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A highly important aspect of solar activity is the coupling between eruptions and the surrounding coronal magnetic-field topology, which determines the trajectory and morphology of the event and can even lead to sympathetic eruptions from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 P. F. Wyper , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore , B. J. Lynch , J. T. Karpen , P. Kumar

In solar atmosphere, magnetic reconnection alters the topological connectivity, and magnetic energy is released. However, the length change of the reconnecting structures has rarely been reported. To identify the evolution of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Jun Zhang , Tao Ding , Yulei Wang

We present a model for the spontaneous onset of fast magnetic reconnection in a weakly collisional plasma, such as the solar corona. When a current layer of macroscopic width undergoes collisional (Sweet-Parker) reconnection, a narrow…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. A. Cassak , J. F. Drake , M. A. Shay

Small-scale transient jetlet activity and associated upflows from coronal hole plumes are potential sources of the solar wind. To elucidate the magnetic origins and driving mechanisms of such upflows, we perform three-dimensional radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Kamlesh Bora , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Yajie Chen , Damien Przybylski , David Pontin , Nikil Panyam

Magnetic reconnection is one of the fundamental dynamical processes in the solar corona. The method of studying reconnection in active region-scale magnetic fields generally depends on non-local methods (i.e. requiring information across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 David MacTaggart

The origin of solar transition region redshifts is not completely understood. Current research is addressing this issue by investigating three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic models that extend from the photosphere to the corona. By…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pia Zacharias , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

Realistic models of magnetic reconnection in the solar chromosphere must take into account that the plasma is partially ionized and that plasma conditions within any two magnetic flux bundles undergoing reconnection may not be the same.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Nicholas A. Murphy , Vyacheslav S. Lukin

Magnetic-field reconnection is believed to play a fundamental role in magnetized plasma systems throughout the Universe1, including planetary magnetospheres, magnetars and accretion disks around black holes. This letter present extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-06 Yang Su , Astrid M. Veronig , Gordon D. Holman , Brian R. Dennis , Tongjiang Wang , Manuela Temmer , Weiqun Gan

In this short note, we discuss a mechanism for the transport of energy, momentum and dipole moment via transient neutral carriers in plasma. This gives a way to rapidly convert bulk hydrodynamic flow energy into thermal energy over a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-16 Clifford Chafin

We present EUV solar observations showing evidence for omnipresent jetting activity driven by small-scale magnetic reconnection at the base of the solar corona. We argue that the physical mechanism that heats and drives the solar wind at…

Magnetic reconnection is thought to drive a wide variety of dynamic phenomena in the solar atmosphere. Yet the detailed physical mechanisms driving reconnection are difficult to discern in the remote sensing observations that are used to…

Coupling between the photosphere, chromosphere and corona in the quiet Sun (QS) is governed by a complex interplay between magnetic structuring, heating, mass loading, and radiative cooling. Constraining how this balance responds to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Quentin Noraz , Mats Carlsson , Guillaume Aulanier

We use 3D fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations to study the occurrence of magnetic reconnection in a simulation of decaying turbulence created by anisotropic counter-propagating low-frequency Alfv\'en waves consistent with…

We present a method that isolates time-varying components from coronagraph and EUV images, allowing sub-streamer transients propagating within streamers to be tracked from the low to high corona. The method uses a temporal bandpass filter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Nathalia Alzate , Huw Morgan , Nicholeen Viall , Angelos Vourlidas

Solar jets, characterized by small-scale plasma ejections along open magnetic field lines or the legs of large-scale coronal loops, play a crucial role in the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Although spectral and EUV images have been…

Our understanding of the formation and evolution of the corona and the heliosphere is linked to our capability of properly interpreting the data from remote sensing and in-situ observations. In this respect, being able to correctly connect…

We study the physical properties and behavior of the solar atmosphere during the GOES X1.6 solar flare on 2014 September 10. The steady plasma flows and the fast sausage MHD waves were analysed with the wavelet separation method. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Hana Meszarosova , Peter Gomory

Using high spatial and temporal data from the \emph{Solar Dynamics Observatory} (\emph{SDO}) and the \emph{Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph} (\emph{IRIS}), several observational signatures of magnetic reconnection in the course of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Bo Yang , Jiayan Yang , Yi Bi , Junchao Hong , Haidong Li , Zhe Xu , Hechao Chen

This study presents observations of a large pseudostreamer solar eruption and, in particular, the post-eruption relaxation phase, as captured by Metis onboard the Solar Orbiter on October 12, 2022, during its perihelion passage. Utilizing…

The study concerns the streamer belt observed at high spectral resolution during the minimum of solar cycle 22 with the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) onboard SOHO. On the basis of a spectroscopic analysis of the O VI doublet,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-09 Lucia Abbo , Ester Antonucci , Zoran Mikić , Jon A. Linker , Pete Riley , Roberto Lionello