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Magnetic tornadoes as energy channels into the solar corona

This paper reports for the first time the discovery of super-hot and super-fast tornadoes which may help answer a fundamental question of modern astrophysics that is, how the Sun’s atmosphere becomes hotter than its surface. The discovery of these magnetic solar tornadoes is a major step towards understanding how energy originating below the sun’s surface is transported up to the solar atmosphere. Following publication, news of the discovery featured in a number of major science journals, newspapers and internet resources. For example: Scientific American (http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=magnetic-tornadoes-may-heat-solar-c-12-06-27), Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2165890/Telescope-finds-solar-tornadoes-heating-suns-surface-millions-degrees-centigrade.html), space.com (http://www.space.com/16325-sun-tornado-solar-twisters.html), Bild der Wissenschaft (7/2013), German Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau (08/2013).