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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 solar atmosphere being magnetic in nature, the understanding of the structure and evolution of the magnetic field in different regions of the solar atmosphere has been an important task over the past decades. This task has been made…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Regnier

Given a known radial magnetic field distribution on the Sun's photospheric surface, there exist well-established methods for computing a potential magnetic field in the corona above. Such potential fields are routinely used as input to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Oliver E. K. Rice , Anthony R. Yeates

Direct solar coronal magnetic field measurements have become possible since recent development of high-sensitivity infrared detection technology. The SOLARC instrument installed on Mt. Haleakala is such a polarimetric coronagraph that was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-05 Y. Liu , H. Lin

We re-analyse spectropolarimetric data of AB Dor taken in 1996 December using a surface imaging code that can model the magnetic field of the star as a non-potential current-carrying magnetic field. We find that a non-potential field needs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. A. J. Hussain , A. A. van Ballegooijen , M. Jardine , A. Col lier Cameron

The coronal magnetic field plays a fundamental role in governing coronal activities, driving space-weather events, and shaping the heliosphere. Due to a lack of direct observations, extrapolation models such as the Potential Field Source…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Ziqi Wu , Jiansen He , Chuanpeng Hou , Tom van Doorsselaere , Rui Zhuo , Tianhang Chen , Liping Yang , David Pontin , Daniel Verscharen , Fang Shen

We estimated the accuracy of coronal magnetic fields derived from radio observations by comparing them to potential field calculations and the DEM measurements using EUV observations. We derived line of sight component of the coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Shun Miyawaki , Kazumasa Iwai , Kiyoto Shibasaki , Daikou Shiota , Satoshi Nozawa

We present a new version of the MURaM radiative MHD code that allows for simulations spanning from the upper convection zone into the solar corona. We implemented the relevant coronal physics in terms of optically thin radiative loss, field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Matthias Rempel

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 Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) method is widely used to indirectly estimate the magnetic field strength from the plane-of-sky field orientation. In this work, we present a set of 3D MHD simulations and synthetic polarization images…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-04 Junhao Liu , Qizhou Zhang , Benoit Commercon , Valeska Valdivia , Anaelle Maury , Keping Qiu

Aims. We show how the build-up of magnetic gradients in the Sun's corona may be inferred directly from photospheric velocity data. This enables computation of magnetic connectivity measures such as the squashing factor without recourse to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. R. Yeates , G. Hornig , B. T. Welsch

We investigate the recently quantified misalignment of $\alpha_{mis} \approx 20^\circ-40^\circ$ between the 3-D geometry of stereoscopically triangulated coronal loops observed with STEREO/EUVI (in four active regions) and theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Markus J. Aschwanden , Anne W. Sandman

We test the feasibility of 3D coronal-loop tracing in stereoscopic EUV image pairs, with the ultimate goal of enabling efficient 3D reconstruction of the coronal magnetic field that drives flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Markus J. Aschwanden , Carolus J. Schrijver , Anna Malanushenko

Magnetic reconnection in the quiet Sun is a phenomenon that is consistently observed, and it has recently become feasible to simulate via 3D numerical models of realistically stratified and convection-driven reconnection. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Rebecca Robinson , Mats Carlsson , Guillaume Aulanier

The origin of the heliospheric magnetic flux on the Sun, and hence the origin of the solar wind, is a topic of hot debate.While the prevailing view is that the solar wind originates from outside coronal streamer helmets, there also exists…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bo Li , Xing Li , Hui Yu

Solar image analysis relies on the detection of coronal holes for predicting disruptions to earth's magnetic field. The coronal holes act as sources of solar wind that can reach the earth. Thus, coronal holes are used in physical models for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 Venkatesh Jatla

This paper reviews some of the many 3D numerical experiments of the emergence of magnetic fields from the solar interior and the subsequent interaction with the pre-existing coronal magnetic field. The models described here are idealized,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. W. Hood , V. Archontis , D. MacTaggart

The large availability and rich spectral coverage of today's observational data of the solar corona, and the high spatial and temporal resolution of many instruments, has enabled the evolution of three-dimensional (3D) physical models to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-10 Alberto Marcos Vásquez

A forward model is described in which we synthesize spectra from an ab-initio 3D MHD simulation of an outer stellar atmosphere, where the coronal heating is based on braiding of magnetic flux due to photospheric footpoint motions. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Peter , B. V. Gudiksen , A. Nordlund

It was recently proposed that the intensity ratios of several extreme ultraviolet spectral lines from the Fe X ion can be used to measure the solar coronal magnetic field based on the magnetic-field-inducedtransition (MIT) theory. To verify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Yajie Chen , Wenxian Li , Hui Tian , Feng Chen , Xianyong Bai , Yang Yang , Zihao Yang , Xianyu Liu , Yuanyong Deng