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VIEWPOINT: A New Twist in Simulating Solar Flares

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2016-03-09 v1
Authors: Axel Brandenburg
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Abstract

Simulations show for the first time how the magnetic fields that produce solar flares can extend out of the Sun by acquiring a twist.

Keywords

solar physics

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.01917,
  title  = {VIEWPOINT: A New Twist in Simulating Solar Flares},
  author = {Axel Brandenburg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01917},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

2 pages, 2 figures, "Viewpoint" article on arXiv:1601.00749 by Chatterjee et al., to be published in Physics. Edited by Jessica Thomas

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