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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), powerful solar eruptions with massive plasma ejected into the interplanetary space, are caused by the release of the magnetic free enengy stored in coronal electric currents. Photospheric current helicity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Zheng Sun , Ting Li , Xinkai Bian , Yijun Hou , Ioannis Kontogiannis , Ziqi Wu

It is argued that much of the observed magnetic helicity losses at the solar surface may represent a reduction of an otherwise more dominant nonlinearity of solar and stellar dynamos. This nonlinearity is proportional to the internal twist…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandenburg , E. G. Blackman

Magnetic helicity fluxes are investigated in a family of gauges in which the contribution from ideal magnetohydrodynamics takes the form of a purely advective flux. Numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in this advective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Simon Candelaresi , Alexander Hubbard , Axel Brandenburg , Dhrubaditya Mitra

Understanding the nature and evolution of the photospheric helicity flux transfer is a key to reveal the role of magnetic helicity in coronal dynamics of solar active regions. Using SDO/HMI photospheric vector magnetograms and the derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 P. Vemareddy , P. Démoulin

We assess the validity of the free magnetic energy - relative magnetic helicity diagram for solar magnetic structures. We used two different methods of calculating the free magnetic energy and the relative magnetic helicity budgets: a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 K. Tziotziou , K. Moraitis , M. K. Georgoulis , V. Archontis

A model for a solar flare, involving magnetic reconnection transferring flux and current between current-carrying magnetic loops connecting two pairs of footpoints, is generalized to include conservation of magnetic helicity during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Don Melrose

This work examines the relationship between solar eruptivity and the relative helicity that is contained around the polarity inversion line (PIL) of the magnetic field, along with its current-carrying component. To this end, we analyze the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 K. Moraitis , J. K. Thalmann

We perform a study of fluid motions and its temporal evolution in and around a small bipolar emerging flux region using observations made by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on-board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We employ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 C. R. Sangeetha , Durgesh Tripathi , S. P. Rajaguru

Waves connect all the layers of the Sun, from its interior to the upper atmosphere. It is becoming clear now the important role of magnetic field on the wave propagation. Magnetic field modifies propagation speed of waves, thus affecting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Elena Khomenko

There is mounting evidence that the ejection of magnetic helicity from the solar surface is important for the solar dynamo. Observations suggest that in the northern hemisphere the magnetic helicity flux is negative. We propose that this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Brandenburg , E. G. Blackman , G. R. Sarson

The linear scaling of the mixed third-order moment of the magnetohydrodynamic fluctuations is used to estimate the energy transfer rate of the turbulent cascade in the expanding solar wind. In 1976 the Helios 2 spacecraft measured three…

Long-term evolution characteristics of the solar transition region have been unclear. In this study, daily images of the solar full disk derived from the observations by the Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly at 304 A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 W. Q. Chen , K. J. Li , J. C. Xu

We study the possibility that primordial magnetic fields generated in the transition between inflation and reheating posses magnetic helicity, $H_M$. The fields are induced by stochastic currents of scalar charged particles created during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 Esteban Calzetta , Alejandra Kandus

The topology and dynamics of the three-dimensional magnetic field in the solar atmosphere govern various solar eruptive phenomena and activities, such as flares, coronal mass ejections, and filaments/prominences. We have to observe and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-20 Yang Guo , Xin Cheng , M. D. Ding

We present results from two 1536^3 direct numerical simulations of rotating turbulence where both energy and helicity are injected into the flow by an external forcing. The dual cascade of energy and helicity towards smaller scales observed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

With the development of new instrumentation providing measurements of solar photospheric vector magnetic fields, we need to develop our understanding of the effects of current density on coronal magnetic field configurations. The object is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Regnier , E. R. Priest

The electromagnetic helicity of the free electromagnetic field and the static magnetic helicity are shown to be two different embodiments of the same physical quantity, the total helicity. The total helicity is the sum of two terms: a term…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton

We study the evolution of primordial magnetic fields in an expanding cosmic plasma. For this purpose we present a comprehensive theoretical model to consider the evolution of MHD turbulence that can be used over a wide range of physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Alexander G. Tevzadze

We study the relative helicity of active region (AR) NOAA~12673 during a ten-hour time interval centered around a preceding X2.2 flare (SOL2017-09-06T08:57) and also including an eruptive X9.3 flare that occurred three hours later…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Julia K. Thalmann , X. Sun , K. Moraitis , M. Gupta

Duo to the large magnetic Reynolds number, the magnetic helicity originating from the solar interior can be carried away through the photosphere into the corona. However, the relationship between the accumulated magnetic helicity flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Quan Wang , Shangbin Yang , Mei Zhang , Xiao Yang