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Fig. 5
Field lines of twisted a) and braided b) flux ropes (primary colours) and the background linear force free field (light colouring). Field lines can be seen to peel of the ropes as a result of the influence of the background field Bb. These are the initial conditions for the simulations in Sect. 4.
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