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Flux rope formation due to shearing and zipper reconnection

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dc.contributor.authorThrelfall, J.
dc.contributor.authorHood, A. W.
dc.contributor.authorPriest, E. R.
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-03T15:30:25Z
dc.date.available2018-07-03T15:30:25Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.identifier253394590
dc.identifier0ac38f57-cb30-4a04-8af1-5a9c367727bc
dc.identifier000436941500001
dc.identifier85049332183
dc.identifier.citationThrelfall , J , Hood , A W & Priest , E R 2018 , ' Flux rope formation due to shearing and zipper reconnection ' , Solar Physics , vol. 293 , no. 6 , 98 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-018-1318-1en
dc.identifier.issn0038-0938
dc.identifier.otherArXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06760v1
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2620-2068/work/58055120
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-3621-6690/work/74117703
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/14862
dc.descriptionThe authors acknowledge the financial support of STFC through the Consolidated grant, ST/N000609/1, to the University of St Andrews. These systems are operated on behalf of the STFC DiRAC HPC Facility (www.dirac.ac.uk). The equipment was funded by BIS National E-infrastructure capital grants (ST/K00042X/1 and ST/K001590/1), STFC capital grants (ST/K00087X/1, ST/H008861/1 and ST/H00887X/1) and DiRAC Operations grants (ST/K003267/1 and ST/K00333X/1). The research data supporting this publication can be accessed at http://dx.doi.org/10.17630/dea50f38-7aff-48c3-b090-c689d02dd305.en
dc.description.abstractZipper reconnection has been proposed as a mechanism for creating most of the twist in the flux tubes that are present {prior to} eruptive flares and coronal mass ejections. We have conducted a first numerical experiment on this new regime of reconnection, where two initially untwisted parallel flux tubes are sheared and reconnected to form a large flux rope. We describe the properties of this experiment, including the linkage of magnetic flux between concentrated flux sources at the base of the simulation, the twist of the newly formed flux rope and the conversion of mutual magnetic helicity in the sheared pre-reconnection state into the self-helicity of the newly formed flux rope.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSolar Physicsen
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.en
dc.subjectMagnetic reconnection, observational signaturesen
dc.subjectMagnetic reconnection, theoryen
dc.subjectMagnetic fields, coronaen
dc.subjectFlares, relation to magnetic fielden
dc.subjectQA Mathematicsen
dc.subjectQB Astronomyen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccQAen
dc.subject.lccQBen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleFlux rope formation due to shearing and zipper reconnectionen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorScience & Technology Facilities Councilen
dc.contributor.sponsorScience & Technology Facilities Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews.Applied Mathematicsen
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11207-018-1318-1
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberST/L005522/1en
dc.identifier.grantnumberST/N000609/1en


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