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Spontaneous Current-layer Fragmentation and Cascading Reconnection in Solar Flares. I. Model and Analysis

Authors: Miroslav Bárta, Jörg Büchner, Marian Karlický, and Jan Skála

Bárta et al. 2011 The Astrophysical Journal 737 24.

Provider: AAS Journals

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Fragmentation of the flare current layer at t = 316. Increasing zoom reveals further smaller magnetic structures (islands/plasmoids). Red and green lines are positions of B _x = 0 and B _z = 0, respectively; their intersections represent the X- and O-type "null" points.

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