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The tilt angle, current helicity and twist of solar magnetic fields can be observed in solar active regions. We carried out estimates of these parameters by two ways. Firstly, we consider the model of turbulent convective cells…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 K. Kuzanyan , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , D. Sokoloff , H. Zhang

Electric currents in solar active regions are thought to provide the energy released via magnetic reconnection in solar flares. Vertical electric current densities $J_z$ at the photosphere may be estimated from vector magnetogram data,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. S. Wheatland

We demonstrate that the current helicity observed in solar active regions traces the magnetic helicity of the large-scale dynamo generated field. We use an advanced 2D mean-field dynamo model with dynamo saturation based on the evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 H. Zhang , D. Moss , N. Kleeorin , K. Kuzanyan , I. Rogachevskii , D. Sokoloff , Y. Gao , H. Xu

The alpha effect is believed to play a key role in the generation of the solar magnetic field. A fundamental test for its significance in the solar dynamo is to look for magnetic helicity of opposite signs in the two hemispheres, and at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 A. Prabhu , A. Brandenburg , M. J. Käpylä , A. Lagg

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

Duo to the large magnetic Reynolds number, the magnetic helicity originating from the solar interior can be carried away through the photosphere into the corona. However, the relationship between the accumulated magnetic helicity flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Quan Wang , Shangbin Yang , Mei Zhang , Xiao Yang

The emergence of dipolar magnetic features on the solar surface is an idealization. Most of the magnetic flux emergence occurs in complex multipolar regions. Here, we show that the surface pattern of magnetic structures alone can reveal the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Axel Brandenburg

The anisotropy of magnetophydrodynamic turbulence is investigated by using solar wind data from the Helios 2 spacecraft. We investigate the behaviour of the complete high-order moment tensors of magnetic field increments and we compare the…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Vincenzo Carbone , Roberto Bruno , Pierluigi Veltri

Potential field extrapolations are widely used as minimum-energy models for the Sun's coronal magnetic field. As the reference to which other magnetic fields are compared, they have -- by any reasonable definition -- no global (signed)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 A. R. Yeates

In this ISSI-supported series of studies on magnetic helicity in the Sun, we systematically implement different magnetic helicity calculation methods on high-quality solar magnetogram observations. We apply finite-volume, discrete flux tube…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 J. K. Thalmann , M. K. Georgoulis , Y. Liu , E. Pariat , G. Valori , S. Anfinogentov , F. Chen , Y. Guo , K. Moraitis , S. Yang , A. Mastrano

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

An investigation on correlations between photospheric current helicity and subsur- face kinetic helicity is carried out by analyzing vector magnetograms and subsurface velocities for two rapidly developing active regions. The vector…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yu Gao , Junwei Zhao , Hongqi Zhang

Using the Parker Solar Probe data taken in the inner heliosphere, we investigate the power and spatial anisotropy of magnetic-field spectra at kinetic scales (i.e., around sub-ion scales) in solar wind turbulence in the inner heliosphere.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 S. Y. Huang , S. B. Xu , J. Zhang , F. Sahraoui , N. Andres , J. S. He , Z. G. Yuan , X. H. Deng , K. Jiang , Y. Y. Wei , Q. Y. Xiong , Z. Wang , L. Yu , R. T. Lin

Observations of magnetic helicity transportation through the solar photosphere reflect the interaction of turbulent plasma movements and magnetic fields in the solar dynamo process. In this chapter, we have reviewed the research process of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Hongqi Zhang , Shangbin Yang , Haiqing Xu , Xiao Yang , Jie Chen , Jihong Liu

The injection of magnetic helicity into the heliosphere during solar cycle 24 and the early phase of cycle 25 has been calculated based on the analysis of a series of synoptic magnetic charts. During the cycle, the injected magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 H. Q. Zhang , S. B. Yang , K. M. Kuzanyan , Axel Brandenburg , H. Q. Xu , D. D. Sokoloff

In the paper we study the helicity density patterns which can result from the emerging bipolar regions. Using the relevant dynamo model and the magnetic helicity conservation law we find that the helicity density pattern around the bipolar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 V. V. Pipin

We observe the anisotropy of the power spectral tensor of magnetic field fluctuations in the fast solar wind for the first time. In heliocentric RTN coordinates the power in each element of the tensor has a unique dependence on the angle…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Robert T. Wicks , Miriam A. Forman , Timothy S. Horbury , Sean Oughton

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

Previous studies have used magnetic energy and helicity spectra, the latter computed using the two-scale method, to search for signatures of mean-field dynamos. In this study, we compare cotemporal HMI and SOLIS magnetograms to illustrate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 G. Kishore , Nishant K. Singh

We employ the DAVE (differential affine velocity estimator, Schuck 2005; 2006) tracking technique on a time series of MDI/1m high spatial resolution line- of-sight magnetograms to measure the photospheric flow velocity for three newly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Lirong Tian , Pascal Démoulin , David Alexander , Chunming Zhu