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Regularities of formation of coronal holes (CH) at the rising phase of cycle 23 are investigated. The period from 01.01.1997 to 01.03.2000 (Carrington rotations (CRs) 1918-2059) is considered in detail. The evolution of the global magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Irina A. Bilenko , Kseniya S. Tavastsherna

Due to the absence of direct measurement, the magnetic field in the solar corona is usually extrapolated from the photosphere in numerical way. At the moment, the nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model dominates the physical models for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

We conduct 2.5D radiative magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the driving mechanisms of the solar spicules in coronal holes and how the different background magnetic fields affect their formation. The simulation model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jin Li , Lei Ni , Robertus Erdélyi , Jun Lin , Xiaoli Yan , Guanchong Cheng

[Abridged] Bipolar magnetic regions are formed when loops of magnetic flux emerge at the solar photosphere. Our aim is to investigate the flux emergence process in a simulation of granular convection. In particular we aim to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-09 Paul J Bushby , Vasilis Archontis

We have performed numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of two closed active regions (AR). The input magnetic field values were the coronal magnetic field computed as extrapolation coronal from observations of the photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-21 Cristiana Dumitrache

It was recently proposed that the intensity ratios of several extreme ultraviolet spectral lines from the Fe X ion can be used to measure the solar coronal magnetic field based on the magnetic-field-inducedtransition (MIT) theory. To verify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Yajie Chen , Wenxian Li , Hui Tian , Feng Chen , Xianyong Bai , Yang Yang , Zihao Yang , Xianyu Liu , Yuanyong Deng

Recently, we have developed a method useful for mapping large-scale horizontal velocity fields in the solar photosphere. The method was developed, tuned and calibrated using the synthetic data. Now, we applied the method to the series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michal Svanda , Mirek Klvana , Michal Sobotka , Vaclav Bumba

Numerical models of the solar wind and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) utilize photospheric magnetic field observations to prescribe the inner boundary conditions for the plasma solutions. These magnetic field data are available to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Nishtha Sachdeva , Zhenguang Huang , Gabor Toth , Hongfan Chen , Ward B. Manchester , Bart van der Holst

This paper is the third in a series of papers working towards the construction of a realistic, evolving, non-linear force-free coronal field model for the solar magnetic carpet. Here, we present preliminary results of 3D time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 K. A. Meyer , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen , C. E. Parnell

We present simulations modeling closed regions of the solar corona threaded by a strong magnetic field where localized photospheric vortical motions twist the coronal field lines. The linear and nonlinear dynamics are investigated in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-20 A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli , G. Einaudi

In this article, the physical processes occurring in the convective layer and the photosphere of the Sun and their connection to the formation of active regions (ARs) and the development of the corresponding magnetic field are explored.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 Aidar M. Sadykov , Sergey A. Krasotkin

Optical observations of solar corona provide key information on its magnetic geometry. The large-scale open field of the corona plays an important role in shaping the ambient solar wind and constraining the propagation dynamics of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-19 Vadim M. Uritsky , Christopher E. Rura , Cooper Downs , Shaela I. Jones , Charles Nickolos Arge , Nathalia Alzate

To understand the magnetic fields of the polar crown filaments (PCFs) at high latitudes near polar regions of the Sun, we perform magnetofrictional numerical simulations on the long-term magnetic evolution of bipolar fields with roughly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Huanxin Chen , Chun Xia , Hechao Chen

We present a new global model of the solar corona, including the low corona, the transition region and the top of chromosphere. The realistic 3D magnetic field is simulated using the data from the photospheric magnetic field measurements.…

3D picture of the coronal magnetic field remains an outstanding problem in solar physics, particularly, in active regions. Nonlinear force-free field reconstructions that employ routinely available full-disk photospheric vector magnetograms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Gregory Fleishman , Ivan Mysh'yakov , Alexey Stupishin , Maria Loukitcheva , Sergey Anfinogentov

We investigate the evolution and origin of small-scale chromospheric swirls by analyzing numerical simulations of the quiet solar atmosphere, using the radiative magnetohydrodynamic code CO$5$BOLD. We are interested in finding their…

Remote and in-situ observations strongly imply that the slow solar wind consists of plasma from the hot, closed-field corona that is released onto open magnetic field lines. The Separatrix Web (S-Web) theory for the slow wind proposes that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 A. K. Higginson , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore , P. F. Wyper , T. H. Zurbuchen

Erupting magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) play a crucial role in producing solar flares. However, the formation of erupting MFRs in complex coronal magnetic configurations and their subsequent evolution in the flaring events are not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Avijeet Prasad , Sanjay Kumar , Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Guillaume Aulanier , R. Bhattacharyya , Qiang Hu

Aims. We show how the build-up of magnetic gradients in the Sun's corona may be inferred directly from photospheric velocity data. This enables computation of magnetic connectivity measures such as the squashing factor without recourse to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. R. Yeates , G. Hornig , B. T. Welsch

The solar magnetic field is key to understanding the physical processes in the solar atmosphere. Nonlinear force-free codes have been shown to be useful in extrapolating the coronal field upward from underlying vector boundary data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-29 T. Wiegelmann , J. K. Thalmann , C. J. Schrijver , M. L. Derosa , T. R. Metcalf