The Sun at high spatial resolution: The physics of small spatial structures in a magnetized medium

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Apr 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986sfcp.nasa...14r&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Marshall Space Flight Center Solar Flares and Coronal Physics Using P/OF as a Research Tool p 14-27 (SEE N86-24614 1

Physics

High Resolution, Magnetic Fields, Spatial Resolution, Chromosphere, Dissipation, Magnetic Diffusion, Solar Corona

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An attempt is made to provide a perspective on the problem of spatial structuring on scales smaller than can presently be directly and regularly observed from the ground or with which current space-based instrumentation can be anticipated. There is abundant evidence from both observations and theory that such spatial structuring of the solar outer atmosphere is ubiquitous not only on the observed scales, but also on spatial scales down to (at least) the subarcsecond range. This is not to say that the results to be obtained from observations on these small scales can be anticipated: quite the opposite. What is clear instead is that many of the classic problems of coronal and chromospheric activity - involving the basic dissipative nature of magnetized plasmas - will be seen from a novel perspective at these scales, and that there are reasons for believing that dynamical processes of importance to activity on presently-resolved scales will themselves begin to be resolved on the sub-arcsecond level. Since the Sun is the only astrophysical laboratory for which there is any hope of studying these processes in any detail, this observatioinal opportunity is an exciting prospect for any student of magnetic activity in astrophysics.

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