Blinkers in the solar transition region

In this paper it is shown that the small flare-like patches known as ‘blinkers’ may be explained as the result of an instability in transition layer magnetic flux tubes, which are represented by a set of isolated, high-aspect ratio vertical cylinders as the legs of coronal plasma loops. An essential...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ashbourn, J, Woods, L, Kennedy, D
Format: Journal article
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017