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Although it is generally believed that the solar photosphere is not magnetically force-free owning to its high plasma $\beta$, the estimations of force-freeness using observed magnetograms have produced disputable results. Some studies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Mei Zhang , Haocheng Zhang

COCONUT is a global coronal magnetohydrodynamic model recently developed. In order to achieve robustness and fast convergence to steady-state, several assumptions have been made during its development, such as prescribing filtered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Michaela Brchnelova , Błażej Kuźma , Fan Zhang , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

This paper is the third in a series of papers working towards the construction of a realistic, evolving, non-linear force-free coronal field model for the solar magnetic carpet. Here, we present preliminary results of 3D time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 K. A. Meyer , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen , C. E. Parnell

Solar magnetic fields are closely related to various physical phenomena on the sun, which can be extrapolated with different models from photospheric magnetograms. However, the Open Flux Problem (OFP), the underestimation of the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Guanglu Shi , Li Feng , Beili Ying , Shuting Li , Weiqun Gan

Direct solar coronal magnetic field measurements have become possible since recent development of high-sensitivity infrared detection technology. The SOLARC instrument installed on Mt. Haleakala is such a polarimetric coronagraph that was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-05 Y. Liu , H. Lin

Optical observations of solar corona provide key information on its magnetic geometry. The large-scale open field of the corona plays an important role in shaping the ambient solar wind and constraining the propagation dynamics of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-19 Vadim M. Uritsky , Christopher E. Rura , Cooper Downs , Shaela I. Jones , Charles Nickolos Arge , Nathalia Alzate

Measurements of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) over several solar cycles do not agree with computed values of open magnetic flux from potential field extrapolations. The discrepancy becomes greater around solar maximum in each…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. R. Yeates , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen , J. A. Constable

In the solar corona, magnetic flux rope is believed to be a fundamental structure accounts for magnetic free energy storage and solar eruptions. Up to the present, the extrapolation of magnetic field from boundary data is the primary way to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

Stellar dynamos are affected by boundary conditions imposed by stellar coronae. Under some approximations it is possible to find analytical solutions. Interior dynamo models often consider a current-free coronae without taking into account…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Alfio Bonanno , Fabio Del Sordo

Solar flare simulations are commonly initialised using non-linear force free field (NLFF) extrapolations derived from photospheric vector magnetograms. However, the force free assumption neglects plasma forces and may limit the available…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 W. Bate , M. Gordovskyy , A. Prasad , A. S. Brun , A. Strugarek , M. V. Sieyra , P. Browning , S. Inoue , K. Matsumoto , A. Roddanavar

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 potential field (PF) solution of the solar corona is a vital modeling tool for a wide range of applications, including minimum energy estimates, coronal magnetic field modeling, and empirical solar wind solutions. Given its popularity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Ronald M. Caplan , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Zoran Mikic

Coupled flux transport and magneto-frictional simulations are extended to simulate the continuous magnetic field evolution in the global solar corona for over 15 years, from the start of Solar Cycle 23 in 1996. By simplifying the dynamics,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. R. Yeates

We investigate the recently quantified misalignment of $\alpha_{mis} \approx 20^\circ-40^\circ$ between the 3-D geometry of stereoscopically triangulated coronal loops observed with STEREO/EUVI (in four active regions) and theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Markus J. Aschwanden , Anne W. Sandman

Slow dissipation of non-potential magnetic fields in the magnetosphere of the magnetar is assumed to accelerate particles to hundreds MeV along the magnetic field lines. We consider interaction of fast particles with the surface of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-26 Yury Lyubarsky , David Eichler

By comparing a magneto-frictional model of the low coronal magnetic field to a potential-field source-surface model, we investigate the possible impact of non-potential magnetic structure on empirical solar-wind models. These empirical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 S. J. Edwards , A. R. Yeates , F. -X. Bocquet , D. H. Mackay

At the Sun, the strongest magnetic fields are routinely detected at dark sunspots. The magnitude of the field is typically about 3000 G, with only a few exceptions that reported the magnetic field in excess of 5000 G. Given that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Sergey A. Anfinogentov , Alexey G. Stupishin , Ivan I. Mysh'yakov , Gregory D. Fleishman

We undertake a first attempt towards a consistent reconstruction of the coronal magnetic field and the coronal density structure. We consider a stationary solar corona which has to obey the equations of magnetohydrostatics. We solve these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester

Measurement of the coronal magnetic field is a crucial ingredient in understanding the nature of solar coronal phenomena at all scales. We employed STEREO/COR1 data obtained during a deep minimum of solar activity in February 2008…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-06 M. Kramar , V. Airapetian , Z. Mikić , J. Davila

General relativistic force-free electrodynamics is one possible plasma-limit employed to analyze energetic outflows in which strong magnetic fields are dominant over all inertial phenomena. The amazing images of black hole shadows from the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 J. F. Mahlmann , M. A. Aloy , V. Mewes , P. Cerdá-Durán