Coronal heating by magnetic reconnection in loops with zero net current

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 506, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 913-925

  Hood, A W ^a   Browning, P K ^b   Van Der Linden, R A M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); Plasmas; Sun: corona; Sun: magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

AXIAL CURRENTS; CORONAL HEATING; CORONAL LOOPS; CURRENT LOOP; CURRENT SHEETS; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; FAST RECONNECTION; HELICITIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INITIAL STATE; KINK INSTABILITY; LARGE-SCALE CURRENTS; MAGNETIC ENERGIES; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS (MHD); MINIMUM ENERGY; NANOFLARES; NONLINEAR PHASE; NUMERICAL CODE; RECONNECTION SITES; RELAXED STATE; RESONANT SURFACES; SOLAR CORONA; STORED MAGNETIC ENERGY; STRONG CURRENTS; SUN: CORONA; SUN: MAGNETIC FIELDS; TRANSIENT EVENTS; UNSTABLE MODES;

ASTROPHYSICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICS; HEATING; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMAS; SOLAR ENERGY; SUN;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 70350439571     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912285     Document Type: Article

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