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We present a careful assess of the forced field extrapolation using Solar Dynamics Observatory/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI) magnetogram. The convergence property is checked by several metrics. The extrapolated field lines…

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The coronal magnetic field cannot be directly observed, but in principle it can be reconstructed from the comparatively well observed photospheric magnetic field. A popular approach uses a nonlinear force-free model. Non-magnetic forces at…

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Optical observations of solar corona provide key information on its magnetic geometry. The large-scale open field of the corona plays an important role in shaping the ambient solar wind and constraining the propagation dynamics of the…

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With current observational methods it is not possible to directly measure the magnetic field in the solar corona with sufficient accuracy. Therefore, coronal magnetic field models have to rely on extrapolation methods using photospheric…

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We study the coronal magnetic field structure inside active regions and its temporal evolution. We attempt to compare the magnetic configuration of an active region in a very quiet period with that for the same region during a flare.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. K. Thalmann , T. Wiegelmann , N. -E. Raouafi

It is shown that conformal symmetry exists in force-free electrodynamics (FFE) in Minkowski spacetime, a foundational framework for describing magnetospheres around astronomical objects. In force-free magnetospheres, charges are constrained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Huiquan Li , Jianyong Wang

We present an extension of the Coronal Reconstruction Onto B-Aligned Regions (CROBAR) method to Linear Force Free Field (LFFF) extrapolations, and apply it to the reconstruction of a set of AIA, MDI, and STEREO EUVI data. The results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Joseph Plowman , Daniel B. Seaton , Amir Caspi , J. Marcus Hughes , Matthew J. West

Force-Free Electrodynamics (FFE) is known to describe the highly magnetized plasma around pulsars and astrophysical black holes. The equations describing FFE are highly non-linear and the task of finding a well-defined analytical solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-14 Rakshak Adhikari , Govind Menon , Mikhail V. Medvedev

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

The stationary axisymmetric force-free magnetosphere of a pulsar is studied analytically. The pulsar equation is solved in the region close to the magnetic axis. Proceeding from linearization of the current function in the axial region, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 S. A. Petrova

Four different approximate approaches used to model the stressing of coronal magnetic fields due to an imposed photospheric motion are compared with each other and the results from a full time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 E. E. Goldstraw , A. W. Hood , P. K. Browning , P. J. Cargill

We developed a model for the pion light-front wave function (LFWF) that incorporates valence, sea and gluon degrees of freedom. Using the LFWF overlap representation, we derived parametrizations for the pion parton distribution functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-21 Simone Venturini , Barbara Pasquini , Simone Rodini

We have reported previously on a new method we are developing for using image-based information to improve global coronal magnetic field models. In that work we presented early tests of the method which proved its capability to improve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Shaela I. Jones , Joseph M. Davila , Vadim M. Uritsky

Quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects may be included in physical processes of magnetar and pulsar magnetospheres with strong magnetic fields. Involving the quantum corrections, the Maxwell electrodynamics is modified to non-linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Huiquan Li , Xiaolin Yang , Jiancheng Wang

Between 2008/3/24 and 2008/4/2, the three active regions NOAA active regions 10987, 10988 and 10989 were observed daily by the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) Vector Spectro-Magnetograph (VSM) while they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Gordon Petrie , Aurelien Canou , Tahar Amari

We have studied the relationship between the solar-wind speed $[V]$ and the coronal magnetic-field properties (a flux expansion factor [$f$] and photospheric magnetic-field strength [$B_{\mathrm{S}}$]) at all latitudes using data of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Ken'ichi Fujiki , Munetoshi Tokumaru , Tomoya Iju , Kazuyuki Hakamada , Masayoshi Kojima

It is a common practice in the solar physics community to test whether or not measured photospheric or chromospheric vector magnetograms are force-free, using the Maxwell stress as a measure. Some previous studies have suggested that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 X. M. Zhang , M. Zhang , J. T. Su

The magnetic field governs the corona; hence it is a crucial parameter to measure. Unfortunately, existing techniques for estimating its strength are limited by strong assumptions and limitations. These techniques include photospheric or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Juan Martinez-Sykora , Viggo H. Hansteen , Bart De Pontieu , Enrico Landi

We show that FFE (Force-Free Electrodynamics) describes pulsar magnetospheres -- even when radiation and particle wind power are comparable to the spin-down power. At the same time, we show that FFE is insufficient for calculating pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Gruzinov

Context. For the last thirty years, most of the studies on the relaxation of stressed magnetic fields in the solar environment have onlyconsidered the Lorentz force, neglecting plasma contributions, and therefore, limiting every equilibrium…

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