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Magnetic Flux Concentration by Siphon Flows in Isolated Magnetic Flux Tubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

John H. Thomas  and
Benjamin Montesinos
John H. Thomas
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and C. E. K. Mees Observatory University of Rochester Rochester, New York 14627, U.S.A.
Benjamin Montesinos
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics University of Oxford 1 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3NP, U.K.

Abstract

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Siphon flows along arched, isolated magnetic flux tubes, connecting photospheric footpoints of opposite magnetic polarity, cause a significant increase in the magnetic field strength of the flux tube due to the decreased internal gas pressure associated with the flow (the Bernoulli effect). These siphon flows offer a possible mechanism for producing intense, inclined, small-scale magnetic structures in the solar photosphere.

Type
IV. Magnetohydrodynamics of the Photosphere
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 138: Solar Photosphere: Structure, Convection and Magnetic Fields , 1990 , pp. 263 - 266
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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