The Topology of Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares

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THE TOPOLOGY OF MAGNETIC RECONNECTI
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iiAPPROVALof a dissertation submitt
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ivTo Liebe -I’m the lucky one
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viiLIST OF TABLESTablePage2.1 Flare
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ix2.3 Left hand panels are GOES lig
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xiABSTRACTIn order to better unders
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2The release of this large amount o
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5100.000RHESSI Count Flux vs Energy
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7excitation in the chromosphere.The
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9one day before the two large X-cla
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11of well-defined features like sun
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13introduced (i.e. Titov et al., 20
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15CHAPTER 2RECONNECTION IN THREE DI
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17spine lines.In this Chapter, for
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19Table 2.1: Flare properties. AR i
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21-300A) TRACE 195, RHESSI 50-100 k
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23Figure 2.3: Left hand panels are
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25the same time. With a 20 s imagin
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27sheared or twisted flux tubes, wh
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29Figure 2.4: Top: photospheric foo
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31track 2 to 3 and from track 3 to
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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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Page 81 and 82: 69Flare A, MDI 01:39 UT400438350256
Page 83 and 84: 71flux discrepancy∆Φ r = −∆t
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Page 89 and 90: 77CHAPTER 5DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIO
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Page 95 and 96: 83REFERENCESAulanier, G., P. Démou
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