English
Related papers

Related papers: Toward a fast and consistent approach to model sol…

200 papers

Using solar wind observation near PSP perihelions as constraints, we have investigated the parameters in various PFSS model methods. It's found that the interplanetary magnetic field extrapolation with source surface height $R_\mathrm{SS} =…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Yuechun Song

The Potential Field Source Surface (PFSS) model is the most used approach for extrapolating the global coronal magnetic field, offering efficiency and strong performance at large scales. However, PFSS assumes a potential coronal field, so…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 C. Antonio , I. Chifu , R. Gafeira , J. J. G. Lima

We test a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) optimization code in spherical geometry using an analytical solution from Low and Lou. Several tests are run, ranging from idealized cases where exact vector field data are provided on all…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Y. Guo , M. D. Ding , Y. Liu , X. D. Sun , M. L. DeRosa , T. Wiegelmann

Magnetic field extrapolation from the solar photosphere to the corona plays an important role in solar physics research. In this work, we present a fully-implicit viscous-relaxation nonlinear force-free field (FIVR-NLFFF) extrapolation code…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Zhenhua Liu , Chaowei Jiang

Extrapolation codes in Cartesian geometry for modelling the magnetic field in the corona do not take the curvature of the Sun's surface into account and can only be applied to relatively small areas, e.g., a single active region. We compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , P. MacNeice , A. Pevtsov , X. Sun

Routine measurements of the solar magnetic field are mainly carried out in the photosphere. Therefore, one has to infer the field strength in the higher layers of the solar atmosphere from the measured photospheric field based on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , A. Pevtsov

We introduce to the stellar physics community a method of modelling stellar coronae that can be considered to be an extension of the potential field. In this approach, the magnetic field is coupled to the background atmosphere. The model is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 David MacTaggart , Scott Gregory , Thomas Neukirch , Jean-Francois Donati

Solar flare simulations are commonly initialised using non-linear force free field (NLFF) extrapolations derived from photospheric vector magnetograms. However, the force free assumption neglects plasma forces and may limit the available…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 W. Bate , M. Gordovskyy , A. Prasad , A. S. Brun , A. Strugarek , M. V. Sieyra , P. Browning , S. Inoue , K. Matsumoto , A. Roddanavar

Aims. Linear magnetohydrostatic (MHS) models of solar magnetic fields balance plasma pressure gradients, gravity and Lorentz forces where the current density is composed of a linear force-free component and a cross-field component that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-26 David MacTaggart , Abdulaziz Elsheikh , James McLaughlin , Radostin Simitev

Solar filament are commonly thought to be supported in magnetic dips, in particular, of magnetic flux ropes (FRs). In this Letter, from the observed photospheric vector magnetogram, we implement a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Chaowei Jiang , S. T. Wu , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu

We present a Python code for calculating and displaying magnetic field extrapolations from given two-dimensional boundary conditions, specifically from solar surface magnetograms. The code implements analytical magnetohydrostatic models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lilli Nadol , Thomas Neukirch

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) modeling has been extensively used to infer the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field in the solar corona. One of the assumptions in the NLFFF extrapolation is that the plasma beta is low, but this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Yusuke Kawabata , Andrés Asensio Ramos , Satoshi Inoue , Toshifumi Shimizu

We present a careful assess of the forced field extrapolation using Solar Dynamics Observatory/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI) magnetogram. The convergence property is checked by several metrics. The extrapolated field lines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Huaning Wang , Zhanle Du , Han He

Extrapolations of solar photospheric vector magnetograms into three-dimensional magnetic fields in the chromosphere and corona are usually done under the assumption that the fields are force-free. The field calculations can be improved by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Fuhrmann , N. Seehafer , G. Valori , T. Wiegelmann

Magnetic reconnections (MRs) for various magnetic field line (MFL) topologies are believed to be the initiators of various solar eruptive events like flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Consequently, important is a thorough…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Sushree S. Nayak , R. Bhattacharyya , A. Prasad , Qiang Hu

The photospheric magnetic field vector is continuously derived from measurements, while reconstruction of the three-dimensional (3D) coronal magnetic field requires modelling with photospheric measurements as a boundary condition. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 I. Chifu , B. Inhester , T. Wiegelmann

Measurements of magnetic fields and electric currents in the pre-eruptive corona are crucial to study solar eruptive phenomena, like flare and coronal mass ejections(CMEs). However, spectro-polarimetric measurements of certain photospheric…

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

We describe a newly developed code for the extrapolation of nonlinear force-free coronal magnetic fields in spherical coordinates. The program uses measured vector magnetograms on the solar photosphere as input and solves the force-free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Wiegelmann

Quantifying coronal magnetic field remains a central problem in solar physics. Nowadays the coronal magnetic field is often modelled using nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) reconstructions, whose accuracy has not yet been comprehensively…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-14 Gregory D. Fleishman , Sergey Anfinogentov , Maria Loukitcheva , Ivan Mysh'yakov , Alexey Stupishin

Two extrapolation models of the solar coronal magnetic field are compared using magnetogram data from the SDO/HMI instrument. The two models, a horizontal current-current sheet-source surface (HCCSSS) model and a potential field-source…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 William M. Arden , Aimee A. Norton , Xudong Sun , Xuepu Zhao