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The presence of magnetic field is crucial in the transport of energy through the solar atmosphere. Recent ground-based and space-borne observations of the quiet Sun have revealed that magnetic field accumulates at photospheric heights, via…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Juan Martínez-Sykora , Viggo H. Hansteen , Boris Gudiksen , Mats Carlsson , Bart De Pontieu , Milan Gosic

We present a comprehensive radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the quiet Sun and large solar active regions. The 197 Mm wide simulation domain spans from 18 (10) Mm beneath the photosphere to 113 Mm in the solar corona. Radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

The chromosphere in internetwork regions of the quiet Sun was regarded as a static and homogeneous layer for a long time. Thanks to advances in observations and numerical modelling, the wave nature of these atmospheric regions received…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm

The solar atmosphere may be heated by Alfven waves that propagate up from the convection zone and dissipate their energy in the chromosphere and corona. To further test this theory, we consider wave heating in an active region observed on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Asgari-Targhi , A. A. van Ballegooijen , S. R. Cranmer , E. E. DeLuca

Coronal jets are transient, collimated eruptions that occur in regions of predominantly open magnetic field in the solar corona. Our understanding of these events has greatly evolved in recent years but several open questions, such as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 T. Torok , R. Lionello , V. S. Titov , J. E. Leake , Z. Mikic , J. A. Linker , M. G. Linton

The brightness of the emission from coronal loops in the solar atmosphere is strongly dependent on the temperature and density of the confined plasma. After a release of energy, these loops undergo a heating and upflow phase, followed by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 C. D. Johnston , S. J. Bradshaw

We provide estimates of the wave energy reaching the solar chromosphere and corona in a network-like magnetic field topology, including a coronal null point. The waves are excited by an instantaneous strong subphotospheric source and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 Irantzu C. Santamaria , Elena Khomenko , Manuel Collados , Angel de Vicente

Magnetic energy released in the corona by solar flares reaches the chromosphere where it drives characteristic upflows and downflows known as evaporation and condensation. These flows are studied here for the case where energy is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 D. W. Longcope

Coronal loops are the basic building block of the upper solar atmosphere. Comprehending how these are energized, structured, and evolve is key to understanding stellar coronae. Here we investigate how the energy to heat the loop is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 C. Breu , H. Peter , R. Cameron , S. K. Solanki , D. Przybylski , M. Rempel , L. P. Chitta

Solar corona is much hotter than lower layers of the solar atmosphere-photosphere and chromosphere. The coronal temperature is up to 1MK in quiet sun areas, while up to several MK in active regions, which implies a key role of magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Gregory D. Fleishman , Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita

Determining the mechanisms responsible for the heating of the coronal plasma and maintaining and accelerating the solar wind are long standing goals in solar physics. There is a clear need to constrain the energy, mass and momentum flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-21 R. J. Morton , E. Scullion , D. S. Bloomfield , J. A. McLaughlin , S. Regnier , S. W. McIntosh , S. Tomczyk , P. Young

The large temperature gradients in the solar transition region present a significant challenge to large scale numerical modelling of the Sun's atmosphere. In response, a variety of techniques have been developed which modify the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Thomas Howson , Cosima Breu

Context. There remains much mystery about how or if wave-energy in the photosphere can be transferred sufficiently upwards through the solar atmosphere to contribute to coronal heating. In light of a plethora of theoretical and idealised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 George Cherry , Boris Gudiksen , Adam J. Finley , Quentin Noraz

The solar transition region (TR) is a narrow interface between the chromosphere and corona, where emitted radiation contains critical information pertinent to coronal heating processes. We conducted 2-dimensional radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Takuma Matsumoto

A three-dimensional MHD model for the propagation and dissipation of Alfven waves in a coronal loop is developed. The model includes the lower atmospheres at the two ends of the loop. The waves originate on small spatial scales (less than…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. A. van Ballegooijen , M. Asgari-Targhi , S. R. Cranmer , E. E. DeLuca

Context. The solar chromosphere is the interface between the solar surface and the solar corona. Modelling of this region is difficult because it represents the transition from optically thick to thin radiation escape, from gas-pressure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Mats Carlsson , Viggo H. Hansteen , Boris V. Gudiksen , Jorrit Leenaarts , Bart De Pontieu

In an attempt to understand the properties of convective energy transport in the solar convection zone, a numerical model has been constructed for turbulent flows in a compressible, radiation-coupled, non-magnetic, gravitationally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong -Cheol Kim , Peter A. Fox , Sabatino Sofia , Pierre Demarque

In this paper, we present a numerical simulation of an impulsively driven chromospheric jet in the solar atmosphere using the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations coupled with frequency- and angle-averaged radiation transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 J. J. González-Avilés

The history and present state of large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modeling of the solar corona and the solar wind with steady or quasi-steady coronal physics is reviewed. We put the evolution of ideas leading to the recognition of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Tamas I. Gombosi , Bart van der Holst , Ward B. Manchester , Igor V. Sokolov

The measured average velocities in solar and stellar spectral lines formed at transition region temperatures have been difficult to interpret. However, realistic three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamics (3D rMHD) models of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 P. Zacharias , V. H. Hansteen , J. Leenaarts , M. Carlsson , B. V. Gudiksen