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The continuum intensity at wavelengths around 1 mm provides an excellent way to probe the solar chromosphere. Future high-resolution millimetre arrays, such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), will thus produce valuable input for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Wedemeyer-Boehm , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Steffen , J. Leenaarts , B. Freytag

We present a comparative study of the intensity contrast in synthetic CH-band and violet CN-band filtergrams computed from a high-resolution simulation of solar magnetoconvection. The underlying simulation has an average vertical magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Han Uitenbroek , Alexandra Tritschler

Magnetic elements have an intensity contrast that depends on the type of region they are located in (e.g. quiet Sun, or active region plage). Observed values also depend on the spatial resolution of the data. Here we investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 F. Kahil , T. L. Riethmüller , S. K. Solanki

We investigate the impact on Fe abundance determination of including magnetic flux in series of 3D radiation-MHD simulations of solar convection which we used to synthesize spectral intensity profiles corresponding to disc centre. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 D. Fabbian , F. Moreno-Insertis , E. Khomenko , Å. Nordlund

We computed the thermal microwave emission from a 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation and compared it with observations of solar jets. The simulation treats the emergence of magnetic flux into the solar atmosphere and its interaction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Costas E. Alissandrakis , Vasilis Archontis , Kostas Moraitis

Downflows on the solar surface are suspected to play a major role in the dynamics of the convection zone. We investigate the existence of the long-lasting downflows whose effects influence the interior of the Sun and the outer layers. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-05 T. Roudier , M. Švanda , J. M. Malherbe , J. Ballot , D. Korda , Z. Frank

Differences in the ingress and egress shapes of transit light curves can indicate morning-evening temperature contrasts on transiting planets. Here, we pinpoint an alternative mechanism that can introduce asymmetries in transit light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 N. Kostogryz , A. I. Shapiro , L. Carone , L. Gizon , Ch. Helling , S. Kiefer , S. Mercier , S. Seager , S. K. Solanki , Y. Unruh , J. de Wit , V. Witzke

We investigate the transition of the solar wind turbulent cascade from MHD to sub-ion range by means of a detail comparison between in situ observations and hybrid numerical simulations. In particular we focus on the properties of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 L. Matteini , L. Franci , O. Alexandrova , C. Lacombe , S. Landi , P. Hellinger , E. Papini , A. Verdini

Spectropolarimetric observations used to infer the solar magnetic fields are obtained with a limited spatial resolution. The effects of this limited resolution on the inference of the open flux over the observed region have not been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Ivan Milic , Rebecca Centeno , Xudong Sun , Matthias Rempel , Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez

Context. We introduce a model for including accelerated particles in pure magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of the solar atmosphere. Aims. We show that the method is viable and produces results that enhance the realism of MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Helle Bakke , Lars Frogner , Boris Vilhelm Gudiksen

The solar photospheric magnetic field is highly structured owing to its interaction with the convective flows. Its local structure has a strong influence on the profiles of spectral lines not only by virtue of the Zeeman effect, but also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-13 Benjamin Beeck , Manfred Schüssler , Ansgar Reiners

Numerical MHD simulations of 3D reconnection events in the solar corona have improved enormously over the last few years, not only in resolution, but also in their complexity, enabling more and more realistic modeling. Various ways to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-07 G. Baumann , K. Galsgaard , Å. Nordlund

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , B. Vollmer

We analyse observational signatures of magnetic fields for simulations of a Milky-Way like disc with supernova-driven interstellar turbulence and self-consistent chemical processes. In particular, we post-process two simulations data sets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-29 Yoan Rappaz , Jennifer Schober , Philipp Girichidis

Over the last decades, realistic 3D radiative-MHD simulations have become the dominant theoretical tool for understanding the complex interactions between the plasma and the magnetic field on the Sun. Most of such simulations are based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 E. Khomenko , N. Vitas , M. Collados , A. de Vicente

Although the magnetic fields in the quiet Sun account for the majority of the magnetic energy in the solar photosphere, inferring their exact spatial distribution, origin, and evolution poses an important challenge because the signals lie…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Elias Ebert , Ivan Milic , Juan Manuel Borrero

We present simulations of a comet interacting with the solar wind. Such simulations are treated in the framework of the ideal, 2D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), using the FLASH code in order to solve the equations of such a formalism. Besides,…

We examine closely the solar Center-to-Limb variation of continua and lines and compare observations with predictions from both a 3-D hydrodynamic simulation of the solar surface (provided by M. Asplund and collaborators) and 1-D model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Koesterke , C. Allende Prieto , D. L. Lambert

The sunspot penumbra is a transition zone between the strong vertical magnetic field area (sunspot umbra) and the quiet Sun. The penumbra has a fine filamentary structure that is characterized by magnetic field lines inclined toward the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-02 I. N. Kitiashvili , A. G. Kosovichev , N. N. Mansour , A. A. Wray

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) small explorer mission will study how the solar atmosphere is energized. IRIS contains an imaging spectrograph that covers the Mg II h&k lines as well as a slit-jaw imager centered at Mg…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Leenaarts , T. M. D. Pereira , M. Carlsson , H. Uitenbroek , B. de Pontieu