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Three-dimensional magnetic topology of solar flare plays a crucial role in understanding its explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona. However, such three-dimensional coronal magnetic field is still elusive in direct observation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

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

We study the distribution of the mean radial displacement of charges of a 2D one-component plasma in the thermodynamic limit $N\to\infty$ at finite temperature $\beta>0$. We compute explicitly the large deviation functions showing the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Fabio Deelan Cunden , Anna Maltsev , Francesco Mezzadri

Three-dimensional, time-dependent numerical simulations of the dynamics of magnetic flux ropes are presented. The simulations are targeted towards an experiment previously conducted at CalTech (Bellan, P. M. and J. F. Hansen, Phys. Plasmas,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Arnold , J. Dreher , R. Grauer , H. Soltwisch , H. Stein

We conduct forward-modeling analysis based on our 2.5 dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation of magnetic flux rope (MFR) formation and eruption driven by photospheric converging motion. The current sheet (CS) evolution during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiaozhou Zhao , Chun Xia , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Rony Keppens , W. Q. Gan

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) represent the most extreme solar products, showing complex and dynamic structures when detected in situ. They are often preceded by a shock and carry a magnetic cloud organised as a flux rope, surrounded and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Mattia Sangalli , Andrea Verdini , Simone Landi , Emanuele Papini

We report microwave spectral imaging observations of an erupting magnetic flux rope during the early impulsive phase of the X8.2-class limb flare on 2017 September 10, obtained by the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array. A few days prior to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Katharine K. Reeves , Dale E. Gary

The formation of the MFRs in the pre-flare stage, and how this leads to coronal rain in a post-eruption magnetic loop is not fully understood. We explore the formation, and eruption of MFRs, followed by the appearance of coronal rain in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Samrat Sen , Avijeet Prasad , Valeriia Liakh , Rony Keppens

Within the framework of a two-fluid description possible pathways for the generation of fast flows (dynamical as well as steady) in the lower solar atmosphere is established. It is shown that a primary plasma flow (locally sub-Alfv\'enic)…

Magnrtic flux ropes (MFRs) play a crucial role during magnetic reconnection. They are believed to be primarily generated by tearing mode instabilities in the electron diffusion region (EDR). However, they have never been observed inside the…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Z. Z. Chen , H. S. Fu , Z. Wang , Z. Z. Guo , Y. Xu , C. M. Liu

Low-altitude twisted magnetic fields may be relevant to atmospheric heating in the quiet Sun, but the exact role, topology, and formation of these twisted fields remains to be studied. We investigate the formation and evolution of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Rebecca Robinson , Guillaume Aulanier , Mats Carlsson

The development and time evolution of a transport barrier in a magnetically confined plasma with non-monotonic, nonlinear dependence of the anomalous flux on mean gradients is analyzed. Upon consideration of both the spatial inhomogeneity…

plasm-ph · Physics 2009-10-30 V. B. Lebedev , P. H. Diamond

In strongly magnetized astrophysical plasma systems, magnetic reconnection is believed to be a primary process during which explosive energy release and particle acceleration occur, leading to significant high-energy emission. Past years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Fan Guo , Xiaocan Li , William Daughton , Hui Li , Patrick Kilian , Yi-Hsin Liu , Qile Zhang , Haocheng Zhang

Magnetic flux ropes are commonly observed throughout the heliosphere, and recent studies suggest that interacting flux ropes are associated with some energetic particle events. In this work, we carry out 2D particle-in-cell (PIC)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Senbei Du , Fan Guo , Gary P. Zank , Xiaocan Li , Adam Stanier

We investigate the magnetic reconnection in an MHD simulation of a coronal magnetic flux rope (MFR) confined by a helmet streamer, where a prominence-cavity system forms. This system includes a hot cavity surrounding a prominence with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Tie Liu , Yingna Su

Magnetic clouds (MCs) are observed insitu by spacecraft. The rotation of their magnetic field is typically interpreted as the crossing of a twisted magnetic flux tube, or flux rope, which was launched from the solar corona. The detailed…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 V. Lanabere , P. Démoulin , S. Dasso

We have studied the large scale dynamo process forced with helical magnetic energy. The magnetically driven dynamo is not so well studied as kinetically forced dynamo. It has been thought to represent the amplification of magnetic field in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Kiwan Park , Myung-Ki Cheoun

The nature of flows in tornado-prominences is an open issue. While the AIA imager aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) allowed us to follow the global structure of a tornado-like prominence during five hours, the Interface Region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Krzysztof Barczynski , Brigitte Schmieder , Aaron W. Peat , Nicolas Labrosse , Pierre Mein , Nicole Mein

Magnetic flux rope is believed to be an important structural component of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). While there exist much observational evidence of the flux rope after the eruption, e.g., as seen in remote-sensing coronagraph images…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , Y. Liu , M. D. Ding

Our understanding of processes occurring in the heliosphere historically began with reduced dimensionality - one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) sketches and models, which aimed to illustrate views on large-scale structures in the…