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Magnetic flux is continuously being removed and replenished on the solar surface. To understand the removal process we carried out 3D radiative MHD simulations of the evolution of patches of photospheric magnetic field with equal amounts of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Robert Cameron , Alexander Voegler , Manfred Schuessler

We present a new improved version of our force-free electrodynamics (FFE) numerical code in spherical coordinates that extrapolates the magnetic field in the inner solar corona from a photospheric vector magnetogram. The code satisfies the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ioannis Contopoulos

Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical large eddy simulations of solar surface convection using realistic model physics is conducted. The effects of magnetic fields on thermal structure of convective motions into radiative layers, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Ustyugov

We investigate an intensification mechanism for the magnetic field near the base of the solar convection zone that does not rely on differential rotation. Such mechanism in addition to differential rotation has been suggested by studies of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Hotta , M. Rempel , T. Yokoyama

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

We present a novel magnetohydrostatic numerical model that solves directly for the force-balanced magnetic field in the solar corona. This model is constructed with Radial Basis Function Finite Differences (RBF-FD), specifically 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Nathaniel H. Mathews , Natasha Flyer , Sarah E. Gibson

A method of calculating induced electric field is presented in this paper. Induced electric field in solar atmosphere is derived by the time variation of magnetic field when the charged particle accumulation is neglected. In order to get…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Rong Chen , Zhiliang Yang , Yuanyong Deng

We present a new method for direct measurement of magnetic fields on ultracool stars and brown dwarfs. It takes advantage of the Wing-Ford band of FeH, which are seen throughout the M and L spectral types. These molecular features are not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ansgar Reiners , Gibor Basri

The coupling between small and large scale structures and processes on the Sun and in the heliosphere is important in the relation to the global magnetic configuration. Thin heliospheric current sheets play the leading role in this respect.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-24 Igor Veselovsky , Olga Panasenco

Three-dimensional numerical simulations of solar surface magnetoconvection using realistic model physics are conducted. The thermal structure of convective motions into the upper radiative layers of the photosphere, the main scales of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sergey D. Ustyugov

This study based on longitudinal Zeeman effect magnetograms and spectral line scans investigates the dependence of solar surface magnetic fields on the spectral line used and the way the line is sampled in order to estimate the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. K. Ulrich , L. Bertello , J. E. Boyden , L. Webster

Solar modelling has long been split into ''internal'' and ''surface'' modelling, because of the lack of tools to connect the very different scales in space and time, as well as the widely different environments and dominating physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Andrius Popovas , Åke Nordlund , Mikolaj Szydlarski

The solar magnetic field is key to understanding the physical processes in the solar atmosphere. Nonlinear force-free codes have been shown to be useful in extrapolating the coronal field from underlying vector boundary data [see Schrijver…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-21 T. Wiegelmann , J. K. Thalmann , C. J. Schrijver , M. L. DeRosa , T. R. Metcalf

During the propagation of cosmic rays in the solar system, the Sun will block those particles and form a shadow whose position and depth are very important probe of the magnetic fields in the Sun's corona, in the interplanetary space, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Jie Xia , Ming-Yang Cui , Qiang Yuan , Yi Zhang , Guang-Lu Shi , Li Feng

Measurements of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) over several solar cycles do not agree with computed values of open magnetic flux from potential field extrapolations. The discrepancy becomes greater around solar maximum in each…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. R. Yeates , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen , J. A. Constable

The magnetic field shapes the structure of the solar corona but we still know little about the interrelationships between the coronal magnetic field configurations and the resulting quasi-stationary structures observed in coronagraphic…

We compare magnetic field extrapolations from a photospheric magnetogram with the observationally inferred structure of magnetic loops in a newly developed active region. This is the first time that the reconstructed 3D-topology of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann , A. Lagg , S. K. Solanki , B. Inhester , J. Woch

Accurate forecasting of the solar wind has grown in importance as society becomes increasingly dependent on technology that is susceptible to space weather events. This work describes an inner boundary condition for ambient solar wind…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Kaine A. Bunting , Huw Morgan

We construct two classes of magnetohydrostatic (MHS) equilibria for an axisymmetric vertical flux tube spanning from the photosphere to the lower part of the transition region within a realistic stratified solar atmosphere subject to solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 Samrat Sen , A. Mangalam

We developed a {\sl coronal non-linear force-free field (COR-NLFFF)} forward-fitting code that fits an approximate {\sl non-linear force-free field (NLFFF)} solution to the observed geometry of automatically traced coronal loops. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Markus J. Aschwanden , Xudong Sun , Yang Liu