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Large-scale solar eruptions are generally accepted to have coronal magnetic flux ropes as their core structures. Recent studies found that the solar eruptions could be initiated by a sequence of flux feeding processes, during with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Quanhao Zhang , Shangbin Yang , Rui Liu , Min Zhang , Dong Wang , Ake Zhao , Shaoyu Lyu , Anchuan Song , Yuming Wang

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

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

One candidate-model for heating the solar corona is magnetic reconnection that embodies Ohmic dissipation of current sheets. When numerous small-scaled magnetic reconnection occur, then it is possible to heat the corona. Due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Charalambos Kanella , Boris V. Gudiksen

A hot corona is suggested to be above the standard thin disk. The anisotropy of hard X-ray emission in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei implies that the corona is not static and probably moves outwards like winds. We perform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Xiao-Hong Yang , De-Fu Bu , Qi-Xiu Li

A possible key element for large-scale energy release in the solar corona is an MHD kink instability in a single twisted magnetic flux tube. An initial helical current sheet fragments in a turbulent way into smaller-scale sheets, similarly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 G. Cozzo , J. Reid , P. Pagano , F. Reale , A. W. Hood

The expansion of the rotating fluid will change the vorticity and rotational speed of the expanding region. In turbulent thermal convection, this microscopic effect is preserved. Tracking the fluid micelles shows that the average vorticity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-03 Haibin Chen , Rong Wu

When magnetic field in the solar convection zone buoyantly rises to pierce the visible solar surface (photosphere), the atmosphere (corona) above this surface must respond in some way. One response of the coronal field to photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-19 Lucas A. Tarr

Coronal heating has puzzled solar physicists for decades. The question of why the Sun's upper atmosphere is significantly hotter than its lower atmosphere remains a key mystery. It is commonly believed that the source of coronal heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Hanlin Yang , Jingxiu Wang , Chunlan Jin

The mechanism behind coronal heating still elude direct observation and modelling of viable theoretical processes and the subsequent effect on coronal structures is one of the key tools available to assess possible heating mechanisms.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 P. Pagano , I. De Moortel , R. J. Morton

The structure of magnetic flux ropes injected into the solar wind during reconnection in the coronal atmosphere is explored with particle-in-cell simulations and compared with in situ measurements of magnetic "switchbacks" from the Parker…

A solar filament is a dense cool condensation that is supported and thermally insulated by magnetic fields in the rarefied hot corona. Its evolution and stability, leading to either an eruption or disappearance, depend on its coupling with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-04 L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , L. Li

Context: The location of coronal heating in magnetic loops has been the subject of a long-lasting controversy: does it occur mostly at the loop footpoints, at the top, is it random, or is the average profile uniform? Aims: We try to address…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Buchlin , P. J. Cargill , S. J. Bradshaw , M. Velli

The heating of the solar corona is likely to be due to reconnection of the highly complex magnetic field that threads throughout its volume. We have run a numerical experiment of an elementary interaction between the magnetic field of two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew L. Haynes , Clare E. Parnell , Klaus Galsgaard , Eric R. Priest

We show that the coronal heating and the fast solar wind acceleration in the coronal holes are natural consequence of the footpoint fluctuations of the magnetic fields at the photosphere, by performing one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The steady, supersonic outflow from the Sun we call the solar wind was first posited in the 1950s and initial theories rightly linked the acceleration of the wind to the existence of the million-degree solar corona. Still today, the wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-17 Lauren N. Woolsey

Solar variability investigations that include magnetic energy coupling are paramount to solving many key solar/stellar physics problems, particularly for understanding the temporal variability of magnetic energy redistribution and heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 N. Brice Orange , David L. Chesny , Bruce Gendre , David C. Morris , Hakeem M. Oluseyi

In this paper, we study the heating of the magnetized solar chromosphere induced by the large fraction of neutral atoms present in this layer. The presence of neutrals, together with the decrease with height of the collisional coupling,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Elena Khomenko , Manuel Collados

The Parker or field line tangling model of coronal heating is studied comprehensively via long-time high-resolution simulations of the dynamics of a coronal loop in cartesian geometry within the framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-06 A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli , G. Einaudi , R. B. Dahlburg

Magnetic reconnection in the quiet Sun is a phenomenon that is consistently observed, and it has recently become feasible to simulate via 3D numerical models of realistically stratified and convection-driven reconnection. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Rebecca Robinson , Mats Carlsson , Guillaume Aulanier