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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

The aim of this research is to simulate the interaction of the solar wind with the magnetic field of Mercury and to study the particle fluxes between the magnetosheath and the planet surface. We simulate the magnetosphere structure using…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 J. Varela , F. Pantellini , M. Moncuquet

We investigate hydromagnetic turbulence of primordial magnetic fields using magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an expanding universe. We present the basic, covariant MHD equations, find solutions for MHD waves in the early universe, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Axel Brandenburg , Kari Enqvist , Poul Olesen

(abridged) Context: The mechanisms that cause the formation of sunspots are still unclear. Aims: We study the self-organisation of initially uniform sub-equipartition magnetic fields by highly stratified turbulent convection. Methods: We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 P. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg , N. Kleeorin , M. J. Käpylä , I. Rogachevskii

We construct two classes of the magnetohydrostatic equilibria of the axisymmetric flux tubes with twisted magnetic fields in the stratified solar atmosphere that span from the photosphere to the transition region. We built the models by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 S. Sen , A. Mangalam

We report on the dynamical interaction of quiet-Sun magnetic fields and granular convection in the solar photosphere as seen by \textsc{Sunrise}. We use high spatial resolution (0\farcs 15--0\farcs 18) and temporal cadence (33 s)…

Recent ground- and space-based observations reveal the presence of small-scale motions between convection cells in the solar photosphere. In these regions small-scale magnetic flux tubes are generated due to the interaction of granulation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-13 S. J. Mumford , V. Fedun , R. Erdélyi

Over the last few years, numerical models of the behavior of solar magnetic flux tubes have gone from using methods that were essentially one-dimensional (i.e. the thin flux tube approximation), over more or less idealized two-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bertil Dorch

Self-organization properties of sustained magnetized plasma are applied to selected solar data to understand solar magnetic fields. Torsional oscillations are speed-up and slow-down bands of the azimuthal flow that correlate with the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 T. R. Jarboe , T. E. Benedett , C. J. Everson , C. J. Hansen , A. C. Hossack , K. D. Morgan , B. A. Nelson , J. M. Penna , D. A. Sutherland

We simulate the rise through the upper convection zone and emergence through the solar surface of initially uniform, untwisted, horizontal magnetic flux with the same entropy as the non-magnetic plasma that is advected into a domain 48 Mm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. F. Stein , A. Lagerfjärd , Å. Nordlund , D. Georgobiani

We report the first successful simulation of spontaneous formation of surface magnetic structures from a large-scale dynamo by strongly-stratified thermal convection in Cartesian geometry. The large-scale dynamo observed in our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Youhei Masada , Takayoshi Sano

The magnetic network extending from the photosphere (solar radius $\simeq R_\odot$) to lower corona ($R_\odot + 10$ Mm) plays an important role in the heating mechanisms of the solar atmosphere. Here we further develop the models with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-02 Frederick A. Gent , Ben Snow , Viktor Fedun , Robertus Erdelyi

The emergence of dipolar magnetic features on the solar surface is an idealization. Most of the magnetic flux emergence occurs in complex multipolar regions. Here, we show that the surface pattern of magnetic structures alone can reveal the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Axel Brandenburg

Magneto-convection can produce an active region without an initial coherent flux tube. A simulation was performed where uniform, untwisted, horizontal magnetic field of 1 kG strenght was advected into the bottom of a computational domain 48…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-19 Robert F. Stein , Åke Nordlund

We present observations of the formation process of a small-scale filament on the quiet Sun during 5-6 February 2016 and investigate its formation cause. Initially, a small dipole emerged and its associated arch filament system was found to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Hechao Chen , Jiayan Yang , Bo Yang , Kaifan Ji , Yi Bi

Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the surface layers of the Sun intrinsically produce a predominantly horizontal magnetic field in the photosphere. This is a robust result in the sense that it arises from simulations with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-15 O. Steiner , R. Rezaei , R. Schlichenmaier , W. Schaffenberger , S. Wedemeyer-Böhm

Magnetic fields are widely observed in the Universe in virtually all astrophysical objects, from individual stars to entire galaxies, even in the intergalactic medium, but their specific generation has long been debated. Due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Michael Rieder , Romain Teyssier

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

We present ongoing hydrodynamic and MHD simulations of molecular cloud formation in spiral galaxies. The hydrodynamic results show the formation of molecular gas clouds where spiral shocks compress atomic gas to high densities. The spiral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-27 Clare Dobbs , Daniel Price , Ian Bonnell

We report the spontaneous formation of bipolar magnetic structures in direct numerical simulations of stratified forced turbulence with an outer coronal envelope. The turbulence is forced with transverse random waves only in the lower…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Jörn Warnecke , Illa R. Losada , Axel Brandenburg , Nathan Kleeorin , Igor Rogachevskii