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Observational Tests of a Double Loop Model for Solar Flares

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

S. J. Hardy ,
D. B. Melrose  and
H. S. Hudson
S. J. Hardy
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; S.Hardy@physics.usyd.edu.au
D. B. Melrose
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; D.Melrose@physics.usyd.edu.au
H. S. Hudson
Affiliation:
Solar Physics Research Corp., 4720 Calle Desecada, Tucson, AZ 85718, USA ISAS, 3–1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan; hudson@iasass0.solar.isas.ac.jp
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Abstract

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A model for the energetics of solar flares, developed by Melrose (1997), is based on magnetic reconnection between two current-carrying magnetic loops. A detailed numerical investigation of the model has been made to identify those configurations that lead to energy release in a flare. Our results predict a strong relation between the ratio of currents in the interacting loops for a favoured flare configuration, and provide further support for a proposed method of generating long loops connecting different active regions. Both of these predictions are amenable to observational verification.

Keywords

Sun: flaresmagnetic reconnectionmagnetic flux loops
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , 1998 , pp. 318 - 324
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1998

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