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Context: Solar eruptions are crucial for space weather studies. Understanding the mechanisms influencing their evolution is key to improving predictions of their geoeffectiveness. Helmet streamers (HSs) are persistent structures in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 M. Cécere , P. F. Wyper , G. Krause , A. Sahade , O. E. K. Rice

Low-altitude twisted magnetic fields may be relevant to atmospheric heating in the quiet Sun, but the exact role, topology, and formation of these twisted fields remains to be studied. We investigate the formation and evolution of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Rebecca Robinson , Guillaume Aulanier , Mats Carlsson

The generation of outflows from the Sun known as solar winds is coupled with the heating of the solar corona, and both processes are operated in magnetic structures formed on the Sun. To study the magnetic configuration responsible for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Hwanhee Lee , Tetsuya Magara

We apply the magneto-frictional approach to investigate which quantity or quantities can best predict the loss of equilibrium of a translationally-invariant magnetic flux rope. The flux rope is produced self-consistently by flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 Oliver E. K. Rice , Anthony R. Yeates

We present magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the evolution from quasi-equilibrium to onset of eruption of a twisted, prominence-forming coronal magnetic flux rope underlying a corona streamer. The flux rope is built up by an imposed flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-21 Yuhong Fan , Tie Liu

Solar flares are sudden and violent releases of magnetic energy in the solar atmosphere that can be divided in eruptive flares, when plasma is ejected from the solar atmosphere, resulting in a coronal mass ejection (CME), and confined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 F. P. Zuccarello , R. Chandra , B. Schmieder , G. Aulanier , R. Joshi

We investigated the initiation and the evolution of an X7.1-class solar flare observed in solar active region NOAA 13842 on October 1, 2024, based on a data-constrained magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation. The nonlinear force-free field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Keitarou Matsumoto , Satoshi Inoue , Nian Liu , Keiji Hayashi , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

We simulate the buoyant rise of a magnetic flux rope from the solar convection zone into the corona to better understand the energetic coupling of the solar interior to the corona. The magnetohydrodynamic model addresses the physics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

Coronal rain consists of cool plasma condensations formed in coronal loops as a result of thermal instability. The standard models of coronal rain formation assume that the heating is quasi-steady and localised at the coronal loop…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 P. Kohutova , E. Verwichte , C. Froment

Since the first discovery of an extrasolar planetary system more than a decade ago, hundreds more have been discovered. Surprisingly, many of these systems harbor Jupiter-class gas giants located close to the central star, at distances of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , V. L. Kashyap , S. H. Saar , I. V. Sokolov , W. B. Manchester , K. C. Hansen , T. I. Gombosi

Plasma loops are the elementary structures of solar flaring active regions which dominate the whole processes of flaring eruptions. The standard flare models are well explained the evolution and eruption after magnetic reconnection around…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Baolin Tan

For the first time, we demonstrate how an MHD avalanche might occur in a multi-threaded coronal loop. Considering 23 non-potential magnetic threads within a loop, we use 3D MHD simulations to show that only one thread needs to be unstable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 A. W. Hood , P. J. Cargill , P. K. Browning , K. V. Tam

An analytical MHD model of coronal loops with compressible flows and including heating is compared to observational data. The model is constructed via a systematic nonlinear separation of the variables method used to calculate several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. J. D. Petrie , C. Gontikakis , H. Dara , K. Tsinganos , M. J. Aschwanden

We present a method of conducting data-driven simulations of solar active regions and flux emergence with the MURaM radiative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code. The horizontal electric field derived from the full velocity and magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Feng Chen , Mark C. M. Cheung , Matthias Rempel , Georgios Chintzoglou

Coronal implosions - the convergence motion of plasmas and entrained magnetic field in the corona due to a reduction in magnetic pressure - can help to locate and track sites of magnetic energy release or redistribution during solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-06 Juntao Wang , P. J. A. Simoes , L. Fletcher , J. K. Thalmann , H. S. Hudson , I. G. Hannah

We aim to better characterize the conditions of the solar corona, especially with respect to the occurrence of confined and eruptive flares. In this work, we model the coronal evolution around 231 large flares observed during solar cycle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Julia K. Thalmann , Manu Gupta , Astrid M. Veronig , Yang Liu

The magnetic flux rope (MFR) is believed to be the underlying magnetic structure of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). However, it remains unclear how an MFR evolves into and forms the multi-component structure of a CME. In this paper, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , Y. Guo , J. Zhang , A. Vourlidas , Y. D. Liu , O. Olmedo , J. Q. Sun , C. Li

In the near future, Parker Solar Probe will put theories about the dynamics and nature of the transition between the solar corona and the solar wind to stringent tests. The most popular mechanism aimed to explain the dynamics of the nascent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 N. Magyar , V. M. Nakariakov

One candidate-model for heating the solar corona is magnetic reconnection that embodies Ohmic dissipation of current sheets. When numerous small-scaled magnetic reconnection occur, then it is possible to heat the corona. Due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Charalambos Kanella , Boris V. Gudiksen

Context: Many previous studies have shown that the magnetic precursor of a coronal mass ejection (CME) takes the form of a magnetic flux rope, and a subset of them have become known as `hot flux ropes' due to their emission signatures in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Alexander W James , Lucie M Green , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Gherardo Valori