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It is generally believed that sunspots are the emergent part of magnetic flux tubes in the solar interior. These tubes are created at the base of the convection zone and rise to the surface due to their magnetic buoyancy. The motion of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Franck Plunian , Graeme Sarson , Rodion Stepanov

We investigate vortex dynamics in three magnetic regions, viz., Quiet Sun, Weak Plage, and Strong Plage, using realistic three-dimensional simulations from a comprehensive radiation-MHD code, MURaM. We find that the spatial extents and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 Arjun Kannan , Nitin Yadav

Recent observations revealed that the solar atmosphere is highly structured in density, temperature and magnetic field. The presence of these gradients may lead to the appearance of currents in the plasma, which in the weakly collisional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Mecheri , E. Marsch

The origin of asymmetric radio polarized emission and properties of magnetic fields in the Virgo Cluster spiral NGC4254 are investigated with help of "magnetic maps" presenting distributions of different magnetic field components over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Krzysztof T. Chyzy

Recently, the characteristics, and dynamics of a persistent 1.7 h vortex flow, resembling a small-scale tornado, have been investigated with ground-base and space-based observations and for the first time in the Ha line centre. The vortex…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 K. Tziotziou , G. Tsiropoula , I. Kontogiannis

The solar atmosphere is known to be replete with magneto-hydrodynamic wave modes, and there has been significant investment in understanding how these waves propagate through the Sun's atmopshere and deposit their energy into the plasma.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-14 R. J. Morton , R. Sharma , E. Tajfirouze , H. Miriyala

In the lower solar atmosphere, the chromosphere is permeated by jets known as spicules, in which plasma is propelled at speeds of 50 to 150 kilometers per second into the corona. The origin of the spicules is poorly understood, although…

The Sun's atmosphere hosts swirling plasma structures, known as solar vortices, which have long been thought to channel wave energy into higher layers. Until now, no direct observations have confirmed their role in the heating of the…

The outer solar atmosphere, the corona, contains plasma at temperatures of more than a million K, more than 100 times hotter that solar surface. How this gas is heated is a fundamental question tightly interwoven with the structure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-07 F. Chen , H. Peter , S. Bingert , M. C. M. Cheung

Interactions between flows and magnetic fields in the Sun's plasma can change surface waves and flows near active regions, are evident in cyclic changes of large-scale phenomena such as the meridional circulation, and contribute to dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-23 E. J. Zita , C. Smith , N. E. Hurlburt

An overview is given about recent developments and results of comprehensive simulations of magneto-convective processes in the near-surface layers and photosphere of the Sun. Simulations now cover a wide range of phenomena, from whole…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Manfred Schüssler

Local inversions are often observed in the heliospheric magnetic field (HMF), but their origins and evolution are not yet fully understood.Parker Solar Probe has recently observed rapid, Alfvenic, HMF inversions in the inner heliosphere,…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Allan Macneil , Mathew Owens , Robert Wicks , Mike Lockwood , Sarah Bentley , Mathew Lang

The periodically varying Lorentz force of the periodic solar magnetic field generated by the solar dynamo can induce two kinds of motions: torsional oscillations and periodic variations in the meridional circulation. Observational evidence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Arnab Rai Choudhuri

The phenomenon of solar "torsional oscillations" (TO) represents migratory zonal flows associated with the solar cycle. These flows are observed on the solar surface and, according to helioseismology, extend through the convection zone. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 G. Guerrero , P. K. Smolarkiewicz , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. G. Kosovichev , N. N. Mansour

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

Magnetic fields emerging from the Sun's interior carry information about physical processes of magnetic field generation and transport in the convection zone. Soon after appearance on the solar surface the magnetic flux gets concentrated in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Kosovichev

{\em Voyager 1} and {\em 2} data reveals that magnetic field fluctuations are compressive and exhibit a Gaussian distribution in the compressed heliosheath plasma, whereas they follow a lognormal distribution in a nearly incompressible…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dastgeer Shaikh

The onset and evolution of magnetic fields in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas is determined by several mechanisms, including instabilities, dynamo effects and ultra-high energy particle flows through gas, plasma and interstellar-media.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Flacco , J. Vieira , A. Lifschitz , F. Sylla , S. Kahaly , M. Veltcheva , L. O. Silva , V. Malka

The plasma-$\beta$ is an important fundamental physical quantity in solar plasma physics, which determines the dominating process in the solar atmosphere, i.e., magnetic or thermodynamic processes. Here, for the first time, we provide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Ananya Rawat , Girjesh Gupta , Tom Van Doorsselaere , S. Krishna Prasad , Robertus Erdélyi

Magnetic fields in the solar corona are responsible for a wide range of phenomena. However, any direct measurements of the coronal magnetic fields are very difficult due to lack of suitable spectral lines, weak magnetic fields, and high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-28 P. Vemareddy , A. Ambastha , T. Wiegelmann
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