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This paper aims to maximize optical force and torque on arbitrary micro- and nano-scale objects using numerically optimized structured illumination. By developing a numerical framework for computer-automated design of 3d vector-field…

We present an extension of the Coronal Reconstruction Onto B-Aligned Regions (CROBAR) method to Linear Force Free Field (LFFF) extrapolations, and apply it to the reconstruction of a set of AIA, MDI, and STEREO EUVI data. The results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Joseph Plowman , Daniel B. Seaton , Amir Caspi , J. Marcus Hughes , Matthew J. West

Vector magnetogram data are often used as photospheric boundary conditions for force-free coronal magnetic field extrapolations. In general, however, vector magnetogram data are not consistent with the force-free assumption. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Alpha Mastrano , Kai E. Yang , Michael S. Wheatland

This work examines the relation between the fractal properties of the photospheric magnetic patterns and those of the coronal magnetic fields in solar active regions.Our results show no correlation between the fractal dimensions of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Dimitropoulou , M. Georgoulis , H. Isliker , L. Vlahos , A. Anastasiadis , D. Strintzi , X. Moussas

We test a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) optimization code in spherical geometry using an analytical solution from Low and Lou. Several tests are run, ranging from idealized cases where exact vector field data are provided on all…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Y. Guo , M. D. Ding , Y. Liu , X. D. Sun , M. L. DeRosa , T. Wiegelmann

We study the magnetic field and current structure associated with a coronal loop. Through this we investigate to what extent the assumptions of a force-free magnetic field break down and where they might be justified. We analyse a 3D MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-05 Jörn Warnecke , Feng Chen , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

Expanding on an earlier work that relied on linear force-free magnetic fields, we self-consistently derive the instantaneous free magnetic energy and relative magnetic helicity budgets of an unknown three-dimensional nonlinear force-free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. K. Georgoulis , K. Tziotziou , N. -E. Raouafi

We investigate the change in stellar magnetic topology across the fully-convective boundary and its effects on coronal properties. We consider both the magnitude of the open flux that influences angular momentum loss in the stellar wind and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-11 Pauline Lang , Moira Jardine , Jean-Francois Donati , Julien Morin , Aline Vidotto

An efficient numerical code FP3D has been developed to calculate particle orbits and evaluate particle confinement in 3D magnetic fields including stellarators and tokamaks with 3D fields. The magnetic field is either calculated from coils…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 P. Y. Jiang , Z. C. Feng , G. D. Yu , G. Y. Fu

The magnetic field governs the corona; hence it is a crucial parameter to measure. Unfortunately, existing techniques for estimating its strength are limited by strong assumptions and limitations. These techniques include photospheric or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Juan Martinez-Sykora , Viggo H. Hansteen , Bart De Pontieu , Enrico Landi

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model is often used to describe the solar coronal magnetic field, however a series of earlier studies revealed difficulties in the numerical solution of the model in application to photospheric…

Computational models of cardiac structure and function are increasingly central to the development of subject-specific cardiac digital twins, enabling improved characterization of contractile dysfunction, pathological remodeling, and…

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a tracer-based imaging modality that detects superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in vivo, with applications in cancer cell tracking, lymph node mapping, and cell therapy monitoring. We introduce a…

We present an efficient implementation of Wiener filtering of real-space linear field and optimal quadratic estimator of its power spectrum Band-powers. We first recast the field reconstruction into an optimization problem, which we solve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Benjamin Horowitz , Uros Seljak , Grigor Aslanyan

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) modeling has been extensively used to infer the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field in the solar corona. One of the assumptions in the NLFFF extrapolation is that the plasma beta is low, but this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Yusuke Kawabata , Andrés Asensio Ramos , Satoshi Inoue , Toshifumi Shimizu

The 3D magnetic topology of a solar active region (NOAA 10956) was reconstructed using a linear force-free field extrapolation constrained using the twin perspectives of \emph{STEREO}. A set of coronal field configurations was initially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Paul A. Conlon , Peter T. Gallagher

We extend the foil winding homogenization method to magnetic field conforming formulations. We first propose a full magnetic field foil winding formulation by analogy with magnetic flux density conforming formulations. We then introduce the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Louis Denis , Elias Paakkunainen , Paavo Rasilo , Sebastian Schöps , Benoît Vanderheyden , Christophe Geuzaine

We present a novel magnetohydrostatic numerical model that solves directly for the force-balanced magnetic field in the solar corona. This model is constructed with Radial Basis Function Finite Differences (RBF-FD), specifically 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Nathaniel H. Mathews , Natasha Flyer , Sarah E. Gibson

Rapid and stepwise changes of the magnetic field are often observed during flares but cannot be explained by models yet. Using a 45 min sequence of SDO/HMI 135 s fast-cadence vector magnetograms of the X1 flare on 2014-03-29 we construct,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Lucia Kleint , Michael S. Wheatland , Alpha Mastrano , Patrick I. McCauley

The minimum-energy configuration for the magnetic field above the solar photosphere is curl-free (hence, by Ampere's law, also current-free), so can be represented as the gradient of a scalar potential. Since magnetic fields are divergence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-20 Brian T. Welsch , George H. Fisher