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This review focuses on the processes that energize and trigger major solar flares and flux-rope destabilizations. Numerical modeling of specific solar regions is hampered by uncertain coronal-field reconstructions and by poorly understood…

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Solar eruptions may occur at different evolutionary stages of active regions, during which the photospheric motions manifest in various forms, including flux emergence, sunspot rotation, shearing, converging, and magnetic flux diffusion.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Xinkai Bian , Chaowei Jiang , Yang Wang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

We examine the generation of a magnetic field in a solar-like star and its effects on the internal distribution of the angular velocity. We suggest that the evolution of a rotating star with magnetic fields leads to an equilibrium value of…

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The variable magnetic field of the solar photosphere exhibits periodic reversals as a result of dynamo activity occurring within the solar interior. We decompose the surface field as observed by both the Wilcox Solar Observatory and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. L. DeRosa , A. S. Brun , J. T. Hoeksema

3D MHD global solar simulations coupling the turbulent convective zone and the radiative zone have been carried out. Essential features of the Sun such as differential rotation, meridional circulation and internal waves excitation are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Strugarek Antoine , Brun Allan Sacha , Zahn Jean-Paul

Solar sails with the capability of generating a tangential radiation pressure at the sun-pointing attitude, such as refractive sails can provide more efficient methods for attitude and orbital control of sailcraft. This paper presents the…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Shahin Firuzi , Yu Song , Shengping Gong

During stellar evolution, especially in the PMS, stellar structure and rotation evolve significantly causing major changes in the dynamics and global flows of the star. We wish to assess the consequences of these changes on stellar dynamo,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Constance Emeriau-Viard , Allan Sacha Brun

Flare productivity varies among solar active regions (ARs). This study analyzed 20 ARs of contrasting sunspot areas and flare productivities to understand the super flare productivity of certain ARs. We used the flare index (FI) as an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Suman K. Dhakal , Jie Zhang

Recent timing observation provides an intriguing result for the braking index of the X-ray pulsar PSR J1640-4631, which has a measured braking index $n=3.15\pm0.03$. The decrease of the inclination angle between between the spin axis and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Hui Shi , Hong-Wei Hu , Wen-Cong Chen

We investigate which scalar quantity or quantities can best predict the loss of equilibrium and subsequent eruption of magnetic flux ropes in the solar corona. Our models are initialized with a potential magnetic arcade, which is then…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Oliver E. K. Rice , Anthony R. Yeates

The changing magnetic fields of the Sun are generated and maintained by a solar dynamo, the exact nature of which remains an unsolved fundamental problem in solar physics. Our objective in this paper is to investigate the role and impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Kinfe Teweldebirhan , Mark Miesch , Sarah Gibson

The magnetic cycle on the Sun consists of two consecutive 11-yr sunspot cycles and exhibits a polarity reversal around sunspot maximum. Although solar dynamo theories have progressively become more sophisticated, the details as to how the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 S. Bellotti , P. Petit , S. V. Jeffers , S. C. Marsden , J. Morin , A. A. Vidotto , C. P. Folsom , V. See , J. -D. do Nascimento

Filament is a cool, dense structure suspended in the solar corona. The eruption of a filament is often associated with coronal mass ejection (CME), which has an adverse effect on space weather. Hence, the study of filament has attracted…

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The observation of the polarization emerging from a rotating star at different phases opens up the possibility to map the magnetic field in the stellar surface thanks to the well-known Zeeman Doppler Imaging. When the magnetic field is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. J. Martínez González , A. Asensio Ramos

Recent years have seen the introduction of various multi-field inflationary scenarios in which the curvature and geodesics of the scalar manifold play a crucial role. We outline a simple description that unifies these different proposals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 Perseas Christodoulidis , Diederik Roest , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

Magnetic field emerges at the surface of the Sun as sunspots and active regions. This process generates a poloidal magnetic field from a rising toroidal flux tube, it is a crucial but poorly understood aspect of the solar dynamo. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 Aaron C. Birch , Hannah Schunker , Douglas C. Braun , Robert Cameron , Laurent Gizon , Björn Löptien , Matthias Rempel

Sunspots are of basic interest in the study of the Sun. Their relevance ranges from them being an activity indicator of magnetic fields to being the place where coronal mass ejections and flares erupt. They are therefore also an important…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-24 Illa R. Losada , Jörn Warnecke , Kolja Glogowski , Markus Roth , Axel Brandenburg , Nathan Kleeorin , Igor Rogachevskii

The possible role of magneto-rotational instability (MRI) and its driven MHD turbulence in the solar interior is studied on the basis of the linear and nonlinear theories coupling with physical parameters, providing solar rotation profile…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Youhei Masada

The purpose of this paper is to show that large active regions (ARs) with different magnetic configurations have different contributions to short-term and long-term variations of the Sun. As a case study, the complex $\delta$-type AR 12673…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Jie Jiang , Qiao Song , Jing-Xiu Wang , Tunde Baranyi