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Solar eruptions arise from instabilities or loss of equilibria in the solar atmosphere, but routinely inferring the precise magnetic and plasma properties that lead to eruptions is not currently practical using synoptic solar observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Lucas A. Tarr , N. Dylan Kee , James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Peter W. Schuck

Solar wind modelling has become a crucial area of study due to the increased dependence of modern society on technology, navigation, and power systems. Accurate space weather forecasts can predict upcoming threats to Earth's geospace. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Tinatin Baratashvili , Michaela Brchnelova , Luis Linan , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

Transverse MHD waves permeate the solar atmosphere and are a candidate for coronal heating. However, the origin of these waves is still unclear. In this work, we analyse coordinated observations from \textit{Hinode}/SOT and \textit{IRIS} of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Patrick Antolin , Paolo Pagano , Ineke De Moortel , Valery M. Nakariakov

A full 3-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation is conducted to investigate the thermal responses of a coronal loop to the dynamic dissipation processes of MHD waves. When the foot points of the loop are randomly and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Takuma Matsumoto

The physical processes in the solar corona that shape the solar wind remain an active research topic. Modeling efforts have shown that energy and plasma exchanges near the transition region plays a crucial role in modulating solar wind…

The perplexing mystery of what maintains the solar coronal temperature at about a million K, while the visible disc of the Sun is only at 5800 K, has been a long standing problem in solar physics. A recent study by Mondal(2020) has provided…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Shabbir Bawaji , Ujjaini Alam , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi

Recent observations of reflected propagating and standing slow-mode waves in hot flaring coronal loops have spurred our investigation into their underlying excitation and damping mechanisms. To understand these processes, we conduct 2.5D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Stephen J. Bradshaw

In recent years, space weather research has focused on developing modelling techniques to predict the arrival time and properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at the Earth. The aim of this paper is to propose a new modelling technique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-22 P. Pagano , D. H. Mackay , A. R. Yeates

The propagation and the evolution of Alfvenic pulses in the solar coronal arcades is investigated by means of MHD numerical simulations. Significant transverse oscillations in coronal loops, triggered by nearby flare events, are often…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Del Zanna , Eveline Schaekens , Marco Velli

EUV waves are large-scale disturbances in the solar corona initiated by coronal mass ejections. However, solar EUV images show only the wave fronts projections along the line-of-sight of the spacecraft. We perform 3D reconstructions of EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Tatiana Podladchikova , Astrid M. Veronig , Karin Dissauer , Manuela Temmer , Olena Podladchikova}

Solar flares are energetic events taking place in the Sun's atmosphere, and their effects can greatly impact the environment of the surrounding planets. In particular, eruptive flares, as opposed to confined flares, launch coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Miho Janvier , Guillaume Aulanier , Pascal Demoulin

The nanoflare paradigm of coronal heating has proven extremely promising for explaining the presence of hot, multi-million degree loops in the solar corona. In this paradigm, localized heating events supply enough energy to heat the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Kalman J. Knizhnik , Will T. Barnes , Jeffrey W. Reep , Vadim M. Uritsky

Modeling the solar atmosphere is challenging due to its layered structure and multi-scale dynamics. We aim to validate the new radiative MHD code MAGEC, which combines the MANCHA and MAGNUS codes into a finite-volume, shock-capturing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Anamaría Navarro , E. Khomenko , N. Vitas , T. Felipe

The role of small-scale coronal eruptive phenomena in the generation and heating of the solar wind remains an open question. Here, we investigate the role played by coronal jets in forming the solar wind by testing whether temporal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Diego de Pablos , David M. Long , Christopher J. Owen , Gherardo Valori , Georgios Nicolaou , Louise K. Harra

Recent observations have revealed that MHD waves and oscillations are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere, with a wide range of periods. We give a brief review of some aspects of MHD waves and coronal seismology which have recently been the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ineke De Moortel , Valery M. Nakariakov

The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Sergey A. Anfinogentov

The aim of this paper is to validate a methodology for connecting the emission measure of individual solar coronal loops to the integrated emission measure of the entire solar corona, and using this connection to deduce the energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Peres , S. Orlando , F. Reale , R. Rosner

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

We present an ab initio approach to the solar coronal heating problem by modelling a small part of the solar corona in a computational box using a 3D MHD code including realistic physics. The observed solar granular velocity pattern and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. V. Gudiksen , Å. Nordlund

2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are performed with high spatial resolution in order to distinguish between competing models of the coronal heating problem. A single coronal loop powered by Alfv\'{e}n waves excited in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Takuma Matsumoto