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We analyzed the band splitting of a Type II radio burst observed on 1997 May 12 by ground- and space-based radio spectrometers. Type II radio emission is the most evident signature of coronal shock waves and the observed band splitting is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-02 S. Mancuso , M. V. Garzelli

White-light coronagraphic images of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) observed by SOHO/LASCO C2 have been used to estimate the density jump along the whole front of two CME-driven shocks. The two events are different in that the first one was a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-23 Alessandro Bemporad , Salvatore Mancuso

We report the properties of electron distributions and turbulence during a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) in April 2023 observed by Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS). The CME exhibits a clear sheath and magnetic cloud (MC), and within the MC,…

With the global view and high-cadence observations from SDO/AIA and STEREO, many spatially separated solar eruptive events appear to be coupled. However, the mechanisms for "sympathetic" events are still largely unknown. In this study, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-17 M. Jin , C. J. Schrijver , M. C. M. Cheung , M. L. DeRosa , N. V. Nitta , A. M. Title

We show that the coronal heating and the fast solar wind acceleration in the coronal holes are natural consequence of the footpoint fluctuations of the magnetic fields at the photosphere, by performing one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are performed with high spatial resolution in order to distinguish between competing models of the coronal heating problem. A single coronal loop powered by Alfv\'{e}n waves excited in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Takuma Matsumoto

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

Solar activity can be witnessed in the form of sunspots and active regions, where the magnetic field is enhanced by up to a factor 1000 as compared to that of the quiet Sun. In addition, solar activity manifests itself in terms of flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Gottfried Mann , Frédéric Schuller

We combine a convectively driven dynamo in a spherical shell with a nearly isothermal density-stratified cooling layer that mimics some aspects of a stellar corona to study the emergence and ejections of magnetic field structures. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-16 Jörn Warnecke , Petri J. Käpylä , Maarit. J. Mantere , Axel Brandenburg

It is an indisputable fact that solar magnetic fields are force-free in the corona, where force free fields means that current and magnetic fields are parallel and there is no Lorentz force in the fields. While the force-free extent of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Liu , J. T. Su , H. Q. Zhang , Y. Y. Deng , Y. Gao , X. Yang , X. J. Mao

Understanding the propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) through interplanetary space is essential for space weather forecasting. Due to observational limitations, measurements of the photospheric polar magnetic fields remain highly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Xiao Zhang , Liping Yang , Xueshang Feng , Hui Tian , Mengxuan Ma , Fang Shen , Jiansen He , Man Zhang , Yufen Zhou , Ziwei Wang , Xinyi Ma , Wangning Zhang

We investigate physical scaling laws for magnetic energy dissipation in solar flares, in the framework of the Sweet-Parker model and the Petschek model. We find that the total dissipated magnetic energy $E_{diss}$ in a flare depends on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Markus J. Aschwanden

We investigated how the magnetic field in solar active regions (ARs) controls flare activity, i.e., whether a confined or eruptive flare occurs. We analyzed 44 flares of GOES class M5.0 and larger that occurred during 2011--2015. We used 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Christian Baumgartner , Julia K. Thalmann , Astrid M. Veronig

The important role played by magnetic reconnection in the early acceleration of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) has been widely discussed. However, as CMEs may have expansion speeds comparable to their propagation speeds in the corona, it is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Bin Zhuang , Noé Lugaz , Manuela Temmer , Tingyu Gou , Nada Al-Haddad

Motivated by the need to improve the ability to forecast whether a certain coronal mass ejection (CME) is to impact Earth, and by the insufficiency of statistical studies that analyze the whole erupting system with the focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 M. V. Sieyra , M. Cécere , H. Cremades , F. A. Iglesias , A. Sahade , M. Mierla , G. Stenborg , A. Costa , M. West , E. D'Huys

The power spectrum of the evolving solar wind shows evidence of a spectral break between an inertial range of turbulent fluctuations at higher frequencies and a "$1/f$" like region at lower frequencies. In the ecliptic plane at $\sim 1$ AU,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 R. M. Nicol , S. C. Chapman , R. O. Dendy

The magnetic field strength in molecular clouds is a fundamental quantity for theories of star formation. It is estimated by Zeeman splitting measurements in a few dense molecular cores, but its volume--averaged value within large molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paolo Padoan , Raul Jimenez , Mika Juvela , Aake Nordlund

We investigate the evolution of both normal and inverse CMEs ejected at different initial velocities, and observe the effect of the background wind density and their magnetic polarity on their evolution up to 1 AU. We performed 2.5D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-11 S. Hosteaux , E. Chané , S. Poedts

Regular remote sensing of the magnetic field embedded within the million-degree solar corona is severely lacking. This reality impedes fundamental investigations of the nature of coronal heating, the generation of solar and stellar winds,…

We examine the energetics of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) with data from the LASCO coronagraphs on SOHO. The LASCO observations provide fairly direct measurements of the mass, velocity and dimensions of CMEs. Using these basic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Angelos Vourlidas , Prasad Subramanian , K. P. Dere , R. A. Howard