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Besides a dense coverage of their high latitudes by starspots, rapidly rotating cool stars also display low-latitude spots in Doppler images, although generally with a lower coverage. In contrast, flux emergence models of fast-rotating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Emre Işık , Sami K. Solanki , Robert H. Cameron , Alexander I. Shapiro

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

During eruptive flares, vector magnetograms show increasing horizontal magnetic field and downward Lorentz force in the Sun's photosphere around the polarity-inversion line. Such behavior has often been associated with the implosion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Krzysztof Barczynski , Guillaume Aulanier , Sophie Masson , Michael S. Wheatland

We present three-dimensional numerical simulations of a magnetic loop evolving in either a convectively stable or unstable rotating shell. The magnetic loop is introduced in the shell in such a way that it is buoyant only in a certain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 L. Jouve , A. S. Brun , G. Aulanier

Solar eruptive events such as coronal mass ejections and eruptive flares are frequently associated with the emergence of magnetic flux from the convection zone into the corona. We use three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 James Leake , Mark Linton , Spiro Antiochos

One important ingredient of flux transport dynamo models is the rise of the toroidal magnetic field through the convection zone due to magnetic buoyancy to produce bipolar sunspots and then the generation of the poloidal magnetic field from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Arnab Rai Choudhuri , Gopal Hazra

The latitudinal distribution of starspots deviates from the solar pattern with increasing rotation rate. Numerical simulations of magnetic flux emergence and transport can help model the observed stellar activity patterns and the associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Emre Işık , Sami K. Solanki , Natalie A. Krivova , Alexander I. Shapiro

Accretion disks are likely threaded by external vertical magnetic flux, which enhances the level of turbulence via the magnetorotational instability (MRI). Using shearing-box simulations, we find that such external magnetic flux also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone

Solar coronal mass ejections are the most energetic events in the Solar System. In their standard formation model, a magnetic flux rope builds up into a coronal mass ejection through magnetic reconnection that continually converts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-08 Tingyu Gou , Rui Liu , Astrid M. Veronig , Bin Zhuang , Ting Li , Wensi Wang , Mengjiao Xu , Yuming Wang

Magnetic helicity flux gives information about the topology of a magnetic field passing through a boundary. In solar physics applications, this boundary is the photosphere and magnetic helicity flux has become an important quantity in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Chris Prior , David MacTaggart

A magnetic flux tube may be considered both as a separate body and as a confined field. As a field, it is affected both by differential rotation ($\Omega$-effect) and cyclonic convection ($\alpha$-effect). As a body, the tube experiences…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. H. Li , S. Sofia , G. Belvedere

Context. Observations of flux emergence indicate that rotational velocities may develop within sunspots. However, the dependence of this rotation on sub-photospheric field strength and twist remains largely unknown. Aims. We investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Z. Sturrock , A. W. Hood

We investigate the temporal evolution of magnetic flux emerging within a granule in the quiet-Sun internetwork at disk center. We combined IR spectropolarimetry performed in two Fe I lines at 1565 nm with speckle-reconstructed G-band…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 P. Gömöry , C. Beck , H. Balthasar , J. Rybák , A. Kucera , J. Koza , H. Wöhl

Magnetic flux jumps in textured Bi2Sr2CaCu2O(8+d) have been studied by means of magnetization measurements in the temperature range between 1.95 K and Tc, in an external magnetic field up to 9 T. Flux jumps were found in the temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Nabialek , M. Niewczas , H. Dabkowska , A. Dabkowski , J. P. Castellan , B. D. Gaulin

The inverse cascade of magnetic energy occurs when helicity or rotational instability exists in the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system. This well known phenomenon has been considered as a basis for the large scale magnetic field in universe.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Kiwan Park

A density structure within the magnetic cloud of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection impacted Earth and caused significant perturbations in plasma boundaries. We describe the effects of this structure on the magnetosheath plasma…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 H. Madanian , Y. Pfau-Kempf , R. Rice , T. Liu , T. Karlsson , S. Raptis , D. Turner , J. Beedle

The amplification of magnetic fields is crucial for understanding the observed magnetization of stars and galaxies. Turbulent dynamo is the primary mechanism responsible for that but the understanding of its action in a collapsing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Muhammed Irshad P , Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian , Anvar Shukurov

In 1969 Leighton developed a quasi-1D mathematical model of the solar dynamo, building upon the phenomenological scenario of Babcock(1961). Here we present a modification and extension of Leighton's model. Using the axisymmetric component…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 R. H. Cameron , M. Schuessler

Magnetic flux emergence is traditionally considered a key trigger of solar filament eruptions; however, its role in suppressing filament eruptions remains less understood. Using multi-wavelength observations from the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-26 Chengrui Zhou , Yuandeng Shen , Chun Xia , Hao Liang , Zehao Tang , Dongxu Liu , Surui Yao

Three-dimensional magnetic topology is crucial to understanding the explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona during solar flares. Much attention has been given to the pre-flare magnetic topology to identify candidate sites of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Rui Liu , P. Vemareddy , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei