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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

The magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere structure the plasma, store free magnetic energy and produce a wide variety of active solar phenomena, like flare and coronal mass ejections(CMEs). The distribution and strength of magnetic fields…

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

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

Due to the absence of direct measurement, the magnetic field in the solar corona is usually extrapolated from the photosphere in numerical way. At the moment, the nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model dominates the physical models for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

Context: Solar magnetic fields are regularly extrapolated into the corona starting from photospheric magnetic measurements that can suffer from significant uncertainties. Aims: Here we study how inaccuracies introduced into the maps of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. Wiegelmann , L. Yelles Chaouche , S. K. Solanki , A. Lagg

In the solar corona, magnetic flux rope is believed to be a fundamental structure accounts for magnetic free energy storage and solar eruptions. Up to the present, the extrapolation of magnetic field from boundary data is the primary way to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

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

We present a newly developed approach to solar coronal magnetic field extrapolation from vector magnetograms, based on the Principle of Minimum Dissipation Rate (MDR). The MDR system was derived from a variational problem that is more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. Hu , B. Dasgupta , D. P. Choudhary , J. Büchner

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

A nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) extrapolation is widely used to reconstruct the three-dimensional magnetic field in the solar corona from the observed photospheric magnetic field. However, the pressure gradient and gravitational forces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Takahiro Miyoshi , Kanya Kusano , Satoshi Inoue

We present an extension of the Coronal Reconstruction Onto B-Aligned Regions (CROBAR) method to Linear Force Free Field (LFFF) extrapolations, and apply it to the reconstruction of a set of AIA, MDI, and STEREO EUVI data. The results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Joseph Plowman , Daniel B. Seaton , Amir Caspi , J. Marcus Hughes , Matthew J. West

The coronal magnetic field is an important quantity because the magnetic field dominates the structure of the solar corona. Unfortunately direct measurements of coronal magnetic fields are usually not available. The photospheric magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann

Knowledge regarding the coronal magnetic field is important for the understanding of many phenomena, like flares and coronal mass ejections. Because of the low plasma beta in the solar corona the coronal magnetic field is often assumed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Wiegelmann , Bernd Inhester , Takashi Sakurai

We review methods to measure magnetic fields within the corona using the polarized light in magnetic-dipole (M1) lines. We are particularly interested in both the global magnetic-field evolution over a solar cycle, and the local storage of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Philip G. Judge , Shadia Habbal , Enrico Landi

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

Imaging through optical multimode fibers (MMFs) has the potential to enable hair-thin endoscopes that reduce the invasiveness of imaging deep inside tissues and organs. Current approaches predominantly require active wavefront shaping and…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-13 Szu-Yu Lee , Vicente J. Parot , Brett E. Bouma , Martin Villiger

We investigate the ability of a nonlinear force-free code to calculate highly-twisted magnetic field configurations using the Titov and D\'{e}moulin (1999) equilibrium field as a test case. The code calculates a force-free field using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-28 Victor M. Demcsak , Michael S. Wheatland , Alpha Mastrano , Kai E. Yang

The SDO/HMI instruments provide photospheric vector magnetograms with a high spatial and temporal resolution. Our intention is to model the coronal magnetic field above active regions with the help of a nonlinear force-free extrapolation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Wiegelmann , J. K. Thalmann , B. Inhester , T. Tadesse , X. Sun , J. T. Hoeksema

Faraday tomography offers crucial information on the magnetized astronomical objects, such as quasars, galaxies, or galaxy clusters, by observing its magnetoionic media. The observed linear polarization spectrum is inverse Fourier…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 Suchetha Cooray , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Takuya Akahori , Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Keitaro Takahashi , Kiyotomo Ichiki

The structure and dynamics of the solar corona is dominated by the magnetic field. In most areas in the corona magnetic forces are so dominant that all non-magnetic forces like plasma pressure gradient and gravity can be neglected in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Thomas Wiegelmann , Takashi Sakurai