Chapter 1: Introduction

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Write introduction

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Outline

• The Structure of the Solar Atmosphere
• A History of Coronal Observations
• The Solar Magnetic Field
  • Flux emergence --> formation of ARs (Physics, characteristics, why are they interesting, flux emergence)
  • Reconnection
  • Observations
  • magnetograms (scalar, vector)
  • Field extrapolation (very brief, show a PFSS example)
• Heating Processes in the Corona
  • Reconnection versus Wave Heating
  • Nanoflare Heating (history, theory, observations?)
• Aims of this Work

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Would be nice to include a PFSS plot (e.g. with pfsspy)