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We assess the validity of the free magnetic energy - relative magnetic helicity diagram for solar magnetic structures. We used two different methods of calculating the free magnetic energy and the relative magnetic helicity budgets: a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 K. Tziotziou , K. Moraitis , M. K. Georgoulis , V. Archontis

A proxy for horizontal electric currents in the solar photosphere was suggested. For a set of evolving active regions (ARs) observed with {\it Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)} Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) in the high resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-11 Valentyna Abramenko

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

Powerful lasers may in future produce magnetic fields that would allow us to study turbulent magnetohydrodynamic inverse cascade behavior. This has so far only been seen in numerical simulations. In the laboratory, however, the produced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Axel Brandenburg , Longqing Yi , Xianshu Wu

The scaling anisotropy is crucial to interpret the nonlinear interactions in solar wind turbulence. Previous observations provide diverse results and the structure function analyses are also reported to be an approach to investigate the…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Honghong Wu , Chuanyi Tu , Xin Wang , Jiansen He , Liping Yang , Linghua Wang

Using time-sequence vector magnetic field and coronal observations from \textit{Solar Dynamics Observatory}, we report the observations of the magnetic field evolution and coronal activity in four emerging active regions (ARs). The ARs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 P. Vemareddy

Magnetic helicity is a key geometrical parameter to describe the structure and evolution of solar coronal magnetic fields. The accumulation of magnetic helicity is correlated with the non-potential magnetic field energy, which is released…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Shangbin Yang , Suo Liu , Jiangtao Su , Yuanyong Deng

An alternative parameter $R_{J_z}$ is introduced as the ratio of one of two kinds of opposite-sign current to the total current and investigate the relationship between the quantity and the hemispheric sign rule of helicity (HSR) that is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-22 Yu Gao

Using vector magnetograms from the HMI/SDO and a magnetic connectivity-based method, we calculate the instantaneous relative magnetic helicity and free magnetic energy budgets for several days in two solar active regions (ARs), AR11890 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 E. Liokati , A. Nindos , M. K. Georgoulis

For the first time we reconstruct the magnetic helicity density of global axisymmetric field of the Sun using method proposed by Brandenburg et al. (2003) and Pipin et al. (2013). To determine the components of the vector potential, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 V. V. Pipin , A. A. Pevtsov

Magnetic helicity is a quantity that underpins many theories of magnetic relaxation in electrically conducting fluids, both laminar and turbulent. Although much theoretical effort has been expended on magnetic fields that are everywhere…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Sauli Lindberg , David MacTaggart

A well-known property of solar wind plasma turbulence is the observed anisotropy of the autocorrelations, or equivalently the spectra, of velocity and magnetic field fluctuations. Here we explore the related but apparently not well-studied…

Relative magnetic helicity is commonly used in solar physics to avoid the well known gauge ambiguity of standard magnetic helicity in magnetically open domains. But its physical interpretation is difficult owing to the invocation of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Anthony R. Yeates , Gunnar Hornig

Context. The presence of a magnetic guide field induces several types of anisotropy in solar wind turbulence. The energy cascade rate between scales in the inertial range depends strongly on the direction of this magnetic guide field,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 N. Andrés , F. Sahraoui , Huang , L. Z. Hadid , S. Galtier

The coupling between a primordial magnetic field and the cosmic axion field generates a helical component of the magnetic field around the time in which the axion starts to oscillate. If the energy density of the seed magnetic field is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Campanelli , M. Giannotti

We compare the coronal magnetic energy and helicity of two solar active regions (ARs), prolific in major eruptive (AR~11158) and confined (AR~12192) flaring, and analyze the potential of deduced proxies to forecast upcoming flares. Based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 J. K. Thalmann , K. Moraitis , L. Linan , E. Pariat , G. Valori , K. Dalmasse

Using magnetic field maps acquired by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory we measured rotation rates of 864 active and 322 ephemeral regions observed between 2010 and 2016. We found smaller magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Alexander S. Kutsenko

Magnetic helicity quantifies how globally sheared and/or twisted is the magnetic field in a volume. This quantity is believed to play a key role in solar activity due to its conservation property. Helicity is continuously injected into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-11 K. Dalmasse , E. Pariat , P. Démoulin , G. Aulanier

The relative magnetic helicity is a quantity that is often used to describe the level of entanglement of non-isolated magnetic fields, such as the magnetic field of solar active regions.The aim of this paper is to investigate how different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Francesco P. Zuccarello , Etienne Pariat , Gherardo Valori , Luis Linan

Relative magnetic helicity is a gauge invariant quantity suitable for the study of the magnetic helicity content of heliospheric plasmas. Relative magnetic helicity can be decomposed uniquely into two gauge invariant quantities, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Luis Linan , Étienne Pariat , Kostas Moraitis , Gherardo Valori , James E. Leake