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Presently, many models of the coronal magnetic field rely on photospheric vector magnetograms but these data have been shown to be problematic as the sole boundary information for nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) extrapolations. Magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 A. Malanushenko , C. J. Schrijver , M. L. DeRosa , M. S. Wheatland , S. A. Gilchrist

We developed a {\sl coronal non-linear force-free field (COR-NLFFF)} forward-fitting code that fits an approximate {\sl non-linear force-free field (NLFFF)} solution to the observed geometry of automatically traced coronal loops. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Markus J. Aschwanden , Xudong Sun , Yang Liu

We derive an analytical approximation of nonlinear force-free magnetic field solutions (NLFFF) that can efficiently be used for fast forward-fitting to solar magnetic data, constrained either by observed line-of-sight magnetograms and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-27 Markus J. Aschwanden

In this work we provide an updated description of the Vertical Current Approximation Nonlinear Force-Free Field (VCA-NLFFF) code, which is designed to measure the evolution of the potential, nonpotential, free energies, and the dissipated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-25 Markus J. Aschwanden

We evaluate validity of NLFFF extrapolation performed with Optimization class (OPTI) codes. While explaining inevitable for OPTI partial non-solenoidality caused by the gas pressure notable role in pressure balance at photospheric heights…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-17 G. V. Rudenko , I. S. Dmitrienko

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) modeling has been extensively used to infer the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field in the solar corona. One of the assumptions in the NLFFF extrapolation is that the plasma beta is low, but this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Yusuke Kawabata , Andrés Asensio Ramos , Satoshi Inoue , Toshifumi Shimizu

Knowledge of the structure of the coronal magnetic field is important for our understanding of many solar activity phenomena, e.g. flares and CMEs. However, the direct measurement of coronal magnetic fields is not possible with present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 T. Wiegelmann , T. Neukirch

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model is often used to describe the solar coronal magnetic field, however a series of earlier studies revealed difficulties in the numerical solution of the model in application to photospheric…

Extrapolation codes in Cartesian geometry for modelling the magnetic field in the corona do not take the curvature of the Sun's surface into account and can only be applied to relatively small areas, e.g., a single active region. We compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , P. MacNeice , A. Pevtsov , X. Sun

3D picture of the coronal magnetic field remains an outstanding problem in solar physics, particularly, in active regions. Nonlinear force-free field reconstructions that employ routinely available full-disk photospheric vector magnetograms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Gregory Fleishman , Ivan Mysh'yakov , Alexey Stupishin , Maria Loukitcheva , Sergey Anfinogentov

A nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) extrapolation is widely used to reconstruct the three-dimensional magnetic field in the solar corona from the observed photospheric magnetic field. However, the pressure gradient and gravitational forces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Takahiro Miyoshi , Kanya Kusano , Satoshi Inoue

Non-linear force-free extrapolations are a common approach to estimate the 3D topology of coronal magnetic fields based on photospheric vector magnetograms. The force-free assumption is a valid approximation at coronal heights, but for the…

We compare magnetic field extrapolations from a photospheric magnetogram with the observationally inferred structure of magnetic loops in a newly developed active region. This is the first time that the reconstructed 3D-topology of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann , A. Lagg , S. K. Solanki , B. Inhester , J. Woch

Aims. We aim to develop a fast and consistent extrapolation method to model multiple layers of the solar atmosphere. Methods. The new approach combines the magnetohydrostatic (MHS) extrapolation which models the solar low atmosphere in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann

The coronal magnetic field is an important quantity because the magnetic field dominates the structure of the solar corona. Unfortunately direct measurements of coronal magnetic fields are usually not available. The photospheric magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann

We developed a new nonlinear force-free magnetic field (NLFFF) forward-fitting algorithm based on an analytical approximation of force-free and divergence-free NLFFF solutions, which requires as input a line-of-sight magnetogram and traced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-24 Markus J. Aschwanden

The Potential Field Source Surface (PFSS) model is the most used approach for extrapolating the global coronal magnetic field, offering efficiency and strong performance at large scales. However, PFSS assumes a potential coronal field, so…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 C. Antonio , I. Chifu , R. Gafeira , J. J. G. Lima

CONTEXT: As the coronal magnetic field can usually not be measured directly, it has to be extrapolated from photospheric measurements into the corona. AIMS: We test the quality of a non-linear force-free coronal magnetic field extrapolation…

Magnetic field extrapolation from the solar photosphere to the corona plays an important role in solar physics research. In this work, we present a fully-implicit viscous-relaxation nonlinear force-free field (FIVR-NLFFF) extrapolation code…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Zhenhua Liu , Chaowei Jiang

Vector magnetogram data are often used as photospheric boundary conditions for force-free coronal magnetic field extrapolations. In general, however, vector magnetogram data are not consistent with the force-free assumption. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Alpha Mastrano , Kai E. Yang , Michael S. Wheatland