Fig. 2

(a) Schematic of a flux rope with a magnetic field that wraps a core axial field. The flux rope is propagating outward within a solar wind magnetic field pointing back towards the sun. As indicated, the flux rope generally has axial flow. (b) Schematic of the relaxed state of the flux rope in which the flow within the flux rope is field aligned.
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