English
Related papers

Related papers: Formation of small-scale magnetic elements: surfac…

200 papers

Although the influence of magnetic fields is regarded as vital in the star formation process, only a few magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations have been performed on this subject within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Florian Bürzle , Paul C. Clark , Federico Stasyszyn , Thomas Greif , Klaus Dolag , Ralf S. Klessen , Peter Nielaba

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the solar wind is observed to show the spectral behavior of classical Kolmogorov fluid turbulence over an inertial subrange and departures from this at short wavelengths, where energy should be…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Bale , P. J. Kellogg , F. S. Mozer , T. S. Horbury , H. Reme

We describe a new form of small-scale magnetic flux emergence in the quiet Sun. This process seems to take vertical magnetic fields from the solar interior to the photosphere, where they appear above granular convection cells. High-cadence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Orozco Suarez , L. R. Bellot Rubio , J. C. del Toro Iniesta , S. Tsuneta

The interaction of magnetic fields and stratified convection was studied in the context of the solar and late type stellar dynamos by using numerical 3D MHD simulations. The topology of stratified asymmetric and over-turning convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bertil Dorch , Aake Nordlund

A convection-driven MHD dynamo in a rotating spherical shell, with clearly defined structural elements in the flow and magnetic field, is simulated numerically. Such dynamos can be called deterministic, in contrast to those explicitly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Getling , R. D. Simitev , F. H. Busse

Local magnetic reversals are an inseparable part of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence whose collective outcome on an arbitrary scale in the inertial range may lead to a global stochastic reconnection event with a rate independent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Amir Jafari , Ethan Vishniac , Siyao Xu

Recently, we have developed a method useful for mapping large-scale horizontal velocity fields in the solar photosphere. The method was developed, tuned and calibrated using the synthetic data. Now, we applied the method to the series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michal Svanda , Mirek Klvana , Michal Sobotka , Vaclav Bumba

The heating and structure of the solar chromosphere depends on the underlying magnetic field, among other parameters. The lowest magnetic flux of the solar atmosphere is found in the quiet Sun internetwork and is thought to be provided by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 D. Przybylski , R. Cameron , S. K. Solanki , M. Rempel , S. Danilovic , J. Leenaarts

To what extent magnetic fields affect how molecular clouds (MCs) fragment and create dense structures is an open question. We present a numerical study of cloud fragmentation using the SILCC-Zoom simulations. These simulations follow the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 S. Ganguly , S. Walch , D. Seifried , S. D. Clarke , M. Weis

$\delta$-sunspots, with highly complex magnetic structures, are very productive in energetic eruptive events, such as X-class flares and homologous eruptions. We here study the formation of such complex magnetic structures by numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fang Fang , Yuhong Fan

We build a single vertical straight magnetic fluxtube spanning the solar photosphere and the transition region which does not expand with height. We assume that the fluxtube containing twisted magnetic fields is in magnetohydrostatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 S. Sen , A. Mangalam

Penumbrae are the manifestation of magnetoconvection in highly inclined (to the vertical direction) magnetic field. The penumbra of a sunspot tends to form, initially, along the arc of the umbra antipodal to the main region of flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 David MacTaggart , Salvo Guglielmino , Francesca Zuccarello

A single open magnetic flux tube spanning the solar photosphere (solar radius R) and the lower corona (R + 10 Mm) is modelled in magnetohydrostatic equilibrium within a realistic stratified atmosphere subject to solar gravity. Such flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-16 Frederick Armstrong Gent , Viktor Fedun , Stuart John Mumford , Robertus Erdelyi

Plasma in the earth's magnetosphere is subjected to compression during geomagnetically active periods and relaxation in subsequent quiet times. Repeated compression and relaxation is the origin of much of the plasma dynamics and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Gurudas Ganguli , Chris Crabtree , Alex Fletcher , Bill Amatucci

Kilogauss-strength magnetic fields are often observed in intergranular lanes at the photosphere in the quiet Sun. Such fields are stronger than the equipartition field $B_e$, corresponding to a magnetic energy density that matches the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. J. Bushby , S. M. Houghton , M. R. E. Proctor , N. O. Weiss

Solar active regions and sunspots are believed to be formed by the emergence of strong toroidal magnetic flux from the solar interior. Modeling of such events has focused on the dynamics of compact magnetic entities, colloquially known as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Bhishek Manek , Nicholas Brummell

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are fundamental magnetic structures in solar eruptions, whose formation is generally attributed to (1) the emergence of subsurface flux tubes or (2) flux cancellation driven by photospheric horizontal flows and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Can Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama , Feng Chen , Chen Xing , Mingde Ding , Zekun Lu

We investigate the emergence of magnetic flux in the quiet Sun at very small spatial scales, focusing on the magnetic connection between the photosphere and chromosphere. The observational data consist of spectropolarimetric measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , L. R. Bellot Rubio

The presence of magneto-acoustic waves in magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere is well-documented. Applying the technique of solar magneto-seismology (SMS) allows us to infer the background properties of these structures. Here, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 N. Freij , I. Dorotovic , R. J. Morton , M. S. Ruderman , V. Karlovsky , R. Erdekyi

Using radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the solar atmospheric layers from the upper convection zone to the lower corona, we investigate the self-consistent excitation of slow magneto-acoustic body waves (slow modes) in a magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Yoshiaki Kato , Osker Steiner , Viggo Hansteen , Boris Gudiksen , Sven Wedemeyer , Mats Carlsson