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Solar eruptions arise from instabilities or loss of equilibria in the solar atmosphere, but routinely inferring the precise magnetic and plasma properties that lead to eruptions is not currently practical using synoptic solar observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Lucas A. Tarr , N. Dylan Kee , James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Peter W. Schuck

We present a radiation-magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) simulation of a magnetic cancellation event. The model is calculated with the Bifrost code and spans from the uppermost convection zone to the corona. The cancellation occurs between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 F. Moreno-Insertis , V. H. Hansteen , D. Nóbrega-Siverio

This article discusses the magnetic connectivity between the Sun and the Earth, which is essential for understanding solar wind and space weather events. Due to limited direct observations, reliable simulations are necessary. The most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Silke Kennis , Barbara Perri , Stefaan Poedts

The magnetic fields in the solar corona are generally neither force-free nor axisymmetric and have complex dynamics that are difficult to characterize. Here we simulate the topological evolution of solar coronal magnetic field lines (MFLs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-09 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya , Sanjay Kumar

Magnetic reconnection in strongly magnetized regions around the temperature minimum region of the low solar atmosphere is studied by employing MHD-based simulations of a partially ionized plasma within a reactive 2.5D multi-fluid model. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

The quality of today's research is often tightly limited to the available computing power and scalability of codes to many processors. For example, tackling the problem of heating the solar corona requires a most realistic description of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-26 Philippe-A. Bourdin

Since the first discovery of an extrasolar planetary system more than a decade ago, hundreds more have been discovered. Surprisingly, many of these systems harbor Jupiter-class gas giants located close to the central star, at distances of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , V. L. Kashyap , S. H. Saar , I. V. Sokolov , W. B. Manchester , K. C. Hansen , T. I. Gombosi

We study the magnetic reconnection during a flare by investigating flare ribbon dynamics using observations and data-constrained magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation. In particular, we estimate the reconnection flux and the reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Sushree S Nayak , Qiang Hu , Wen He , Sanjay Kumar , Ramit Bhattacharyya

A major goal in solar physics has during the last five decades been to find how energy flux generated in the solar convection zone is transported and dissipated in the outer solar layers. Progress in this field has been slow and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Viggo H. Hansteen , Mats Carlsson , Boris Gudiksen

We present a new global model of the solar corona, including the low corona, the transition region and the top of chromosphere. The realistic 3D magnetic field is simulated using the data from the photospheric magnetic field measurements.…

We investigate the spatial and temporal evolution of the heating of the corona of a cool star such as our Sun in a three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (3D MHD) model. We solve the 3D MHD problem numerically in a box representing part of…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

Magnetic reconnection in the quiet Sun is a phenomenon that is consistently observed, and it has recently become feasible to simulate via 3D numerical models of realistically stratified and convection-driven reconnection. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Rebecca Robinson , Mats Carlsson , Guillaume Aulanier

We investigate the onset of 2D time-dependent magnetic reconnection that is triggered using an external velocity driver located away from, and perpendicular to, an equilibrium Harris current sheet. Previous studies have typically utilised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 B. Snow , G. J. J. Botha , J. A. McLaughlin , A. Hillier

Magnetic reconnection in the partially ionized solar chromosphere is studied in 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations including radiative cooling and ambipolar diffusion. A Harris current sheet with and without a guide field is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-24 Lei Ni , Bernhard Kliem , Jun Lin , Ning Wu

One candidate-model for heating the solar corona is magnetic reconnection that embodies Ohmic dissipation of current sheets. When numerous small-scaled magnetic reconnection occur, then it is possible to heat the corona. Due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Charalambos Kanella , Boris V. Gudiksen

The response of the solar coronal magnetic field to small-scale photospheric boundary motions including the possible formation of current sheets via the Parker scenario is one of open questions of solar physics. Here we address the problem…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. L. Wilmot-Smith , D. I. Pontin , G. Hornig

Investigation of propagation, conversion, and scattering of MHD waves in the Sun is very important for understanding the mechanisms of observed oscillations and waves in sunspots and active regions. We have developed 3D linear MHD numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. V. Parchevsky , A. G. Kosovichev

Data-driven simulation is becoming an important approach for realistically characterizing the configuration and evolution of solar active regions, revealing the onset mechanism of solar eruption events and hopefully achieving the goal of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Xinyi Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

The aim of this paper is to investigate the properties of magnetic reconnection at a 3D null point, with respect to their dependence on the symmetry of the magnetic field around the null. In particular we examine the rate of flux transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. K. Al-Hachami , D. I. Pontin

Solar flares and plasma eruptions are sudden releases of magnetic energy stored in the plasma atmosphere. To understand the physical mechanisms governing their occurrences, three-dimensional magnetic fields from the photosphere up to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Takafumi Kaneko , Sung-Hong Park , Kanya Kusano