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Magnetic reconnection, a fundamental plasma process associated with a rapid dissipation of magnetic energy, is believed to power many disruptive phenomena in laboratory plasma devices, the Earth magnetosphere, and the solar corona.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Jonathan C. McKinney

We present the results of a set of three-dimensional numerical simulations of magnetic flux emergence from below the photosphere into the corona that include a uniform and horizontal coronal magnetic field mimicking a pre-existing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Galsgaard , F. Moreno-Insertis , V. Archontis , A. Hood

The magnetic configuration hosting prominences and their surrounding coro- nal structure is a key research topic in solar physics. Recent theoretical and observational studies strongly suggest that a helical magnetic flux rope is an es-…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Yang Guo

In solar filament formation mechanisms, magnetic reconnection between two sets of sheared arcades forms helical structures of the filament with numerous magnetic dips, and cooling and condensation of plasma trapped inside the helical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Hongqiang Song

We present an analysis of the formation of atmospheric flux ropes in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) solar flux emergence simulation. The simulation domain ranges from the top of the solar interior to the low corona. A twisted magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 David MacTaggart , Andrew Haynes

Solar eruptive events such as coronal mass ejections and eruptive flares are frequently associated with the emergence of magnetic flux from the convection zone into the corona. We use three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 James Leake , Mark Linton , Spiro Antiochos

There are currently no three dimensional numerical models which describe the magnetic and energetic formation of prominences self-consistently. Consequently, there has not been significant progress made in understanding the connection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Donald Schmit , Sarah Gibson

We present a 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a systematically rotating prominence inside its coronal cavity using the open-source \texttt{MPI-AMRVAC} code. Our simulation starts from a non-adiabatic, gravitationally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 Valeriia Liakh , Rony Keppens

We performed numerical simulations to study mechanisms of solar prominence formation triggered by a single heating event. In the widely accepted ``chromospheric-evaporation condensation" model, localized heating at footpoints of a coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Takero Yoshihisa , Takaaki Yokoyama , Takafumi Kaneko

Prominences, or filaments, are a striking phenomenon in the solar atmosphere. Besides their own rich features and dynamics, they are related to many other activities, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In the past…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-08 P. F. Chen

We aim at investigating the formation of jet-like features in the lower solar atmosphere, e.g. chromosphere and transition region, as a result of magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection as occurring at chromospheric and transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Y. Ding , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , Q. M. Lu , K. Vanninathan , Z. Huang

Solar prominences are long-lived cool and dense plasma curtains in the hot and rarefied outer solar atmosphere or corona. The physical mechanism responsible for their formation and especially for their internal plasma circulation has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

Prominences and coronal rain are two forms of coronal condensations for which we still lack satisfactory details on the formation pathways and conditions under which the two come to exist. We compared prominences that formed via a steady…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 V. Jerčić , J. M. Jenkins , R. Keppens

The evolution of the photospheric magnetic field plays a key role in the energy transport into the chromosphere and the corona. In active regions, newly emerging magnetic flux interacts with the pre-existent magnetic field, which can lead…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 C. J. Díaz Baso , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , J. Leenaarts

Solar prominences, or solar filaments, are cool and dense plasma structures in the hot solar corona, whose formation mechanisms have remained a fundamental challenge in solar physics. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Yuhao Zhou

The violent disruption of the coronal magnetic field is often observed to be restricted to the low corona, appearing as a confined eruption. The possible causes of the confinement remain elusive. Here, we model the eruption of a magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Jun Chen , Xin Cheng , Bernhard Kliem , Mingde Ding

We present results from 3D visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the emergence of a convection zone magnetic flux tube into a solar atmosphere containing a pre-existing dipole coronal field, which is orientated to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Tibor Török

Magnetic reconnection, the rearrangement of magnetic field topology, is a fundamental physical process in magnetized plasma systems all over the universe1,2. Its process is difficult to be directly observed. Coronal structures, such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Leping Li , Jun Zhang , Hardi Peter , Eric Priest , Huadong Chen , Lijia Guo , Feng Chen , Duncan Mackay

We report a new, plasmoid-fed scenario for the formation of an eruptive prominence (PF$^2$), involving reconnection and condensation. We use grid-adaptive resistive two-and-a-half-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Xiaozhou Zhao , Rony Keppens

The emergence of magnetic flux from the convection zone into the corona is an important process for the dynamical evolution of the coronal magnetic field. In this paper we extend our previous numerical investigations, by looking at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 K. Galsgaard , V. Archontis , F. Moreno-Insertis , A. W. Hood