
%0 Journal Article
%A Hardy, SJ 
%A Hudson, HS 
%A Melrose, DB 
%T Observational Tests of a Double Loop Model for Solar Flares
%J Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
%D 1998/11/01
%V 15
%N 3
%P 318-324
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AS98318
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AS98318 
%X A model for the energetics of solar flares, developed by Melrose (1997), is based on magnetic reconnection between two current-carrying magnetic loops. A detailed numerical investigation of the model has been made to identify those configurations that lead to energy release in a flare. Our results predict a strong relation between the ratio of currents in the interacting loops for a favoured flare configuration, and provide further support for a proposed method of generating long loops connecting different active regions. Both of these predictions are amenable to observational verification. 
