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The flare energy build-up processes, or the processes of the magnetic shear development are studied in detail by analyzing the high resolution Hα pictures of a rapidly-evoluving and flare-productive active region NOAA 6233. From the analysis, it is tentatively concluded that the flare energy is already stored in a twisted magnetic flux rope which is formed in the convection zone, and that the successive emergence of the twisted rope develops strong magnetic shear configuration and strong flare activity on the solar surface.
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Kurokawa, H. (1996). Energy Build-Up Processes of Solar Flares Studied by Optical Observations. In: Uchida, Y., Kosugi, T., Hudson, H.S. (eds) Magnetodynamic Phenomena in the Solar Atmosphere. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0315-9_33
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