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Recent observations have demonstrated that waves which are capable of carrying large amounts of energy are ubiquitous throughout the solar corona. However, the question of how this wave energy is dissipated (on which time and length scales)…

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In this paper, I will present the recent progress on circular-ribbon flares (CRFs) and their related activities, including coronal jets, filaments, CMEs, radio bursts, coronal dimmings, and coronal loop oscillations. Owing to the prevalence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Qingmin Zhang

Dark and elliptical, coronal cavities yield important clues to the magnetic structures that cradle prominences, and to the forces that ultimately lead to their eruption. We review observational analyses of cavity morphology, thermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-09 Sarah E. Gibson

Aims: We investigate the formation of flux ropes in a flux emergence region and their rise into the outer atmosphere of the Sun. Methods: We perform 3D numerical experiments solving the time-dependent and resistive MHD equations. Results: A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Archontis , T. Torok

We consider the curvature emission properties from relativistic particles streaming along magnetic field lines and co-rotating with pulsar magnetosphere. The co-rotation affects the trajectories of the particles and hence the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 P. F. Wang , C. Wang , J. L. Han

Lim et al. (2023) have recently proposed that the slope ($\delta$) of the power law distribution between the energy flux and oscillation frequency could determine whether high-frequency transverse oscillations give a dominant contribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Daye Lim , Tom Van Doorsselaere , David Berghmans , Elena Petrova

Solar eruptive behavior is often modeled with magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetic flux emergence. The usual geometry considered is that of a horizontal cylindrical magnetic flux tube. An alternative is the toroidal tube geometry…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 J. Zhuleku , V. Archontis , K. Moraitis

Active region EUV loops are believed to trace a subset of magnetic field lines through the corona. Malanushenko et al. (2009) proposed a method, using loop images and line-of-sight photospheric magnetograms, to infer the three-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-27 Marika I. McCarthy , Dana W. Longcope , Anna Malanushenko

Coronal holes are the darkest and least active regions of the Sun, as observed both on the solar disk and above the solar limb. Coronal holes are associated with rapidly expanding open magnetic fields and the acceleration of the high-speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Steven R. Cranmer

The high densities, long lifetimes, and narrow emission measure distributions observed in coronal loops with apex temperatures near 1 MK are difficult to reconcile with physical models of the solar atmosphere. It has been proposed that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-08 Harry P. Warren , David M. Kim , Amanda M. DeGiorgi , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra

An analytical MHD model of coronal loops with compressible flows and including heating is compared to observational data. The model is constructed via a systematic nonlinear separation of the variables method used to calculate several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. J. D. Petrie , C. Gontikakis , H. Dara , K. Tsinganos , M. J. Aschwanden

It is shown that electric current flowing along an axially non-uniform magnetic flux tube produces an associated non-linear, non-conservative axial MHD force which pumps plasma from regions where the flux tube diameter is small to regions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. M. Bellan

Solar coronal loops are commonly subject to oscillations. Observations of coronal oscillations are used to infer physical properties of the coronal plasma using coronal seismology. Excitation and evolution of oscillations in coronal loops…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 P. Kohutova , A. Popovas

There are currently no three dimensional numerical models which describe the magnetic and energetic formation of prominences self-consistently. Consequently, there has not been significant progress made in understanding the connection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Donald Schmit , Sarah Gibson

Recent numerical studies of oscillating flux tubes have established the significance of resonant absorption in the damping of propagating transverse oscillations in coronal loops. The nonlinear nature of the mechanism has been examined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 K. Karampelas , T. Van Doorsselaere , P. Antolin

The spatial and spectral properties of three solar flare coronal X-ray loops are studied before, during and after the peak X-ray emission. Using observations from the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), we deduce the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Eduard P. Kontar

The nature and detailed properties of the heating of the million-degree solar corona are important issues that are still largely unresolved. Nanoflare heating might be dominant in active regions and quiet Sun, although direct signatures of…

We investigate heat circulators where a phase coherent region is contacted by three leads that are either normal- or superconducting. A magnetic field, and potentially the superconducting phases, allow to control the preferential direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Matteo Acciai , Fatemeh Hajiloo , Fabian Hassler , Janine Splettstoesser

We present the first 3D MHD study in spherical geometry of the non-linear dynamical evolution of magnetic flux tubes in a turbulent rotating convection zone. We study numerically the rise of magnetic toroidal flux ropes from the base of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Laurene Jouve , Allan Sacha Brun

In this paper, we apply the Rayleigh-Ritz Variational Scheme for studying the transverse oscillations of a magnetic flux tube. The flux tube is considered in low-$\beta$ solar coronal condition. The perturbations decomposed into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-12 N. Fathalian , H. Safari , S. Nasiri