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We explore the alpha-effect and the small-scale current helicity, for the case of weakly compressible magnetically driven turbulence that is subjected to the differential rotation. No restriction is applied to the amplitude of angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Pipin

Magnetic helicity is a quantity that underpins many theories of magnetic relaxation in electrically conducting fluids, both laminar and turbulent. Although much theoretical effort has been expended on magnetic fields that are everywhere…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Sauli Lindberg , David MacTaggart

Magnetic helicity is an invariant of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that encodes information on the topology of magnetic field lines. It has long been appreciated that magnetic topology is an important constraint for the evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-25 David MacTaggart , Chris Prior

Dynamos in the Sun and other bodies tend to produce magnetic fields that possess magnetic helicity of opposite sign at large and small scales, respectively. The build-up of magnetic helicity at small scales provides an important saturation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Piyali Chatterjee , Gustavo Guerrero , Axel Brandenburg

We study the writhe, twist and magnetic helicity of different magnetic flux ropes, based on models of the solar coronal magnetic field structure. These include an analytical force-free Titov--D\'emoulin equilibrium solution, non force-free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Y. Guo , E. Pariat , G. Valori , S. Anfinogentov , F. Chen , M. Georgoulis , Y. Liu , K. Moraitis , J. K. Thalmann , S. Yang

For the first time we reconstruct the magnetic helicity density of global axisymmetric field of the Sun using method proposed by Brandenburg et al. (2003) and Pipin et al. (2013). To determine the components of the vector potential, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 V. V. Pipin , A. A. Pevtsov

A hemispheric preference in the dominant sign of magnetic helicity has been observed in numerous features in the solar atmosphere: i.e., left-handed/right-handed helicity in the northern/southern hemisphere. The relative importance of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Sung-Hong Park , K. D. Leka , Kanya Kusano

Magnetic fields of laboratory, planetary, stellar, and galactic plasmas commonly exhibit significant order on large temporal or spatial scales compared to the otherwise random motions within the hosting system. Such ordered fields can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Eric G. Blackman

We investigate the evolution of field line helicity for magnetic fields that connect two boundaries without null points, with emphasis on localized finite-B magnetic reconnection. Total (relative) magnetic helicity is already recognized as…

We demonstrate that conservation of global helicity plays only a minor role in determining the nature and consequences of magnetic reconnection in the solar atmosphere. First, we show that observations of the solar coronal magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore

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

We have investigated the variation of magnetic helicity over a span of several days around the times of 11 X-class flares which occurred in seven active regions (NOAA 9672, 10030, 10314, 10486, 10564, 10696, and 10720) using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sung-Hong Park , Jeongwoo Lee , Gwang-Son Choe , Jongchul Chae , Hyewon Jeong , Guo Yang , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

The evolution of magnetic helicity has a close relationship with solar eruptions and is of interest as a predictive diagnostic. In this case study, we analyse the evolution of the normalised emergence, shearing and total magnetic helicity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 M. B. Korsos , P. Romano , H. Morgan , Y. Ye , R. Erdelyi , F. Zuccarello

In this paper, we briefly introduce the basic questions in the measurements of solar magnetic fields and the possible error sources due to the approximation of the theory of radiation transfer of spectral lines in the solar atmosphere. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-16 Hongqi Zhang

Helical distributed chaos in magnetic field has been studied using results of direct numerical simulations (dominated by magnetic helicity), of a laboratory experiment with plasma wind tunnel and of solar wind measurements (dominated by…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-07-11 A. Bershadskii

We simulate the evolution of the helicity of relic neutrinos as they propagate to Earth through a realistic model of the Galactic magnetic field, improving upon the rough estimates in the literature. For magnetic moments consistent with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-09 Kuo K. Liao , Glennys R. Farrar

Using a recently proposed nonlinear force-free method designed for single vector magnetograms of solar active regions we calculate the instantaneous free magnetic energy and relative magnetic helicity budgets in 162 vector magnetograms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Kostas Tziotziou , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Nour-Eddine Raouafi

Recent analysis of the helioseismic observations indicate that the previously observed surface torsional oscillations extend significantly downwards into the solar convection zone. In an attempt to understand these oscillations, we study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eurico Covas , Reza Tavakol , David Moss , Andrew Tworkowski

It has been recognized that the turbulent cross helicity (correlation between the velocity and magnetic-field fluctuations) can play an important role in several magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma phenomena such as the global magnetic-field…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Nobumitsu Yokoi

Relative magnetic helicity is a gauge invariant quantity suitable for the study of the magnetic helicity content of heliospheric plasmas. Relative magnetic helicity can be decomposed uniquely into two gauge invariant quantities, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Luis Linan , Étienne Pariat , Kostas Moraitis , Gherardo Valori , James E. Leake