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Measurements of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) over several solar cycles do not agree with computed values of open magnetic flux from potential field extrapolations. The discrepancy becomes greater around solar maximum in each…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. R. Yeates , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen , J. A. Constable

Active regions are thought to be one contributor to the slow solar wind. Upflows in EUV coronal spectral lines are routinely osberved at their boundaries, and provide the most direct way for upflowing material to escape into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 David H. Brooks , Louise Harra , Stuart D. Bale , Krzysztof Barczynski , Cristina Mandrini , Vanessa Polito , Harry P. Warren

One of the most commonly observed solar radio sources in the metric and decametric wavelengths is the solar noise storm. These are generally associated with active regions and are believed to be powered by the plasma emission mechanism.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Surajit Mondal , Peijin Zhang , Devojyoti Kansabanik , Divya Oberoi , Gillian Pearce

Solar eruptive phenomena, like flares and coronal mass ejections(CMEs) are governed by magnetic fields. To describe the structure of these phenomena one needs information on the magnetic flux density and the electric current density vector…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , Pevtsov A Alexei , P. Macneice , S. Gosain

Knowledge of the electron density distribution in the solar corona put constraints on the magnetic field configurations for coronal modeling and on initial conditions for solar wind modeling. We work with polarized SOHO/LASCO-C2 images from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Judith de Patoul , Claire Foullon , Pete Riley

The plasma-$\beta$ is an important fundamental physical quantity in solar plasma physics, which determines the dominating process in the solar atmosphere, i.e., magnetic or thermodynamic processes. Here, for the first time, we provide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Ananya Rawat , Girjesh Gupta , Tom Van Doorsselaere , S. Krishna Prasad , Robertus Erdélyi

We present a series of models for the plasma properties along open magnetic flux tubes rooted in solar coronal holes, streamers, and active regions. These models represent the first self-consistent solutions that combine: (1) chromospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven R. Cranmer , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen , Richard J. Edgar

Coronal loops generally trace magnetic lines of force in the upper solar atmosphere. Understanding the loop morphology and its temporal evolution has implications for coronal heating models that rely on plasma heating due to reconnection at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 B. Ram , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal , H. Peter , F. Plaschke

We present in this Letter the first global comparison between traditional line-tied steady state magnetohydrodynamic models and a new, fully time-dependent thermodynamic magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the global corona. The maps are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Emily I. Mason , Roberto Lionello , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Ronald M. Caplan

This work consists of two parts: the first devoted to the study of the heating of the magnetically confined Solar Corona, and the second to the acceleration of the Slow Solar Wind. Direct 3D reduced MHD simulations are presented. They model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-13 A. F. Rappazzo

The variability of helium abundance in the solar corona and the solar wind is an important signature of solar activity, solar cycle, solar wind sources, as well as coronal heating processes. Motivated by recently reported remote sensing UV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 Leon Ofman , Yogesh , Silvio Giordano

There is evidence for coronal plasma flows to break down into fragments and to be laminar. We investigate this effect by modeling flows confined along magnetic channels. We consider a full MHD model of a solar atmosphere box with a dipole…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 A. Petralia , F. Reale , P. Testa

The review presents analysis and physical interpretation of available statistical data about solar wind plasma and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) properties as measured in-situ at 1 A.U. by numerous space experiments during time period…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-01-15 A. V. Dmitriev , A. V. Suvorova , I. S. Veselovsky

To explore the difference between the most two recent solar minima, we analyze the in-situ ACE and ULYSSES observations and examine the distributions of the three types of solar wind (streamer-stalk-associated wind, wind from outside the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-24 Liang Zhao , Len Fisk

The results of determinations of the azimuthal and meridional velocities by time-distance helioseismology from Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) from May 2010 to September 2020 at latitudes from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Alexander V. Getling , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao

Coronal holes (CHs) are regions of open magnetic flux which are the source of high speed solar wind (HSSW) streams. To date, it is not clear which aspects of CHs are of most influence on the properties of the solar wind as it expands…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Tadhg M. Garton , Sophie A. Murray , Peter T. Gallagher

This report presents a three-dimensional (3D) numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model of the white-light coronagraph observational phenomena known as coronal inflows and in/out pairs. Coronal inflows in the LASCO/C2 field of view…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Benjamin J. Lynch

Coronal hole spatial-temporal evolution is studied and comparison made with that of the solar global magnetic field in cycles 21-23 (1976-2012). The latitude-longitude distribution dynamics of coronal holes and the regularities in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-25 I. A. Bilenko , K. S. Tavastsherna

We report on the parallel analysis of the periodic behaviour of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) based on 21 years [1996 -- 2016] of observations with the SOHO/LASCO--C2 coronagraph, solar flares, prominences, and several proxies of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Tatiana Barlyaeva , Julien Wojak , Philippe Lamy , Brice Boclet , Imre Toth

The contribution of plumes to the solar wind has been subject to hot debate in the past decades. The EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board Hinode provides a unique means to deduce outflow velocities at coronal heights via direct Doppler…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hui Fu , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Zhenghua Huang , Fangran Jiao , Chaozhou Mou