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Transient brightenings of interconnecting loops

II. Dynamics of the brightened loops

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We discuss three different kinds of dynamic events related to interconnecting loops observed in soft X-rays aboard Skylab: (1) A newly born transequatorial loop that was either emerging from subphotospheric layers or gradually filled in with hot plasma. (2) Large-scale twists of interconnecting loops which never relax, and often only form, after the loop brightenings. (3) Three events where the loop that later interconnected two active regions had been visible long before one of the interconnecting regions was born. Several impacts this observation might have upon our understanding of the process of flux emergence are suggested.

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  1. Space Research Laboratory of the Astronomical Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Zdeněk Švestka

  2. Center for Astrophysics and Space Science, University of California at San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, Calif., U.S.A.

    Zdeněk Švestka

  3. Mount Wilson and Las Campanas Observatories, Carnegie Institution, 91101, Pasadena, Calif., U.S.A.

    Robert Howard

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Švestka, Z., Howard, R. Transient brightenings of interconnecting loops. Sol Phys 71, 349–359 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00167557

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