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Measurement of the coronal magnetic field is a crucial ingredient in understanding the nature of solar coronal dynamic phenomena at all scales. We employ STEREO/COR1 data obtained near maximum of solar activity in December 2012 (Carrington…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-05 Maxim Kramar , Vladimir Airapetian , Haosheng Lin

The interaction between emerging magnetic flux and the pre-existing ambient field has become a "hot" topic for both numerical simulations and high-resolution observations of the solar atmosphere. The appearance of brightenings and surges…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. L. Guglielmino , L. R. Bellot Rubio , F. Zuccarello , G. Aulanier , S. Vargas Domínguez , S. Kamio

Spectroscopic observations of a solar limb flare recorded by SUMER on SOHO reveal, for the first time, hot fast magnetic reconnection outflows in the corona. As the reconnection site rises across the SUMER spectrometer slit, significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Tongjiang Wang , Linhui Sui , Jiong Qiu

We present a detailed multi-wavelength analysis and interpretation of the evolution of an M7.6 flare on October 24, 2003. The X-ray observations of the flare taken from the RHESSI spacecraft reveal two phases of the flare evolution. The…

We investigate the onset of 2D time-dependent magnetic reconnection that is triggered using an external velocity driver located away from, and perpendicular to, an equilibrium Harris current sheet. Previous studies have typically utilised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 B. Snow , G. J. J. Botha , J. A. McLaughlin , A. Hillier

Magnetic switchbacks are localised polarity reversals in the radial component of the heliospheric magnetic field. Observations from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have shown that they are a prevalent feature of the near-Sun solar wind. However,…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 G. H. H. Suen , C. J. Owen , D. Verscharen , T. S. Horbury , P. Louarn , R. De Marco

Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process crucial for heating the solar corona and generating the solar wind, but resolving and characterizing it on the Sun remains challenging. Using high-quality data from the…

On 2016 September 20, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph observed an active region during its earliest emerging phase for almost 7 hours. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hui Tian , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Hardi Peter , Jie Zhao , Tanmoy Samanta , Yajie Chen

Using high spatial and temporal data from the \emph{Solar Dynamics Observatory} (\emph{SDO}) and the \emph{Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph} (\emph{IRIS}), several observational signatures of magnetic reconnection in the course of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Bo Yang , Jiayan Yang , Yi Bi , Junchao Hong , Haidong Li , Zhe Xu , Hechao Chen

We present the first results of three-dimensional (3D) numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the onset of magnetic reconnection via the tearing instability in dynamically thinning current sheets in the solar corona. In all our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 James Leake , Lars Daldorff , James Klimchuk

The variations of the 3-D coronal magnetic fields associated with the X3.4-class flare of active region 10930 are studied in this paper. The coronal magnetic field data are reconstructed from the photospheric vector magnetograms obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-03 Han He , Huaning Wang , Yihua Yan , P. F. Chen , Cheng Fang

Observational detection of quasi-periodic drifting fine structures in a type III radio burst associated with a solar flare SOL2015-04-16T11:22, with Low Frequency Array, is presented. Although similar modulations of the type III emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Eduard P. Kontar

Magnetic reconnection between open and closed magnetic field in the corona is believed to play a crucial role in the corona/heliosphere coupling. At large scale, the exchange of open/closed connectivity is expected to occur in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sophie Masson , Patrick McCauley , Leon Golub , Katharine K. Reeves , Ed DeLuca

We present low-frequency (80-240 MHz) radio imaging of type III solar radio bursts observed by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) on 2015/09/21. The source region for each burst splits from one dominant component at higher frequencies into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Patrick I. McCauley , Iver H. Cairns , John Morgan , Sarah E. Gibson , James C. Harding , Colin Lonsdale , Divya Oberoi

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

Type III and type-III-like radio bursts are produced by energetic electron beams guided along coronal magnetic fields. As a variant of type III bursts, Type N bursts appear as the letter "N" in the radio dynamic spectrum and reveal a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Xiangliang Kong , Yao Chen , Shiwei Feng , Guohui Du , Chuanyang Li , Artem Koval , V. Vasanth , Bing Wang , Fan Guo , Gang Li

Magnetic reconnection, a plasma process converting magnetic energy to particle kinetic energy, is often invoked to explain magnetic energy releases powering high-energy flares in astrophysical sources including pulsar wind nebulae and black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-17 Gregory R. Werner , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Magnetic field embedded in a perfectly conducting fluid preserves its topology for all time. Although ionized astrophysical objects, like stars and galactic disks, are almost perfectly conducting, they show indications of changes in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-03-16 A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , E. Vishniac , K. Kulpa-Dubel , K. Otmianowska-Mazur

We present SDO/AIA observations of an eruptive X-class flare of July 12, 2012, and compare its evolution with the predictions of a 3D numerical simulation. We focus on the dynamics of flare loops that are seen to undergo slipping…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jaroslav Dudík , Miho Janvier , Guillaume Aulanier , Giulio Del Zanna , Marian Karlický , Helen Mason , Brigitte Schmieder

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process in a plasma that facilitates the release of energy stored in the magnetic field by permitting a change in the magnetic topology. In this article we present a review of the current state of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-04 D. I. Pontin