Solar flares as cascades of reconnecting magnetic loops

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Hughes, D ^a   Paczuski, M ^a   Dendy, R O ^b   Helander, P ^b   McClements, K G ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SUN; SURFACES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

FLARE ENERGIES; MAGNETIC LOOPS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SCALE FREE NETWORK OF LOOPS; SELF ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; SOLAR CORONAL MAGNETIC FIELD; SOLAR FLARES;

MAGNETIC FLUX;

EID: 0038516810     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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