Coronal Heating as Determined by the Solar Flare Frequency Obtained by Aggregating Case Studies
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Flare frequency distributions represent a key approach to addressing one of the largest problems in solar and stellar physics: determining the mechanism that counterintuitively heats coronae to temperatures that are orders of magnitude hotter than the corresponding photospheres. It is widely accepted that the magnetic field is responsible for the heating, but there are two competing mechanisms that could explain it: nanoflares or Alfvén waves. To date, neither can be directly observed. |
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2023
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2023-03
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The Astrophysical Journal
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948
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71
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