Filamentary structure on the Sun from the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7032, 2005, Pages 478-481

  Isobe, Hiroaki ^a   Miyagoshi, Takehiro ^a   Shibata, Kazunari ^a   Yokoyama, Takaaki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; JETS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FLUX; PLASMA HEATING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY; X RAYS;

DARK FILAMENTS; FILAMENTARY STRUCTURES; SOLAR SURFACES; SUNSPOTS;

SUN;

SOLAR PHENOMENA;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; HEATING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MODEL; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SUN; X RAY;

EID: 16444368874     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03399     Document Type: Article

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