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The present work illustrates the potential of a new diagnostic technique that allows the measurement of the coronal magnetic field strength in solar active regions utilizing a handful of bright \ion[Fe x] and \ion[Fe xi] lines commonly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 E. Landi , R. Hutton , T. Brage , W. Li

For all involved in astronomy, the importance of monitoring and determining astrophysical magnetic field strengths is clear. It is also a well-known fact that the corona magnetic fields play an important part in the origin of solar flares…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 Ran Si , Tomas Brage , Wenxian Li , Jon Grumer , Meichun Li , Roger Hutton

The High Resolution Telescope (HRT) of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on board the Solar Orbiter spacecraft (SO/PHI) and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) both infer the…

The solar active region photospheric magnetic field evolves rapidly during major eruptive events, suggesting appreciable feedback from the corona. Previous studies of these "magnetic imprints" are mostly based on line-of-sight only or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Maria Kazachenko , Ruizhu Chen

The minimum-energy configuration for the magnetic field above the solar photosphere is curl-free (hence, by Ampere's law, also current-free), so can be represented as the gradient of a scalar potential. Since magnetic fields are divergence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-20 Brian T. Welsch , George H. Fisher

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) has just started producing data that will help determine what the sources and mechanisms of variability in the Sun's interior are. The instrument measures the Doppler shift and the polarization of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-20 Rebecca Centeno , Steve Tomczyk , Juan Manuel Borrero , Sebastien Couvidat , Keiji Hayashi , Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Jesper Schou

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), will begin data acquisition in 2008. It will provide the first full disk, high temporal cadence observations of the full Stokes vector with a 0.5 arc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Borrero , S. Tomczyk , A. Norton , T. Darnell , J. Schou , P. Scherrer , R. Bush , Y. Lui

Using solar wind observation near PSP perihelions as constraints, we have investigated the parameters in various PFSS model methods. It's found that the interplanetary magnetic field extrapolation with source surface height $R_\mathrm{SS} =…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Yuechun Song

The Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) records line-of-sight Dopplergram images of convective flows on the surface. These images are used to obtain the multi-scale convective spectrum. We design…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 Samarth G Kashyap , Shravan M Hanasoge

Magnetic field extrapolation is an important tool to study the three-dimensional (3D) solar coronal magnetic field which is difficult to directly measure. Various analytic models and numerical codes exist but their results often drastically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Qiang Hu , Huai Zhang , G. Allen Gary , S. T. Wu , Jinbin Cao

We study the influence of the spatial resolution on scales of $5\deg$ and smaller of solar surface magnetic field maps on global magnetohydrodynamic solar wind models, and on a model of coronal heating and X-ray emission. We compare the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-13 C. Garraffo , O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , C. Downs

Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the surface layers of the Sun intrinsically produce a predominantly horizontal magnetic field in the photosphere. This is a robust result in the sense that it arises from simulations with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-15 O. Steiner , R. Rezaei , R. Schlichenmaier , W. Schaffenberger , S. Wedemeyer-Böhm

We study the coronal magnetic field structure inside active regions and its temporal evolution. We attempt to compare the magnetic configuration of an active region in a very quiet period with that for the same region during a flare.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. K. Thalmann , T. Wiegelmann , N. -E. Raouafi

Photospheric magnetic field not only plays important roles in building up free energy and triggering solar eruptions, but also has been observed to change rapidly and permanently responding to the coronal magnetic field restructuring due to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-02 Shuo Wang , Chang Liu , Rui Liu , Na Deng , Yang Liu , Haimin Wang

We use joint observations obtained with the Hinode space observatory and the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS) installed at the DST of the NSO/SP to investigate the morphology and dynamics of (a) non-magnetic and (b)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-18 F. Wöger , S. Wedemeyer-Böhm , T. Rimmele

We present a new improved version of our force-free electrodynamics (FFE) numerical code in spherical coordinates that extrapolates the magnetic field in the inner solar corona from a photospheric vector magnetogram. The code satisfies the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ioannis Contopoulos

The rapid, irreversible change of the photospheric magnetic field has been recognized as an important element of the solar flare process. This Letter reports such a rapid change of magnetic fields during the 2011 February 13 M6.6 flare in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Chang Liu , Na Deng , Rui Liu , Jeongwoo Lee , Thomas Wiegelmann , Ju Jing , Yan Xu , Shuo Wang , Haimin Wang

Recent advances in spectropolarimetry have allowed the reconstruction of stellar coronal magnetic fields. This uses Zeeman-Doppler magnetograms of the surface magnetic field as a lower boundary condition. The ZDI maps, however, suffer from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Colin Johnstone , Moira Jardine , Duncan Mackay

Solar wind backmapping is a critical technique for analyzing the origin of the solar wind and space weather events by correlating in situ measurements with solar remote-sensing observations. This technique typically traces magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Xinyi Ma , Liping Yang , Xueshang Feng , Hui Tian , Honghong Wu , Fang Shen , Wangning Zhang , Mengxuan Ma , Xiao Zhang , Ziwei Wang

The MHD virial theorem may be used to estimate the magnetic energy of active regions based on vector magnetic fields measured at the photosphere or chromosphere. However, the virial estimate depends on the measured vector magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. S. Wheatland , T. R. Metcalf