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It is well known that major solar eruptions are often produced by active regions with continual photospheric shearing and converging motions. Here, through high accuracy magnetohydrodynamics simulation, we show how solar eruption is…

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Turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and shocks can be present in explosively unstable plasmas, forming a new electromagnetic environment, which we call here turbulent reconnection, and where spontaneous formation of current sheets takes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Loukas Vlahos , Heinz Isliker

Filament eruptions are magnetically driven violent explosions commonly observed on the Sun and late-type stars, sometimes leading to monster coronal mass ejections that directly affect the nearby planets' environments. More than a century…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Hechao Chen , Hui Tian , Quanhao Zhang , Chuan Li , Chun Xia , Xianyong Bai , Zhenyong Hou , Kaifan Ji , Yuanyong Deng , Xiao Yang , Ziyao Hu

Despite decades of research, the fundamental processes involved in the initiation and acceleration of solar eruptions remain not fully understood, making them long-standing and challenging problems in solar physics. Recent high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Satoshi Inoue , Takahiro Miyoshi , Keiji Hayashi , Huu Minh Triet Nguyen , Ju Jing , Wenda Cao , Haimin Wang

Solar X-ray jets are evidently made by a burst of reconnection of closed magnetic field in a jet's base with ambient "open" field (1,2). In the widely-accepted version of the "emerging-flux" model, that reconnection occurs at a current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , David A. Falconer , Mitzi Adams

Eruptive flares are sudden releases of magnetic energy that involve many phenomena, several of which can be explained by the standard 2D flare model and its realizations in three-dimensions. We analyze a three-dimensional…

Solar eruptions are the leading driver of space weather, and it is vital for space weather forecast to understand in what conditions the solar eruptions can be produced and how they are initiated. The rotation of sunspots around their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-15 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Xinkai Bian , Peng Zou , Aiying Duan , Xiaoli Yan , Qiang Hu , Wen He , Xinyi Wang , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Solar flares are the most powerful, magnetically driven, explosions in the heliosphere. The nature of magnetic energy release in the solar corona that heats the plasma and accelerates particles in a flare, however, remains poorly…

Large-scale solar eruptions often include ejection of a filament, a solar flare, and expulsion of a coronal mass ejection (CME). Unravelling the magnetic processes that build up the free energy for these eruptions and trigger that energy's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Navdeep K. Panesar

The magnetic nature of the formation of solar active regions lies at the heart of understanding solar activity and, in particular, solar eruptions. A widespread model, used in many theoretical studies, simulations and the interpretation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 David MacTaggart , Chris Prior , Breno Raphaldini , Paolo Romano , Salvatore Guglielmino

Small, impulsive jets commonly occur throughout the solar corona, but are especially visible in coronal holes. Evidence is mounting that jets are part of a continuum of eruptions that extends to much larger coronal mass ejections and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Pankaj Kumar , Judith T. Karpen , Spiro K. Antiochos , Peter F. Wyper , C. Richard DeVore , Craig E. DeForest

Bunches of swaying and spinning plasma jets in the solar atmosphere - the spicules - exhibit a variety of complex dynamics that are clearly observed in the images of the solar limb. Utilizing three-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-26 Sahel Dey , Piyali Chatterjee , Robertus Erdelyi

We have simulated the 3D emergence and interaction of two twisted flux tubes, which rise from the interior into the outer atmosphere of the Sun. We present evidence for the multiple formation and eruption of flux ropes inside the emerging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

The magnetic field of the Sun drives a wide range of eruptive phenomena, from small-scale nanoflares to large flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). While direct observations of solar activity cover only the past few decades, indirect…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Valeriy Vasilyev , Natalie Krivova , Ilya Usoskin

Solar filaments are magnetic structures often observed in the solar atmosphere and consist of plasma that is cooler and denser than their surroundings. They are visible for days -- and even weeks -- which suggests that they are often in…

A plethora of solar dynamic events, such as the formation of active regions, the emission of jets and the occurrence of eruptions is often associated to the emergence of magnetic flux from the interior of the Sun to the surface and above.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 V. Archontis , P. Syntelis

The magnetic field of the Sun is the underlying cause of the many diverse phenomena combined under the heading of solar activity. Here we describe the magnetic field as it threads its way from the bottom of the convection zone, where it is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-05 Sami K. Solanki , Bernd Inhester , Manfred Schüssler

Solar microflares are ubiquitous in the solar corona, yet their driving mechanisms remain a subject of ongoing debate. Using high-resolution coronal observations from the Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), we identified about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Qingmei Wang , Yi Bi , Hongfei Liang , Jiayan Yang , Liufan Gong

The surface of both Jupiter and Saturn has magnificent vortical storms which help shape the dynamic nature of their atmospheres. Land- and space-based observational campaigns over time have established several properties of these vortices,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-17 Rakesh Kumar Yadav , Moritz Heimpel , Jeremy Bloxham

In the solar atmosphere, the jets are ubiquitous and found to be at various spatia-temporal scales. They are significant to understand energy and mass transport in the solar atmosphere. Recently, the high-speed transition region jets are…

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