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Context. Solar eruptions and high flare activity often accompany the rapid rotation of sunspots. The study of sunspot rotation and the mechanisms driving this motion are therefore key to our understanding of how the solar atmosphere attains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Z. Sturrock , A. W. Hood , V. Archontis , C. M. McNeill

{In order to understand the emergence of the active region, we investigate the emerging process and magnetic properties of a naked anti-Hale active region during the period between August 24 to 25, 2018.} {Using the data from Helioseismic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Jincheng Wang , Xiaoli Yan , Defang Kong , Zhike Xue , Liheng Yang , Qiaoling Li , Yan Zhang , Hao Li

Context. Data-constrained models incorporate observed photospheric magnetic fields. However, due to the lack of magnetic field information in the rest of the solar atmosphere, models rely on extrapolations that, in most cases, neglect the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 M. V. Sieyra , A. Strugarek , A. Prasad , A. Wagner , P. Démoulin , F. Moreno-Insertis , A. J. Finley , R. Joshi , A. Blaise , A. S. Brun , E. Buchlin

The emergence of active regions on the Sun is an integral feature of the solar dynamo mechanism. However, details about the generation of active-region-scale magnetism and the journey of this magnetic flux to the photosphere are still in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-13 Maria A. Weber , Hannah Schunker , Laurène Jouve , Emre Işık

Investigating the early-stage evolution of an erupting flux rope from the Sun is important to understand the mechanisms of how it looses its stability and its space weather impacts. Our aim is to develop an efficient scheme for tracking the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Andreas Wagner , Emilia K. J. Kilpua , Ranadeep Sarkar , Daniel J. Price , Anshu Kumari , Farhad Daei , Jens Pomoell , Stefaan Poedts

Bipolar emerging flux regions (EFRs) form active regions (ARs) that generally evolve in a pre-existing magnetic environment in the solar atmosphere. Reconfiguration of the small- and large-scale magnetic connectivities is invoked to explain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Mariarita Murabito , Ilaria Ermolli , Salvo L. Guglielmino , Paolo Romano , Fabrizio Giorgi

We analyze the temporal evolution of the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic structure of the flaring active region (AR) NOAA 10930 by using the nonlinear force-free fields extrapolated from the photospheric vector magnetic fields observed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Inoue , D. Shiota , T. T. Yamamoto , V. S. Pandey , T. Magara , G. S. Choe

We present a series of numerical experiments that model the evolution of magnetic flux tubes with a different amount of initial twist. As a result of calculations, tightly twisted tubes reveal a rapid two-step emergence to the atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Shin Toriumi , Takehiro Miyagoshi , Takaaki Yokoyama , Hiroaki Isobe , Kazunari Shibata

The systematic variation of solar active region (AR) properties with their magnetic flux has been the subject of numerous studies but the proposed scaling laws still vary rather widely. A correct representation of these laws and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Guilherme A. L. Nogueira , Robertus Erdelyi , Ruihui Wang , Kristof Petrovay

A topological constraint on the dynamics of a magnetic field in a flux tube arises from the fixed point indices of its field line mapping. This can explain unexpected behaviour in recent resistive-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 A. R. Yeates , G. Hornig

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are one kind of fundamental structures in the solar physics, and involved in various eruption phenomena. Twist, characterizing how the magnetic field lines wind around a main axis, is an intrinsic property of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Yuming Wang , Bin Zhuang , Qiang Hu , Rui Liu , Chenglong Shen , Yutian Chi

The tilt of solar active regions described by Joy's law is essential for converting a toroidal field to a poloidal field in Babcock-Leighton dynamo models. In thin flux tube models the Coriolis force causes Joy's law, acting on east-west…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Hannah Schunker , Christian Baumgartner , Aaron C. Birch , Robert H. Cameron , Douglas C. Braun , Laurent Gizon

Context. Large-amplitude oscillations (LAOs) of the solar prominences are very spectacular but poorly understood phenomena. These motions have amplitudes larger than $10 {\mathrm{\, km \,s^{-1}}}$ and can be triggered by the external…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Valeriia Liakh , Manuel Luna , Elena Khomenko

We present the new results of the two-dimensional numerical experiments on the cross-sectional evolution of a twisted magnetic flux tube rising from the deeper solar convection zone (-20,000 km) to the corona through the surface. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shin Toriumi , Takaaki Yokoyama

The current study aims to quantify characteristic features of bipolar flux appearance of solar intranetwork (IN) magnetic elements. To attack such a problem, we use the Narrow-band Filter Imager (NFI) magnetograms from the Solar Optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-06 Jingxiu Wang , Guiping Zhou , Chunlan Jin , Hui Li

We present a magnetic flux rope (FR) extraction tool for solar coronal magnetic field modelling data, which builds upon the methodology from Wagner et al. (2023). We apply the scheme to magnetic field simulations of active regions AR12473…

We present a comparison of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) analysis of NOAA Active Region (AR) 11158 and numerical simulations of flux-tube emergence, aiming to investigate the formation process of this flare-productive AR. First, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 S. Toriumi , Y. Iida , K. Kusano , Y. Bamba , S. Imada

Earlier observational studies have used the time evolution of emerging magnetic flux regions at the photosphere to infer their subsurface structures, assuming that the flux structure does not change significantly over the near-surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-14 Chia-Hsien Lin , Yu-Chen Chen

The coronal magnetic field evolution of 20 bipolar active regions (ARs) is simulated from their emergence to decay using the time-dependent nonlinear force-free field method of Mackay et al. A time sequence of cleaned photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Stephanie L. Yardley , Duncan H. Mackay , Lucie M. Green

We used multi-wavelength high-resolution data from ARIES, THEMIS, and SDO instruments, to analyze a non-standard, C3.3 class flare produced within the active region NOAA 11589 on 2012 October 16. Magnetic flux emergence and cancellation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 K. Dalmasse , R. Chandra , B. Schmieder , G. Aulanier