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Evidence for the emergence of twisted flux tubes into the solar atmosphere has, so far, come from indirect signatures. In this work, we investigate the topological input of twisted flux tube emergence directly by studying helicity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-09 David MacTaggart , Chris Prior

We report on our three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of cylindrical weakly twisted flux tubes emerging from 18 Mm below the photosphere. We perform a parametric study, by varying the initial magnetic field strength…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Syntelis , V. Archontis , A. Hood

It can be shown on observational grounds that two basic effects of dynamo theory for solar activity - production of the toroidal field from the poloidal one by differential rotation and reverse conversion of the toroidal field to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 L. L. Kitchatinov

Here, we present numerical simulations of magnetic flux buoyantly rising from a granular convection zone into the low corona. We study the complex interaction of the magnetic field with the turbulent plasma. The model includes the radiative…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

Strong solar flares and coronal mass ejections, here defined not only as the bursts of electromagnetic radiation but as the entire process in which magnetic energy is released through magnetic reconnection and plasma instability, emanate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Shin Toriumi , Haimin Wang

Context. Data-constrained models incorporate observed photospheric magnetic fields. However, due to the lack of magnetic field information in the rest of the solar atmosphere, models rely on extrapolations that, in most cases, neglect the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 M. V. Sieyra , A. Strugarek , A. Prasad , A. Wagner , P. Démoulin , F. Moreno-Insertis , A. J. Finley , R. Joshi , A. Blaise , A. S. Brun , E. Buchlin

The emergence of dipolar magnetic features on the solar surface is an idealization. Most of the magnetic flux emergence occurs in complex multipolar regions. Here, we show that the surface pattern of magnetic structures alone can reveal the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Axel Brandenburg

Solar active regions, produced by the emergence of tubes of strong magnetic field in the photosphere, are restricted to within 35 degrees of the solar equator. The nature of the dynamo processes that create and renew these fields, and are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kyle P. Parfrey , Kristen Menou

We investigated the dynamic evolution of a 3-dimensional (3D) flux rope eruption and magnetic reconnection process in a solar flare, by simply extending 2-dimensional (2D) resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulation model of solar flares with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-18 Keisuke Nishida , Naoto Nishizuka , Kazunari Shibata

To better understand magnetic structure and eruptive process of solar filaments, a solar active-region filament (labeled F2) eruption associated with a B-class flare was investigated by using high-resolution H$\alpha$ data from the 1 m New…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 X. L. Yan , Q. L. Li , G. R. Chen , Z. K. Xue , L. Feng , J. C. Wang , L. H. Yang , Y. Zhang

Recent studies of NOAA active region 10953, by Okamoto {\it et al.} ({\it Astrophys. J. Lett.} {\bf 673}, 215, 2008; {\it Astrophys. J.} {\bf 697}, 913, 2009), have interpreted photospheric observations of changing widths of the polarities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Santiago Vargas Dominguez , David MacTaggart , Lucie Green , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Alan Hood

This paper considers a possibility of magnetic-field generation by local turbulent flows at the bottom of convective zone. The cycle of magnetic-field generation in this model can be represented in the form of sequency of processes. There…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-18 Andrey G. Tlatov

With the adaptation of the FLASH code we simulate magnetohydrodynamic-gravity waves and vortices as well as their response in the magnetized three-dimensional (3D) solar atmosphere at different heights to understand the localized energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Murawski , I. Ballai , A. K. Srivastava , D. Lee

Recent analyses of the helioseismic observations indicate that the previously observed surface torsional oscillations with periods of about 11 years extend significantly downwards into the solar convective zone. Furthermore, there are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eurico Covas , Reza Tavakol , David Moss

The complex dynamics that lead to the emergence of active regions on the sun are poorly understood. One possibility is that magnetic structures (flux tubes, etc.) rise from below the surface by self induction and convection that lead to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-30 T. Hartlep , A. G. Kosovichev , J. Zhao , N. N. Mansour

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

In this Letter we present a seismological detection of a rising motion of magnetic flux in the shallow convection zone of the Sun, and show estimates of the emerging speed and its decelerating nature. In order to evaluate the speed of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Shin Toriumi , Stathis Ilonidis , Takashi Sekii , Takaaki Yokoyama

Context: The context of this paper is buoyant toroidal magnetic flux ropes, which is a part of flux tube dynamo theory and the framework of solar-like magnetic activity. Aims: The aim is to investigate how twisted magnetic flux ropes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 S. B. F. Dorch

Joy's law describes the tilt of bipolar active regions on the Sun away from an east-west orientation, where the flux of the polarity concentrated at the prograde side tends to be closer to the equator than the polarity on the retrograde…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 William Roland-Batty , Hannah Schunker , Robert H. Cameron , Damien Przybylski , Laurent Gizon , David I. Pontin

We report on three-dimensional (3D) MHD simulations of recurrent mini CME-like eruptions in a small active region (AR), which is formed by the dynamical emergence of a twisted (not kink unstable) flux tube from the solar interior. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-28 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood , K. Tsinganos