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Comprehending the manner in which magnetic fields affect propagating waves is a first step toward constructing accurate helioseismic models of active region sub-surface structure and dynamics. Here, we present a numerical method to compute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shravan M. Hanasoge

Solar active regions are driven dissipative dynamical systems. The turbulent convection zone forces new magnetic flux tubes to rise above the photosphere and shuffles the magnetic fields which are already above the photosphere. The driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Loukas Vlahos

We study five sequential solar flares (SOL2015-08-07) occurring in Active Region 12396 observed with the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at the BBSO, complemented by IRIS and SDO observations. The main flaring region is an arch filament system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-19 Yingna Su , Rui Liu , Shangwei Li , Wenda Cao , Kwangsu Ahn , Haisheng Ji

The dynamics of magnetic fields in the Sun's active regions plays a key role in triggering solar eruptions. Studies have shown that changes in the photosphere's magnetic field can destabilize large-scale structure of the corona, leading to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Partha Chowdhury , Belur Ravindra , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari

Coronal jets are the captivating eruptions which are often found in the solar atmosphere, and primarily formed due to magnetic reconnection. Despite their short-lived nature and lower energy compared to many other eruptive events, e.g.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Sushree S Nayak , Samrat Sen , Arpit Kumar Shrivastav , R. Bhattacharyya , P. S. Athiray

We report a detailed event analysis on the M6.6-class flare in the active region (AR) NOAA 11158 on 2011 February 13. AR 11158, which consisted of two major emerging bipoles, showed prominent activities including one X- and several M-class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Shin Toriumi , Yusuke Iida , Yumi Bamba , Kanya Kusano , Shinsuke Imada , Satoshi Inoue

We investigate the generation mechanisms of MHD Poynting flux in the magnetised solar photosphere. Using radiative MHD modelling of the solar photosphere with initial magnetic configurations that differ in their field strength and geometry,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Shelyag , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

We have performed a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation to study the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from -20,000 km of the solar convection zone to the corona through the photosphere and the chromosphere. The middle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Toriumi , T. Yokoyama

We explore the processes of repetitive build-up and explosive release of magnetic energy together with the formation of magnetic flux ropes that eventually resulted into three homologous eruptive flares of successively increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Suraj Sahu , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad , Kyung-Suk Cho

Time-dependent three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation modules are implemented at the Joint Science Operation Center (JSOC) of Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The modules regularly produce three-dimensional data of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-22 Keiji Hayashi , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Monica G. Bobra , Xudong D. Sun , Aimee A. Norton

Solar transients and eruptive phenomena which are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere, can shed new light to the understanding of the outstanding problems like coronal heating and the solar wind acceleration. Observations in the entire…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-05 Abhishek K. Srivastava , V. M. Nakariakov , B. N. Dwivedi , Pankaj Kumar

The dynamical coupling between the solar chromospheric plasma and magnetic field is investigated by numerically solving a fully self-consistent, two-dimensional initial-value problem for the nonlinear collisional MHD equations including…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 L. M. Alekseeva , S. P. Kshevetskii

We conduct a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of the parametric decay instability of Alfv\'en waves and resultant compressible MHD turbulence, which is likely to develop in the solar wind acceleration region. Because…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Munehito Shoda , Takaaki Yokoyama

Recent observations have shown that the photometric and dynamic properties of granulation and of small-scale magnetic features depend on the amount of magnetic flux of the region they are embedded in. We analyze results from numerical Hydro…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Serena Criscuoli

This work is a continuation of Paper I [Sharykin et al., 2018] devoted to analysis of nonthermal electron dynamics and plasma heating in the confined M1.2 class solar flare SOL2015-03-15T22:43 revealing energy release in the highly sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 I. N. Sharykin , I. V. Zimovets , I. I. Myshyakov

Investigation of propagation, conversion, and scattering of MHD waves in the Sun is very important for understanding the mechanisms of observed oscillations and waves in sunspots and active regions. We have developed 3D linear MHD numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. V. Parchevsky , A. G. Kosovichev

Over the last decades, realistic 3D radiative-MHD simulations have become the dominant theoretical tool for understanding the complex interactions between the plasma and the magnetic field on the Sun. Most of such simulations are based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 E. Khomenko , N. Vitas , M. Collados , A. de Vicente

A possible key element for large-scale energy release in the solar corona is an MHD kink instability in a single twisted magnetic flux tube. An initial helical current sheet fragments in a turbulent way into smaller-scale sheets, similarly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 G. Cozzo , J. Reid , P. Pagano , F. Reale , A. W. Hood

Aims. The goal is to employ a 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model including spectral synthesis to model the corona in an observed solar active region. This will allow us to judge the merits of the coronal heating mechanism built into the 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Ph. -A. Bourdin , S. Bingert , H. Peter

Context. Some of the most dynamic active regions are associated with complex photospheric magnetic configurations such as quadrupolar regions, and especially ones with a $\delta$-spot configuration and a strong Polarity Inversion Line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 P. Syntelis , E. J. Lee , C. W. Fairbairn , V. Archontis , A. W. Hood