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Solar flares and plasma eruptions are sudden releases of magnetic energy stored in the plasma atmosphere. To understand the physical mechanisms governing their occurrences, three-dimensional magnetic fields from the photosphere up to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Takafumi Kaneko , Sung-Hong Park , Kanya Kusano

We present the application of the data-driven branch of the MURaM code to the extensively studied flare-productive active region 11158. We refine the hybrid model strategy, which was described in the earlier paper of this series, to model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Feng Chen

Solar flare simulations are commonly initialised using non-linear force free field (NLFF) extrapolations derived from photospheric vector magnetograms. However, the force free assumption neglects plasma forces and may limit the available…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 W. Bate , M. Gordovskyy , A. Prasad , A. S. Brun , A. Strugarek , M. V. Sieyra , P. Browning , S. Inoue , K. Matsumoto , A. Roddanavar

The structure of the coronal magnetic field prior to eruptive processes and the conditions for the onset of eruption are important issues that can be addressed through studying the magnetohydrodynamic stability and evolution of nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 B. Kliem , Y. N. Su , A. A. van Ballegooijen , E. E. DeLuca

We perform a zero-$\beta$ magnetohydrodynamic simulation for the C7.7 class flare initiated at 01:18 UT on 2011 June 21 using the Message Passing Interface Adaptive Mesh Refinement Versatile Advection Code (MPI-AMRVAC). The initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yang Guo , Ze Zhong , M. D. Ding , P. F. Chen , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

In order to understand the flare trigger mechanism, we conducted three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations using a coronal magnetic field model derived from data observed by the Hinode satellite. Several types of magnetic bipoles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-23 Johan Muhamad , Kanya Kusano , Satoshi Inoue , Daikou Shiota

We present a method for performing data-driven simulations of solar active region formation and evolution. The approach is based on magnetofriction, which evolves the induction equation assuming the plasma velocity is proportional to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mark C. M. Cheung , Marc L. DeRosa

Self-organization in continuous systems is associated with dissipative processes. In particular, for magnetized plasmas, it is known as magnetic relaxation, where the magnetic energy is converted into heat and kinetic energy of flow through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Satyam Agarwal , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Shangbin Yang

Current magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the initiation of solar eruptions are still commonly carried out with idealized magnetic field models, whereas the realistic coronal field prior to eruptions can possibly be reconstructed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , S. T. Wu , Qiang Hu

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

The separation of a filament and sigmoid is observed during an X1.4 flare on July 12, 2012 in solar active region 11520, but the corresponding magnetic field change is not clear. We construct a data-constrained magnetohydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Tie Liu , Yuhong Fan , Yingna Su , Yang Guo , Ya Wang , Haisheng Ji

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are associated with rapid changes in field connectivity and powered by the partial dissipation of electrical currents in the solar atmosphere. A critical unanswered question is whether the currents…

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

Magnetohydrodynamics simulation of active region NOAA 11515 is performed to examine the initiation of the M5.6 flaring event that starts around 10:43 UT on 2012 July 2. The simulation is conducted using an extrapolated non-force-free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 Sanjay Kumar , Avijeet Prasad , Ranadeep Sarkar , Ramit Bhattacharyya

We investigated the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic structures and dynamics responsible for particle acceleration in an X7.1-class flare that occurred on October 1, 2024, in NOAA active region 13842. We combined stereoscopic hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Keitarou Matsumoto , Satoshi Inoue , Meiqi Wang , Säm Krucker , Satoshi Masuda , Muriel Zoë Stiefel , Jeongwoo Lee , Bin Chen , Haimin Wang

During eruptive flares, vector magnetograms show increasing horizontal magnetic field and downward Lorentz force in the Sun's photosphere around the polarity-inversion line. Such behavior has often been associated with the implosion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Krzysztof Barczynski , Guillaume Aulanier , Sophie Masson , Michael S. Wheatland

We investigate the effect of data-driving on flux rope eruptivity in magnetic field simulations by analysing fully data-driven modelling results of active region (AR) 12473 and AR11176, as well as preforming relaxation runs for AR12473…

It is well known that magnetic fields dominate the dynamics in the solar corona, and new generation of numerical modelling of the evolution of coronal magnetic fields, as featured with boundary conditions driven directly by observation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-16 Chaowei Jiang , Xinkai Bian , Tingting Sun , Xueshang Feng

The chapter "Solar Active Region Electric Currents Before and During Eruptive Flares" is a discussion on electric currents in the pre-eruption state and in the course of eruptions of solar magnetic structures, using information from solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Brigitte Schmieder , Guillaume Aulanier

Numerical MHD simulations of 3D reconnection events in the solar corona have improved enormously over the last few years, not only in resolution, but also in their complexity, enabling more and more realistic modeling. Various ways to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-07 G. Baumann , K. Galsgaard , Å. Nordlund