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It is widely believed that magnetic flux ropes are the key structure of solar eruptions; however, their observable counterparts are not clear yet. We study a flare associated with flux rope eruption in a comprehensive radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Can Wang , Feng Chen , Mingde Ding , Zekun Lu

Magnetic flux rope, formed by the helical magnetic field lines, can sometimes remain its shape while carrying significant plasma flow that is aligned with the local magnetic field. We report the existence of such structures and static flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Yu Chen , Qiang Hu , Lingling Zhao , Justin C. Kasper , Jia Huang

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are fundamental magnetic structures in solar eruptions, whose formation is generally attributed to (1) the emergence of subsurface flux tubes or (2) flux cancellation driven by photospheric horizontal flows and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Can Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama , Feng Chen , Chen Xing , Mingde Ding , Zekun Lu

Our aim is to study the photospheric flux distribution of a twisted flux tube that emerges from the solar interior. We also report on the eruption of a new flux rope when the emerging tube rises into a pre-existing magnetic field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-12 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

We investigate the acceleration and transport of electrons in the highly fine-structured current sheet that develops during magnetic flux rope (MFR) eruptions. Our work combines ultra-resolved MHD simulations of MFR eruption, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Hao Wu , Yang Guo , Rony Keppens , Chun Xia , Yang Su , Xiangliang Kong , Mingde Ding

Magnetic flux rope (MFR) is the core structure of the greatest eruptions, i.e., the coronal mass ejections (CMEs), on the Sun, and magnetic clouds are post-eruption MFRs in interplanetary space. There is a strong debate about whether or not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-06 Yuming Wang , Chenglong Shen , Rui Liu , Jiajia Liu , Jingnan Guo , Xiaolei Li , Mengjiao Xu , Qiang Hu , Tielong Zhang

We suggest a new model for the structure of a magnetic field embedded high $\beta$ turbulent plasma, based on the popular notion that the magnetic field will tend to separate into individual flux tubes. We point out that interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. T. Vishniac

We study the formation of coronal jets through numerical simulation of the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux rope into a pre-existing open magnetic field. Reconnection inside the emerging flux rope in addition to that between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Fang Fang , Yuhong Fan , Scott W. McIntosh

Magnetic flux ropes are characterized by coherently twisted magnetic field lines, which are ubiquitous in magnetized plasmas. As the core structure of various eruptive phenomena in the solar atmosphere, flux ropes hold the key to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-10 Rui Liu

The magnetic flux rope (MFR) is believed to be the underlying magnetic structure of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). However, it remains unclear how an MFR evolves into and forms the multi-component structure of a CME. In this paper, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , Y. Guo , J. Zhang , A. Vourlidas , Y. D. Liu , O. Olmedo , J. Q. Sun , C. Li

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

Explosive energy release is a common phenomenon occurring in magnetized plasma systems ranging from laboratories, Earth's magnetosphere, the solar corona and astrophysical environments. Its physical explanation is usually attributed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 J. Zhang , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

Magnetic flux ropes are a key component of coronal mass ejections, forming the core of these eruptive phenomena. However, determining whether a flux rope is present prior to eruption onset and, if so, the rope's handedness and the number of…

Erupting magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) play a crucial role in producing solar flares. However, the formation of erupting MFRs in complex coronal magnetic configurations and their subsequent evolution in the flaring events are not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Avijeet Prasad , Sanjay Kumar , Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Guillaume Aulanier , R. Bhattacharyya , Qiang Hu

We have performed a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation to study the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from -20,000 km of the solar convection zone to the corona through the photosphere and the chromosphere. The middle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Toriumi , T. Yokoyama

We investigate the evolution of NOAA Active Region 11817 during 2013 August 10--12, when it developed a complex field configuration and produced four confined, followed by two eruptive, flares. These C-and-above flares are all associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 Rui Liu , Bernhard Kliem , Viacheslav S. Titov , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang , Haimin Wang , Chang Liu , Yan Xu , Thomas Wiegelmann

We investigate the propagation of high-speed solar wind streams from their origin near the Sun to 1 AU using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. By tracking both global stream structure and individual plasma parcels, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Stefan J. Hofmeister

Radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation includes sufficiently realistic physics to allow for the synthesis of remote sensing observables that can be quantitatively compared with observations. We analyze the largest flare in a simulation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are usually considered to be the magnetic structure that dominates the transport of helicity from the Sun into the heliosphere. They entrain a confined plasma within a helically organized magnetic structure and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Marta Florido-Llinas , Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla , Mark G. Linton

The process of magnetic reconnection when studied in Nature or when modeled in 3D simulations differs in one key way from the standard 2D paradigmatic cartoon: it is accompanied by much fluctuations in the electromagnetic fields and plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 G. Lapenta , F. Pucci , M. V. Goldman , D. L. Newman
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