Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000soph..194..197b&link_type=abstract
Solar Physics, v. 194, Issue 2, p. 197-204 (2000).
Physics
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Scientific paper
Potential fields and linear force-free fields are often used as models for the magnetic field of the Sun's corona. They can be written as analytical expressions in terms of boundary values at the photosphere. Because of their relative simplicity compared with nonlinear force-free fields, these two models are of particular importance in topological analysis of solar phenomena. However, it has been suggested by Hudson and Wheatland (1999) that the topologies of potential and force-free models are in general not even qualitatively equivalent. In this paper, their example is re-examined and it is found that the opposite conclusions hold. In general, potential and force-free fields are topologically similar sufficiently close to localized sources. The exception to this are structurally unstable states, such as bifurcation states, where a small change of current can produce a significant change of topology.
Brown Scott D.
Priest Eric R.
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