New UKSP nugget 34. Discovery of the sausage-pinch instability in corona

34. Discovery of the Sausage-Pinch Instability in Solar Corona by Abhi K. Srivastava1 (ARIES, India), R. Erdélyi, V. Fedun (Sheffield), P. Kayshap, N.C. Joshi (ARIES, India) & D. Tripathi (IUCAA, India)

AIA observations of a lumpy filament reveal a fundamental MHD instability in the corona.

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