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Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process in a plasma that facilitates the release of energy stored in the magnetic field by permitting a change in the magnetic topology. In this article we present a review of the current state of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-04 D. I. Pontin

Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process crucial for heating the solar corona and generating the solar wind, but resolving and characterizing it on the Sun remains challenging. Using high-quality data from the…

The highly dynamical, complex nature of the solar atmosphere naturally implies the presence of waves in a topologically varied magnetic environment. Here, the interaction of waves with topological features such as null points is inevitable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. W. Threlfall , C. E. Parnell , I. De Moortel , K. G. McClements , T. D. Arber

Global magnetic field extrapolations are now revealing the huge complexity of the Sun's corona, and in particular the structure of the boundary between open and closed magnetic flux. Moreover, recent developments indicate that magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. I. Pontin , P. F. Wyper

We present an analysis of the formation of atmospheric flux ropes in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) solar flux emergence simulation. The simulation domain ranges from the top of the solar interior to the low corona. A twisted magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 David MacTaggart , Andrew Haynes

Magnetic reconnection in strongly magnetized regions around the temperature minimum region of the low solar atmosphere is studied by employing MHD-based simulations of a partially ionized plasma within a reactive 2.5D multi-fluid model. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

We study the emergence of magnetic flux from the near-surface layers of the solar convection zone into the photosphere. To model magnetic flux emergence, we carried out a set of numerical radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Chun Ming Cheung , Manfred Schuessler , Fernando Moreno-Insertis

We study the magnetic reconnection during a flare by investigating flare ribbon dynamics using observations and data-constrained magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation. In particular, we estimate the reconnection flux and the reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Sushree S Nayak , Qiang Hu , Wen He , Sanjay Kumar , Ramit Bhattacharyya

The outer solar atmosphere, i.e., the corona and the chromosphere, is replete with small energy-release events, which are accompanied by transient brightening and jet-like ejections. These events are considered to be magnetic reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 T. Shimizu

Magnetohydrodynamics of the solar corona is simulated numerically. The simulation is initialized with an extrapolated non-force-free magnetic field using the vector magnetogram of the active region (AR) NOAA 12192 obtained on the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya , Qiang Hu , Sanjay Kumar , Sushree S. Nayak

Magnetic flux emergence from the convection zone into the photosphere and beyond is a critical component of the behaviour of large-scale solar magnetism. Flux rarely emerges amid field-free areas at the surface, but when it does, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-04 Prasad Mani , Chris S. Hanson , Siddarth Dhanpal , Shravan Hanasoge , Srijan Bharati Das , Matthias Rempel

Magnetic-field reconnection is believed to play a fundamental role in magnetized plasma systems throughout the Universe1, including planetary magnetospheres, magnetars and accretion disks around black holes. This letter present extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-06 Yang Su , Astrid M. Veronig , Gordon D. Holman , Brian R. Dennis , Tongjiang Wang , Manuela Temmer , Weiqun Gan

We have simulated the 3D emergence and interaction of two twisted flux tubes, which rise from the interior into the outer atmosphere of the Sun. We present evidence for the multiple formation and eruption of flux ropes inside the emerging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

Flux emergence is crucial for the formation of solar active regions and triggering of various eruptions. However, the detailed mechanisms by which flux emergence drives these eruptions remain unclear and require numerical investigation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Xiaohong Li , Yuhao Zhou , Rony Keppens

The nature of the evolution of the magnetic field, and of current sheet formation, at three-dimensional (3D) magnetic null points is investigated. A kinematic example is presented which demonstrates that for certain evolutions of a 3D null…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. I. Pontin , A. Bhattacharjee , K. Galsgaard

Aims. We study the emergence of a non-twisted flux tube from the solar interior into the solar atmosphere. We investigate whether the length of the buoyant part of the flux tube (i.e. {\lambda}) affects the emergence of the field and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Petros Syntelis , Vasilis Archontis , Costis Gontikakis , Kanaris Tsinganos

We use kinetic particle-in-cell and magnetohydrodynamic simulations supported by an observational dataset to investigate magnetic reconnection in clusters of null points in space plasma. The magnetic configuration under investigation is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-29 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Andrey Divin , Elin Eriksson , Stefano Markidis , Giovanni Lapenta

Magnetic reconnection, a change of magnetic field connectivity, is a fundamental physical process in which magnetic energy is released explosively. It is responsible for various eruptive phenomena in the universe. However, this process is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-30 J. Q. Sun , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , Y. Guo , E. R. Priest , C. E. Parnell , S. J. Edwards , J. Zhang , P. F. Chen , C. Fang

Magnetic reconnection is one of the primary mechanisms for triggering solar eruptive events, but direct observation of its rapid process has been of challenge. In this Letter we present, using a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-24 Chang Liu , Na Deng , Jeongwoo Lee , Thomas Wiegelmann , Ronald L. Moore , Haimin Wang

A widely accepted scenario of magnetic reconnection in collisionless space plasmas is the breakage of magnetic field lines in X-points. In laboratory, reconnection is commonly studied in pinches, current channels embedded into twisted…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Giovanni Lapenta , Stefano Markidis , Andrey Divin