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Solar eruptions are explosive disruption of coronal magnetic fields, and often launch coronal mass ejections into the interplanetary space. Intriguingly, many solar eruptions fail to escape from the Sun, and the prevailing theory for such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Chaowei Jiang , Aiying Duan , Peng Zou , Zhenjun Zhou , Xinkai Bian , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Small-scale jet-like eruptions, such as picoflare jets and jetlets, are recognized as potential contributors to coronal heating and solar wind acceleration, yet their physical origin is still not fully established. Using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Annu Bura , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Tanmoy Samanta , Jayant Joshi

Spectroscopic observations at extreme and far ultraviolet wavelengths have revealed systematic upflows in the solar transition region and corona. These upflows are best seen in the network structures of the quiet Sun and coronal holes,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Hui Tian , Louise Harra , Deborah Baker , David H. Brooks , Lidong Xia

Popular scientific summary -- The atmosphere of the Sun is envisioned as composed of inherently complex, non-homogeneous, and dynamic layers. A detailed understanding of the physical processes involved in these layers is still lacking. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Souvik Bose

Observations have shown a clear association of filament/prominence eruptions with the emergence of magnetic flux in or near filament channels. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been employed to systematically study the conditions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 T. Török , M. G. Linton , J. E. Leake , Z. Mikić , R. Lionello , V. S. Titov , C. Downs

We study the upward propagation of a localized velocity pulse that is initially launched below the transition region within the solar atmosphere. The pulse quickly steepens into a shock, which may lead to the formation of spicules. We solve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 K. Murawski , T. V. Zaqarashvili

Vortex flows are structures associated with the rotation of the plasma and/or the magnetic field that are present throughout the solar atmosphere. In recent years, their study has become increasingly important, as they are present on a wide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 M. Koll Pistarini , E. Khomenko , T. Felipe

Magnetic flux generated and intensified by the solar dynamo emerges into the solar atmosphere, forming active regions (ARs) including sunspots. Existing theories of flux emergence suggest that the magnetic flux can rise buoyantly through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Shin Toriumi , Petros Syntelis

Solar campfires are fine-scale heating events, recently observed by Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), onboard Solar Orbiter. Here we use EUI 174\AA\ images, together with EUV images from SDO/AIA, and line-of-sight magnetograms from SDO/HMI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Navdeep K. Panesar , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , David Berghmans , Mark C. M. Cheung , Daniel Muller , Frederic Auchere , Andrei Zhukov

We have made high resolution observations of the Sun in which we identify individual sunquakes and see power from these seismic events being pumped into the resonant modes of vibration of the Sun. A typical event lasts about five minutes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. L. Goode , L. H. Strous , T. R. Rimmele , R. T. Stebbins

Magnetic field emerges at the surface of the Sun as sunspots and active regions. This process generates a poloidal magnetic field from a rising toroidal flux tube, it is a crucial but poorly understood aspect of the solar dynamo. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 Aaron C. Birch , Hannah Schunker , Douglas C. Braun , Robert Cameron , Laurent Gizon , Björn Löptien , Matthias Rempel

Explosive energy release is a common phenomenon occurring in magnetized plasma systems ranging from laboratories, Earth's magnetosphere, the solar corona and astrophysical environments. Its physical explanation is usually attributed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 J. Zhang , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

The solar coronal heating is a longstanding mystery in astrophysics. Considering that the solar magnetic field is spatially inhomogeneous with considerable magnetic gradient from solar surface to the corona, this work proposes a magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Baolin Tan

Mini-filament eruptions are one of the most common small-scale transients in the solar atmosphere. However, their eruption mechanisms are still not understood thoroughly. Here, with a combination of 174 A images of high spatio-temporal…

Solar prominences are long-lived cool and dense plasma curtains in the hot and rarefied outer solar atmosphere or corona. The physical mechanism responsible for their formation and especially for their internal plasma circulation has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

Using numerical simulations of the magnetised solar photosphere and radiative diagnostics of the simulated photospheric models, we further analyse the physical nature of magnetic photospheric intergranular vortices. We confirm the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-10 S. Shelyag , V. Fedun , R. Erdélyi , F. P. Keenan , M. Mathioudakis

Coronal holes are areas on the Sun with open magnetic field lines. They are a source region of the solar wind, but how the wind emerges from coronal holes is not known. We observed a coronal hole using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on the…

Context: The atmosphere of the quiet Sun is controlled by photospheric flows sweeping up concentrations of mixed polarity magnetic field. Along supergranule boundaries and junctions, there is a strong correlation between magnetic flux and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. E. Innes , A. Genetelli , R. Attie , H. E. Potts

Context. Solar blowout jets are a distinct subclass of ubiquitous extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray coronal jets. Aims. Most existing models of blowout jets prescribe an initial magnetic field configurations and apply ad-hoc changes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Yajie Chen , Hardi Peter , Damien Przybylski , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Sudip Mandal

The Sun continuously expels a fraction of its own mass in the form of a steadily accelerating outflow of ionized gas called the "solar wind." The solar wind is the extension of the Sun's hot (million-degree Kelvin) outer atmosphere that is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 Steven R. Cranmer