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Solar flares are one of the most energetic events in the solar atmosphere. It is widely accepted that flares are powered by magnetic reconnection in the corona. An eruptive flare is usually accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, both of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Y. Li , X. Sun , M. D. Ding , J. Qiu , E. R. Priest

We investigated the initiation and the evolution of an X7.1-class solar flare observed in solar active region NOAA 13842 on October 1, 2024, based on a data-constrained magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation. The nonlinear force-free field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Keitarou Matsumoto , Satoshi Inoue , Nian Liu , Keiji Hayashi , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

Explosive energy release is a common phenomenon occurring in magnetized plasma systems ranging from laboratories, Earth's magnetosphere, the solar corona and astrophysical environments. Its physical explanation is usually attributed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 J. Zhang , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

The physical conditions that determine whether or not solar active regions (ARs) produce strong flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are not yet well understood. Here we investigate the association between electric-current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Yang Liu , Xudong Sun , Tibor Török , Viacheslav S. Titov , James E. Leake

We present first results of the hybrid data-driven magnetofrictional (MF) and data-constrained magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of solar active region NOAA 11158, which produced an X-class flare and coronal mass ejection on 2011…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 A. Afanasyev , Y. Fan , M. Kazachenko , M. Cheung

Erupting magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) play a crucial role in producing solar flares. However, the formation of erupting MFRs in complex coronal magnetic configurations and their subsequent evolution in the flaring events are not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Avijeet Prasad , Sanjay Kumar , Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Guillaume Aulanier , R. Bhattacharyya , Qiang Hu

The combination of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation and multi-wavelength observations is an effective way to study mechanisms of magnetic flux rope eruption. We develop a data-driven MHD model using the zero-$\beta$ approximation. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Yang Guo , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , M. D. Ding , P. F. Chen

Filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections are physical phenomena related to magnetic flux ropes carrying electric current. A magnetic flux rope is a key structure for solar eruptions, and when it carries a southward magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Brigitte Schmieder , Jinhan Guo , Stefaan Poedts

We study the evolution of electric currents during the emergence of magnetic flux in the solar photosphere and the differences exhibited between solar active regions of different Hale complexity classes. A sample of 59 active regions was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 I. Kontogiannis , M. K. Georgoulis

We investigate which scalar quantity or quantities can best predict the loss of equilibrium and subsequent eruption of magnetic flux ropes in the solar corona. Our models are initialized with a potential magnetic arcade, which is then…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Oliver E. K. Rice , Anthony R. Yeates

Context. Some of the most dynamic active regions are associated with complex photospheric magnetic configurations such as quadrupolar regions, and especially ones with a $\delta$-spot configuration and a strong Polarity Inversion Line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 P. Syntelis , E. J. Lee , C. W. Fairbairn , V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

We performed two data-based magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations for solar active region 12371 which produced an M6.5 flare. The first simulation is a full data-driven simulation where the initial condition is given by a nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Satoshi Inoue , Keiji Hayashi , Takahiro Miyoshi , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

Aims. The goal is to employ a 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model including spectral synthesis to model the corona in an observed solar active region. This will allow us to judge the merits of the coronal heating mechanism built into the 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Ph. -A. Bourdin , S. Bingert , H. Peter

All three components of the current density are required to compute the heating rate due to free magnetic energy dissipation. Here we present a first test of a new model developed to determine if the times of increases in the resistive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Michael L. Goodman , Chiman Kwan , Bulent Ayhan , Eric L. Shang

Flares and eruptions from solar active regions are associated with atmospheric electrical currents accompanying distortions of the coronal field away from a lowest-energy potential state. In order to better understand the origin of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 C. J. Schrijver

Three-dimensional magnetic topology of solar flare plays a crucial role in understanding its explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona. However, such three-dimensional coronal magnetic field is still elusive in direct observation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

The relationship between solar eruption and sunspot rotation has been widely reported, and the underlying mechanism requires to be studied. Here we performed a full 3D MHD simulation of data-constrained approach to study the mechanism of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Xinyi Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Aiying Duan , Xinkai Bian

We explore the processes of repetitive build-up and explosive release of magnetic energy together with the formation of magnetic flux ropes that eventually resulted into three homologous eruptive flares of successively increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Suraj Sahu , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad , Kyung-Suk Cho

It is widely believed that magnetic flux ropes are the key structure of solar eruptions; however, their observable counterparts are not clear yet. We study a flare associated with flux rope eruption in a comprehensive radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Can Wang , Feng Chen , Mingde Ding , Zekun Lu

In order to bridge the gap between heliospheric and solar observations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), one of the key steps is to improve the understanding of their corresponding magnetic structures like the magnetic flux ropes (MFRs).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Wen He , Qiang Hu , Chaowei Jiang , Jiong Qiu , Avijeet Prasad