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The perturbation of a magnetostatic field by a toroid made of a homogeneous anisotropic magnetic material was formulated using the solutions of the Laplace equation in the toroidal coordinate system. That was straightforward in the region…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Hamad M. Alkhoori , Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Nikolaos L. Tsitsas

In this paper, we present a systematic study of the force-free field equation for simple axisymmetric configurations in spherical geometry and apply it to the solar active regions. The condition of separability of solutions in the radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 A. Prasad , A. Mangalam , B. Ravindra

The paper deals with the static spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in $f(R)$-modified gravity theory with anisotropic matter field and for some particular choices for the shape functions. The present work may be considered as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Bikram Ghosh , Saugata Mitra , Subenoy Chakraborty

In the absence of an active dynamo, purely poloidal magnetic field configurations are unstable to large-scale dynamical perturbations, and decay via reconnection on an Alfvenic timescale. Nevertheless, a number of classes of dynamo-free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick , Ramesh Narayan

This paper studies the problem of finding a three-dimensional solenoidal vector field such that both the vector field and its curl are tangential to a given family of toroidal surfaces. We show that this question can be translated into the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Naoki Sato , Michio Yamada

A self-consistent mathematical description of the magnetic field of fluted sunspot penumbrae is presented. This description is based on an expansion of the nonlinear force-free magnetohydrostatic equations written in cylindrical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Neukirch , P. C. H. Martens

The non-linear second order Born-Infeld equation is reduced to a simpler first order complex equation, which can be trivially solved for the coordinates as functions of the field. Each solution is determined by the choice of a holomorphic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-16 Rafael Ferraro

A recent research presented a solution for a Schwarzschild black hole with a force-free magnetic field showing how the canonical form of background metric changes, Found. Phys. 52 (2022) 4, 93. Therefore, it is logical that this research…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Haidar Sheikhahmadi

Based on a second-order approximation of nonlinear force-free magnetic field solutions in terms of uniformly twisted field lines derived in Paper I, we develop here a numeric code that is capable to forward-fit such analytical solutions to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Markus J. Aschwanden , Anna Malanushenko

Understanding the properties of the internal magnetic field of neutron stars remains a theoretical challenge. Over the last years, twisted-torus geometries have been considered both in Newtonian and general-relativistic equilibrium models,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-20 Riccardo Ciolfi , Luciano Rezzolla

We investigate the stability of test-particle equilibrium orbits in axisymmetric, but otherwise arbitrary, gravitational and electromagnetic fields. We extend previous studies of this problem to include a toroidal magnetic field. We find…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Gopakumar Mohandas , Tobias Heinemann , Martin E. Pessah

Non-symmetric vacuum magnetic fields with closed magnetic field lines are of interest in the construction of stellarator equilibria. Beyond the result of D.Lortz (ZAMP \textbf{21}, 196 (1970)), few results are available. This work presents…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Harold Weitzner , Wrick Sengupta

It is shown that conformal symmetry exists in force-free electrodynamics (FFE) in Minkowski spacetime, a foundational framework for describing magnetospheres around astronomical objects. In force-free magnetospheres, charges are constrained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Huiquan Li , Jianyong Wang

We study non-resonant circles for strong magnetic fields on a closed, connected, oriented surface and show how these can be used to prove the existence of trapping regions and of periodic magnetic geodesics with prescribed low speed. As a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-15 L. Asselle , G. Benedetti

A scalar field method to obtain transverse solutions of the vector Laplace and Helmholtz equations in spherical coordinates for boundary-value problems with azimuthal symmetry is described. Neither scalar nor vector potentials are used.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ernesto A. Matute

In a recent paper we have established the form of the metric-torsional conformal gravitational field equations, and in the present paper we study their vacuum configurations; we will consider a specific situation that will enable us to look…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-11 Luca Fabbri

Force-free magnetospheres are of particular interest due to their role in energy extraction from Kerr black holes via the Blandford-Znajek process. Recently, a class of exact analytic solutions has been found with null currents [1,2]. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 Xun Wang

We consider a free boundary problem for the incompressible ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations that describes the motion of the plasma in vacuum. The magnetic field is tangent and the total pressure vanishes along the plasma-vacuum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Xumin Gu , Yanjin Wang

We investigate the general plasma-vacuum interface problems for the ideal incompressible MHD equations with or without surface tension and prove their nonlinear local well-posedness in standard Sobolev spaces under either non-zero surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Sicheng Liu , Zhouping Xin

The coronal magnetic field is an important quantity because the magnetic field dominates the structure of the solar corona. Unfortunately direct measurements of coronal magnetic fields are usually not available. The photospheric magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann