Magnetic causes of solar coronal mass ejections: Dominance of the free magnetic energy over the magnetic twist alone

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 644, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages 1258-1272

  Falconer, D A ^a,b   Moore, R L ^a   Gary, G A ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Sun: corona; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: flares; Sun: magnetic fields; Sun: X rays, gamma rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846555333     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503699     Document Type: Article

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