English
Related papers

Related papers: Polarity inversion line helicities and solar erupt…

200 papers

A major unexplained feature of the solar atmosphere is the accumulation of magnetic shear, in the form of filament channels, at photospheric polarity inversion lines (PILs). In addition to free energy, this shear also represents magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Kalman J. Knizhnik , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore

Magnetic helicity is an important concept in solar physics, with a number of theoretical statements pointing out the important role of magnetic helicity in solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Here we construct a sample of 47…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 Quan Wang , Mei Zhang , Shangbin Yang , Xiao Yang , Xiaoshuai Zhu

We study flare processes in the solar atmosphere using observational data for a M1-class flare of June 12, 2014, obtained by New Solar Telescope (NST/BBSO) and Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI/SDO). The main goal is to understand triggers…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 I. N. Sharykin , V. M. Sadykov , A. G. Kosovichev , S. Vargas-Dominguez , I. V. Zimovets

Using the 135-second cadence of the photospheric vector data provided by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager telescope on board the Solar Dynamic Observatory, we examined the time-evolution of magnetic helicity fluxes across the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Yi Bi , Ying D Liu , Yanxiao Liu , Jiayan Yang , Zhe Xu , Kaifan JI

We compute magnetic helicity and energy spectra from about 2485 patches of about 100 megameters (Mm) side length on the solar surface using data from Hinode during 2006--2017. An extensive database is assembled where we list magnetic energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Sanjay Gosain , Axel Brandenburg

Using a recently proposed nonlinear force-free method designed for single vector magnetograms of solar active regions we calculate the instantaneous free magnetic energy and relative magnetic helicity budgets in 162 vector magnetograms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Kostas Tziotziou , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Nour-Eddine Raouafi

Continuous observations were obtained of active region 10953 with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board the \emph{Hinode} satellite during 2007 April 28 to May 9. A prominence was located over the polarity inversion line (PIL) in the…

Using the polar vector magnetic field data observed by Hinode from 2012 to 2021, we study the long-term variations of the magnetic flux, the flux proportion of different polarities, and the magnetic inclination with respect to the local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Shuhong Yang , Chunlan Jin , Qiao Song , Yuzong Zhang , Yin Li , Yijun Hou , Ting Li , Guiping Zhou , Yuanyong Deng , Jingxiu Wang

Flares and eruptions from solar active regions are associated with atmospheric electrical currents accompanying distortions of the coronal field away from a lowest-energy potential state. In order to better understand the origin of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 C. J. Schrijver

Observations of magnetic helicity transportation through the solar photosphere reflect the interaction of turbulent plasma movements and magnetic fields in the solar dynamo process. In this chapter, we have reviewed the research process of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Hongqi Zhang , Shangbin Yang , Haiqing Xu , Xiao Yang , Jie Chen , Jihong Liu

Active Regions (ARs) that exhibit compact Polarity Inversion Lines (PILs) are known to be very flare-productive. However, the physical mechanisms behind this statistical inference have not been demonstrated conclusively. We show that such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Georgios Chintzoglou , Jie Zhang , Mark C. M. Cheung , Maria Kazachenko

The extreme space weather conditions resulting from high energetic events likes solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) demand for reliable space weather forecasting. The magnetic flux tubes while rising through the convection zone…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 B Lekshmi , Kiran Jain , Rudolf W. Komm , Dibyendu Nandy

We analyze the complete chain of effects caused by a solar eruptive event in order to better understand the dynamic evolution of magnetic-field related quantities in interplanetary space, in particular that of magnetic flux and helicity. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 J. K. Thalmann , M. Dumbovic , K. Dissauer , T. Podladchikova , G. Chikunova , M. Temmer , E. Dickson , A. M. Veronig

Solar active regions and the processes that occur in them have been extensively studied and analyzed and many types of models and characterizations have been proposed for the occurrence of different eruptive events that take place in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 N. Granados Hernández , S. Vargas Domínguez

Using time-sequence vector magnetic field and coronal observations from \textit{Solar Dynamics Observatory}, we report the observations of the magnetic field evolution and coronal activity in four emerging active regions (ARs). The ARs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 P. Vemareddy

The emergence of dipolar magnetic features on the solar surface is an idealization. Most of the magnetic flux emergence occurs in complex multipolar regions. Here, we show that the surface pattern of magnetic structures alone can reveal the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Axel Brandenburg

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections, the primary space weather disturbances affecting the entire heliosphere and near-Earth environment, mainly emanate from sunspot regions harbouring high degrees of magnetic twist. However, it is not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-01 Shin Toriumi , Hideyuki Hotta , Kanya Kusano

Shearing motion and magnetic flux cancellation around the polarity inversion line (PIL) play significant roles in the build-up of free magnetic energy and magnetic flux rope (MFR) in source region of major solar flares. Here we investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Yijun Hou , Ting Li , Shuhong Yang , Leping Li , Yingjie Cai , Xiaofeng Liu , Shuo Yang , Yilin Guo , Shihao Rao , Chuan Li , Guiping Zhou

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

Solar flares may be the best-known examples of the explosive conversion of magnetic energy into bulk motion, plasma heating, and particle acceleration via magnetic reconnection. The energy source for all flares is the highly sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 Joel T. Dahlin , Spiro K. Antiochos , Jiong Qiu , C. Richard DeVore