A new solar flare scenario: high-beta plasma disruption
Abstract
A new solar flare scenario is proposed based on a high-beta plasma instability. Plasma confined in a curved magnetic field (magnetic loop) has free energy. This free energy will be converted to other forms explosively under certain conditions through localized quasi-interchange instability called "ballooning instability". Relations between solar flare phenomena and ballooning instability phenomena are discussed.
- Publication:
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Solar Variability: From Core to Outer Frontiers
- Pub Date:
- December 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002ESASP.506..749S
- Keywords:
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- Flare;
- High-Beta Plasma;
- Ballooning Instability;
- Turbulence