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Transverse magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and may be responsible for generating the Sun's million-degree outer atmosphere. However, direct evidence of the dissipation process and heating from these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Patrick Antolin , Takenori J. Okamoto , Bart De Pontieu , Han Uitenbroek , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Takaaki Yokoyama

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are phenomena in which the Sun suddenly releases a mass of energy and magnetized plasma, potentially leading to adverse space weather. Numerical simulation provides an important avenue for comprehensively…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Jinnan Cai , Ling Zhang , Chaowei Jiang , Kuo Yan , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are fundamental magnetic structures in solar eruptions, whose formation is generally attributed to (1) the emergence of subsurface flux tubes or (2) flux cancellation driven by photospheric horizontal flows and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Can Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama , Feng Chen , Chen Xing , Mingde Ding , Zekun Lu

The transport of waves and turbulence beyond the photosphere is central to the coronal heating problem. Turbulence in the quiet solar corona has been modeled on the basis of the nearly incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (NI MHD) theory to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-12 Mehmet Sarp Yalim , Gary P. Zank , Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi

A prevalent but untested paradigm is often used to describe the prominence-cavity system: the cavity is under-dense because it is evacuated by supplying mass to the condensed prominence. The thermal non-equilibrium (TNE) model of prominence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Donald Schmit , Sarah Gibson , Manuel Luna , Judy Karpen , Davina Innes

The structure of the coronal magnetic field prior to eruptive processes and the conditions for the onset of eruption are important issues that can be addressed through studying the magnetohydrodynamic stability and evolution of nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 B. Kliem , Y. N. Su , A. A. van Ballegooijen , E. E. DeLuca

We review and discuss insights on ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities that can play a role in destabilizing solar coronal flux rope structures. For single flux ropes, failed or actual eruptions may result from internal or external…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-29 Rony Keppens , Yang Guo , Kirit Makwana , Zhixing Mei , Bart Ripperda , Chun Xia , Xiaozhou Zhao

We propose a mechanism for the excitation of large-scale quasi-periodic fast-propagating magnetoacoustic (QFP) waves observed on both sides of the coronal mass ejection (CME). Through a series of numerical experiments, we successfully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-29 Jialiang Hu , Jing Ye , Yuhao Chen , Zhixing Mei , Zehao Tang , Jun Lin

Our aim is to study the photospheric flux distribution of a twisted flux tube that emerges from the solar interior. We also report on the eruption of a new flux rope when the emerging tube rises into a pre-existing magnetic field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-12 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

This work analyzes the Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulations of a flaring solar active region as a testbed while idealizing the coronal Alfv\'en speed to be of two orders of magnitude lesser.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Kamlesh Bora , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Avijeet Prasad , Bhuwan Joshi , Qiang Hu

In this paper we present a numerical study of the time evolution of solar prominences embedded in sheared magnetic arcades. The prominence is represented by a density enhancement in a background stratified atmosphere and is connected to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Terradas , R. Soler , M. Luna , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

We use three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations to study the formation of a corona above an initially weakly magnetized, isothermal accretion disk. We also describe a modification to time-explicit numerical algorithms for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. A. Miller , J. M. Stone

In recent years, space weather research has focused on developing modelling techniques to predict the arrival time and properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at the Earth. The aim of this paper is to propose a new modelling technique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-22 P. Pagano , D. H. Mackay , A. R. Yeates

With this study, we aim to understand the nature of prominences, governed by their formation process. We use a state-of-the-art threaded prominence model within a dipped magnetic arcade. The non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 V. Jerčić , R. Keppens

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) waves, frequently produced by eruptions, propagate through the non-uniform magnetic field of the solar corona and interact with distant prominences, inducing their global oscillations. However, the generation,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Valeriia Liakh , Rony Keppens

Recent observations of reflected propagating and standing slow-mode waves in hot flaring coronal loops have spurred our investigation into their underlying excitation and damping mechanisms. To understand these processes, we conduct 2.5D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Stephen J. Bradshaw

A three-dimensional numerical experiment of the launching of a hot and fast coronal jet followed by several violent eruptions is analyzed in detail. These events are initiated through the emergence of a magnetic flux rope from the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fernando Moreno-Insertis , Klaus Galsgaard

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

One of the most striking structures in the solar atmosphere are prominences, predominantly coronal structures, with thermodynamic conditions that vary from chromospheric internally to the corona that surrounds them. These structures play an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 V. Jerčić , B. Popescu Braileanu , R. Keppens

Aiming to capture the formation and eruption of flux ropes (FRs) in the source active regions (ARs), we simulate the coronal magnetic field evolution of the AR 11429 employing the time-dependent magneto-friction model (TMF). The initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 P. Vemareddy