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The amplification of magnetic fields is crucial for understanding the observed magnetization of stars and galaxies. Turbulent dynamo is the primary mechanism responsible for that but the understanding of its action in a collapsing…

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In this work, we introduce a novel generative denoising diffusion model for synthesizing the Sun's three-dimensional coronal magnetic field, a complex and dynamic region characterized by evolving magnetic structures. Despite daily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel E. da Silva , Michael Kirk , Nat Mathews , Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo

The life of a solar active prominence, one of the most remarkable objects on the Sun, is full of dynamics; after first appearing on the Sun the prominence continuously evolves with various internal motions and eventually produces a global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Tetsuya Magara

The large-scale magnetic fields we observe today in galaxies and galaxy clusters could be the result of a pure quantum effect taking place during inflation, to wit, the creation of particles (photons) out from the vacuum in a curved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-26 Leonardo Campanelli

Combined action of helical motions of plasma (the $\alpha$ effect) and non-uniform (differential) rotation is a key dynamo mechanism of solar and galactic large-scale magnetic fields. Dynamics of magnetic helicity of small-scale fields is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-20 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

We present evidence for finite magnetic helicity density in the heliosphere and numerical models thereof, and relate it to the magnetic field properties of the dynamo in the solar convection zone. We use simulations and solar wind data to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-03 Jörn Warnecke , Axel Brandenburg , Dhrubaditya Mitra

Magnetic fields can be created in stably stratified (non-convective) layers in a differentially rotating star. A magnetic instability in the toroidal field (wound up by differential rotation) replaces the role of convection in closing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. C. Spruit

Young stellar objects/planetary nebula outflow anisotropies usually involve wind-wind interactions and magnetic collimation, but detailed structures of wind and magnetic fields inside collimation region remain undetermined. We numerically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Tao Tao , Guangyue Hu , Ruxin Li , Zhizhan Xu , Jian Zheng

Stars on the lower main sequence (F-type through M-type) have substantial convective envelopes beneath their stellar photospheres. Convection in these regions can couple with rotation to build global-scale structures that may be observable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-01 Benjamin P. Brown

We develop a three-dimensional kinematic self-sustaining model of the solar dynamo in which the poloidal field generation is from tilted bipolar sunspot pairs placed on the solar surface above regions of strong toroidal field by using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Gopal Hazra , Arnab Rai Choudhuri , Mark S. Miesch

A three-dimensional (3D) MHD model is applied to simulate the evolution of a large-scale magnetic field in a barred galaxy possessing a gaseous halo extending to about 2.8 kpc above the galactic plane. As the model input we use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , D. Elstner , M. Soida , M. Urbanik

Solar prominences are cool and dense plasma structures floating in the hot solar corona. They are ubiquitous features in the solar atmosphere, but their formation mechanism is still unclear. Here we perform comprehensive fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Lisa-Marie Zessner , Robert H. Cameron , Sami K. Solanki , Damien Przybylski

Dynamos in the Sun and other bodies tend to produce magnetic fields that possess magnetic helicity of opposite sign at large and small scales, respectively. The build-up of magnetic helicity at small scales provides an important saturation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Piyali Chatterjee , Gustavo Guerrero , Axel Brandenburg

We investigate outflows from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of rotating magnetized stars in cases where the magnetic field of a star is bunched into an X-type configuration using axisymmetric and full 3D MHD simulations. Such configuration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

The exteriors of stellar and galactic dynamos are usually modeled as current-free potential fields. A more realistic description might instead be that of a force-free magnetic field. Here, we suggest that, in the absence of outflows,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Axel Brandenburg , Oindrila Ghosh , Franco Vazza , Andrii Neronov

We review the current theoretical models of the inward advection of the large scale external magnetic fields in accretion discs. The most plausible theories for launching astrophysical jets rely on strong magnetic fields at the inner parts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 Amir Jafari

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are the largest energy release phenomena in the current solar system. They cause drastic enhancements of electromagnetic waves of various wavelengths and sometimes eject coronal material into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-14 Shin Toriumi , Sung-Hong Park

We study the effect of turbulent drift of a large-scale magnetic field that results from the interaction of helical convective motions and differential rotation in the solar convection zone. The principal direction of the drift corresponds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. V. Pipin

When our Sun was young it rotated much more rapidly than now. Observations of young, rapidly rotating stars indicate that many possess substantial magnetic activity and strong axisymmetric magnetic fields. We conduct simulations of dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Allen Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

By modelling the upper layers of the Sun in terms of a two-layer setup where a free-surface exists within the computational domain, we numerically study the interaction between the surface gravity, or the fundamental ($f$) mode, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Rajesh Mondal , Nishant K. Singh