What For Does the Sun Need Magnetic Tornadoes?
- Authors: Khabarova O.V1
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Affiliations:
- Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 1 (2022)
- Pages: 22-35
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/0044-3948/article/view/628475
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S0044394822010029
- ID: 628475
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Abstract
Magnetic tornadoes are objects in plasma, which resemble tornadoes in the Earth’s atmosphere, but are observed on the Sun. These structures were discovered almost a century ago, but became a subject for discussions in a last decade only. Improved instruments gave opportunity to observe the details, which are essential to understand the nature of magnetic tornadoes. We discuss the appearance and the behaviour of these objects and the way they are studied.
About the authors
O. V Khabarova
Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences
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