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Topological Catastrophe in Massive Current Sheets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2017

Ph. Peterle
Affiliation:
DAEC, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France
J. Hoyvaerts
Affiliation:
DAEC, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France

Abstract

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A two-dimensional sheet model for solar filaments (Kippenhahn and Schluter configuration) is considered. We investigate, the quasi-static evolution of gravito-magnetohydrostatic equlibria in exploring the response of massive current sheets to a slow continuous variation of the mass/flux ratio with fixed boundary conditions. A catastrophic behavior of the field topology is found to occur in the sequence following the formation of a cusp point (bifurcation).

Type
Session III: Theory
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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