Formation and dynamics of a solar eruptive flux tube

Solar eruptions are large explosions occurring in the solar atmosphere. Here, the authors perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations to unveil the dynamics of a solar eruption, and find that these are dominated by nonlinear processes involving flux tube evolution and reconnection.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Satoshi Inoue, Kanya Kusano, Jörg Büchner, Jan Skála
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02616-8