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Resistive Instabilities and Solar Flares

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

G. G. Lister
G. G. Lister*
Affiliation:
School of Physical Sciences, Flinders University, S.A.
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The study of plasma instabilities described by the inclusion of a finite conductivity in the hydromagnetic equations has aroused considerable interest since the initial work of Furth, Killeen and Rosenbluth for a two-dimensional geometry. In particular, the so-called ‘tearing’ mode, which has been observed in laboratory plasmas, has been suggested as a possible source of energy for solar flares.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 1968 , pp. 152 - 153
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1968

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