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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are powerful drivers of space weather, with magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) widely regarded as their primary precursors. However, the variation in reconnection flux during the evolution of MFR during CME eruptions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Samriddhi Sankar Maity , Piyali Chatterjee , Ranadeep Sarkar , Ijas S. Mytheen

Magnetic flux ropes (FRs) are twisted structures appearing on the sun, predominantly in the magnetically concentrated regions. These structures appear as coronal features known as filaments or prominences in H$\alpha$ observations, and as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 P. Vemareddy

A critical aspect of solar activity is the coupling between eruptions and the surrounding coronal magnetic field, which determines the trajectory and morphology of the eruptive event. Pseudostreamers (PSs) are coronal magnetic structures…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 A. Sahade , M. Cécere , M. V. Sieyra , G. Krause , H. Cremades , A. Costa

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

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are one kind of fundamental structures in the solar physics, and involved in various eruption phenomena. Twist, characterizing how the magnetic field lines wind around a main axis, is an intrinsic property of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Yuming Wang , Bin Zhuang , Qiang Hu , Rui Liu , Chenglong Shen , Yutian Chi

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) constitute the core structure of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), but hot debates remain on whether the MFR forms before or during solar eruptions. Furthermore, how flare reconnection shapes the erupting MFR is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-20 Chaowei Jiang , Jun Chen , Aiying Duan , Xinkai Bian , Xinyi Wang , Jiaying Li , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng

We present an analysis of the formation of atmospheric flux ropes in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) solar flux emergence simulation. The simulation domain ranges from the top of the solar interior to the low corona. A twisted magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 David MacTaggart , Andrew Haynes

Magnetic flux ropes are characterized by coherently twisted magnetic field lines, which are ubiquitous in magnetized plasmas. As the core structure of various eruptive phenomena in the solar atmosphere, flux ropes hold the key to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-10 Rui Liu

Filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections are physical phenomena related to magnetic flux ropes carrying electric current. A magnetic flux rope is a key structure for solar eruptions, and when it carries a southward magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Brigitte Schmieder , Jinhan Guo , Stefaan Poedts

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

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are fundamental magnetic structures in solar eruptions, whose formation is generally attributed to (1) the emergence of subsurface flux tubes or (2) flux cancellation driven by photospheric horizontal flows and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Can Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama , Feng Chen , Chen Xing , Mingde Ding , Zekun Lu

Recent observations of the solar corona with the LASCO coronagraph on board of the SOHO spacecraft have revealed the occurrence of triple helmet streamers even during solar minimum, which occasionally go unstable and give rise to large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Wiegelmann , K. Schindler , T. Neukirch

It is well accepted that a magnetic flux rope (MFR) is a critical component of many coronal mass ejections (CMEs), yet how it evolves toward eruption remains unclear. Here we investigate the continuous evolution of a pre-existing MFR, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Wensi Wang , Chunming Zhu , Jiong Qiu , Rui Liu , Kai E. Yang , Qiang Hu

We investigate the magnetic reconnection in an MHD simulation of a coronal magnetic flux rope (MFR) confined by a helmet streamer, where a prominence-cavity system forms. This system includes a hot cavity surrounding a prominence with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Tie Liu , Yingna Su

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

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs), sets of coherently twisted magnetic field lines, are believed as core structures of various solar eruptions. Their evolution plays an important role to understand the physical mechanisms of solar eruptions, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Ruisheng Zheng , Yihan Liu , Liang Zhang , Yang Liu , Changhui Rao , Qing Lin , Zhimao Du , Libo Zhong , Huadong Chen , Yao Chen

Observations have shown a clear association of filament/prominence eruptions with the emergence of magnetic flux in or near filament channels. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been employed to systematically study the conditions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 T. Török , M. G. Linton , J. E. Leake , Z. Mikić , R. Lionello , V. S. Titov , C. Downs

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

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) rising buoyantly through the Sun's convection zone are thought to be subject to viscous forces preventing them from rising coherently. Numerous studies have suggested that MFRs require a minimum twist in order to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Kalman J. Knizhnik , James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Sally Dacie

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are usually considered to be the magnetic structure that dominates the transport of helicity from the Sun into the heliosphere. They entrain a confined plasma within a helically organized magnetic structure and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Marta Florido-Llinas , Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla , Mark G. Linton
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