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The interplanetary magnetic field carried out from the Sun by the solar wind displays fluctuations on a wide range of scales. While at large scales, say at frequencies lower than 0.1-1 Hz, fluctuations display clear universal…

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are magnetic structures propagating from the Sun's corona to the interplanetary medium. With over 20 years of observations at the L1 libration point, ACE offers hundreds of ICMEs detected at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 F. Regnault , M. Janvier , P. Démoulin , F. Auchère , A. Strugarek , S. Dasso , C. Noûs

The most probable initial magnetic configuration of a CME is a flux rope consisting of twisted field lines which fill the whole volume of a dark coronal cavity. The flux ropes can be in stable equilibrium in the coronal magnetic field for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Boris Filippov , Olesya Martsenyuk , Abhishek K. Srivastava , Wahab Uddin

A comprehensive analysis of plasma and composition characteristics inside magnetic clouds (MCs) observed by the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft from 1998 February to 2011 August is presented. The results show that MCs have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jin Huang , Yu Liu , Hengqiang Feng , Ake Zhao , Z. Z. Abidin , Yuandeng Shen , Oloketuyi Jacob

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are routinely tracked with imagers in the interplanetary space while magnetic clouds (MCs) properties are measured locally by spacecraft. However, both imager and insitu data do not provide direct estimation on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Miho Janvier , Pascal Demoulin , Sergio Dasso

The configuration and evolution of the magnetic field in star-forming cores are investigated in order to directly compare simulations and observations. We prepare four different initial clouds having different magnetic field strengths and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Akimasa Kataoka , Masahiro N. Machida , Kohji Tomisaka

We explore the structure of magnetic field lines in and around filaments in simulations of molecular clouds undergoing global, multi-scale gravitational collapse. In these simulations, filaments are not in a static equilibrium, but are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Gilberto C. Gomez , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Manuel Zamora-Aviles

Observations of galaxy clusters show that the intracluster medium (ICM) is likely to be turbulent and is certainly magnetized. The properties of this magnetized turbulence are determined both by fundamental nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley

The strengths of magnetic fields in interstellar gas clouds are obtained through observations of the circular polarization of spectral line radiation. Irregularities in this magnetic field may be present due to turbulence, waves or perhaps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. D. Watson , D. S. Wiebe , R. M. Crutcher

Our aim is to study the photospheric flux distribution of a twisted flux tube that emerges from the solar interior. We also report on the eruption of a new flux rope when the emerging tube rises into a pre-existing magnetic field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-12 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

We report on the detailed and systematic study of field-line twist and length distributions within magnetic flux ropes embedded in Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs). The Grad-Shafranov reconstruction method is utilized together…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Qiang Hu , Jiong Qiu , Sam Krucker

Magnetic switchbacks are large amplitude deflections of the magnetic field within the solar wind. They are Alfv\'enic in character and so are associated with a spike in velocity and a generally small variation in local plasma density. Early…

Flux transfer events (FTEs) are a type of magnetospheric phenomena that exhibit distinctive observational signatures from the in-situ spacecraft measurements across the Earth's magnetopause. They are generally believed to possess a magnetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Shuo Wang , Ying Zou , Qiang Hu , Xueling Shi , Hiroshi Hasegawa

Turbulence is a ubiquitous process that transfers energy across many spatial and temporal scales, thereby influencing particle transport and heating. Recent progress has improved our understanding of the anisotropy of turbulence with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Chuanpeng Hou

A model of magnetic field structure is presented to help test the prevalence of flux freezing in star-forming clouds of various shapes, orientations, and degrees of central concentration, and to estimate their magnetic field strength. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Philip C. Myers , Shantanu Basu , Sayantan Auddy

We apply statistical analysis to search for processes responsible for turbulence in physical systems. In our previous studies, we have shown that solar wind turbulence in the inertial range of large magnetohydrodynamic scales exhibits…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Dariusz Wójcik , Wiesław M. Macek

Deviations of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) from Parker's model are frequently observed in the heliosphere at different distances r from the Sun. Usually, it is supposed that the IMF behavior corresponds to Parker's model overall,…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 Olga Khabarova , Vladimir Obridko

Large masses of absorbing material are inferred to exist in cooling flows in clusters of galaxies from the excess X-ray absorption in the spectra of some X-ray clusters. The absorbing material is probably in the form of cold clouds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. C. S. Friaca , L. C. Jafelice

Magnetic holes (MHs) are coherent magnetic field dips whose size ranges from fluid to kinetic scale, ubiquitously observed in the heliosphere and in planetary environments. Despite the longstanding effort in interpreting the abundance of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-21 Giuseppe Arrò , Francesco Califano , Francesco Pucci , Tomas Karlsson , Hui Li

Electromotive force is an essential quantity in dynamo theory. During a coronal mass ejection (CME), magnetic helicity gets decoupled from the Sun and advected into the heliosphere with the solar wind. Eventually, a heliospheric magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Bernhard Hofer , Yasuhito Narita