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Solar active regions (ARs) are thought to be formed by magnetic fields from the convection zone. Our flux emergence simulations revealed that a strong horizontal divergent flow (HDF) of unmagnetized plasma appears at the photosphere before…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Shin Toriumi , Keiji Hayashi , Takaaki Yokoyama

Sunspots are obvious observable manifestations of the toroidal magnetic field generated through the dynamo in the convection zone. They appear in different sizes, having a wide distribution in their area. We analyse the sunspot group area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Bidya Binay Karak , Soumya Mishra , Anu Sreedevi

We present a realistic numerical model of sunspot and active region formation based on the emergence of flux bundles generated in a solar convective dynamo. To this end we use the magnetic and velocity fields in a horizontal layer near the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

Emerging active regions are associated with convective flows on the spatial scale and lifetimes of supergranules. To understand how these flows are involved in the formation of active regions, we aim to identify where active regions emerge…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Hannah Schunker , William Roland-Batty , Aaron C. Birch , Douglas C. Braun , Robert H. Cameron , L. Gizon

The rotation-activity relationship of G-type stars results from surface magnetic fields emerging from the interior. How the magnetic flux and its emergence rate scale with rotation rate are not well understood, both observationally and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Emre Isik , Sami K. Solanki , Natalie A. Krivova , Alexander I. Shapiro

The subsurface properties of active regions prior to their appearance at the solar surface may shed light on the process of active region formation. Helioseismic holography has been applied to samples taken from two populations of regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 G. Barnes , A. C. Birch , K. D. Leka , D. C. Braun

In this dataset we provide a comprehensive collection of magnetograms (images quantifying the strength of the magnetic field) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The dataset…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Laura E. Boucheron , Ty Vincent , Jeremy A. Grajeda , Ellery Wuest

Aims: We investigate the temporal evolution of magnetic flux emergence in the quiet Sun atmosphere close to disk center. Methods: We combine high-resolution SoHO/MDI magnetograms with TRACE observations taken in the 1216 {\AA} channel in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Gömöry , H. Balthasar , K. G. Puschmann

Current helicity and twist of solar magnetic fields are important quantities to characterize the dynamo mechanism working in the convection zone of the Sun. We have carried out a statistical study on the current helicity of solar active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kenichi Otsuji , Takashi Sakurai , Kirill Kuzanyan

Magnetic helicity is a key geometrical parameter to describe the structure and evolution of solar coronal magnetic fields. The accumulation of magnetic helicity is correlated with the non-potential magnetic field energy, which is released…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Shangbin Yang , Suo Liu , Jiangtao Su , Yuanyong Deng

We present a radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulation of the formation of an Active Region on the solar surface. The simulation models the rise of a buoyant magnetic flux bundle from a depth of 7.5 Mm in the convection zone up into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. C. M. Cheung , M. Rempel , A. M. Title , M. Schüssler

The emergence of dipolar magnetic features on the solar surface is an idealization. Most of the magnetic flux emergence occurs in complex multipolar regions. Here, we show that the surface pattern of magnetic structures alone can reveal the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Axel Brandenburg

As a relatively active region, ephemeral region (ER) exhibits highly complex pattern of magnetic flux emergence. We aim to study detailed secondary flux emergences (SFEs) which we define as bipoles that they appear close to ERs and finally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Hanlin Yang , Chunlan Jin , Zifan Wang , Jingxiu Wang

We describe the characteristics and evolution of the magnetic field and chromospheric emission in an active region core observed by the Solar Optical Telescope on Hinode. Consistent with previous studies, we find that the moss is unipolar,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Amy R. Winebarger

In our previous articles (Chertok et al.: 2013, Solar Phys. 282, 175, and 2015, Solar Phys. 290, 627), we presented a preliminary tool for the early diagnostics of the geoeffectiveness of solar eruptions based on the estimate of the total…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 I. M. Chertok , V. V. Grechnev , A. A. Abunin

Aims. Moreno-Insertis et al. (2018) recently discovered two types of flux emergence in their numerical simulations: magnetic loops and magnetic sheet emergence. Whereas magnetic loop emergence has been documented well in the last years, by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 C. E. Fischer , J. M. Borrero , N. Bello González , A. J. Kaithakkal

Recently, we have developed a method useful for mapping large-scale horizontal velocity fields in the solar photosphere. The method was developed, tuned and calibrated using the synthetic data. Now, we applied the method to the series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michal Svanda , Mirek Klvana , Michal Sobotka , Vaclav Bumba

[Abridged] Bipolar magnetic regions are formed when loops of magnetic flux emerge at the solar photosphere. Our aim is to investigate the flux emergence process in a simulation of granular convection. In particular we aim to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-09 Paul J Bushby , Vasilis Archontis

The Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) records line-of-sight Dopplergram images of convective flows on the surface. These images are used to obtain the multi-scale convective spectrum. We design…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 Samarth G Kashyap , Shravan M Hanasoge

In the paper we study the helicity density patterns which can result from the emerging bipolar regions. Using the relevant dynamo model and the magnetic helicity conservation law we find that the helicity density pattern around the bipolar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 V. V. Pipin