The Topology of Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares

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c○COPYRIGHT byAngela Colman Des Jardins2007All Rights Reserved
iiAPPROVALof a dissertation submitted byAngela Colman Des JardinsThis dissertation has been read by each member of the dissertation committee and hasbeen found to be satisfactory regarding content, English usage, format, citations, bibliographicstyle, and consistency, and is ready for submission to the Division of GraduateEducation.Dr. Richard CanfieldApproved for the Department of PhysicsDr. Bill HiscockApproved for the Division of Graduate EducationDr. Carl A. Fox, Vice Provost
Page 1: THE TOPOLOGY OF MAGNETIC RECONNECTI
Page 5: ivTo Liebe -I’m the lucky one
Page 8 and 9: viiLIST OF TABLESTablePage2.1 Flare
Page 10 and 11: ix2.3 Left hand panels are GOES lig
Page 12 and 13: xiABSTRACTIn order to better unders
Page 14: 2The release of this large amount o
Page 17 and 18: 5100.000RHESSI Count Flux vs Energy
Page 19 and 20: 7excitation in the chromosphere.The
Page 21 and 22: 9one day before the two large X-cla
Page 23 and 24: 11of well-defined features like sun
Page 25 and 26: 13introduced (i.e. Titov et al., 20
Page 27 and 28: 15CHAPTER 2RECONNECTION IN THREE DI
Page 29 and 30: 17spine lines.In this Chapter, for
Page 31 and 32: 19Table 2.1: Flare properties. AR i
Page 33 and 34: 21-300A) TRACE 195, RHESSI 50-100 k
Page 35 and 36: 23Figure 2.3: Left hand panels are
Page 37 and 38: 25the same time. With a 20 s imagin
Page 39 and 40: 27sheared or twisted flux tubes, wh
Page 41 and 42: 29Figure 2.4: Top: photospheric foo
Page 43 and 44: 31track 2 to 3 and from track 3 to
Page 45 and 46: 33error. If we had simply fit the f
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Page 49 and 50: 37In case 1, we suppose that the do
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41tiation and evolution. Further wo
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43photospheric and coronal magnetic
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45Here, B z (x,y) is the value of t
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47been determined, several other to
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49Figure 3.1: Simulated magnetogram
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51Figure 3.3: Same as Figure 3.1, b
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53MDI 6 Apr 2004, 12:51 UT-120-140-
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55of new field and horizontal flows
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57arators (Henoux and Somov, 1987).
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59the line-tied nature of the photo
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61a snapshot in time (Démoulin, 20
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63Figure 4.1: GOES and RHESSI light
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65order to take advantage of the av
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67field lines or sheared or twisted
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69Flare A, MDI 01:39 UT400438350256
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71flux discrepancy∆Φ r = −∆t
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73Flare A, RHESSI 30-100 keV4004383
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75(in the form of heating and parti
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77CHAPTER 5DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIO
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79separator (nulls) are along spine
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81emission is concentrated in compa
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83REFERENCESAulanier, G., P. Démou
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85Meyer, S. J. Morrison, M. D. Morr
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87Priest, E., and T. Forbes, Magnet
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