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The physical process which heats the multi-million degree coronae of late-type stars such as the Sun is one of the fundamental mysteries of astrophysics. A number of plausible theories have been proposed, but none of them has yet been demonstrated to be correct. We must therefore rely on new coronal observations, such as those from Yohkoh, to constrain and distinguish among the competing ideas.
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Klimchuk, J.A., Porter, L.J. (1996). The Heating of Soft X-Ray Coronal Loops. 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_6
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