Coronal Mass Ejections as Loss of Confinement of Kinked Magnetic Flux Ropes

By Yuhong Fan. 2005

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Yuhong Fan
2. S. Gibson
3. T. Okamoto
4. T. Magara
5. T. Howard
6. D. Webb
7. A. Title
8. Y. Suematsu

In Molecular Biology

1. S. Gibson
2. Yuhong Fan
3. T. Howard
4. D. Webb
5. T. Magara
6. Y. Suematsu
7. B. Lites
8. T. Tarbell

Citations in the corpus

• Coronal Mass Ejections: Observations (2012, background): “Image reproduced by permission from Fan (2005), copyright by AAS.”
• The Partial Expulsion of a Magnetic Flux Rope (2006, methodology): “However, the question whether the flux rope is formed during the eruption (Amari et al. 2003a; Lynch et al. 2004) or whether it exists prior to the eruption (Amari et al. 2000; Linker et al. 2003; Amari et al. 2003b, 2004, 2005; Fan 2005) remains controversial.”
• QUIESCENT PROMINENCE DYNAMICS OBSERVED WITH THE HINODE SOLAR OPTICAL TELESCOPE. I. TURBULENT UPFLOW PLUMES (2010, background): “Recent MHD models have made progress in understanding the large-scale dynamics of prominences modeled as twisted flux ropes (Gibson & Fan 2006; Fan 2005; Gibson & Low 1998) showing that eruption can be understood as a threshold event following quasi-static evolution of the system through states of…”
• Onset of Coronal Mass Ejections Due to Loss of Confinement of Coronal Flux Ropes (2007, methodology): “Similar to Fan (2005), we simulate the evolution of the coronal magnetic field as it is driven at the lower boundary by a 1 The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.”
• Coronal prominence structure and dynamics: A magnetic flux rope interpretation (2006, methodology): “…demonstrated that current sheets do in fact form along this sigmoid-shaped surface in our simulations, both during eruption [Fan and Gibson, 2004; Gibson et al., 2004; Fan, 2005], and in the quiescent, noneruptive flux rope equilibrium being discussed in this paper [Fan and Gibson, 2006].”