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We present a realistic numerical model of sunspot and active region formation based on the emergence of flux bundles generated in a solar convective dynamo. To this end we use the magnetic and velocity fields in a horizontal layer near the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

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

\textbf{Purpose:} This paper addresses long-standing solar physics problems, namely, the heating of the solar chromosphere and the origin of the solar wind. Our aim is to reveal the related mechanisms behind chromospheric heating and plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak , S. Poedts , A. K. Srivastava , L. H. S. Kadowaki

The chromosphere in internetwork regions of the quiet Sun was regarded as a static and homogeneous layer for a long time. Thanks to advances in observations and numerical modelling, the wave nature of these atmospheric regions received…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm

Prompted by high resolution observations, I propose an explanation for the 40+ year old problem of structure and energy balance in the solar transition region. The ingredients are simply cross-field diffusion of neutral atoms from cool…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Philip G. Judge

Although it is widely accepted that photospheric motions provide the energy source and that the magnetic field must play a key role in the process, the detailed mechanisms responsible for heating the Sun's corona and accelerating the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Roberto Lionello , Marco Velli , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Zoran Mikić

The article describes new model of the Sun having a hollow core as introduced in [1]. The model helps to explain a number of experimental facts of kinetics, energetics, and Sun spectroscopy based on classic physics. The origin of the Sun's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander M. Ilyanok

What physical mechanisms heat the outer solar or stellar atmosphere to million-Kelvin temperatures is a fundamental but long-standing open question. In particular, the solar corona in active region cores contains an even hotter component…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Zekun Lu , Feng Chen , M. D. Ding , Can Wang , Yu Dai , Xin Cheng

We simulate several magnetic reconnection processes in the low solar chromosphere/photosphere, the radiation cooling, heat conduction and ambipolar diffusion are all included. Our numerical results indicate that both the high temperature($…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Ilia I. Roussev , Brigitte Schmieder

We discuss a possible mechanism for heating the solar atmosphere by the ensemble of thermal waves, generated by the photospheric dynamo and propagating upwards with increasing magnitudes. These waves are self-sustained and amplified due to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Yurii V. Dumin

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

Coronal heating through the explosive release of magnetic energy remains an open problem in solar physics. Recent hydrodynamical models attempt an investigation by placing swarms of 'nanoflares' at random sites and times in modeled…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 K. Moraitis , A. Toutountzi , H. Isliker , M. Georgoulis , L. Vlahos , G. Chintzoglou

The impulsive phase of a solar flare is known to generate strong turbulence and to transfer magnetic energy into accelerated electrons. Recognizing the importance of angular diffusion on the dynamics of the accelerated electrons, we extend…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 A. Gordon Emslie , Eduard P. Kontar

Solar jets are ubiquitous transient collimated mass outflows in the solar atmosphere over a wide range of sizes from small scale nanojets to a few solar radii, embedded in the solar chromosphere to solar corona. Jets are frequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-07 Reetika Joshi

We study the solar emission of light dark sector particles that self-interact strongly enough to self-thermalize. The resulting outflow behaves like a fluid which accelerates under its own thermal pressure to highly relativistic bulk…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-21 Jae Hyeok Chang , David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran , Harikrishnan Ramani , Erwin H. Tanin

UV bursts and Ellerman bombs are transient brightenings observed in the low solar atmospheres of emerging flux regions. Observations have discovered the cospatial and cotemporal EBs and UV bursts, and their formation mechanisms are still…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Lei Ni , Yajie Chen , Hardi Peter , Hui Tian , Jun Lin

The Sun offers a convenient nearby laboratory to study the physical processes of particle acceleration and impulsive energy release in magnetized plasmas that occur throughout the universe, from planetary magnetospheres to black hole…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-13 Amir Caspi

In many astrophysical systems, mixing between cool and hot temperature gas/plasma through Kelvin-Helmholtz-instability-driven turbulence leads to the formation of an intermediate temperature phase with increased radiative losses that drive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-16 Andrew Hillier , Ben Snow , Inigo Arregui

The optical and near-ultraviolet (NUV) continuum radiation in M dwarf flares is thought to be the impulsive response of the lower stellar atmosphere to magnetic energy release and electron acceleration at coronal altitudes. This radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-07 Adam F. Kowalski

The improvements of the knowledge of the seismic structure of the inner core and the complexities thereby revealed ask for a dynamical origin. Sub-solidus convection was one of the early suggestions to explain the seismic anisotropy, but it…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-08-12 Stéphane Labrosse
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