Metastable magnetic configurations and their significance for solar eruptive events

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 548, Issue 1 PART 1, 2001, Pages 492-496

  Sturrock, Peter A ^a   Weber, Mark ^a   Wheatland, Michael S ^b   Wolfson, Richard ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Instabilities; Magnetic fields; Sun: activity; Sun: corona; Sun: flares; Sun: MHD

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035835537     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318671     Document Type: Article

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