Characteristics, location and origin of flare activity in a complex active region
Abstract
We summarize the observational characteristics of series of multiple loop flares from a complex active region. The location of the highest observed photospheric magnetic shear is found to be the commonly observed site of flare onset, but not, in many cases, the magnetic region where the largest time-integrated energy release is observed. The observations thus reveal a consistent pattern of energy release processes as related to the magnetic field topology.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0273-1177(86)90110-9
- Bibcode:
- 1986AdSpR...6f..33M
- Keywords:
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- Solar Activity;
- Solar Flares;
- Coronal Loops;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Solar Physics