Electrodynamics of magnetic explosions in astrophysics

该项目旨在开发一种新的太阳耀斑和脉冲星模型，更真实地描述这些现象。太阳耀斑和脉冲星的强磁场随时间迅速变化，暗示着巨大的感应电位。该项目旨在展示如何将感应场和等离子体对感应场的响应包含在电动力学理论中。它计划将这一理论应用于太阳耀斑，并展示它如何解决长期存在的“数字问题”。它还计划将该模型应用于脉冲星，并展示真空偶极子和旋转磁层模型之间长期存在的二分法是如何通过综合它们来解决的。该项目打算将这些想法结合成一个新模型，用于研究最极端的磁爆炸例子：超级耀斑和磁星上的巨大爆发。

The project aims to develop a new model for solar flares and pulsars that more realistically describes these phenomena. Solar flares and pulsars involve strong magnetic fields changing rapidly as a function of time, implying enormous inductive potentials. The project aims to show how the inductive field and the plasma response to it can be included in an electrodynamic theory. It plans to apply this theory to solar flares, and show how it can resolve the long-standing ‘number problem’. It also plans to apply the model to pulsars, and show how the long-standing dichotomy between the vacuum-dipole and rotating-magnetosphere models can be resolved by synthesising them. The project intends to combine these ideas into a new model for the most extreme examples of magnetic explosions: superflares and giant bursts on magnetars.