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Modelling coronal magnetic fields

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The ‘hairy ball’ model of coronal magnetic fields has a spherical source surface separating potential and radial magnetic fields. In the present model the source surface is chosen such that the wind speed equals the Alfvénic speed at selected points on the source surface. Results have been obtained for a dipole base field and an isothermal corona.

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  1. Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, London, England

    D. P. Rowse & I. W. Roxburgh

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Proceedings of the 14th ESLAB Symposium on Physics of Solar Variations, 16–19 September 1980, Scheveningen, The Netherlands.

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Rowse, D.P., Roxburgh, I.W. Modelling coronal magnetic fields. Sol Phys 74, 165–168 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151286

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