On `The Solar Flare Myth' postulated by Gosling
Abstract
The `Solar Flare Myth' postulated by Gosling (1993) is a misunderstanding. It is true that most sources of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) cannot be classified as flares in the common old sense of that word. However, just for this reason the term `eruptive flare' has been introduced for all solar active phenomena in which an opening of field lines is involved and which lead to magnetic-field and mass ejections resulting in a CME. The process is essentially the same in all events, irrespective of' whether only adisparition brusque without any chromospheric brightening or a major two-ribbon flare is involved in it; the only difference is the different strength of the magnetic field in which the process was accomplished. The major two-ribbon (cosmic-ray) flares clearly represent the most energetic events of this kind, and, therefore, it is very misleading to claim that solar flares in general are phenomena with very little importance for solar-terrestrial physics.
- Publication:
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Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- August 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00679093
- Bibcode:
- 1995SoPh..160...53S
- Keywords:
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- Magnetic Field;
- Flare;
- Field Line;
- Coronal Mass Ejection;
- Solar Flare