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Eruptive flares are sudden releases of magnetic energy that involve many phenomena, several of which can be explained by the standard 2D flare model and its realizations in three-dimensions. We analyze a three-dimensional…

We report on three-dimensional (3D) MHD simulations of recurrent mini CME-like eruptions in a small active region (AR), which is formed by the dynamical emergence of a twisted (not kink unstable) flux tube from the solar interior. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-28 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood , K. Tsinganos

Flux emergence is ubiquitous in the Sun's lower atmosphere, where the emerging magnetic flux can reconnect with the pre-existing magnetic field. We investigate plasmoid formation and the resulting multi-thermal emissions during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Robert Cameron , Hardi Peter , Yajie Chen , Jun Lin

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are powerful drivers of space weather, with magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) widely regarded as their primary precursors. However, the variation in reconnection flux during the evolution of MFR during CME eruptions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Samriddhi Sankar Maity , Piyali Chatterjee , Ranadeep Sarkar , Ijas S. Mytheen

We study the formation of coronal jets through numerical simulation of the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux rope into a pre-existing open magnetic field. Reconnection inside the emerging flux rope in addition to that between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Fang Fang , Yuhong Fan , Scott W. McIntosh

We investigated the dynamic evolution of a 3-dimensional (3D) flux rope eruption and magnetic reconnection process in a solar flare, by simply extending 2-dimensional (2D) resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulation model of solar flares with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-18 Keisuke Nishida , Naoto Nishizuka , Kazunari Shibata

Sympathetic eruptions on the Sun have been observed for several decades, but the mechanisms by which one eruption can trigger another one remain poorly understood. We present a 3D MHD simulation that suggests two possible magnetic trigger…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Torok , O. Panasenco , V. S. Titov , Z. Mikic , K. K. Reeves , M. Velli , J. A. Linker , G. De Toma

Radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation includes sufficiently realistic physics to allow for the synthesis of remote sensing observables that can be quantitatively compared with observations. We analyze the largest flare in a simulation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

We address the formation of 3D nullpoint topologies in the solar corona by combining Hinode/XRT observations of a small dynamic limb event, which occurred beside a non-erupting prominence cavity, with a 3D zero-beta MHD simulation. To this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Toeroek , G. Aulanier , B. Schmieder , K. K. Reeves , L. Golub

Flux emergence is responsible for various solar eruptions. Combining observation and simulations, we investigate the influence of flux emergence at one footpoint of an arcade on coronal rain as well as induced eruptions. The emergence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Xiaohong Li , Rony Keppens , Yuhao Zhou

During eruptive solar flares and coronal mass ejections, a non-pot{\-}ential magnetic arcade with much excess magnetic energy goes unstable and reconnects. It produces a twisted erupting flux rope and leaves behind a sheared arcade of hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Eric Priest , Dana Longcope , Miho Janvier

Solar eruptions are sudden ejections of coronal mass and magnetic fields accompanied by intense energy release. The eruptive structure does not always erupt successfully, but sometimes fails to escape the Sun after initiation. The failure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves , Peter R. Young , Astrid M. Veronig , Xingyao Chen , Sijie Yu , Bin Chen , Bin Zhuang

We present the results of a set of three-dimensional numerical simulations of magnetic flux emergence from below the photosphere into the corona that include a uniform and horizontal coronal magnetic field mimicking a pre-existing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Galsgaard , F. Moreno-Insertis , V. Archontis , A. Hood

Three-dimensional magnetic topology of solar flare plays a crucial role in understanding its explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona. However, such three-dimensional coronal magnetic field is still elusive in direct observation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

Large-scale solar eruptions are believed to have a magnetic flux rope as the core structure. However, it remains elusive as to how the flux rope builds up and what triggers its eruption. Recent observations found that a prominence erupted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Quanhao Zhang , Yuming Wang , Rui Liu , Jie Zhang , Youqiu Hu , Wensi Wang , Bin Zhuang , Xiaolei Li

Impulsive solar energetic particle events are widely believed to be due to the prompt escape into the interplanetary medium of flare-accelerated particles produced by solar eruptive events. According to the standard model for such events,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Masson , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore

Both observations and simulations suggest that the solar filament eruption is closely related to magnetic flux emergence. It is thought that the eruption is triggered by magnetic reconnection between the filament and the emerging flux.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Hongqiang Song , Zhe Xu , Yongyuan Xiang

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) constitute the core structure of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), but hot debates remain on whether the MFR forms before or during solar eruptions. Furthermore, how flare reconnection shapes the erupting MFR is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-20 Chaowei Jiang , Jun Chen , Aiying Duan , Xinkai Bian , Xinyi Wang , Jiaying Li , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng

Three-dimensional magnetic topology is crucial to understanding the explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona during solar flares. Much attention has been given to the pre-flare magnetic topology to identify candidate sites of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Rui Liu , P. Vemareddy , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

This review focuses on the processes that energize and trigger major solar flares and flux-rope destabilizations. Numerical modeling of specific solar regions is hampered by uncertain coronal-field reconstructions and by poorly understood…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. J. Schrijver