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Understanding the evolution of the complex magnetic fields found in solar active regions is an active area of research. There are numerous models for such fields which range in their complexity due to the number of known physical effects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Oliver Rice , Christopher Prior

We perform a numerical simulation of the corona of the young, rapidly rotating K0 dwarf AB Doradus using a global MHD model. The model is driven by a surface map of the radial magnetic field constructed using Zeeman-Doppler Imaging. We find…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , V. L. Kashyap , G. A. J. Hussain , T. I. Gombosi

The young magnetically active solar-like stars are efficient generators of ionizing radiation in the form of X-ray and Extreme UV (EUV) flux, stellar wind and eruptive events. These outputs are the critical factors affecting atmospheric…

We present an updated global model of the solar corona, including the transition region. We simulate the realistic tree-dimensional (3D) magnetic field using the data from the photospheric magnetic field measurements and assume the…

Adopting the MPI-AMRVAC code, we present a 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation, which includes thermal conduction and radiative cooling, to investigate the formation and evolution of the coronal rain phenomenon. We perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Xiaohong Li , Rony Keppens , Yuhao Zhou

We present a novel global 3-D coronal MHD model called COCONUT, polytropic in its first stage and based on a time-implicit backward Euler scheme. Our model boosts run-time performance in comparison with contemporary MHD-solvers based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Barbara Perri , Peter Leitner , Michaela Brchnelova , Tinatin Baratashvili , Blazej Kuzma , Fan Zhang , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

The operation of the solar global dynamo appears to involve many dynamical elements. Self-consistent MHD simulations which realistically incorporate all of these processes are not yet computationally feasible, though some elements can now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

The SDO/HMI instruments provide photospheric vector magnetograms with a high spatial and temporal resolution. Our intention is to model the coronal magnetic field above active regions with the help of a nonlinear force-free extrapolation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Wiegelmann , J. K. Thalmann , B. Inhester , T. Tadesse , X. Sun , J. T. Hoeksema

We perform a number of numerical simulations of the solar corona with the aim to understand how it responds to different conditions in the photosphere. By changing parameters which govern the motion of the plasma at the photosphere we study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Leandro F. Gomes de Jesus , Boris V. Gudiksen

Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the emergence of twisted magnetic flux tubes from the solar interior into the corona are discussed to illustrate how twisted and sheared coronal magnetic structures (with free magnetic energy),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-29 Yuhong Fan

The coronal heating problem remains one of the most challenging questions in solar physics. The energy driving coronal heating is widely understood to be associated with convective motions below the photosphere. Recent high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Rui Wang , Yiming Jiao , Xiaowei Zhao , Chong Huang

There is increasingly strong observational evidence that slow magnetoacoustic modes arise in the solar atmosphere. Solar magneto-seismology is a novel tool to derive otherwise directly un-measurable properties of the solar atmosphere when…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Luna-Cardozo , G. Verth , R. Erdélyi

Large-scale coronal plasma evolutions can be adequately described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. However, full multi-dimensional MHD simulations require substantial computational resources. Given the low plasma $\beta$ in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Yuhao Zhou , Xiaohong Li , Rony Keppens

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

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…

The response of the solar coronal magnetic field to small-scale photospheric boundary motions including the possible formation of current sheets via the Parker scenario is one of open questions of solar physics. Here we address the problem…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. L. Wilmot-Smith , D. I. Pontin , G. Hornig

Due to the absence of direct measurement, the magnetic field in the solar corona is usually extrapolated from the photosphere in numerical way. At the moment, the nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model dominates the physical models for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their driven shocks are a major source of large geomagnetic storms due to their large and long-lasting, southward component of magnetic field in the sheath and the flux rope (e.g., magnetic cloud).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Chin-Chun Wu , Kan Liou , Brian Wood , Keiji Hayashi

Aims. We aim to improve the understanding of the physical mechanisms behind the slower than free-fall motion and the two-stage evolution (an initial phase of acceleration followed by an almost constant velocity phase) detected in coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 David Martínez-Gómez , Ramón Oliver , Elena Khomenko , Manuel Collados

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