Instabilities Of Magnetic Flux Tubes In A Stellar Convection Zone Ii. Flux Rings Outside The Equatorial Plane

Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 81, Issue 3-4, 1995, Pages 233-265

  Ferriz Mas, A ^a   Schussler M ^a  

^a KIEPENHEUER INSTITUT FÜR SONNENPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

flux tubes; magnetic flux storage; Magnetohydrodynamics; MHD instabilities; solar stellar convection zones

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973001461     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091929508229066     Document Type: Article

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