Heating the solar corona : enhanced phase mixing and current loop coalescence
(2009)
Thesis
Smith, P. Heating the solar corona : enhanced phase mixing and current loop coalescence. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford
It has been known since the 1930s that the solar corona is hundreds of times hotter than
the solar photosphere. Numerous theoretical models have since been proposed to explain
what has become known as the coronal heating problem. These models are...
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