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We report the first results of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of the development of a homologous sequence of three coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and demonstrate their so-called cannibalistic behavior. These CMEs originate from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-08 Piyali Chatterjee , Yuhong Fan

Filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections are physical phenomena related to magnetic flux ropes carrying electric current. A magnetic flux rope is a key structure for solar eruptions, and when it carries a southward magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Brigitte Schmieder , Jinhan Guo , Stefaan Poedts

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and eruptive flares (EFs) are the most energetic explosions in the solar system. Their underlying origin is the free energy that builds up slowly in the sheared magnetic field of a filament channel. We report…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-03 Joel T. Dahlin , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore

Aiming to capture the formation and eruption of flux ropes (FRs) in the source active regions (ARs), we simulate the coronal magnetic field evolution of the AR 11429 employing the time-dependent magneto-friction model (TMF). The initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 P. Vemareddy

Total solar eclipses (TSEs) provide a unique opportunity to observe the large-scale solar corona. The solar wind plays an important role in forming the large-scale coronal structure and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are used to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Yihua Li , Guoyin Chen , Jinhan Guo , Yang Guo , Hao Wu , Yuhao Huang , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding , Rony Keppens

Methods: Stealth CMEs represent a particular class of solar eruptions that are clearly distinguished in coronagraph observations, but they don't have a clear source signature. A particular type of stealth CMEs occurs in the trailing current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 D. -C. Talpeanu , E. Chané , S. Poedts , E. D'Huys , M. Mierla , I. Roussev , S. Hosteaux

Flux emergence is crucial for the formation of solar active regions and triggering of various eruptions. However, the detailed mechanisms by which flux emergence drives these eruptions remain unclear and require numerical investigation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Xiaohong Li , Yuhao Zhou , Rony Keppens

Evidence for the emergence of twisted flux tubes into the solar atmosphere has, so far, come from indirect signatures. In this work, we investigate the topological input of twisted flux tube emergence directly by studying helicity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-09 David MacTaggart , Chris Prior

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most spectacular eruptive phenomena in the solar atmosphere. It is generally accepted that CMEs are results of eruptions of magnetic flux ropes (MFRs). However, a heated debate is on whether MFRs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hongqiang Song , Jie Zhang , Yao Chen , Xin Cheng

We present a comprehensive radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the quiet Sun and large solar active regions. The 197 Mm wide simulation domain spans from 18 (10) Mm beneath the photosphere to 113 Mm in the solar corona. Radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

Magnetic flux ropes are characterized by coherently twisted magnetic field lines, which are ubiquitous in magnetized plasmas. As the core structure of various eruptive phenomena in the solar atmosphere, flux ropes hold the key to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-10 Rui Liu

The formation of the MFRs in the pre-flare stage, and how this leads to coronal rain in a post-eruption magnetic loop is not fully understood. We explore the formation, and eruption of MFRs, followed by the appearance of coronal rain in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Samrat Sen , Avijeet Prasad , Valeriia Liakh , Rony Keppens

We present results from numerical modeling of emerging flux regions on the solar surface. The modeling was carried out by means of 3D radiative MHD simulations of the rise of buoyant magnetic flux tubes through the convection zone and into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. M. Cheung , M. Schuessler , T. D. Tarbell , A. M. Title

We propose a magnetic confinement nuclear fusion mechanism for the evolution of a solar flare in solar atmosphere. The mechanism agree with two observed characteristics of explosive flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that have proved…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Ying-Zhi Zhang

Loss of equilibrium of magnetic flux ropes is a leading candidate for the origin of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The aim of this paper is to explore to what extent this mechanism can account for the initiation of CMEs in the global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. R. Yeates , D. H. Mackay

The combination of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation and multi-wavelength observations is an effective way to study mechanisms of magnetic flux rope eruption. We develop a data-driven MHD model using the zero-$\beta$ approximation. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Yang Guo , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , M. D. Ding , P. F. Chen

Solar eruptions are the most powerful drivers of space weather. To understand their cause and nature, it is crucial to know how the coronal magnetic field evolves before eruption. Here we study the formation process of a relatively…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Wen He , Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Aiying Duan , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

We clarify a relationship of the dynamics of a solar flare and a growing Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) by investigating the dynamics of magnetic fields during the X2.2-class flare taking place in the solar active region 11158 on 2011 February…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Inoue , K. Hayashi , T. Magara , G. S. Choe , Y. D. Park

We present a radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulation of the formation of an Active Region on the solar surface. The simulation models the rise of a buoyant magnetic flux bundle from a depth of 7.5 Mm in the convection zone up into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. C. M. Cheung , M. Rempel , A. M. Title , M. Schüssler

Recent Sunrise/IMaX observations have revealed the existence of supersonic magnetic flows. Our aim is to determine the origin of such flows by using realistic MHD simulations. We simulate cancellation and emergence of magnetic flux through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Danilovic , R. H. Cameron , S. K. Solanki