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Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs), sets of coherently twisted magnetic field lines, are believed as core structures of various solar eruptions. Their evolution plays an important role to understand the physical mechanisms of solar eruptions, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Ruisheng Zheng , Yihan Liu , Liang Zhang , Yang Liu , Changhui Rao , Qing Lin , Zhimao Du , Libo Zhong , Huadong Chen , Yao Chen

Flux emergence is crucial for the formation of solar active regions and triggering of various eruptions. However, the detailed mechanisms by which flux emergence drives these eruptions remain unclear and require numerical investigation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Xiaohong Li , Yuhao Zhou , Rony Keppens

The rotation of erupting filaments in the solar corona is addressed through a parametric simulation study of unstable, rotating flux ropes in bipolar force-free initial equilibrium. The Lorentz force due to the external shear field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Kliem , T. Török , W. T. Thompson

The goal of this paper is to understand the drivers, configurations, and scenarios of two similar eruptive events, which occurred in the same solar active region 9973 on 2002 June 1 and 2. The June 2 event was previously studied by Sui,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-28 N. S. Meshalkina , A. M. Uralov , V. V. Grechnev , A. T. Altyntsev , L. K. Kashapova

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are among the most energetic events in the solar system, impacting the near-Earth environment. Flare productivity is empirically known to be correlated with the size and complexity of active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-16 Chloé Guennou , Etienne Pariat , Nicole Vilmer , James E. Leake

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are thought to be the central structure of solar eruptions, and their ideal MHD instabilities can trigger the eruption. Here we performed a study of all the MFR configurations that lead to major solar flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Wen He , Xueshang Feng , Peng Zou , Jun Cui

We examine a simulation of flux emergence and cancellation, which shows a complex sequence of processes that accumulate free magnetic energy in the solar corona essential for the eruptive events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most spectacular eruptive phenomena in the solar atmosphere. It is generally accepted that CMEs are results of eruptions of magnetic flux ropes (MFRs). However, a heated debate is on whether MFRs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hongqiang Song , Jie Zhang , Yao Chen , Xin Cheng

We analyse the forces that control the dynamic evolution of a flux rope eruption in a three-dimensional (3D) radiative magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulation. The confined eruption of the flux rope gives rise to a C8.5 flare. The flux rope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Can Wang , Feng Chen , Mingde Ding , Zekun Lu

Solar eruptions are explosive release of coronal magnetic field energy as manifested in solar flares and coronal mass ejection. Observations have shown that the core of eruption-productive regions are often a sheared magnetic arcade, i.e.,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Xinkai Bian , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Xinyi Wang

Large-scale solar eruptions are generally accepted to have coronal magnetic flux ropes as their core structures. Recent studies found that the solar eruptions could be initiated by a sequence of flux feeding processes, during with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Quanhao Zhang , Shangbin Yang , Rui Liu , Min Zhang , Dong Wang , Ake Zhao , Shaoyu Lyu , Anchuan Song , Yuming Wang

The origins of the various outbursts of hard X-rays from magnetars (highly magnetized neutron stars) are still unknown. We identify instabilities in relativistic magnetospheres that can explain a range of X-ray flare luminosities. Crustal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 J. F. Mahlmann , A. A. Philippov , V. Mewes , B. Ripperda , E. R. Most , L. Sironi

Context: Many previous studies have shown that the magnetic precursor of a coronal mass ejection (CME) takes the form of a magnetic flux rope, and a subset of them have become known as `hot flux ropes' due to their emission signatures in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Alexander W James , Lucie M Green , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Gherardo Valori

Impulsive solar energetic particle events are widely believed to be due to the prompt escape into the interplanetary medium of flare-accelerated particles produced by solar eruptive events. According to the standard model for such events,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Masson , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore

Context. Prominence eruptions provide key observations to understand the launch of coronal mass ejections as their cold plasma traces a part of the unstable magnetic configuration. Aims. We select a well observed case to derive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Pooja Devi , Pascal Démoulin , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi , Brigitte Schmieder , Bhuwan Joshi

The coronal magnetic configuration of an active region typically evolves quietly during few days before becoming suddenly eruptive and launching a coronal mass ejection (CME). The precise origin of the eruption is still debated. Among…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. Demoulin , G. Aulanier

We have performed a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation to study the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from -20,000 km of the solar convection zone to the corona through the photosphere and the chromosphere. The middle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Toriumi , T. Yokoyama

On SOL2017-09-06 solar active region 12673 produced an X9.3 flare which is regarded as largest to occur in solar cycle 24. In this work we have preformed a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation in order to reveal the three-dimensional (3D)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Satoshi Inoue , Daikou Shiota , Yumi Bamba , Sung-Hong Park

Here, we present numerical simulations of magnetic flux buoyantly rising from a granular convection zone into the low corona. We study the complex interaction of the magnetic field with the turbulent plasma. The model includes the radiative…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

We study the relationship between implosive motions in a solar flare, and the energy redistribution in the form of oscillatory structures and particle acceleration. The flare SOL2012-03-09T03:53 (M6.4) shows clear evidence for an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. J. A. Simões , L. Fletcher , H. S. Hudson , A. J. B. Russell