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Studies of solar flares and CMEs related to the space solar missions in the future

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Solar eruptions and the related processes involve magnetic fields and plasma flows of various scales in both time and space. These processes include the convective motions of the mass and magnetic field in the photosphere, evolutions of magnetic fields in both the chromosphere and the corona prior to and during the disruption of magnetic fields in response to the photospheric motions. These evolutions constitute a whole process of transporting the magnetic energy and the helicity from the photosphere to the corona, and then to interplanetary space. The present work, on the basis of a solar eruption model, discusses these processes, and the related questions, unanswerable at present, but could be the scientific objectives of the space solar missions in the future.

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Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB806303), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40636031 and 10873030), the CAS to YNAO (Grant No. KJCX2-YW-T04), and the NASA to the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA (Gant No. NNX07AL72G)

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Lin, J. Studies of solar flares and CMEs related to the space solar missions in the future. Sci. China Ser. G-Phys. Mech. Astron. 52, 1646–1654 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-009-0242-7

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