Coronal magnetic fields: intrinsically 3D
• Everyone wants to measure coronal magnetic fields: flares, coronal heating, CMEs, ….
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• Most of us come from Flatland: we are accustomed to 2D photospheric field measurements.
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•The corona is different: intrinsically 3D. Have to think differently. Can’t measure 3D fields with an optically thin diagnostic; here radio has an advantage because it is optically thick: get different layers of the corona at different frequencies.
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• Extrapolations of surface fields will be just as crucial because we don’t measure the height of the gyroresonance layers.
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• But extrapolations need radio measurements of coronal field strengths because the photospheric and chromospheric measurements are incomplete.