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Two of the most widely observed and yet most puzzling features of the Sun's magnetic field are coronal loops that are smooth and laminar and prominences/filaments that are strongly sheared. These two features would seem to be quite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Kalman J. Knizhnik , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore

Seven different models are applied to the same problem of simulating the Sun's coronal magnetic field during the solar eclipse on 2015 March 20. All of the models are non-potential, allowing for free magnetic energy, but the associated…

The differential rotation of the solar corona for the period 1976-2004 was studied as a function of the distance from the center of the Sun. For this study, we developed a method using the coronal magnetic field as a tracer. The field in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 O. G. Badalyan , V. N. Obridko

Magnetic field is the key physical quantity in solar physics as it controls all kinds of solar activity, ranging from nanoflares to big flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). However, so far only the magnetic field on the solar surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 P. F. Chen

The Sun's magnetic field is a key driver in coronal heating and consequently solar wind acceleration. Remote measurement of the photosphere provides the magnetic surface boundary condition necessary for data-constrained 3D global coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Caroline L. Evans , Cooper Downs , Donald Schmit

The magnetic field in the Sun's corona stores energy that can be released to heat the coronal plasma and drive solar eruptions. Measurements of the global coronal magnetic field have been limited to a few snapshots. We present observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Zihao Yang , Hui Tian , Steven Tomczyk , Xianyu Liu , Sarah Gibson , Richard J. Morton , Cooper Downs

The coupling between small and large scale structures and processes on the Sun and in the heliosphere is important in the relation to the global magnetic configuration. Thin heliospheric current sheets play the leading role in this respect.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-24 Igor Veselovsky , Olga Panasenco

The photospheric magnetic field vector is continuously derived from measurements, while reconstruction of the three-dimensional (3D) coronal magnetic field requires modelling with photospheric measurements as a boundary condition. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 I. Chifu , B. Inhester , T. Wiegelmann

Quiescent filaments are prominent features of the solar atmosphere, and their evolution reflects the coronal magnetic field's response to photospheric magnetic activity. Here, we report on a quiescent filament observed from 2023 September…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Garima Karki , Jinhan Guo , Brigitte Schmieder , Ramesh Chandra , Pascal Démoulin , Stefaan Poedts , Bernard Gelly

The magnetic field shapes the structure of the solar corona but we still know little about the interrelationships between the coronal magnetic field configurations and the resulting quasi-stationary structures observed in coronagraphic…

The coming decade will see the routine use of solar data of unprecedented spatial and spectral resolution, time cadence, and completeness. To capitalize on the new (or soon to be available) facilities such as SDO, ATST and FASR, and the…

On 21 August 2017 a total solar eclipse swept across the contiguous United States providing excellent opportunities for diagnostics of the Sun's corona. The Sun's coronal structure is notoriously difficult to observe except during solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-03 Dibyendu Nandy , Prantika Bhowmik , Anthony R. Yeates , Suman Panda , Rajashik Tarafder , Soumyaranjan Dash

The solar atmosphere being magnetic in nature, the understanding of the structure and evolution of the magnetic field in different regions of the solar atmosphere has been an important task over the past decades. This task has been made…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Regnier

Filaments and coronal holes, two principal features observed in the solar corona are sources of space weather variations. Filament formation is closely associated with polarity inversion lines (PIL) on the solar photosphere which separate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Rakesh Mazumder , Prantika Bhowmik , Dibyendu Nandy

A new model has been proposed for magnetic field determination at different distances from the Sun during different solar cycle phases. The model depends on the observed large-scale non-polar photospheric magnetic fields and that measured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Irina A. Bilenko

Solar atmosphere is a single system unified by the presence of large-scale magnetic fields. Topological changes in magnetic fields that occur in one place may have consequences for coronal heating and eruptions for other, even remote…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-05 Alexei A. Pevtsov

In the solar corona, magnetic helicity slowly and continuously accumulates in response to plasma flows tangential to the photosphere and magnetic flux emergence through it. Analyzing this transfer of magnetic helicity is key for identifying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 K. Dalmasse , E. Pariat , G. Valori , J. Jing , P. Démoulin

We present in this Letter the first global comparison between traditional line-tied steady state magnetohydrodynamic models and a new, fully time-dependent thermodynamic magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the global corona. The maps are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Emily I. Mason , Roberto Lionello , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Ronald M. Caplan

We study the evolution of the observed photospheric magnetic field and the modeled global coronal magnetic field during the past 3 1/2 solar activity cycles observed since the mid-1970s. We use synoptic magnetograms and extrapolated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. J. D. Petrie

This paper describes a new 2D model for the photospheric evolution of the magnetic carpet. It is the first in a series of papers working towards constructing a realistic 3D non-potential model for the interaction of small-scale solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-05 Karen A. Meyer , Duncan H. Mackay , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen , Clare E. Parnell