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A solar tornado triggered by flares?

Innes, D. E.; Low, B. C.; Tiwari, S. K. +1 more

Context. Solar tornados are dynamical, conspicuously helical magnetic structures that are mainly observed as a prominence activity.
Aims: We investigate and propose a triggering mechanism for the solar tornado observed in a prominence cavity by SDO/AIA on September 25, 2011.
Methods: High-cadence EUV images from the SDO/AIA and the Ahead…