An active role for magnetic fields in solar flares

Details An active role for magnetic fields in solar flares An active role for magnetic fields in solar flares

Mar 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976soph...47...21r&link_type=abstract

(NASA, IAU, IUGG, and International Council of Scientific Unions, Workshop on Flare Build-up Study, Falmouth, Mass., Sept. 8-11,

Physics

47

H Alpha Line, Magnetic Effects, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Photosphere, Solar Corona, Solar Flares, Solar Magnetic Field, Filaments, Lines Of Force, Magnetic Flux, Solar Activity Effects, Solar X-Rays, Stellar Models

Scientific paper

Observations of photospheric magnetic fields are reviewed to determine whether changes in such fields can be related to flare activity, assuming that magnetic fields play an active role in providing flare energy. An intimate relation between emerging fields and bright flare knots is noted, and it is shown that the activation and eruption of an H-alpha filament is indicative of a major disruption of a magnetic field just prior to a flare. Observations of twisting motions in a filament just before a flare are discussed, erupting untwisting filaments are taken as unambiguous evidence for restructuring of the magnetic fields associated with flares, and it is argued that magnetic-field changes in the midst of most flares are obvious. It is concluded that successive brightenings in a family of loops may be evidence for the spread of a magnetic-field reconnection point from one field concentration to another and that flares may well take place in regions of field-line reconnection. This latter conclusion is illustrated using an empirical flare model that involves field-line reconnection, filament activation, and emerging magnetic flux.

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