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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…

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Estimates of the photospheric magnetic, electric and plasma velocity fields are essential for studying the dynamics of the solar atmosphere, for example through the derivative quantities of Poynting and relative helicity flux and by using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-18 E. Lumme , J. Pomoell , E. K. J. Kilpua

The braiding of the solar coronal magnetic field via photospheric motions - with subsequent relaxation and magnetic reconnection -- is one of the most widely debated ideas of solar physics. We readdress the theory in the light of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. L. Wilmot-Smith , G. Hornig , D. I. Pontin

Besides their own intrinsic interest, correct interpretation of solar surface magnetic field observations is crucial to our ability to describe the global magnetic structure of the solar atmosphere. Photospheric magnetograms are often used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-29 Gordon J. D. Petrie , Irina Patrikeeva

For a better understanding of magnetic field in the solar corona and dynamic activities such as flares and coronal mass ejections, it is crucial to measure the time-evolving coronal field and accurately estimate the magnetic energy.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Shin Toriumi , Shinsuke Takasao , Mark C. M. Cheung , Chaowei Jiang , Yang Guo , Keiji Hayashi , Satoshi Inoue

The Coronal Global Evolutionary Model (CGEM) provides data-driven simulations of the magnetic field in the solar corona to better understand the build-up of magnetic energy that leads to eruptive events. The CGEM project has developed six…

Conventional MRI reconstruction methods treat images and coil sensitivities as discrete objects, leading to high memory demands and limited structural awareness that hamper effective regularization. These limitations hinder accurate…

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The internal dynamics of the Sun generate magnetic and plasma structures in the photosphere and overlying atmosphere across a wide range of spatial scales. Identifying the critical spatial scale is essential for interpreting physical…

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Computational models of cardiac structure and function are increasingly central to the development of subject-specific cardiac digital twins, enabling improved characterization of contractile dysfunction, pathological remodeling, and…

The solar coronal magnetic field produces solar activity, including extremely energetic solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Knowledge of the structure and evolution of the magnetic field of the solar corona is important for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Tilaye Tadesse , Thomas Wiegelmann , Peter MacNeice

The magnetic field governs the corona; hence it is a crucial parameter to measure. Unfortunately, existing techniques for estimating its strength are limited by strong assumptions and limitations. These techniques include photospheric or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Juan Martinez-Sykora , Viggo H. Hansteen , Bart De Pontieu , Enrico Landi

In recent years, a two-dimensional (2D) coronal seismology technique applied to spectral-imaging data from the Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) and UCoMP has enabled routine measurement of the global coronal magnetic field. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Zihao Yang , Sarah Gibson , Matthias Rempel , Giuliana de Toma

The Sun's magnetic field is a key driver in coronal heating and consequently solar wind acceleration. Remote measurement of the photosphere provides the magnetic surface boundary condition necessary for data-constrained 3D global coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Caroline L. Evans , Cooper Downs , Donald Schmit

Magnetoseismology, a technique of magnetic field diagnostics based on observations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves, has been widely used to estimate the field strengths of oscillating structures in the solar corona. However, previously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-05 Zihao Yang , Hui Tian , Steven Tomczyk , Richard Morton , Xianyong Bai , Tanmoy Samanta , Yajie Chen

We study the coronal magnetic field structure inside active regions and its temporal evolution. We attempt to compare the magnetic configuration of an active region in a very quiet period with that for the same region during a flare.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. K. Thalmann , T. Wiegelmann , N. -E. Raouafi

Time-evolving magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) coronal modeling, driven by a series of time-dependent photospheric magnetograms, represents a new generation of coronal simulations. This approach offers greater realism compared to traditional…

Context. Understanding the 3D magnetic field as well as the plasma in the chromosphere and transition region is important. One way is to extrapolate the magnetic field and plasma from the routinely measured vector magnetogram on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann , Bernd Inhester

Solar eruptive phenomena, like flares and coronal mass ejections(CMEs) are governed by magnetic fields. To describe the structure of these phenomena one needs information on the magnetic flux density and the electric current density vector…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , Pevtsov A Alexei , P. Macneice , S. Gosain

This is the second of a series of three papers that present a methodology with the aim of creating a set of maps of the coronal density over a period of many years. This paper describes a method for reconstructing the coronal electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Huw Morgan

The minimum-energy configuration for the magnetic field above the solar photosphere is curl-free (hence, by Ampere's law, also current-free), so can be represented as the gradient of a scalar potential. Since magnetic fields are divergence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-20 Brian T. Welsch , George H. Fisher