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Remote and in-situ observations strongly imply that the slow solar wind consists of plasma from the hot, closed-field corona that is released onto open magnetic field lines. The Separatrix Web (S-Web) theory for the slow wind proposes that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 A. K. Higginson , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore , P. F. Wyper , T. H. Zurbuchen

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the primary drivers of adverse space-weather events, yet their initiation and onset prediction remain insufficiently understood due to the complexity of the magnetic topology and physical processes in real…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 J. H. Guo , S. Poedts , B. Schmieder , Y. Guo , C. Zhou , H. Wu , Y. W. Ni , Z. Zhong , Y. H. Zhou , S. H. Li , P. F. Chen

Modeling the solar atmosphere is challenging due to its layered structure and multi-scale dynamics. We aim to validate the new radiative MHD code MAGEC, which combines the MANCHA and MAGNUS codes into a finite-volume, shock-capturing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Anamaría Navarro , E. Khomenko , N. Vitas , T. Felipe

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

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

3D picture of the coronal magnetic field remains an outstanding problem in solar physics, particularly, in active regions. Nonlinear force-free field reconstructions that employ routinely available full-disk photospheric vector magnetograms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Gregory Fleishman , Ivan Mysh'yakov , Alexey Stupishin , Maria Loukitcheva , Sergey Anfinogentov

We perform MHD modeling of a single bright coronal loop to include the interaction with a non-uniform magnetic field. The field is stressed by random footpoint rotation in the central region and its energy is dissipated into heating by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 F. Reale , S. Orlando , M. Guarrasi , A. Mignone , G. Peres , A. W. Hood , E. R. Priest

Oscillations are abundant in the solar corona. Coronal loop oscillations are typically studied using highly idealised models of magnetic flux tubes. In order to improve our understanding of coronal oscillations, it is necessary to consider…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 P. Kohutova , P. Antolin , M. Szydlarski , M. Carlsson

We have performed numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of two closed active regions (AR). The input magnetic field values were the coronal magnetic field computed as extrapolation coronal from observations of the photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-21 Cristiana Dumitrache

(abridged) We investigate how the properties of the corona and solar wind in the open coronal holes depend on the properties of the magnetic fields and their footpoint motions at the surface, by perfoming 1D MHD simulations from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The physics of the solar chromosphere is complex from both theoretical and modeling perspectives. The plasma temperature from the photosphere to corona increases from ~5,000 K to ~1 million K over a distance of only ~10,000 km from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Mehmet Sarp Yalim , Avijeet Prasad , Nikolai Pogorelov , Gary Zank , Qiang Hu

In this work, we introduce a novel generative denoising diffusion model for synthesizing the Sun's three-dimensional coronal magnetic field, a complex and dynamic region characterized by evolving magnetic structures. Despite daily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel E. da Silva , Michael Kirk , Nat Mathews , Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo

With current observational methods it is not possible to directly measure the magnetic field in the solar corona with sufficient accuracy. Therefore, coronal magnetic field models have to rely on extrapolation methods using photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Lilli Nadol , Thomas Neukirch

We present a radiation-magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) simulation of a magnetic cancellation event. The model is calculated with the Bifrost code and spans from the uppermost convection zone to the corona. The cancellation occurs between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 F. Moreno-Insertis , V. H. Hansteen , D. Nóbrega-Siverio

Statistical properties of the Sun's photospheric turbulent magnetic field, especially those of the Active Regions (ARs), have been studied using the line-of-sight data from magnetograms taken by SOHO and several other instruments (see e.g.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-17 Shiva Kumar. Malapaka , Wolf-Christian Mueller

In the solar corona, magnetic helicity slowly and continuously accumulates in response to plasma flows tangential to the photosphere and magnetic flux emergence through it. Analyzing this transfer of magnetic helicity is key for identifying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 K. Dalmasse , E. Pariat , G. Valori , J. Jing , P. Démoulin

Recent observations have demonstrated the capability of mapping the solar coronal magnetic field using the technique of coronal seismology based on the ubiquitous propagating Alfvenic/kink waves through imaging spectroscopy. We established…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Yuhang Gao , Hui Tian , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Zihao Yang , Mingzhe Guo , Konstantinos Karampelas

The solar active region photospheric magnetic field evolves rapidly during major eruptive events, suggesting appreciable feedback from the corona. Previous studies of these "magnetic imprints" are mostly based on line-of-sight only or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Maria Kazachenko , Ruizhu Chen

Context. Solar blowout jets are a distinct subclass of ubiquitous extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray coronal jets. Aims. Most existing models of blowout jets prescribe an initial magnetic field configurations and apply ad-hoc changes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Yajie Chen , Hardi Peter , Damien Przybylski , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Sudip Mandal

Solar active regions are formed through the emergence of magnetic flux from the deeper convection zone. Recent satellite observations have shown that a horizontal divergent flow (HDF) stretches out over the solar surface just before the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Shin Toriumi , Takaaki Yokoyama