Characterizing and predicting the magnetic environment leading to solar eruptions

Tahar Amari (), Aurélien Canou and Jean-Jacques Aly
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Tahar Amari: Centre de Physique Théorique, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
Aurélien Canou: Centre de Physique Théorique, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
Jean-Jacques Aly: AIM, Unité Mixte de Recherche CEA, CNRS, Université Paris VII, UMR 7158, Centre d’Etudes de Saclay, F-91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France

Nature, 2014, vol. 514, issue 7523, 465-469

Abstract: Modelling the solar magnetic field using observations of the photospheric field in the four-day period preceding a coronal mass ejection shows that the formation and later ejection of a twisted rope of magnetic flux provides the physical mechanism responsible for the ejection.

Date: 2014
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