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We carry out magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the quasi-static evolution and eruption of a twisted coronal flux rope under a coronal streamer built up by an imposed flux emergence at the lower boundary. The MHD model incorporates a…

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The Sun's magnetic dynamo cycle features a distinct pattern: a propagating region of sunspot emergence appears around 30 degrees latitude and vanishes near the equator every 11 years. Moreover, longitudinal flows called "torsional…

Solar flares occur due to the sudden release of energy stored in active-region magnetic fields. To date, the pre-cursors to flaring are still not fully understood, although there is evidence that flaring is related to changes in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-01 Sophie A. Murray , D. Shaun Bloomfield , Peter T. Gallagher

Quiescent solar prominences are observed to exist within the solar atmosphere for up to several solar rotations. Their eruption is commonly preceded by a slow increase in height that can last from hours to days. This increase in the…

Solar transients and eruptive phenomena which are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere, can shed new light to the understanding of the outstanding problems like coronal heating and the solar wind acceleration. Observations in the entire…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-05 Abhishek K. Srivastava , V. M. Nakariakov , B. N. Dwivedi , Pankaj Kumar

We present numerical simulations in 2.5D settings where large scale prominences form in situ out of coronal condensation in magnetic dips, in close agreement with early as well as recent reporting of `funnel prominences'. Our simulation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Rony Keppens , Chun Xia

Solar eruptions are the leading driver of space weather, and it is vital for space weather forecast to understand in what conditions the solar eruptions can be produced and how they are initiated. The rotation of sunspots around their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-15 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Xinkai Bian , Peng Zou , Aiying Duan , Xiaoli Yan , Qiang Hu , Wen He , Xinyi Wang , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

The Sun features on its surface typical flow patterns called the granulation, mesogranulation, and supergranulation. These patterns arise due to convective flows transporting energy from the interior of the Sun to its surface. In this paper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 J. I. Campos Rozo , D. Utz , S. Vargas Dominguez , A. Veronig , T. Van Doorsselaere

We describe and analyze observations by the Solar Dynamics Observatory of the emergence of a small, bipolar active region within an area of unipolar magnetic flux that was surrounded by a circular, quiescent filament. Within only eight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Sally Dacie , Tibor Torok , Pascal Demoulin , Mark Linton , Cooper Downs , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , David Long , James Leake

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

During 2011/09/24, as observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument of the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) and ground-based \Ha\ telescopes, a prominence and associated cavity appeared above the southwest limb. On 2011/09/25…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Xing Li , Huw Morgan , Drew Leonard , Lauren Jeska

Solar active regions are driven dissipative dynamical systems. The turbulent convection zone forces new magnetic flux tubes to rise above the photosphere and shuffles the magnetic fields which are already above the photosphere. The driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Loukas Vlahos

One of the most striking structures in the solar atmosphere are prominences, predominantly coronal structures, with thermodynamic conditions that vary from chromospheric internally to the corona that surrounds them. These structures play an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 V. Jerčić , B. Popescu Braileanu , R. Keppens

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe. Extragalactic disks, halos and clusters have consistently been shown, via diffuse radio-synchrotron emission and Faraday rotation measurements, to exhibit magnetic field strengths ranging from…

Solar prominences are the most prominent large-scale structures observed above the solar limb in emission in chromospheric lines but in absorption in coronal lines. At the bottom of prominences often appears a bubble, with plumes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Wensi Wang , Rui Liu , Runbin Luo , Xiaoli Yan

Solar active regions are associated with Evershed outflows in sunspot penumbrae, moat outflows surrounding sunspots, and extended inflows surrounding active regions. The latter have been identified on established active regions by various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 N. Gottschling , H. Schunker , A. C. Birch , B. Löptien , L. Gizon

Aims. We study the emergence of a non-twisted flux tube from the solar interior into the solar atmosphere. We investigate whether the length of the buoyant part of the flux tube (i.e. {\lambda}) affects the emergence of the field and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Petros Syntelis , Vasilis Archontis , Costis Gontikakis , Kanaris Tsinganos

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

After emerging to the solar surface, the Sun's magnetic field displays a complex and intricate evolution. The evolution of the surface field is important for several reasons. One is that the surface field, and its dynamics, sets the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Jiang , D. H. Hathaway , R. H. Cameron , S. K. Solanki , L. Gizon , L. Upton

EK Draconis, a nearby young solar-type star (G1.5V, 50-120 Myr), is known as one of the best proxies for inferring the environmental conditions of the young Sun. The star frequently produces superflares and Paper I presented the first…