One of the few cartoons in the Archive that aims to represent nanoflares. This is a bit surprising, since (although there is little convincing evidence for their existence) there has been theoretical and modeling development on a massive scale. Note that the cartoon shows sub-pixel structure in the form of multiple strands, but that these strands are not braided. Thus in a sense the cartoon does an injustice to the Parker theoretical scheme.
At least as regards the SXT observations, this paper needs to be considered in the context of the Labonte & Reardon description of the additional variance due to the range of photon energies detected.
July 19, 2010