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We present a new model for the coronal structure of rapidly rotating solar-type stars. The presence of prominences trapped in co-rotation 2 to 5 stellar radii above the stellar surface has been taken as evidence that the coronae of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Jardine , A. A. van Ballegooijen

Magnetic fields generated in the Sun's interior by the solar dynamo mechanism drive solar activity over a range of time-scales. While space-based observations of the Sun's corona exist only for few decades, direct sunspot observations exist…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-03 Soumyaranjan Dash , Dibyendu Nandy , Ilya Usoskin

The structure of magnetic flux ropes injected into the solar wind during reconnection in the coronal atmosphere is explored with particle-in-cell simulations and compared with in situ measurements of magnetic "switchbacks" from the Parker…

Prominences in the solar corona are hundredfold cooler and denser than their surroundings, with a total mass of 1.e13 up to 1.e15 g. Here we report on the first comprehensive simulations of three-dimensional, thermally and gravitationally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Patrick Antolin , Oliver Porth

Magnetoseismology, a technique of magnetic field diagnostics based on observations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves, has been widely used to estimate the field strengths of oscillating structures in the solar corona. However, previously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-05 Zihao Yang , Hui Tian , Steven Tomczyk , Richard Morton , Xianyong Bai , Tanmoy Samanta , Yajie Chen

We study the formation of coronal jets through numerical simulation of the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux rope into a pre-existing open magnetic field. Reconnection inside the emerging flux rope in addition to that between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Fang Fang , Yuhong Fan , Scott W. McIntosh

The distribution of magnetic flux across the solar photosphere results in a complex web of coronal magnetic field structures. To understand this complexity, the magnetic skeleton of the coronal field can be calculated. The skeleton…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-23 Sarah J. Platten , Clare E. Parnell , Andrew L. Haynes , Eric R. Priest , Duncan H. Mackay

We present a three-dimensional, time-dependent, MHD simulation of the short-term interaction between a protoplanetary disk and the stellar corona in a T Tauri system. The simulation includes the stellar magnetic field, self-consistent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Ofer Cohen , Cecilia Garraffo , Jeremy Drake , Kristina Monsch , Igor Sokolov , Julian Alvarado-Gomez , Federico Fraschetti

Models of rotationally-driven dynamos in stellar radiative zones have suggested that magnetohydrodynamic transport of angular momentum and chemical composition can dominate over the otherwise purely hydrodynamic processes. A proper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Adrian T. Potter , Shashikumar M. Chitre , Christopher A. Tout

We explore the influence of non-axisymmetric modes on the dynamics of the collapsed core of rotating, magnetized high-mass stars in three-dimensional simulations of a rapidly rotating star with an initial mass of $M_{ZAMS}$ = 35 solar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Martin Obergaulinger , Miguel-Ángel Aloy

Aims. We show how the build-up of magnetic gradients in the Sun's corona may be inferred directly from photospheric velocity data. This enables computation of magnetic connectivity measures such as the squashing factor without recourse to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. R. Yeates , G. Hornig , B. T. Welsch

The differential rotation of the solar corona for the period 1976-2004 was studied as a function of the distance from the center of the Sun. For this study, we developed a method using the coronal magnetic field as a tracer. The field in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 O. G. Badalyan , V. N. Obridko

The corona is a crucial region that connects the solar surface to the solar wind and serves as the primary site of solar activity. The 2024 total solar eclipse (TSE) provides a unique opportunity to investigate the large-scale coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Guanglu Shi , Jiahui Shan , Li Feng , Jun Chen , Weiqun Gan

This work examines the relation between the fractal properties of the photospheric magnetic patterns and those of the coronal magnetic fields in solar active regions.Our results show no correlation between the fractal dimensions of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Dimitropoulou , M. Georgoulis , H. Isliker , L. Vlahos , A. Anastasiadis , D. Strintzi , X. Moussas

We introduce to the stellar physics community a method of modelling stellar coronae that can be considered to be an extension of the potential field. In this approach, the magnetic field is coupled to the background atmosphere. The model is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 David MacTaggart , Scott Gregory , Thomas Neukirch , Jean-Francois Donati

Context. Photospheric motions shuffle the footpoints of the strong axial magnetic field that threads coronal loops giving rise to turbulent nonlinear dynamics characterized by the continuous formation and dissipation of field-aligned…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli

The Coronal Global Evolutionary Model (CGEM) provides data-driven simulations of the magnetic field in the solar corona to better understand the build-up of magnetic energy that leads to eruptive events. The CGEM project has developed six…

This work studies the magnetic activity of the late-type giant 37 Com. This star belongs to the group of weak G-band stars that present very strong carbon deficiency in their photospheres. The paper is a part of a global investigation into…

Magnetism defines the complex and dynamic solar corona. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are thought to be caused by stresses, twists, and tangles in coronal magnetic fields that build up energy and ultimately erupt, hurling plasma into…

Macroscopic wave and oscillatory phenomena ubiquitously detected in the plasma of the corona of the Sun are interpreted in terms of magnetohydrodynamic theory. Fast and slow magnetoacoustic waves are clearly distinguished in observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Valery M. Nakariakov , Sihui Zhong , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Rebecca L. Meadowcroft , Yu Zhong , Ding Yuan