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We study the connections between the sun's convection zone and the evolution of the solar wind and corona. We let the magnetic fields generated by a 2.5D axisymmetric kinematic dynamo code (STELEM) evolve in a 2.5D axisymmetric coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Rui F. Pinto , Allan Sacha Brun , Laurène Jouve , Roland Grappin

The knowledge of magnetic topology is the key to understand magnetic energy release in astrophysics. Based on observed vector magnetograms, we have determined threedimensional (3D) topology skeleton of the magnetic fields in active region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hui Zhao , Jing-Xiu Wang , Jun Zhang , Chi-Jie Xiao , Hai-Min Wang

We derived the coronal magnetic field, plasma density, and temperature from the observation of polarization and intensity of radio thermal free-free emission using the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

The interaction between emerging active regions and the pre-existing coronal magnetic field is important to understand better the mechanisms of storage and release of magnetic energy from the convection zone to the high corona. We are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Regnier

The ubiquity of recently discovered low-amplitude decayless kink oscillations of plasma loops allows for the seismological probing of the corona on a regular basis. In particular, in contrast to traditionally applied seismology which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Sergey A. Anfinogentov , Valery. M. Nakariakov

The corona of the Sun is dominated by emission from loop-like structures. When observed in X-ray or extreme ultraviolet emission, these million K hot coronal loops show a more or less constant cross section. In this study we show how the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Peter , S. Bingert

Coronal loops are the basic structures of the solar transition region and corona. The understanding of physical mechanism behind the loop heating, plasma flows, and filling are still considered a major challenge in the solar physics. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 G. R. Gupta , Durgesh Tripathi , Helen E. Mason

Three-dimensional null points are present in abundance in the solar corona, and the same is likely to be true in other astrophysical environments. Recent studies suggest that reconnection at such 3D nulls may play an important role in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-28 D. I. Pontin , A. K. Al-Hachami , K. Galsgaard

Conductive cooling of the solar corona at a magnetic null is examined. An initial equilibrium is set up, balancing thermal conduction and a constant, spatially uniform coronal heating. The heating is then turned off and the subsequent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 P. J. Cargill , A. W. Hood , D. Johnson

On 21 August 2017 a total solar eclipse swept across the contiguous United States providing excellent opportunities for diagnostics of the Sun's corona. The Sun's coronal structure is notoriously difficult to observe except during solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-03 Dibyendu Nandy , Prantika Bhowmik , Anthony R. Yeates , Suman Panda , Rajashik Tarafder , Soumyaranjan Dash

A large part of the hot corona consists of magnetically confined, bright plasma loops. These observed loops are in turn structured into bright strands. We investigate the relationship between magnetic field geometry, plasma properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 C. A. Breu , D. I. Pontin , E. Priest , I. De Moortel

Previous studies have found that coronal loops have a nearly uniform thickness, which seems to disagree with the characteristic expansion of active region magnetic fields. This is one of the most intriguing enigmas in solar physics. We here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Lopez Fuentes , J. A. Klimchuk , P. Demoulin

Magnetohydrodynamics of the solar corona is simulated numerically. The simulation is initialized with an extrapolated non-force-free magnetic field using the vector magnetogram of the active region (AR) NOAA 12192 obtained on the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya , Qiang Hu , Sanjay Kumar , Sushree S. Nayak

The understanding of the solar magnetic coronal structure is tightly linked to the shape of open field regions, specifically coronal holes. A dynamically evolving coronal hole coincides with the local restructuring of open to closed…

As one of the most spectacular energy release events in the solar system, solar flares are generally powered by magnetic reconnection in the solar corona. As a result of the re-arrangement of magnetic field topology after the reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-29 Tanmoy Samanta , Hui Tian , Bin Chen , Katharine K. Reeves , Mark C. M. Cheung , Angelos Vourlidas , Dipankar Banerjee

We use full-disk, SOHO/EIT 195 $\AA$ calibrated images to measure latitudinal and day to day variations of area and average photon fluxes of the near equatorial coronal holes. In addition, energy emitted by the coronal holes with their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 K. M. Hiremath , Manjunath Hegde

Understanding how the solar corona is structured is of fundamental importance to determining how the Sun's upper atmosphere is heated to high temperatures. Recent spectroscopic studies have suggested that an instrument with a spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-18 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Amy R. Winebarger

The development of knowledge of how the coronal origin of the solar wind affects its in situ properties is one of the keys to understanding the relationship between the Sun and the heliosphere. In this paper, we analyse ACE/SWICS and…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Allan R. Macneil , Christopher J. Owen , Robert T. Wicks

The prominent blue shifts of Ne viii associated with the junctions of the magnetic network in the quiet Sun are still not well understood. By comparing the coronal magnetic-field structures as obtained by a potential-field reconstruction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Hui Tian , Eckart Marsch , Werner Curdt , Jiansen He

The outer solar atmosphere, the corona, contains plasma at temperatures of more than a million K, more than 100 times hotter that solar surface. How this gas is heated is a fundamental question tightly interwoven with the structure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-07 F. Chen , H. Peter , S. Bingert , M. C. M. Cheung