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Flux emergence is ubiquitous in the Sun's lower atmosphere, where the emerging magnetic flux can reconnect with the pre-existing magnetic field. We investigate plasmoid formation and the resulting multi-thermal emissions during…

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Microflares are small activities in solar low atmosphere, some are in the low corona, and others in the chromosphere. Observations show that some of the microflares are triggered by magnetic reconnection between emerging flux and a…

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Magnetic reconnection in strongly magnetized regions around the temperature minimum region of the low solar atmosphere is studied by employing MHD-based simulations of a partially ionized plasma within a reactive 2.5D multi-fluid model. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

The mass cycle of solar prominences or filaments is still not completely understood. Researchers agree that these dense structures form by coronal in-situ condensations and plasma siphoning from the underlying chromosphere. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 Dion Donné , Rony Keppens

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental mechanism in astrophysics. A common challenge in mimicking this process numerically in particular for the Sun is that the solar electrical resistivity is small compared to the diffusive effects caused…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Øystein Håvard Færder , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Mats Carlsson

The solar transition region (TR) is a narrow interface between the chromosphere and corona, where emitted radiation contains critical information pertinent to coronal heating processes. We conducted 2-dimensional radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Takuma Matsumoto

We present numerical simulations in 2.5D settings where large scale prominences form in situ out of coronal condensation in magnetic dips, in close agreement with early as well as recent reporting of `funnel prominences'. Our simulation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Rony Keppens , Chun Xia

Context. The solar atmosphere is gravitationally stratified and consists of several layers at temperatures different by orders of magnitude. Consequently, the solar atmospheric plasma changes from weakly ionized in the photosphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 F. Zhang , J. Martínez-Sykora , Q. M. Wargnier , V. H. Hansteen

Magnetic-field reconnection is believed to play a fundamental role in magnetized plasma systems throughout the Universe1, including planetary magnetospheres, magnetars and accretion disks around black holes. This letter present extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-06 Yang Su , Astrid M. Veronig , Gordon D. Holman , Brian R. Dennis , Tongjiang Wang , Manuela Temmer , Weiqun Gan

How and where are coronal loops rooted in the solar lower atmosphere? The details of the magnetic environment and its evolution at the footpoints of coronal loops are crucial to understanding the processes of mass and energy supply to the…

We develop a theoretical model that explains the formation of hot coronae around strongly magnetized neutron stars -- magnetars. The starquakes of a magnetar shear its external magnetic field, which becomes non-potential and is threaded by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei M. Beloborodov , Christopher Thompson

We investigate the effect of coronal temperature on the formation process of solar chromospheric jets using two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the region from the upper convection zone to the lower corona. We develop a new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 H. Iijima , T. Yokoyama

Solar flares are major space weather events that result from the explosive conversion of stored magnetic energy into bulk motion, plasma heating, and particle acceleration. While the standard flare model has proven highly successful in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Joel T. Dahlin , Spiro K. Antiochos , Peter F. Wyper , Jiong Qiu , C. Richard DeVore

Magnetic reconnection is the most likely mechanism responsible for the high temperature events that are observed in strongly magnetized locations around the temperature minimum in the low solar chromosphere. This work improves upon our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-26 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

Magnetic reconnection is a rapid energy release process that is believed to be responsible for flares on the Sun and stars. Nevertheless, such flare-related reconnection is mostly detected to occur in the corona, while there have been few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-21 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Ying Li , Kai Yang , Xin Cheng , Feng Chen , Cheng Fang , Wenda Cao

Twisted coronal loops should be ubiquitous in the solar corona. Twisted magnetic fields contain excess magnetic energy, which can be released during magnetic reconnection, causing solar flares. The aim of this work is to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 Mykola Gordovskyy , Philippa Browning , Eduard Kontar , Nicolas Bian

Condensation of water vapor on active cloud condensation nuclei produces micron-size water droplets. To form rain, they must grow rapidly into at least 50-100 $\mu$m droplets. Observations show that this process takes only 15-20 minutes.…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 T. Elperin , N. Kleeorin , B. Krasovitov , M. Kulmala , M. Liberman , I. Rogachevskii , S. Zilitinkevich

Plasmoid-mediated fast magnetic reconnection plays a fundamental role in driving explosive dynamics and heating, but relatively little is known about how it develops in partially ionised plasmas (PIP) of the solar chromosphere. Partial…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Giulia Murtas , Andrew Hillier , Ben Snow

We review our state of knowledge of coronal element abundance anomalies in the Sun and stars. We concentrate on the first ionization potential (FIP) effect observed in the solar corona and slow-speed wind, and in the coronae of solar-like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 J. Martin Laming

The emergence of magnetic flux from the convection zone into the corona is an important process for the dynamical evolution of the coronal magnetic field. In this paper we extend our previous numerical investigations, by looking at the…

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