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Electrodynamic Coupling in Magnetically Confined Stellar X-Ray Loops

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

James A. Ionson*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771

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The solar-coronal complex is the only astrophysical system whose X-ray structure has to some degree been spatially resolved. The most important lesson that we have learned from these relatively high-resolution observations is that the corona is highly structured, comprising a variety of closed, loop-like regions of enhanced radiative output. Furthermore, coronal radiation loops are now known to be spatially coincident with magnetic loops which confine the radiating plasma.

Type
IV. The Role of Magnetic Fields in the Structure and Energy Balance of Stellar Atmospheres
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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