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We study the relative helicity of active region (AR) NOAA~12673 during a ten-hour time interval centered around a preceding X2.2 flare (SOL2017-09-06T08:57) and also including an eruptive X9.3 flare that occurred three hours later…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Julia K. Thalmann , X. Sun , K. Moraitis , M. Gupta

Although it is generally believed that the solar photosphere is not magnetically force-free owning to its high plasma $\beta$, the estimations of force-freeness using observed magnetograms have produced disputable results. Some studies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Mei Zhang , Haocheng Zhang

Context. The potential field source surface model is frequently used as a basis for further scientific investigations where a comprehensive coronal magnetic field is of importance. Its parameters, especially the position and shape of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Martin Kruse , Verena Heidrich-Meisner , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber , Michael Hauptmann

The internal dynamics of the Sun generate magnetic and plasma structures in the photosphere and overlying atmosphere across a wide range of spatial scales. Identifying the critical spatial scale is essential for interpreting physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ananya Hore , Prantika Bhowmik

A new method for reconstruction of coronal magnetic fields as force-free fields (FFFs) is presented. Our method employs poloidal and toroidal functions to describe divergence-free magnetic fields. This magnetic field representation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-04 Sibaek Yi , G. S. Choe , Kyung-Suk Cho , Sami K. Solanki , Jörg Büchner

Solar flare simulations are commonly initialised using non-linear force free field (NLFF) extrapolations derived from photospheric vector magnetograms. However, the force free assumption neglects plasma forces and may limit the available…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 W. Bate , M. Gordovskyy , A. Prasad , A. S. Brun , A. Strugarek , M. V. Sieyra , P. Browning , S. Inoue , K. Matsumoto , A. Roddanavar

Airborne gamma-ray surveys are useful for many applications, ranging from geology and mining to public health and nuclear security. In all these contexts, the ability to decompose a measured spectrum into a linear combination of background…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-06-24 M. S. Bandstra , T. H. Y. Joshi , K. J. Bilton , A. Zoglauer , B. J. Quiter

The coronal magnetic field plays a fundamental role in governing coronal activities, driving space-weather events, and shaping the heliosphere. Due to a lack of direct observations, extrapolation models such as the Potential Field Source…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Ziqi Wu , Jiansen He , Chuanpeng Hou , Tom van Doorsselaere , Rui Zhuo , Tianhang Chen , Liping Yang , David Pontin , Daniel Verscharen , Fang Shen

This paper aims to survey our recent work relating to the radial basis function (RBF) from some new views of points. In the first part, we established the RBF on numerical integration analysis based on an intrinsic relationship between the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W. Chen , M. Tanaka

In the recent years, global coronal models have experienced an ongoing increase in popularity as tools for forecasting solar weather. Within the domain of up to 21.5Rsun, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is used to resolve the coronal structure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Michaela Brchnelova , Błażej Kuźma , Barbara Perri , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

Four different approximate approaches used to model the stressing of coronal magnetic fields due to an imposed photospheric motion are compared with each other and the results from a full time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 E. E. Goldstraw , A. W. Hood , P. K. Browning , P. J. Cargill

A radial basis function (RBF) method based on matrix-valued kernels is presented and analyzed for computing two types of vector decompositions on bounded domains: one where the normal component of the divergence-free part of the field is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Edward J. Fuselier , Grady B. Wright

Expanding on an earlier work that relied on linear force-free magnetic fields, we self-consistently derive the instantaneous free magnetic energy and relative magnetic helicity budgets of an unknown three-dimensional nonlinear force-free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. K. Georgoulis , K. Tziotziou , N. -E. Raouafi

The dynamics of highly magnetized plasmas in extreme astrophysical environments are effectively modeled by Force-Free Electrodynamics (FFE), a framework essential for studying objects like neutron stars and accreting black holes. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Rakshak Adhikari

Context. High resolution magnetic field measurements are routinely done only in the solar photosphere. Higher layers like the chromosphere and corona can be modeled by extrapolating the photospheric magnetic field upward. In the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann , Sami Solanki

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a linear dimensionality reduction technique for nonnegative data, with applications such as hyperspectral unmixing and topic modeling. NMF is a difficult problem in general (NP-hard), and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Junjun Pan , Valentin Leplat , Michael Ng , Nicolas Gillis

Dimensionality reduction and matrix factorization techniques are important and useful machine-learning techniques in many fields. Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is particularly useful for spectral analysis and image processing in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-20 Guangtun Zhu

We developed a code for the reconstruction of nonlinear force-free and non-force-free coronal magnetic fields. The 3D magnetic field is computed numerically with the help of an optimization principle. The force-free and non-force-free codes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann

The coronal magnetic field cannot be directly observed, but in principle it can be reconstructed from the comparatively well observed photospheric magnetic field. A popular approach uses a nonlinear force-free model. Non-magnetic forces at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-28 S. A. Gilchrist , M. S. Wheatland

It is an indisputable fact that solar magnetic fields are force-free in the corona, where force free fields means that current and magnetic fields are parallel and there is no Lorentz force in the fields. While the force-free extent of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Liu , J. T. Su , H. Q. Zhang , Y. Y. Deng , Y. Gao , X. Yang , X. J. Mao
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