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Observations of surface magnetic fields are now within reach for many stellar types thanks to the development of Zeeman-Doppler Imaging. These observations are extremely useful for constraining rotational evolution models of stars, as well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-24 Victor Réville , Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek , Sean P. Matt , Jérôme Bouvier , Colin P. Folsom , Pascal Petit

Potential Field Source Surface (PFSS) models are widely used to study the solar corona and form the basis for solar wind forecasting, yet often fail to reproduce observed properties of coronal holes. We analyze 702 observed coronal holes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Stephan G. Heinemann , Jens Pomoell , Manuela Temmer

Sunspots on the surface of the Sun are the observational signatures of intense manifestations of tightly packed magnetic field lines, with near-vertical field strengths exceeding 6,000 G in extreme cases. It is well accepted that both the…

We present a novel experiment with the capacity to independently measure both the electron density and the magnetic field of the solar corona. We achieve this through measurement of the excess Faraday rotation due to propagation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Ord , S. Johnston , J. Sarkissian

To measure the magnetic field strength in the solar corona, we examined 10 fast (> 1000 km/s) limb CMEs which show clear shock structures in SOHO/LASCO images. By applying piston-shock relationship to the observed CME's standoff distance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. -S. Kim , N. Gopalswamy , Y. -J. Moon , K. -S. Cho , S. Yashiro

In this paper a new technique for modeling non-linear force-free fields directly from line of sight magnetogram observations is presented. The technique uses sequences of magnetograms directly as lower boundary conditions to drive the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-28 Duncan H. Mackay , L. M. Green , Aad van Ballegooijen

In recent years, a two-dimensional (2D) coronal seismology technique applied to spectral-imaging data from the Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) and UCoMP has enabled routine measurement of the global coronal magnetic field. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Zihao Yang , Sarah Gibson , Matthias Rempel , Giuliana de Toma

We intend to investigate the underlying physics for the coronal rain phenomenon in a representative bipolar magnetic field, including the formation and the dynamics of coronal rain blobs. With the MPI-AMRVAC code, we performed three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Xia Fang

The plasma thermodynamics in the solar upper atmosphere, particularly in the corona, are dominated by the magnetic field, which controls the flow and dissipation of energy. The relative lack of knowledge of the coronal vector magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 N. E. Raouafi , P. Riley , S. Gibson , S. Fineschi , S. K. Solanki

Measuring the global magnetic field of the solar corona remains exceptionally challenging. The fine-scale density structures observed in white light images taken during Total Solar Eclipses (TSEs) are currently the best proxy for inferring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Benjamin Boe , Shadia Habbal , Miloslav Druckmuller

Coronal magnetic fields evolve quasi statically over long time scales and dynamically over short time scales. As of now there exists no regular measurements of coronal magnetic fields, and therefore generating the coronal magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 P. Vemareddy , Jörn Warnecke , Ph. A. Bourdin

The magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere structure the plasma, store free magnetic energy and produce a wide variety of active solar phenomena, like flare and coronal mass ejections(CMEs). The distribution and strength of magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , K. Olson , P. J. MacNeice

We examine the hypothesis that multipolar magnetic fields advected by photospheric granules can contribute heating to the active chromosphere and corona. On 28 September 2020 the GRIS and HiFI+ instruments at the GREGOR telescope obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Philip Judge , Lucia Kleint , Christoph Kuckein

We quantify the scaling of magnetic energy density in the inertial range of solar wind turbulence seen in-situ at 1AU with respect to solar activity. At solar maximum, when the coronal magnetic field is dynamic and topologically complex, we…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-25 K. Kiyani , S. C. Chapman , B. Hnat , R. M. Nicol

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

Non-linear force-free extrapolations are a common approach to estimate the 3D topology of coronal magnetic fields based on photospheric vector magnetograms. The force-free assumption is a valid approximation at coronal heights, but for the…

The chromosphere is a complex solar atmosphere that hosts a variety of transients and transports significant free energy to heat the corona. However, due to the limited sensitivity of polarization measurement and the influence of spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jiasheng Wang , Wenxian Li , Xianyong Bai , Yingzi Sun , Yuanyong Deng , Jiaben Lin

Coronal heating through the explosive release of magnetic energy remains an open problem in solar physics. Recent hydrodynamical models attempt an investigation by placing swarms of 'nanoflares' at random sites and times in modeled…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 K. Moraitis , A. Toutountzi , H. Isliker , M. Georgoulis , L. Vlahos , G. Chintzoglou

Magnetic field is the key physical quantity in solar physics as it controls all kinds of solar activity, ranging from nanoflares to big flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). However, so far only the magnetic field on the solar surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 P. F. Chen

The coronal magnetic field, despite its overwhelming importance to the physics and dynamics of the corona, has only rarely been measured. Here, the electron density maps derived from images acquired during the total solar eclipse of August…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Alessandro Bemporad