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The emergence of magnetic flux from the deep convection zone plays an important role in the solar magnetism, such as the generation of active regions and triggering of various eruptive phenomena, including jets, flares, and coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Shin Toriumi , Hideyuki Hotta , Kanya Kusano

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are powerful drivers of space weather, with magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) widely regarded as their primary precursors. However, the variation in reconnection flux during the evolution of MFR during CME eruptions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Samriddhi Sankar Maity , Piyali Chatterjee , Ranadeep Sarkar , Ijas S. Mytheen

Our Sun exhibits strong convective dynamo action which results in magnetic flux bundles emerging through the stellar surface as magnetic spots. Global-scale dynamo action is believed to generate large-scale magnetic structures in the deep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Nicholas J. Nelson , Mark S. Miesch

Flux emergence is crucial for the formation of solar active regions and triggering of various eruptions. However, the detailed mechanisms by which flux emergence drives these eruptions remain unclear and require numerical investigation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Xiaohong Li , Yuhao Zhou , Rony Keppens

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

We study the emergence of magnetic flux from the near-surface layers of the solar convection zone into the photosphere. To model magnetic flux emergence, we carried out a set of numerical radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Chun Ming Cheung , Manfred Schuessler , Fernando Moreno-Insertis

We present a 3D simulation of the dynamic emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from the top layer of the solar convection zone into the solar atmosphere and corona. It is found that after a brief initial stage of flux emergence during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Y. Fan

Context. Some of the most dynamic active regions are associated with complex photospheric magnetic configurations such as quadrupolar regions, and especially ones with a $\delta$-spot configuration and a strong Polarity Inversion Line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 P. Syntelis , E. J. Lee , C. W. Fairbairn , V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

Twisted magnetic fields are frequently seen to emerge above the visible surface of the Sun. This emergence is usually associated with the rise of buoyant magnetic flux structures. Here we ask how magnetic fields from a turbulent large-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-22 J. Warnecke , A. Brandenburg

Evidence of surface magnetism is now observed on an increasing number of cool stars. The detailed manner by which dynamo-generated magnetic fields giving rise to starspots traverse the convection zone still remains unclear. Some insight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Maria A. Weber , Matthew K. Browning , Suzannah Boardman , Joshua Clarke , Samuel Pugsley , Edward Townsend

Our global 3D simulations of convection and dynamo action in a Sun-like star reveal that persistent wreaths of strong magnetism can be built within the bulk of the convention zone. Here we examine the characteristics of buoyant magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nicholas J. Nelson , Benjamin P. Brown , A. Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

The emergence of active regions on the Sun is an integral feature of the solar dynamo mechanism. However, details about the generation of active-region-scale magnetism and the journey of this magnetic flux to the photosphere are still in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-13 Maria A. Weber , Hannah Schunker , Laurène Jouve , Emre Işık

Many fully convective stars exhibit a wide variety of surface magnetism, including starspots and chromospheric activity. The manner by which bundles of magnetic field traverse portions of the convection zone to emerge at the stellar surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Maria A. Weber , Matthew K. Browning

Sunspots and active regions observed on the solar surface are widely believed to be manifestations of compact predominantly-toroidal magnetic field structures (``flux tubes") that emerge by magnetic buoyancy from the deeper interior of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Bhishek Manek , Nicholas Brummell

Strong solar flares occur in $\delta $-spots characterized by the opposite-polarity magnetic fluxes in a single penumbra. Sunspot formation via flux emergence from the convection zone to the photosphere can be strongly affected by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Takafumi Kaneko , Hideyuki Hotta , Shin Toriumi , Kanya Kusano

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

Aims: To investigate the relationship between surges and magnetic reconnection during the emergence of small-scale active regions. In particular, to examine how the large-scale geometry of the magnetic field, shaped by different phases of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 David MacTaggart , Salvo Guglielmino , Andrew Haynes , Radostin Simitev , Francesca Zuccarello

We investigate equilibrium height of the flux rope, and its internal equilibrium in a realistic plasma environment by carrying out numerical simulations of the evolution of systems including a current-carrying flux rope. We find that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 Hong-Juan Wang , Si-Qing Liu , Jian-Cun Gong , Jun Lin

Investigating the early-stage evolution of an erupting flux rope from the Sun is important to understand the mechanisms of how it looses its stability and its space weather impacts. Our aim is to develop an efficient scheme for tracking the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Andreas Wagner , Emilia K. J. Kilpua , Ranadeep Sarkar , Daniel J. Price , Anshu Kumari , Farhad Daei , Jens Pomoell , Stefaan Poedts

The butterfly diagram of the solar cycle exhibits a poleward migration of the diffuse magnetic field resulting from the decay of trailing sunspots. It is one component of what is sometimes referred to as the "rush to the poles". We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Simon Cloutier , Robert H. Cameron , Laurent Gizon