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Two Scenarios for the Eruption of Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Solar Atmosphere

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Eruptions of material from lower to upper layers of the solar atmosphere can be divided into two classes. The first class of eruptions maintain their (usually loop-like) shapes as they increase in size (eruptive prominences), or display a sudden expansion of fairly shapeless clumps of plasma in all directions (flare sprays). The second class refers to narrow, collimated flows of plasma on various scales (spicules, surges, jets). It is obvious that the magnetic configurations in which these phenomena develop differ: for the first class they form closed structures that confine the plasma, and in the second class open structures directing flows of plasma in a particular direction, as a rule, upward. At the same time, the mechanisms initiating eruptions of both classes could be similar, or even practically identical. This mechanism could be instability of twisted magnetic tubes (flux ropes), leading to different consequences under different conditions. It is shown that the results of eruptive instability are determined by the ratio of the scales of the magnetic flux rope and the confining coronal field, and also by the configuration of the ambient magnetic field in the corona. Observations of both types of eruptions are analyzed, the conditions for their develoment are examined, and phenomenological models are proposed.

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Original Russian Text © B.P. Filippov, O.E. Den, 2018, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, Vol. 95, No. 5, pp. 379–386.

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Filippov, B.P., Den, O.E. Two Scenarios for the Eruption of Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Solar Atmosphere. Astron. Rep. 62, 359–365 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772918050037

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