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SUMMARY:Heating the solar corona by nanoflares triggered by a kink instabi
 lity - Alan Hood (University of St. Andrews)
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CONTACT:Dr Lara Silvers
DESCRIPTION:The heating of solar coronal plasma to millions of degrees may
  be due to the superposition of many small energy-releasing events\, known
  as nanoflares. Nanoflares dissipate magnetic energy through magnetic reco
 nnection.\nIt is proposed that heating is triggered by the onset of an ide
 al MHD instability\, with energy release occurring\nin the nonlinear phase
  due to fast magnetic reconnection. Numerical simulations are used to inve
 stigate the energy\nrelease and the heating process.
LOCATION:MR14\, DAMTP\, Pav. F
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