Experimental Demonstration of How Strapping Fields Can Inhibit Solar Prominence Eruptions
Open Access
- 20 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 563 (2), L183-L186
- https://doi.org/10.1086/338736
Abstract
It has been conjectured that the eruption of a solar prominence can be inhibited if a much larger scale, arched magnetic field straddles the prominence and effectively straps it down. We have demonstrated this effect in a laboratory experiment where a vacuum strapping field acts on a scaled simulation of a solar prominence. The required magnitude of the strapping field is in good agreement with a theoretical model that takes into account the full three-dimensional magnetic topology.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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