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We present evidence for finite magnetic helicity density in the heliosphere and numerical models thereof, and relate it to the magnetic field properties of the dynamo in the solar convection zone. We use simulations and solar wind data to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-03 Jörn Warnecke , Axel Brandenburg , Dhrubaditya Mitra

The theory of large scale dynamos is reviewed with particular emphasis on the magnetic helicity constraint in the presence of closed and open boundaries. In the presence of closed or periodic boundaries, helical dynamos respond to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Brandenburg , W. Dobler , K. Subramanian

The objective of the present paper is to investigate the constancy of the topological invariant denoted non-barotropic generalized cross helicity in the case of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD). Existing work considers only ideal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-23 Prachi Sharma , Asher Yahalom

This paper presents both rigorous results and physical theory on the breakdown of magnetic flux conservation for ideal plasmas, by nonlinear effects. Our analysis is based upon an effective equation for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes at…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Gregory L. Eyink , Hussein Aluie

In this paper we discuss conservation laws in ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and gas dynamics associated with advected invariants. The invariants in some cases, can be related to fluid relabelling symmetries associated with the Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Gary M. Webb , Brahmananda Dasgupta , James F McKenzie , Qiang Hu , Gary P. Zank

Magnetic helicity flux gives information about the topology of a magnetic field passing through a boundary. In solar physics applications, this boundary is the photosphere and magnetic helicity flux has become an important quantity in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Chris Prior , David MacTaggart

This paper is devoted to studying the well-posedness, (conditional) conservation of magnetic helicity, inviscid limit and asymptotic stability of the generalized Navier-Stokes-Maxwell equations (NSM) under the Hall effect in two and three…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Kyungkeun Kang , Jihoon Lee , Dinh Duong Nguyen

Magnetic reconnection is a plasma phenomenon where a topological rearrangement of magnetic field lines with opposite polarity results in dissipation of magnetic energy into heat, kinetic energy and particle acceleration. Such a phenomenon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 Edoardo Striani , Andrea Mignone , Bhargav Vaidya , Gianluigi Bodo , Attilio Ferrari

We search for observational signatures of magnetic helicity in data from all-sky radio polarization surveys of the Milky Way Galaxy. Such a detection would help confirm the dynamo origin of the field and may provide new observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 J. L. West , R. N. Henriksen , K. Ferrière , A. Woodfinden , T. Jaffe , B. M. Gaensler , J. A. Irwin

Context. On the sun, the magnetic field vector is measured routinely only in the photosphere. By using these photospheric measurements as boundary condition, we developed the magnetohydrostatic (MHS) extrapolation to model the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann

We demonstrate that conservation of global helicity plays only a minor role in determining the nature and consequences of magnetic reconnection in the solar atmosphere. First, we show that observations of the solar coronal magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore

The evolution of the magnetic helicity tensor for a nonzero mean magnetic field and for large magnetic Reynolds numbers in an anisotropic turbulence is studied. It is shown that the isotropic and anisotropic parts of the magnetic helicity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

We have investigated the variation of magnetic helicity over a span of several days around the times of 11 X-class flares which occurred in seven active regions (NOAA 9672, 10030, 10314, 10486, 10564, 10696, and 10720) using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sung-Hong Park , Jeongwoo Lee , Gwang-Son Choe , Jongchul Chae , Hyewon Jeong , Guo Yang , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

An instability criterion in the MHD with the open boundary of magnetic field is proposed in this paper. We use a series of linear force-free extrapolation field, in which the normal part of magnetic field is fixed, to obtain the linear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Shangbin Yang , Joerg Buechner , Jean Carlo Santos , Jan Skala , Hongqi Zhang

We show that oppositely directed fluxes of energy and magnetic helicity coexist in the inertial range in fully developed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with small-scale sources of magnetic helicity. Using a helical shell model of MHD…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Rodion Stepanov , Peter Frick , Irina Mizeva

The helicity of a magnetic field is a fundamental property that is conserved in ideal MHD. It can be explored in the stellar context by mapping large-scale magnetic fields across stellar surfaces using Zeeman-Doppler imaging. A recent study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 K. Lund , M. Jardine , A. J. B. Russell , J. -F. Donati , R. Fares , C. P. Folsom

The paper address the effects of magnetic helicity conservation in a non-linear nonaxisymmetric mean-field solar dynamo model. We study the evolution of the shallow non-axisymmetric magnetic field perturbation with the strength about 10G in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 V. V. Pipin

The decay of a turbulent magnetic field is slower with helicity than without. Furthermore, the magnetic correlation length grows faster for a helical than a nonhelical field. Both helical and nonhelical decay laws involve conserved…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Axel Brandenburg , Aikya Banerjee

We investigate magnetized solar-like stellar winds by means of self-consistent three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulations. We analyze winds with different magnetic field intensities and densities as to explore…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. A. Vidotto , M. Opher , V. Jatenco-Pereira , T. I. Gombosi

The electron inertia term and the off-diagonal electron pressure terms are well-known for the frozen-in condition breakdown in collisionless magnetic reconnection, which are naturally kinetic and difficult to be employed in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 H. W. Zhang , Z. W. Ma , T. Chen
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