Explosive Instability and Erupting Flux Tubes in a Magnetised Plasma Atmosphere
Plasma Physics
2015-10-29 v1
Abstract
The eruption of multiple flux tubes in a magnetised plasma atmosphere is proposed as a mechanism for explosive release of energy in plasmas. Linearly stable isolated flux tubes are shown to be metastable in a box model magnetised atmosphere in which ends of the field lines are embedded in conducting walls. The energy released by destabilising such field lines can be a significant fraction of the gravitational energy stored in the system. This energy can be released in a fast dynamical time.
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@article{arxiv.1411.7797,
title = {Explosive Instability and Erupting Flux Tubes in a Magnetised Plasma Atmosphere},
author = {S. C. Cowley and B. Cowley and S. A. Henneberg and H. R. Wilson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7797},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
40 pages, 18 figures