Loss of magnetic tension in pre-flare magnetic configurations

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Title:	Loss of magnetic tension in pre-flare magnetic configurations
Authors:	Venkatakrishnan, P
Keywords:	Solar Flares Magnetic shear
Issue Date:	Aug-1990
Publisher:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Citation:	Solar Physics, Vol. 128, No. 2, pp. 371 - 376
Abstract:	We demonstrate that magnetic tension vanishes at regions of large magnetic shear on the polarity inversion line. The characteristics of these tension-free fields depend on the density of the medium and, therefore, change as a consequence of instabilities which modify the density. These instabilities may possibly evolve into solar flares. We suggest this as a possible explanation for the observed occurrence of flares at locations of large magnetic shear along the polarity inversion line.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3629
ISSN:	0038-0938
Appears in Collections:	IIAP Publications

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