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Magneto-convection simulations on meso-granule and granule scales near the solar surface are used to study small scale dynamo activity, the emergence and disappearance of magnetic flux tubes, and the formation and evolution of micropores.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert F. Stein , Aake Nordlund

Sunspots and active regions observed on the solar surface are widely believed to be manifestations of compact predominantly-toroidal magnetic field structures (``flux tubes") that emerge by magnetic buoyancy from the deeper interior of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Bhishek Manek , Nicholas Brummell

Following an earlier proposal by Choudhuri (2003) for the origin of twist in the magnetic fields of solar active regions, we model the penetration of a wrapped up background poloidal field into a toroidal magnetic flux tube rising through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Chatterjee , A. R. Choudhuri , K. Petrovay

Observations of rapidly rotating solar-like stars show a significant mixture of opposite-polarity magnetic fields within their polar regions. To explain these observations, models describing the surface transport of magnetic flux demand the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Holzwarth , D. H. Mackay , M. Jardine

We report on our three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of cylindrical weakly twisted flux tubes emerging from 18 Mm below the photosphere. We perform a parametric study, by varying the initial magnetic field strength…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Syntelis , V. Archontis , A. Hood

We report the results of a magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of a convective dynamo in a model solar convective envelope driven by the solar radiative diffusive heat flux. The convective dynamo produces a large-scale mean magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-18 Yuhong Fan , Fang Fang

We perform a study of fluid motions and its temporal evolution in and around a small bipolar emerging flux region using observations made by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on-board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We employ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 C. R. Sangeetha , Durgesh Tripathi , S. P. Rajaguru

A magnetic flux tube may be considered both as a separate body and as a confined field. As a field, it is affected both by differential rotation ($\Omega$-effect) and cyclonic convection ($\alpha$-effect). As a body, the tube experiences…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. H. Li , S. Sofia , G. Belvedere

Aims. Moreno-Insertis et al. (2018) recently discovered two types of flux emergence in their numerical simulations: magnetic loops and magnetic sheet emergence. Whereas magnetic loop emergence has been documented well in the last years, by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 C. E. Fischer , J. M. Borrero , N. Bello González , A. J. Kaithakkal

The generation of outflows from the Sun known as solar winds is coupled with the heating of the solar corona, and both processes are operated in magnetic structures formed on the Sun. To study the magnetic configuration responsible for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Hwanhee Lee , Tetsuya Magara

One of the intriguing mechanisms of the Sun is the formation of the bipolar magnetic regions (BMRs) in the solar convection zone which are observed as regions of concentrated magnetic fields of opposite polarity on photosphere. These BMRs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Anu Sreedevi , Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Bidya Binay Karak , Dipankar Banerjee

Using high-resolution AthenaK simulations of a twisted toroidal flux tube, we study the flux emergence of magnetic structures in the shear layer of a hot massive neutron star typical of a binary neutron star remnant. High-resolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 Jacob Fields , David Radice , Peter Hammond

We present three-dimensional numerical simulations of the rise and fragmentation of twisted, initially horizontal magnetic flux tubes which evolve into emerging Omega-loops. The flux tubes rise buoyantly through an adiabatically stratified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. P. Abbett , G. H. Fisher , Y. Fan

A magnetic flux tube may be considered both as a separate body and as a confined field. As a field, it is affected both by the cyclonic convection ($\alpha$-effect) and differential rotation ($\Omega$-effect). As a body, the tube…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. H. Li , S. Sofia

The latitudinal distribution of starspots deviates from the solar pattern with increasing rotation rate. Numerical simulations of magnetic flux emergence and transport can help model the observed stellar activity patterns and the associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Emre Işık , Sami K. Solanki , Natalie A. Krivova , Alexander I. Shapiro

Magnetic flux emergence from the convection zone into the photosphere and beyond is a critical component of the behaviour of large-scale solar magnetism. Flux rarely emerges amid field-free areas at the surface, but when it does, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-04 Prasad Mani , Chris S. Hanson , Siddarth Dhanpal , Shravan Hanasoge , Srijan Bharati Das , Matthias Rempel

During eruptive flares, vector magnetograms show increasing horizontal magnetic field and downward Lorentz force in the Sun's photosphere around the polarity-inversion line. Such behavior has often been associated with the implosion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Krzysztof Barczynski , Guillaume Aulanier , Sophie Masson , Michael S. Wheatland

I present results from a set of 3D spherical-shell MHD simulations of the buoyant rise of active region flux tubes in the solar interior which put new constraints on the initial twist of the subsurface tubes in order for them to emerge with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 Y. Fan

The goal of this research is to investigate how magnetic field affects the dynamics of granular convection and excitation of solar oscillations by means of realistic numerical simulations. We have used a 3D, compressible, non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-27 L. Jacoutot , A. G. Kosovichev , A. Wray , N. N. Mansour

Solar eruptions may occur at different evolutionary stages of active regions, during which the photospheric motions manifest in various forms, including flux emergence, sunspot rotation, shearing, converging, and magnetic flux diffusion.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Xinkai Bian , Chaowei Jiang , Yang Wang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang