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We track the angular momentum transfer in n-body simulations of barred galaxies by measuring torques to understand the dynamical mechanisms responsible for the evolution of the bar-disc-dark matter halo system. We find evidence for three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 Michael S. Petersen , Martin D. Weinberg , Neal Katz

Developing an understanding of how magnetic fields can become entangled in a prominence is important for predicting a possible eruption. This work investigates the kinetic energy and vorticity associated with plasma motion residing inside…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 M. S. Freed , D. E. McKenzie , D. W. Longcope , M. Wilburn

Coronal implosions - the convergence motion of plasmas and entrained magnetic field in the corona due to a reduction in magnetic pressure - can help to locate and track sites of magnetic energy release or redistribution during solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-06 Juntao Wang , P. J. A. Simoes , L. Fletcher , J. K. Thalmann , H. S. Hudson , I. G. Hannah

A nonresonant cosmic-ray-current-driven instability may operate in the shock precursors of young supernova remnants and be responsible for magnetic-field amplification, plasma heating and turbulence. Earlier simulations demonstrated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 Oleh Kobzar , Jacek Niemiec , Martin Pohl , Artem Bohdan

The filamentation instability driven by two spatially uniform and counter-streaming beams of charged particles in plasmas is modelled by a particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. Each beam consists of the electrons and positrons. The four…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-05-05 M E Dieckmann , P K Shukla , L Stenflo

We study the formation, evolution and collapse of dense cores by tracking structures in a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a star-forming cloud. We identify cores using the dendrogram algorithm and utilize machine learning techniques,…

Magnetized plasma columns and extended magnetic structures with both footpoints anchored to a surface layer are an important building block of astrophysical dissipation models. Current loops shining in X-rays during the growth of plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Natalie Rugg , Jens F. Mahlmann , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Thermal instability in an electron-ion magnetized plasma, which is relevant in the intragalactic medium (IGM) of galaxy clusters, solar corona, and other two-component plasma objects is investigated. We apply the multicomponent plasma…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Anatoly K. Nekrasov

We use three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations to study the formation of a corona above an initially weakly magnetized, isothermal accretion disk. We also describe a modification to time-explicit numerical algorithms for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. A. Miller , J. M. Stone

Recent observations have established that the magnetosphere is a system of natural complexity. The co-existence of multi-scale structures such as auroral arcs, turbulent convective flows, and scale-free distributions of energy perturbations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 William W. Liu , Laura F. Morales , Vadim M. Uritsky , Paul Charbonneau

We present an observational study of the formation and disappearance of a funnel prominence. Before the funnel prominence formed, cool materials from the top of a preexisting polar crown prominence flowed along saddle-shaped coronal loops…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Bo Yang , Jiayan Yang , Yi Bi , Junchao Hong

We present observations and magnetic field modeling of the large polar crown prominence that erupted on 2010 December 6. Combination of SDO/AIA and STEREO$\_$Behind/EUVI allows us to see the fine structures of this prominence both at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Yingna Su , Adriaan van Ballegooijen

Supra-arcade fans are bright, irregular regions of emission that develop during eruptive flares, above flare arcades. The underlying flare arcades are thought to be a consequence of magnetic reconnection along a current sheet in the corona.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Davina Innes , Lijia Guo , Amitava Bhattacharjee , Yi-Min Huang , Don Schmit

Context. A large prominence was observed on September 24, 2013, for three hours (12:12 UT -15:12 UT) with the newly launched (June 2013) Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), THEMIS (Tenerife), the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 Brigitte Schmieder , Hui Tian , Arturo Lopez Ariste , Nicole Mein , Pierre Mein , Kevin Dalmasse , Leon Golub

Using the multi-temperature observations from SDO/AIA on 30th December 2019, we provide a signature of prominence driven forced magnetic reconnection in the corona and associated plasma dynamics during 09:20 UT to 10:38 UT. A hot prominence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 A. K. Srivastava , Sudheer K. Mishra , P. Jelínek

We perform a detailed analysis of the thermal structure of the region above the post-eruption arcade for a flare that occurred on 2011 October 22. During this event, a sheet of hot plasma is visible above the flare loops in the 131 \AA\…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Katharine K. Reeves , Michael S. Freed , David E. McKenzie , Sabrina L. Savage

We analyse the evolution of a sigmoidal (S shaped) active region toward eruption, which includes a coronal mass ejection (CME) but leaves part of the filament in place. The X-ray sigmoid is found to trace out three different magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 L. M. Green , B. Kliem

We investigate the magnetic reconnection in an MHD simulation of a coronal magnetic flux rope (MFR) confined by a helmet streamer, where a prominence-cavity system forms. This system includes a hot cavity surrounding a prominence with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Tie Liu , Yingna Su

Our aim is to study the photospheric flux distribution of a twisted flux tube that emerges from the solar interior. We also report on the eruption of a new flux rope when the emerging tube rises into a pre-existing magnetic field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-12 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

The properties of non-equilibrium magnetized plasmas confined in planar geometry are studied on the basis of the first principle microscopic Langevin dynamics computer simulations. The non-equilibrium state of plasmas is maintained due to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Oleksiy Bystrenko , Tatyana Bystrenko