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Our Sun exhibits strong convective dynamo action which results in magnetic flux bundles emerging through the stellar surface as magnetic spots. Global-scale dynamo action is believed to generate large-scale magnetic structures in the deep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Nicholas J. Nelson , Mark S. Miesch

Fluctuations in the Sun's photospheric magnetic field are the primary source of the turbulence that can heat and accelerate the solar atmosphere, and thus play an important role in the production and evolution of the solar wind that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Rohit Chhiber , Raphael Attie , William H. Matthaeus , Sohom Roy , Barbara J. Thompson

In the following short review we will outline some of the possible interaction processes of lower solar atmospheric plasma with the embedded small-scale solar magnetic fields. After introducing the topic, important types of small-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Santiago Vargas Domínguez , Dominik Utz

We discuss recent advances made in modelling the complex magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun using our anelastic spherical harmonics (ASH) code. We have conducted extensive 3--D simulations of compressible convection in rotating spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

The Sun and other cool stars harbouring outer convection zones manifest magnetic activity in their atmospheres. The connection between this activity and the properties of a deep-seated dynamo generating the magnetic flux is not well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Emre Işık , Dieter Schmitt , Manfred Schüssler

A density structure within the magnetic cloud of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection impacted Earth and caused significant perturbations in plasma boundaries. We describe the effects of this structure on the magnetosheath plasma…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 H. Madanian , Y. Pfau-Kempf , R. Rice , T. Liu , T. Karlsson , S. Raptis , D. Turner , J. Beedle

The heating and structure of the solar chromosphere depends on the underlying magnetic field, among other parameters. The lowest magnetic flux of the solar atmosphere is found in the quiet Sun internetwork and is thought to be provided by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 D. Przybylski , R. Cameron , S. K. Solanki , M. Rempel , S. Danilovic , J. Leenaarts

Fluctuations and structure across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales are frequently studied in the solar wind. The properties of the low-frequency fluctuations are of relevance to turbulent energy injection into the plasma and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jiaming Wang , Francesco Pecora , Rohit Chhiber , Sohom Roy , William H. Matthaeus

Magnetograms acquired with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) were used to calculate and analyze time variations of turbulence and multifractality in the photosphere during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Valentina Abramenko

Vortex rings are remarkably stable structures occurring in numerous systems: for example in turbulent gases, where they are at the origin of weather phenomena [1]; in fluids with implications for biology [2]; in electromagnetic discharges…

The magnetosphere of a pulsar is composed of relativistic plasmas streaming along the magnetic field lines and corotating with the pulsar. We study the intrinsic Faraday rotation in the pulsar magnetosphere by critically examining the wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chen Wang , Jinlin Han , Dong Lai

The Jovian magnetosphere is complicated by the multiple plasma sources and ion species present within it, as well as fast rotation with its dipole axis titled from its rotational axis. To date global models of Jovian have neglected the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-11 Robert M. Winglee , Erika M. Harnett

In-situ observations in the Earth's and Saturn's magnetosheaths and in the solar wind reveal the presence of Alfv\'en vortices as intermittent structures in the range of scales from fluid lengths down to few ion lengths. The density and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Dusan Jovanovic , Olga Alexandrova , Milan Maksimovic , Milivoj Belic

When our Sun was young it rotated much more rapidly than now. Observations of young, rapidly rotating stars indicate that many possess substantial magnetic activity and strong axisymmetric magnetic fields. We conduct simulations of dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-15 Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Mark S. Miesch , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

We use three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamic simulations to study the effects of magnetic fields on the energy transport and structure of radiation pressure dominated main sequence massive star envelopes at the region of the iron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Yan-Fei Jiang , Matteo Cantiello , Lars Bildsten , Eliot Quataert , Omer Blaes

Magnetic reconnection is a rapid energy release process that is believed to be responsible for flares on the Sun and stars. Nevertheless, such flare-related reconnection is mostly detected to occur in the corona, while there have been few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-21 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Ying Li , Kai Yang , Xin Cheng , Feng Chen , Cheng Fang , Wenda Cao

Magnetic fields in rotating and radiating astrophysical plasma can be produced due to a radiative interaction between plasma layers moving relative to each other. The efficiency of current drive, and with it the associated dynamo effect, is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Vadim R. Munirov , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Using data obtained by the high temporal and spatial resolution Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere (ROSA) instrument on the Dunn Solar Telescope, we investigate at an unprecedented level of detail transverse oscillations in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Kuridze , G. Verth , M. Mathioudakis , R. Erdélyi , D. B. Jess , R. J. Morton , D. J. Christian , F. P. Keenan

Recent studies undoubtedly demonstrate that the magnetic field in the photosphere and corona is an intermittent structure, which offers new views on the underlying physics. In particular, such problems as the existence in the corona of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Valentyna Abramenko , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Haimin Wang

We have analyzed multi-wavelength observations and magnetic-field data for the solar flare of May 10, 2012 (04:18 UT) and have detected a sign inversion of the signal in the line-of-sight magnetic measurements in the umbra of a small spot.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 M. A. Livshits , I. Yu. Grigoryeva , I. I. Myshyakov , G. V. Rudenko