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Aims: We investigate the formation of flux ropes in a flux emergence region and their rise into the outer atmosphere of the Sun. Methods: We perform 3D numerical experiments solving the time-dependent and resistive MHD equations. Results: A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Archontis , T. Torok

Flux emergence is ubiquitous in the Sun's lower atmosphere, where the emerging magnetic flux can reconnect with the pre-existing magnetic field. We investigate plasmoid formation and the resulting multi-thermal emissions during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Robert Cameron , Hardi Peter , Yajie Chen , Jun Lin

In this review many of the well known tools for the analysis of Complex systems are used in order to study the global coupling of the turbulent convection zone with the solar atmosphere where the magnetic energy is dissipated explosively.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Loukas Vlahos , Heinz Isliker

We present a 3D simulation of the dynamic emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from the top layer of the solar convection zone into the solar atmosphere and corona. It is found that after a brief initial stage of flux emergence during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Y. Fan

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) constitute the core structure of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), but hot debates remain on whether the MFR forms before or during solar eruptions. Furthermore, how flare reconnection shapes the erupting MFR is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-20 Chaowei Jiang , Jun Chen , Aiying Duan , Xinkai Bian , Xinyi Wang , Jiaying Li , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng

We present a numerical investigation of the coronal evolution of a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2005 August 22 using a 3-D thermodynamics magnetohydrodynamic model, the SWMF. The source region of the eruption was anemone active region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-12 N. Lugaz , C. Downs , K. Shibata , I. I. Roussev , A. Asai , T. Gombosi

We report on three-dimensional (3D) MHD simulations of recurrent mini CME-like eruptions in a small active region (AR), which is formed by the dynamical emergence of a twisted (not kink unstable) flux tube from the solar interior. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-28 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood , K. Tsinganos

Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) originate from the eruption of complex magnetic structures occurring in our star's atmosphere. Determining the general properties of ICMEs and the physical processes at the heart of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 F. Regnault , A. Strugarek , M. Janvier , F. Auchère , N. Lugaz , N. Al-Haddad

We present observations and modeling of the magnetic field configuration, morphology, and dynamics of a large-scale, high-latitude filament eruption observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. We analyze the 2015 July 9-10 filament eruption…

Solar eruptive events such as coronal mass ejections and eruptive flares are frequently associated with the emergence of magnetic flux from the convection zone into the corona. We use three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 James Leake , Mark Linton , Spiro Antiochos

We present a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of the coronal mass ejection (CME) on 13 December 2006 in the emerging delta-sunspot active region 10930, improving upon a previous simulation by Fan (2016) as follows. (1) Incorporate an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yuhong Fan

We simulate the buoyant rise of a magnetic flux rope from the solar convection zone into the corona to better understand the energetic coupling of the solar interior to the corona. The magnetohydrodynamic model addresses the physics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

We perform a numerical study of the evolution of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) and its interaction with the coronal magnetic field based on the May 12, 1997, CME event using a global MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD) model for the solar corona. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 O. Cohen , G. D. R. Attrill , N. A. Schwadron , N. U. Crooker , M. J. Owens , C. Downs , T. I. Gombosi

Simulating coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from their origin in active regions (ARs) to their propagation to Earth remains challenging, particularly when aiming to resolve AR scales and employ realistic magnetic field strengths without…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Liping Yang , Huichao Li , Jinhan Guo , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

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

During its first solar encounter, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) acquired unprecedented up-close imaging of a small Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) propagating in the forming slow solar wind. The CME originated as a cavity imaged in extreme…

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

Most simulations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) to date either focus on the interplanetary propagation of a giant plasma "blob" without paying too much attention to its origin and to the formation process or they focus on the complex…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 N. Lugaz , I. I. Roussev , I. V. Sokolov , C. Jacobs

We describe and analyze observations by the Solar Dynamics Observatory of the emergence of a small, bipolar active region within an area of unipolar magnetic flux that was surrounded by a circular, quiescent filament. Within only eight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Sally Dacie , Tibor Torok , Pascal Demoulin , Mark Linton , Cooper Downs , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , David Long , James Leake

Aims. We study the emergence of a non-twisted flux tube from the solar interior into the solar atmosphere. We investigate whether the length of the buoyant part of the flux tube (i.e. {\lambda}) affects the emergence of the field and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Petros Syntelis , Vasilis Archontis , Costis Gontikakis , Kanaris Tsinganos