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We intend to investigate the underlying physics for the coronal rain phenomenon in a representative bipolar magnetic field, including the formation and the dynamics of coronal rain blobs. With the MPI-AMRVAC code, we performed three…

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This work analyzes the Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulations of a flaring solar active region as a testbed while idealizing the coronal Alfv\'en speed to be of two orders of magnitude lesser.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Kamlesh Bora , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Avijeet Prasad , Bhuwan Joshi , Qiang Hu

Using numerical simulations, we study the formation and dynamics of post-flare loops in a local region of the solar atmosphere. The MHD equations rule the post-flare structures' dynamic evolution, including space-dependent magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-15 Mauricio González-Servín , J. J. González-Avilés

The periodic coronal rain and in-phase radiative intensity pulsations have been observed in multiple wavelengths in recent years. However, due to the lack of three-dimensional coronal magnetic fields and thermodynamic data in observations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Zekun Lu , Feng Chen , J. H. Guo , M. D. Ding , Can Wang , Haocheng Yu , Y. W. Ni , Chun Xia

Erupting flux ropes play crucial role in powering a wide range of solar transients, including flares, jets, and coronal mass ejections. These events are driven by the release of stored magnetic energy, facilitated by the shear in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Samrat Sen , Sushree S Nayak , Patrick Antolin

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

Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the emergence of twisted magnetic flux tubes from the solar interior into the corona are discussed to illustrate how twisted and sheared coronal magnetic structures (with free magnetic energy),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-29 Yuhong Fan

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) play an important role in high-energetic events like solar flares and coronal mass ejections in the solar atmosphere. Importantly, solar observations suggest an association of some flaring events with quadrupolar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-13 Sanjay Kumar , Avijeet Prasad , Sushree S. Nayak , Satyam Agarwal , R. Bhattacharyya

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

Solar flares are explosive events in the solar corona, representing fast conversion of magnetic energy into thermal and kinetic energy, and hence radiation, due to magnetic reconnection. Modelling is essential for understanding and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , R. F. Pinto

Eruptive flares are sudden releases of magnetic energy that involve many phenomena, several of which can be explained by the standard 2D flare model and its realizations in three-dimensions. We analyze a three-dimensional…

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

There is a heated debate regarding the specific roles played by ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instability and magnetic reconnection in the causes of solar eruptions. In the context with a pre-existing magnetic flux rope (MFR) before an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Qingjun Liu , Chaowei Jiang , Xinkai Bian , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Solar eruptions arise from instabilities or loss of equilibria in the solar atmosphere, but routinely inferring the precise magnetic and plasma properties that lead to eruptions is not currently practical using synoptic solar observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Lucas A. Tarr , N. Dylan Kee , James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Peter W. Schuck

During eruptive solar flares and coronal mass ejections, a non-pot{\-}ential magnetic arcade with much excess magnetic energy goes unstable and reconnects. It produces a twisted erupting flux rope and leaves behind a sheared arcade of hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Eric Priest , Dana Longcope , Miho Janvier

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

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are thought to be the central structure of solar eruptions, and their ideal MHD instabilities can trigger the eruption. Here we performed a study of all the MFR configurations that lead to major solar flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Wen He , Xueshang Feng , Peng Zou , Jun Cui

We present a new simulation setup using the MURaM radiative Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code that allows to study the formation of collisional polarity inversion lines (cPILs) in the photosphere and the coronal response including flares. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Matthias Rempel , Georgios Chintzoglou , Mark C. M. Cheung , Yuhong Fan , Lucia Kleint

In recent years, space weather research has focused on developing modelling techniques to predict the arrival time and properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at the Earth. The aim of this paper is to propose a new modelling technique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-22 P. Pagano , D. H. Mackay , A. R. Yeates

Solar flares are one of the most energetic events in the solar atmosphere. It is widely accepted that flares are powered by magnetic reconnection in the corona. An eruptive flare is usually accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, both of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Y. Li , X. Sun , M. D. Ding , J. Qiu , E. R. Priest