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Arch-like loop structures filled with million Kelvin hot plasma form the building blocks of the quiet-Sun corona. Both high-resolution observations and magnetoconvection simulations show the ubiquitous presence of magnetic fields on the…

Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the emergence of twisted magnetic flux tubes from the solar interior into the corona are discussed to illustrate how twisted and sheared coronal magnetic structures (with free magnetic energy),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-29 Yuhong Fan

It is well-known that there is a gradient, there will drive a flow inevitably. For example, a density-gradient may drive a diffusion flow, an electrical potential-gradient may drive an electric current in plasmas, etc. Then, what will be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Baolin Tan , Yan Yan , Ting Li , Yin Zhang , Xingyao Chen

The origin of large-amplitude magnetic field deflections in the solar wind, known as magnetic switchbacks, is still under debate. These structures, which are ubiquitous in the observations made by Parker Solar Probe, likely have their seed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Nina Bizien , Clara Froment , Maria S. Madjarska , Thierry Dudok de Wit , Marco Velli

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were discovered in the early 1970s when space-borne coronagraphs revealed that eruptions of plasma are ejected from the Sun. Today, it is known that the Sun produces eruptive flares, filament eruptions, coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Lucie Green , Tibor Torok , Bojan Vrsnak , Ward Manchester , Astrid Veronig

Solar flares and plasma eruptions are sudden releases of magnetic energy stored in the plasma atmosphere. To understand the physical mechanisms governing their occurrences, three-dimensional magnetic fields from the photosphere up to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Takafumi Kaneko , Sung-Hong Park , Kanya Kusano

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

Large-scale solar eruptions are generally accepted to have coronal magnetic flux ropes as their core structures. Recent studies found that the solar eruptions could be initiated by a sequence of flux feeding processes, during with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Quanhao Zhang , Shangbin Yang , Rui Liu , Min Zhang , Dong Wang , Ake Zhao , Shaoyu Lyu , Anchuan Song , Yuming Wang

Jet phenomena with a bright loop in their footpoint, called anemone jets, have been observed in the solar corona and chromosphere. These jets are formed as a consequence of magnetic reconnection, and from the scale universality of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Yuji Kotani , Kazunari Shibata

The solar wind is connected to the Sun's atmosphere by flux tubes that are rooted in an ever-changing pattern of positive and negative magnetic polarities on the surface. Observations indicate that the magnetic field is filamentary and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Steven R. Cranmer , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen , Lauren N. Woolsey

The recent rediscovery of magnetic field switchbacks or deflections embedded in the solar wind flow by the Parker Solar Probe mission lead to a huge interest in the modelling of the formation mechanisms and origin of these switchbacks.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Norbert Magyar , Dominik Utz , Robertus Erdélyi , Valery M. Nakariakov

Small-scale eruptions could play an important role in coronal heating, generation of solar energetic particles (SEPs), and mass source of the solar wind. However, they are poorly observed, and their characteristics, distributions, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , Xiaowei Zhao , Huidong Hu

Observations in the 171 AA channel of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of the space-borne Solar Dynamics Observatory show tornadoes-like features in the atmosphere of the Sun. These giant tornadoes appear as dark, elongated and apparently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sven Wedemeyer , Eamon Scullion , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Antonija Bosnjak , Patrick Antolin

Spicules are thin, elongated jet-like features seen in observations of the solar atmosphere, at the interface between the solar photosphere and the corona. These features exhibit highly complex dynamics and are a necessary connecting link…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Sankalp Srivastava , Piyali Chatterjee , Sahel Dey , Robertus Erdélyi

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most powerful explosions in the Sun. They are major sources of potentially destructive space weather conditions. However, the possible causes of their initiation remain controversial.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 X. L. Yan , C. W. Jiang , Z. K. Xue , J. C. Wang , E. R. Priest , L. H. Yang , D. F. Kong , W. D. Cao , H. S. Ji

The solar corona routinely exhibits explosive activity, in particular coronal mass ejections and their accompanying eruptive flares, that have global-scale consequences. These events and their smaller counterparts, coronal jets, originate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Joel T. Dahlin , C. Richard DeVore , Spiro K. Antiochos

Ellerman bombs (EBs) and Ultraviolet (UV) bursts are common brightening phenomena which are usually generated in the low solar atmosphere of emerging flux regions. In this paper, we have investigated the emergence of an initial un-twisted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Yajie Chen , Udo Ziegler , Jun Lin

How the solar atmosphere is heated from a temperature of about $5,000-6,000$\,K in the lower atmosphere to about $1-2$\,MK in the corona has challenged the astrophysical community for about 80 years. The same puzzle exists for the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Tanmoy Samanta , Guanchong Cheng , Yifu Wang , Robert Erdelyi

Solar jets are fast-moving, elongated brightenings related to ejections seen in both images and spectra on all scales from barely visible chromospheric jets to coronal jets extending up to a few solar radii. The largest, most powerful jets…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Davina Innes , Radoslav Bucik , Li-Jia Guo , Nariaki Nitta

We present an analysis of the formation of atmospheric flux ropes in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) solar flux emergence simulation. The simulation domain ranges from the top of the solar interior to the low corona. A twisted magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 David MacTaggart , Andrew Haynes
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