English
Related papers

Related papers: On the energy release in solar flares

200 papers

Solar eruptions are sudden ejections of coronal mass and magnetic fields accompanied by intense energy release. The eruptive structure does not always erupt successfully, but sometimes fails to escape the Sun after initiation. The failure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves , Peter R. Young , Astrid M. Veronig , Xingyao Chen , Sijie Yu , Bin Chen , Bin Zhuang

It remains an open question how magnetic energy is rapidly released in the solar corona so as to create solar explosions such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Recent studies have confirmed that a system consisting of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Y. Chen , Y. Q. Hu , L. D. Xia

A magnetar's magnetosphere gradually evolves by the injection of energy and helicity from the interior. Axisymmetric static solutions for a relativistic force-free magnetosphere with a power-law current model are numerically obtained. They…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Yasufumi Kojima , Satoki Okamoto

Unstable states of the solar coronal magnetic field structure result in various flare behaviors. In this study, we compared the confined and eruptive flares that occurred under similar magnetic circumstances in the active region 12673, on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Kouhei Teraoka , Daiki Yamasaki , Yusuke Kawabata , Shinsuke Imada , Toshifumi Shimizu

With the development of new instrumentation providing measurements of solar photospheric vector magnetic fields, we need to develop our understanding of the effects of current density on coronal magnetic field configurations. The object is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Regnier , E. R. Priest

Magnetic buoyancy is believed to drive the transport of magnetic flux tubes from the convection zone to the surface of the Sun. The magnetic fields form twisted loop-like structures in the solar atmosphere. In this paper we use helical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-28 Jörn Warnecke , Axel Brandenburg

Magnetic fields can be created in stably stratified (non-convective) layers in a differentially rotating star. A magnetic instability in the toroidal field (wound up by differential rotation) replaces the role of convection in closing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. C. Spruit

Relaxations of localized over-density in a plane transverse to the magnetic field are numericallyinvestigated under the effect of drift-wave and interchange drives in SOL conditions. Such a controlleddeparture from thermodynamic equilibrium…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 R Varennes , G Dif-Pradalier , P Ghendrih , V Grandgirard , O Panico , Y Sarazin , E Serre , D Zarzoso

Solar flares result from the rapid conversion of stored magnetic energy within the Sun's corona. These energy releases are associated with coronal magnetic loops, which are rooted in dense photospheric plasma and are passively transported…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 M. Berretti , S. Mestici , L. Giovannelli , D. Del Moro , M. Stangalini , F. Giannattasio , F. Berrilli

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) cause immediate and adverse effects on the interplanetary space and geospace. The deeper understanding of the mechanisms that produce them and the construction of efficient prediction schemes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Ioannis Kontogiannis

The long-term dynamical future of the Sun's planets has been simulated and statistically analyzed in great detail, but most prior work considers the solar system as completely isolated, neglecting the potential influence of field star…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Nathan A. Kaib , Sean N. Raymond

The hour-long, gradual phase of solar flares is well-observed across the electromagnetic spectrum, demonstrating many multi-phase aspects, where cold condensations form within the heated post-flare system, but a complete three-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-29 Wenzhi Ruan , Rony Keppens , Limei Yan , Patrick Antolin

The electrostatic instabilities driven by the gradients of the density, temperature and magnetic field, are discussed in their application to solar magnetic structures. Strongly growing modes are found for some typical plasma parameters.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Vranjes , S. Poedts

Self-organization in continuous systems is associated with dissipative processes. In particular, for magnetized plasmas, it is known as magnetic relaxation, where the magnetic energy is converted into heat and kinetic energy of flow through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Satyam Agarwal , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Shangbin Yang

The processes occurring in the solar atmosphere are diverse and depend on many important factors. For example, from magnetic fields, their sudden changes, from emissions of substance from the depths of the Sun, distribution of shock waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-11 A. T. Sarsembaeva , N. Zh. Takibayev , K. Kato

A putative temporally varying circulation-free magnetic-field configuration is inferred in an equatorial segment of the solar convection zone from the helioseismologically inferred angular-velocity variation, assuming that the predominant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. M. Antia , S. M. Chitre , D. O. Gough

The origins of the various outbursts of hard X-rays from magnetars (highly magnetized neutron stars) are still unknown. We identify instabilities in relativistic magnetospheres that can explain a range of X-ray flare luminosities. Crustal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 J. F. Mahlmann , A. A. Philippov , V. Mewes , B. Ripperda , E. R. Most , L. Sironi

Sudden relaxation of the magnetic field in the core of a magnetar produces mechanical energy primarily in the form of shear waves which propagate to the surface and enter the magnetosphere as relativistic Alfv\'en waves. Due to a strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Bennett Link

Based on global conservation principles, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) relaxation theory predicts the existence of several equilibria, such as the Taylor state or global dynamic alignment. These states are generally viewed as very long-time and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Servidio , C. Gurgiolo , V. Carbone , M. L. Goldstein

We consider the three-dimensional instability of a layer of horizontal magnetic field in a polytropic atmosphere where, contrary to previous studies, the field lines in the initial state are not unidirectional. We show that if the twist is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 B. F. N. Favier , L. Jouve , W. Edmunds , L. J. Silvers , M. R. E. Proctor