presented which suggest that currents flowing up a flux rope return not in the immediate vicinity of the rope but rather in an alternative flux concentration located some distance away.
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- Galactic and Stellar
- Information
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , August 1995 , pp. 180 - 185
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1995
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