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Magnetic field extrapolation from the solar photosphere to the corona plays an important role in solar physics research. In this work, we present a fully-implicit viscous-relaxation nonlinear force-free field (FIVR-NLFFF) extrapolation code…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Zhenhua Liu , Chaowei Jiang

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) modeling has been extensively used to infer the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field in the solar corona. One of the assumptions in the NLFFF extrapolation is that the plasma beta is low, but this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Yusuke Kawabata , Andrés Asensio Ramos , Satoshi Inoue , Toshifumi Shimizu

Context: Solar magnetic fields are regularly extrapolated into the corona starting from photospheric magnetic measurements that can suffer from significant uncertainties. Aims: Here we study how inaccuracies introduced into the maps of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. Wiegelmann , L. Yelles Chaouche , S. K. Solanki , A. Lagg

Based on a second-order approximation of nonlinear force-free magnetic field solutions in terms of uniformly twisted field lines derived in Paper I, we develop here a numeric code that is capable to forward-fit such analytical solutions to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Markus J. Aschwanden , Anna Malanushenko

The magnetic field permeating the solar atmosphere is generally thought to provide the energy for much of the activity seen in the solar corona, such as flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), etc. To overcome the unavailability of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , S. Gosain , P. MacNeice , Alexei A. Pevtsov

A more accurate analytical solution of the {\sl vertical-current approximation nonlinear force-free field (VCA3-NLFFF)} model is presented that includes besides the radial $(B_r)$ and the azimuthal $(B_\varphi)$ magnetic field components a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Markus J. Aschwanden

The shapes of solar coronal loops are sensitive to the presence of electrical currents that are the carriers of the nonpotential energy available for impulsive activity. We use this information in a new method for modeling the coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 A. Malanushenko , C. Schrijver , M. L. DeRosa , M. S. Wheatland

Knowledge regarding the coronal magnetic field is important for the understanding of many phenomena, like flares and coronal mass ejections. Because of the low plasma beta in the solar corona the coronal magnetic field is often assumed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Wiegelmann , Bernd Inhester , Takashi Sakurai

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

The solar magnetic field is key to understanding the physical processes in the solar atmosphere. Nonlinear force-free codes have been shown to be useful in extrapolating the coronal field from underlying vector boundary data [see Schrijver…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-21 T. Wiegelmann , J. K. Thalmann , C. J. Schrijver , M. L. DeRosa , T. R. Metcalf

The solar magnetic field is key to understanding the physical processes in the solar atmosphere. Nonlinear force-free codes have been shown to be useful in extrapolating the coronal field upward from underlying vector boundary data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-29 T. Wiegelmann , J. K. Thalmann , C. J. Schrijver , M. L. Derosa , T. R. Metcalf

The Potential Field Source Surface (PFSS) model is the most used approach for extrapolating the global coronal magnetic field, offering efficiency and strong performance at large scales. However, PFSS assumes a potential coronal field, so…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 C. Antonio , I. Chifu , R. Gafeira , J. J. G. Lima

With the development of new instrumentation providing measurements of solar photospheric vector magnetic fields, we need to develop our understanding of the effects of current density on coronal magnetic field configurations. The object is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Regnier , E. R. Priest

The structure and dynamics of the solar corona is dominated by the magnetic field. In most areas in the corona magnetic forces are so dominant that all non-magnetic forces like plasma pressure gradient and gravity can be neglected in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Thomas Wiegelmann , Takashi Sakurai

We present a novel magnetohydrostatic numerical model that solves directly for the force-balanced magnetic field in the solar corona. This model is constructed with Radial Basis Function Finite Differences (RBF-FD), specifically 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Nathaniel H. Mathews , Natasha Flyer , Sarah E. Gibson

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) modeling has been extensively used as a tool to infer three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field structure. In this study, the dependency of the NLFFF calculation with respect to the initial guess of the 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-09 Y. Kawabata , S. Inoue , T. Shimizu

Aims. We aim to develop a fast and consistent extrapolation method to model multiple layers of the solar atmosphere. Methods. The new approach combines the magnetohydrostatic (MHS) extrapolation which models the solar low atmosphere in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann

Rapid and stepwise changes of the magnetic field are often observed during flares but cannot be explained by models yet. Using a 45 min sequence of SDO/HMI 135 s fast-cadence vector magnetograms of the X1 flare on 2014-03-29 we construct,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Lucia Kleint , Michael S. Wheatland , Alpha Mastrano , Patrick I. McCauley

In this work we describe a numerical optimization method for computing stationary MHD-equilibria. The newly developed code is based on a nonlinear force-free optimization principle. We apply our code to model the solar corona using synoptic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Thomas Wiegelmann , Thomas Neukirch , Dieter H. Nickeler , Iulia Chifu

CONTEXT: As the coronal magnetic field can usually not be measured directly, it has to be extrapolated from photospheric measurements into the corona. AIMS: We test the quality of a non-linear force-free coronal magnetic field extrapolation…