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Based on a second-order approximation of nonlinear force-free magnetic field solutions in terms of uniformly twisted field lines derived in Paper I, we develop here a numeric code that is capable to forward-fit such analytical solutions to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Markus J. Aschwanden , Anna Malanushenko

We present a newly developed approach to solar coronal magnetic field extrapolation from vector magnetograms, based on the Principle of Minimum Dissipation Rate (MDR). The MDR system was derived from a variational problem that is more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. Hu , B. Dasgupta , D. P. Choudhary , J. Büchner

In the solar corona, magnetic flux rope is believed to be a fundamental structure accounts for magnetic free energy storage and solar eruptions. Up to the present, the extrapolation of magnetic field from boundary data is the primary way to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

The space mission STEREO will provide images from two viewpoints. An important aim of the STEREO mission is to get a 3D view of the solar corona. We develop a program for the stereoscopic reconstruction of 3D coronal loops from images taken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Wiegelmann , Bernd Inhester

We use SDO/HMI and SOLIS/VSM photospheric magnetic field measurements to model the force-free coronal field above a solar active region, assuming magnetic forces to dominate. We take measurement uncertainties caused by, e.g., noise and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. K. Thalmann , A. Pietarila , X. Sun , T. Wiegelmann

Three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field in the solar atmosphere provides crucial information to understand the explosive phenomenon such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Since it is still hard that we determine the 3D magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Daiki Yamasaki , Takahiro Miyoshi , Satoshi Inoue

In earlier works we introduced and tested a nonlinear force-free (NLFF) method designed to self-consistently calculate the free magnetic energy and the relative magnetic helicity budgets of the corona of observed solar magnetic structures.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 K. Moraitis , K. Tziotziou , M. K. Georgoulis , V. Archontis

Observations from the two STEREO-spacecraft give us for the first time the possibility to use stereoscopic methods to reconstruct the 3D solar corona. Classical stereoscopy works best for solid objects with clear edges. Consequently an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , L. Feng

The solar magnetic field is key to understanding the physical processes in the solar atmosphere. Nonlinear force-free codes have been shown to be useful in extrapolating the coronal field upward from underlying vector boundary data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-29 T. Wiegelmann , J. K. Thalmann , C. J. Schrijver , M. L. Derosa , T. R. Metcalf

Deriving the strength and direction of the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field in the solar atmosphere is fundamental for understanding its dynamics. Volume information on the magnetic field mostly relies on coupling 3D reconstruction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 K. Dalmasse , A. Savcheva , S. E. Gibson , Y. Fan , D. W. Nychka , N. Flyer , N. Mathews , E. E. DeLuca

Magnetic field extrapolation from the solar photosphere to the corona plays an important role in solar physics research. In this work, we present a fully-implicit viscous-relaxation nonlinear force-free field (FIVR-NLFFF) extrapolation code…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Zhenhua Liu , Chaowei Jiang

The three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of stereoscopically triangulated loops provide strong constraints for magnetic field models of active regions in the solar corona. Here we use STEREO/A and B data from some 500 stereoscopically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Markus J. Aschwanden , Jean-Pierre Wuelser , Nariaki V. Nitta , James R. Lemen , Marc L. DeRosa , Anna Malanushenko

In this work we provide an updated description of the Vertical Current Approximation Nonlinear Force-Free Field (VCA-NLFFF) code, which is designed to measure the evolution of the potential, nonpotential, free energies, and the dissipated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-25 Markus J. Aschwanden

Knowledge regarding the coronal magnetic field is important for the understanding of many phenomena, like flares and coronal mass ejections. Because of the low plasma beta in the solar corona the coronal magnetic field is often assumed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Wiegelmann , Bernd Inhester , Takashi Sakurai

We present a new improved version of our force-free electrodynamics (FFE) numerical code in spherical coordinates that extrapolates the magnetic field in the inner solar corona from a photospheric vector magnetogram. The code satisfies the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ioannis Contopoulos

The 3D magnetic topology of a solar active region (NOAA 10956) was reconstructed using a linear force-free field extrapolation constrained using the twin perspectives of \emph{STEREO}. A set of coronal field configurations was initially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Paul A. Conlon , Peter T. Gallagher

Magnetic field plays an important role in various solar eruptions like flares, coronal mass ejections, etc. The formation and evolution of characteristic magnetic field topology in solar eruptions are critical problems that will ultimately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Wen He , Qiang Hu , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Sushree S. Nayak , Avijeet Prasad

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) modeling has been extensively used as a tool to infer three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field structure. In this study, the dependency of the NLFFF calculation with respect to the initial guess of the 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-09 Y. Kawabata , S. Inoue , T. Shimizu

We present an extension of the Coronal Reconstruction Onto B-Aligned Regions (CROBAR) method to Linear Force Free Field (LFFF) extrapolations, and apply it to the reconstruction of a set of AIA, MDI, and STEREO EUVI data. The results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Joseph Plowman , Daniel B. Seaton , Amir Caspi , J. Marcus Hughes , Matthew J. West

In this study, photospheric vector magnetograms obtained with the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun survey (SOLIS), are used as boundary conditions to model the three-dimensional nonlinear force-free (NLFF) coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , A. Pevtsov