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We conduct forward-modeling analysis based on our 2.5 dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation of magnetic flux rope (MFR) formation and eruption driven by photospheric converging motion. The current sheet (CS) evolution during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiaozhou Zhao , Chun Xia , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Rony Keppens , W. Q. Gan

A filament eruption was observed on October 31, 2010 in the images recorded by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) in its Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) channels. The filament showed a slow rise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-18 V. Aparna , Durgesh Tripathi

The magnetic fields in the solar corona are generally neither force-free nor axisymmetric and have complex dynamics that are difficult to characterize. Here we simulate the topological evolution of solar coronal magnetic field lines (MFLs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-09 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya , Sanjay Kumar

We carry out a three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to model the initiation of the coronal mass ejection (CME) on 13 December 2006 in the emerging {\delta}-sunspot active region NOAA 10930. The setup of the simulation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Yuhong Fan

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are powerful drivers of space weather, with magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) widely regarded as their primary precursors. However, the variation in reconnection flux during the evolution of MFR during CME eruptions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Samriddhi Sankar Maity , Piyali Chatterjee , Ranadeep Sarkar , Ijas S. Mytheen

We investigated the dynamic evolution of a 3-dimensional (3D) flux rope eruption and magnetic reconnection process in a solar flare, by simply extending 2-dimensional (2D) resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulation model of solar flares with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-18 Keisuke Nishida , Naoto Nishizuka , Kazunari Shibata

Formed through magnetic field shearing and reconnection in the solar corona, magnetic flux ropes are structures of twisted magnetic field, threaded along an axis. Their evolution and potential eruption are of great importance for space…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Chris Lowder , Anthony Yeates

We present the application of the data-driven branch of the MURaM code, which follows the evolution of the active region 11640 over 4 days starting from 2012 December 30 at 12:00 UT and reproduces many key coronal extreme-ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Feng Chen

Explosive energy release is a common phenomenon occurring in magnetized plasma systems ranging from laboratories, Earth's magnetosphere, the solar corona and astrophysical environments. Its physical explanation is usually attributed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 J. Zhang , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

Observations have shown a clear association of filament/prominence eruptions with the emergence of magnetic flux in or near filament channels. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been employed to systematically study the conditions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 T. Török , M. G. Linton , J. E. Leake , Z. Mikić , R. Lionello , V. S. Titov , C. Downs

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

We study the energy-release process in the confined X1.6 flare that occurred on 22 October 2014 in AR 12192. Magnetic-reconnection rates and reconnection fluxes are derived from three different data sets: space-based data from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 A. M. Veronig , W. Polanec

It is well accepted that a magnetic flux rope (MFR) is a critical component of many coronal mass ejections (CMEs), yet how it evolves toward eruption remains unclear. Here we investigate the continuous evolution of a pre-existing MFR, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Wensi Wang , Chunming Zhu , Jiong Qiu , Rui Liu , Kai E. Yang , Qiang Hu

We present a detailed study of a confined circular flare dynamics associated with 3 UV late phases in order to understand more precisely which topological elements are present and how they constrain the dynamics of the flare. We perform a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 S. Masson , E. Pariat , G. Valori , N. Deng , C. Liu , H. Wang , H. Reid

Erupting magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) play a crucial role in producing solar flares. However, the formation of erupting MFRs in complex coronal magnetic configurations and their subsequent evolution in the flaring events are not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Avijeet Prasad , Sanjay Kumar , Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Guillaume Aulanier , R. Bhattacharyya , Qiang Hu

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are among the most energetic events in the solar system, impacting the near-Earth environment. Flare productivity is empirically known to be correlated with the size and complexity of active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-16 Chloé Guennou , Etienne Pariat , Nicole Vilmer , James E. Leake

In this paper we present an update on the open source MPI-AMRVAC simulation toolkit where we focus on solar- and non-relativistic astrophysical magneto-fluid dynamics. We highlight recent developments in terms of physics modules such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 O. Porth , C. Xia , T. Hendrix , S. P. Moschou , R. Keppens

We present SDO/AIA observations of an eruptive X-class flare of July 12, 2012, and compare its evolution with the predictions of a 3D numerical simulation. We focus on the dynamics of flare loops that are seen to undergo slipping…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jaroslav Dudík , Miho Janvier , Guillaume Aulanier , Giulio Del Zanna , Marian Karlický , Helen Mason , Brigitte Schmieder

We present a newly developed data-driven magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation code under a zero-beta approximation based on a method proposed by Hayashi et al. 2018 and 2019. Although many data-driven MHD simulations have been developed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Satoshi Inoue , Keiji Hayashi , Takahiro Miyoshi

Computational astrophysics routinely combines grid-adaptive capabilities with modern shock-capturing, high resolution spatio-temporal schemes on multi-dimensional hydro- and magnetohydrodynamics. We provide an update on developments within…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Rony Keppens , Beatrice Popescu Braileanu , Yuhao Zhou , Wenzhi Ruan , Chun Xia , Yang Guo , Niels Claes , Fabio Bacchini