English
Related papers

Related papers: Realistic Magnetohydrodynamical Simulation of Sola…

200 papers

Solar granulation consists of dynamic convective plasma cells that rise from the solar interior to the surface. The interaction between these plasma cells and the Sun's magnetic field provides valuable insights into plasma dynamics near the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 J. I. Campos Rozo , J. Jurčák , S. M. Díaz Castillo , M. van Noort

We investigate the importance of ambipolar diffusion and Hall currents for high-resolution comprehensive ('realistic') photospheric simulations. To do so we extended the radiative magnetohydrodynamics code \emph{MURaM} to use the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mark C. M. Cheung , Robert H. Cameron

The investigation of dynamics of the small scale magnetic field on the Sun photosphere is necessary to understand the physical processes occurring in the higher layers of solar atmosphere due to the magnetic coupling between the photosphere…

We investigate the excitation of magnetoacoustic-gravity waves generated from localized pulses in the gas pressure as well as in vertical component of velocity. These pulses are initially launched at the top of the solar photosphere that is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Murawski , A. K. Srivastava , J. A. McLaughlin , R. Oliver

Context. The surface structures and dynamics of cool stars are characterized by the presence of convective motions and turbulent flows which shape the emergent spectrum. Aims. We used realistic three-dimensional radiative hydrodynamical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Chiavassa , L. Casagrande , R. Collet , Z. Magic , L. Bigot , F. Thevenin , M. Asplund

We report the observations of the magneto-hydrodynamic waves propagating along magnetic flux tubes in the solar photosphere. We identified 20 isolated strong peaks (8 peaks for pores and 12 peaks for inter-granular magnetic structure) in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daisuke Fujimura , Saku Tsuneta

Realistic ab-initio 3D, radiative-hydrodynamical convection simulations of the solar granulation have been applied to FeI and FeII line formation. In contrast to classical analyses based on hydrostatic 1D model atmospheres the procedure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Asplund , AA. Nordlund , R. Trampedach , C. Allende Prieto , R. F. Stein

Observations of sun-like stars rotating faster than our current sun tend to exhibit increased magnetic activity as well as magnetic cycles spanning multiple years. Using global simulations in spherical shells to study the coupling of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nicholas J. Nelson , Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

The Sun rotates differentially with a fast equator and slow pole. Convection in the solar interior is thought to maintain the differential rotation. However, although many numerical simulations have been conducted to reproduce the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 H. Hotta , K. Kusano

Surface observations indicate that the speed of the solar meridional circulation in the photosphere varies in anti-phase with the solar cycle. The current explanation for the source of this variation is that inflows into active regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 D. Passos , M. Miesch , G. Guerrero , P. Charbonneau

Using grid refinement, we have simulated solar granulation in 2D. The refined region measures 1.97*2.58 Mm (vertical*horizontal). Grid spacing there is 1.82*2.84 km. The downflows exhibit strong Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. Below the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. J. Muthsam , B. Loew-Baselli , Chr. Obertscheider , M. Langer , P. Lenz , F. Kupka

Magnetic element tracking is often used to study the transport and diffusion of the magnetic field on the solar photosphere. From the analysis of the displacement spectrum of these tracers, it has been recently agreed that a regime of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-01 D. Del Moro , F. Giannattasio , F. Berrilli , G. Consolini , F. Lepreti , M. Gosic

We present an ab initio approach to the solar coronal heating problem by modelling a small part of the solar corona in a computational box using a 3D MHD code including realistic physics. The observed solar granular velocity pattern and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. V. Gudiksen , Å. Nordlund

We present first results from three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of M-type dwarf stars with CO5BOLD. The local models include the top of the convection zone, the photosphere, and the chromosphere. The results are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-10 S. Wedemeyer , H. -G. Ludwig , O. Steiner

We present a formalism for investigating the interaction between pmode oscillations and convection by analyzing realistic, three-dimensional simulations of the near-surface layers of the solar convection zone. By choosing suitable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Å. Nordlund , R. F. Stein

Stars of sufficiently low mass are convective throughout their interiors, and so do not possess an internal boundary layer akin to the solar tachocline. Because that interface figures so prominently in many theories of the solar magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew Browning

We demonstrate that a magneto-convection simulation incorporating essential physical processes governing solar surface convection exhibits turbulent small-scale dynamo action. By presenting a derivation of the energy balance equation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Jonathan Pietarila Graham , Robert Cameron , Manfred Schuessler

In the recent papers, we introduced a method utilised to measure the flow field. The method is based on the tracking of supergranular structures. We did not precisely know, whether its results represent the flow field in the photosphere or…

Early-type stars have convective cores due to a steep temperature gradient produced by the CNO cycle. These cores can host dynamos, and the generated magnetic fields can be relevant to explain the magnetism observed in Ap/Bp stars. Our main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 J. P. Hidalgo , P. J. Käpylä , D. R. G Schleicher , C. A. Ortiz-Rodríguez , F. H. Navarrete

Below the scale of supergranules we find that cellular flows are present in the solar photosphere at two distinct size scales, approximately 2 Mm and 4 Mm, with distinct characteristic times. Simultaneously present in the flow is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. K. Lawrence , A. C. Cadavid , A. Ruzmaikin