Magnetic Reconnection: MHD Theory and Applications
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Current-sheet formation 3. Magnetic annihilation 4. Steady reconnection: the classical solutions 5. Steady reconnection: new generation of fast regimes 6. Unsteady…
Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun
- E. Priest
- Physics
- 7 April 2014
Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun is a completely new up-to-date rewrite from scratch of the 1982 book Solar Magnetohydrodynamics, taking account of enormous advances in understanding since that date.…
Solar magneto-hydrodynamics
- E. Priest
- Physics
- 1982
1. A description of the sun.- 1.1. Brief History.- 1.2. Overall Properties.- 1.2.1. Interior.- 1.2.2. Outer Atmosphere.- 1.3.The Quiet Sun.- 1.3.1. The Interior.- A. The Core.- B. A Model.- C.…
Critical conditions for magnetic instabilities in force-free coronal loops
Abstract The remarkable magnetohydrodynamic stability of solar coronal loops has been attributed to the anchoring of the ends of loops in the dense photosphere. However, all the previous analyses of…
The magnetic nature of solar flares
AbstractThe main challenge for the theory of solar eruptions has been to understand two basic aspects of large flares. These are the cause of the flare itself and the nature of the morphological…
Dynamics and Structure of Quiescent Solar Prominences
- E. Priest
- Physics
- 31 December 1988
1 Introduction to Quiescent Solar Prominences (E R Priest).- 1.1 Basic Description.- 1.1.1 Different Types.- 1.1.2 Properties.- 1.1.3 Development.- 1.1.4 Structure.- 1.1.5 Eruption.- 1.2 Basic…
Kink instability of solar coronal loops as the cause of solar flares
Solar coronal loops are observed to be remarkably stable structures. A magnetohydrodynamic stability analysis of a model loop by the energy method suggests that the main reason for stability is the…
Reconnection of magnetic fields : magnetohydrodynamics and collisionless theory and observations
Preface Part I. Introduction: 1.1 The Sun E. R. Priest 1.2 Earth's magnetosphere J. Birn Part II. Basic Theory of MHD Reconnection: 2.1 Classical theory of two-dimensional reconnection T. G. Forbes…
Magnetic Flux Transport and the Formation of Filament Channels on the Sun
- A. van Ballegooijen, N. P. Cartledge, E. Priest
- Physics
- 10 July 1998
Observations of filaments and filament channels on the Sun indicate that the magnetic fields in these structures exhibit a large-scale organization: filament channels in the northern hemisphere…
Magnetic reconnection at three-dimensional null points
- E. Priest, V. S. Titov
- PhysicsPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society…
- 1 December 1996
The skeleton of an isolated null point in three dimensions consists of a ‘spine curve’ and a ‘fan surface’. Two isolated magnetic field lines approach (or recede from) the null point from both…
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