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Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are subject to changes in their direction of propagation, tilt, and other properties as they interact with the variable solar wind. We investigated the heliospheric propagation of 15 Earth-impacting CMEs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Sandeep Kumar , Nandita Srivastava , Nat Gopalswamy , Ashutosh Dash

This paper is the third in a series of papers working towards the construction of a realistic, evolving, non-linear force-free coronal field model for the solar magnetic carpet. Here, we present preliminary results of 3D time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 K. A. Meyer , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen , C. E. Parnell

Measuring the global magnetic field of the solar corona remains exceptionally challenging. The fine-scale density structures observed in white light images taken during Total Solar Eclipses (TSEs) are currently the best proxy for inferring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Benjamin Boe , Shadia Habbal , Miloslav Druckmuller

The origin of the heliospheric magnetic flux on the Sun, and hence the origin of the solar wind, is a topic of hot debate.While the prevailing view is that the solar wind originates from outside coronal streamer helmets, there also exists…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bo Li , Xing Li , Hui Yu

Magnetic fields in the sun's outer atmosphere -- the corona -- control both solar-wind acceleration and the dynamics of solar eruptions. We present the first clear observational evidence of coronal magnetic nulls in off-limb linearly…

Solar coronal dimmings have been observed extensively in the past two decades and are believed to have close association with coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Recent study found that coronal dimming is the only signature that could…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most geoeffective space weather phenomena, being associated with large geomagnetic storms, having the potential to cause disturbances to telecommunication, satellite network disruptions, power grid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Andreea-Clara Pricopi , Alin Razvan Paraschiv , Diana Besliu-Ionescu , Anca-Nicoleta Marginean

Routine measurements of the solar magnetic field are mainly carried out in the photosphere. Therefore, one has to infer the field strength in the higher layers of the solar atmosphere from the measured photospheric field based on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , A. Pevtsov

A fundamental property of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is their radial expansion, which determines the increase in the CME radial size and the decrease in the CME magnetic field strength as the CME propagates. CME radial expansion can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bin Zhuang , Noé Lugaz , Nada Al-Haddad , Réka M. Winslow , Camilla Scolini , Charles J. Farrugia , Antoinette B. Galvin

We describe a geometric triangulation technique, based on time-elongation maps constructed from imaging observations, to track coronal mass ejections (CMEs) continuously in the heliosphere and predict their impact on the Earth. Taking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ying Liu , Jackie A. Davies , Janet G. Luhmann , Angelos Vourlidas , Stuart D. Bale , Robert P. Lin

Space weather predictions are necessary to avoid damage caused by intense geomagnetic storms. Such strong storms are usually caused by a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) passing at Earth or by the arrival of strong coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Tinatin Baratashvili , Beatrice Popescu Braileanu , Fabio Bacchini , Rony Keppens , Stefaan Poedts

It remains unclear which physical processes are responsible for the dramatic increase with height of the temperature in stellar atmospheres, known as the chromospheric ($\sim$10,000 K) and coronal (several million K) heating problems.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-17 Souvik Bose , Bart De Pontieu , Viggo Hansteen , Alberto Sainz Dalda , Sabrina Savage , Amy Winebarger

We present a new global model of the solar corona, including the low corona, the transition region and the top of chromosphere. The realistic 3D magnetic field is simulated using the data from the photospheric magnetic field measurements.…

Simulating coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from their origin in active regions (ARs) to their propagation to Earth remains challenging, particularly when aiming to resolve AR scales and employ realistic magnetic field strengths without…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Liping Yang , Huichao Li , Jinhan Guo , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

We investigate the recently quantified misalignment of $\alpha_{mis} \approx 20^\circ-40^\circ$ between the 3-D geometry of stereoscopically triangulated coronal loops observed with STEREO/EUVI (in four active regions) and theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Markus J. Aschwanden , Anne W. Sandman

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

Coronal holes (CHs) are magnetically open regions that allow hot coronal plasma to escape from the Sun and form the high-speed solar wind. This wind can interact with Earth's magnetic field. For this reason, developing an accurate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jeremy A. Grajeda , Laura E. Boucheron , Michael S. Kirk , Andrew Leisner , C. Nick Arge , Jaime A. Landeros

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

We present several models of the magnetic structure of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs). First, we model CMEs as expanding force-free magnetic structures. While keeping the internal magnetic field structure of the stationary solutions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-04 Maxim Lyutikov , Konstantinos Nektarios Gourgouliatos

The solar magnetic field is the primary agent that drives solar activity and couples the Sun to the Heliosphere. Although the details of this coupling depend on the quantitative properties of the field, many important aspects of the corona…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore , J. T. Karpen , Z. Mikic