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Magnetoseismology, a technique of magnetic field diagnostics based on observations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves, has been widely used to estimate the field strengths of oscillating structures in the solar corona. However, previously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-05 Zihao Yang , Hui Tian , Steven Tomczyk , Richard Morton , Xianyong Bai , Tanmoy Samanta , Yajie Chen

The nature and detailed properties of the heating of the million-degree solar corona are important issues that are still largely unresolved. Nanoflare heating might be dominant in active regions and quiet Sun, although direct signatures of…

In this review many of the well known tools for the analysis of Complex systems are used in order to study the global coupling of the turbulent convection zone with the solar atmosphere where the magnetic energy is dissipated explosively.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Loukas Vlahos , Heinz Isliker

Solar flares and plasma eruptions are sudden releases of magnetic energy stored in the plasma atmosphere. To understand the physical mechanisms governing their occurrences, three-dimensional magnetic fields from the photosphere up to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Takafumi Kaneko , Sung-Hong Park , Kanya Kusano

Oscillations are abundant in the solar corona. Coronal loop oscillations are typically studied using highly idealised models of magnetic flux tubes. In order to improve our understanding of coronal oscillations, it is necessary to consider…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 P. Kohutova , P. Antolin , M. Szydlarski , M. Carlsson

Determining the mechanisms responsible for the heating of the coronal plasma and maintaining and accelerating the solar wind are long standing goals in solar physics. There is a clear need to constrain the energy, mass and momentum flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-21 R. J. Morton , E. Scullion , D. S. Bloomfield , J. A. McLaughlin , S. Regnier , S. W. McIntosh , S. Tomczyk , P. Young

Time-dependent three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation modules are implemented at the Joint Science Operation Center (JSOC) of Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The modules regularly produce three-dimensional data of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-22 Keiji Hayashi , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Monica G. Bobra , Xudong D. Sun , Aimee A. Norton

Although it is widely accepted that photospheric motions provide the energy source and that the magnetic field must play a key role in the process, the detailed mechanisms responsible for heating the Sun's corona and accelerating the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Roberto Lionello , Marco Velli , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Zoran Mikić

Numerical MHD simulations of 3D reconnection events in the solar corona have improved enormously over the last few years, not only in resolution, but also in their complexity, enabling more and more realistic modeling. Various ways to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-07 G. Baumann , K. Galsgaard , Å. Nordlund

The physical properties responsible for the formation and evolution of the corona and heliosphere are still not completely understood. 3D MHD global modeling is a powerful tool to investigate all the possible candidate processes. To fully…

We measure the effects of non-isotropic thermal conduction on generation of solar chromospheric jets through numerical simulations carried out with the use of one fluid MHD code MAGNUS. Following the work of Srivastava et al. (2018), we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Anamaría Navarro , F. D. Lora-Clavijo K. Murawski , Stefaan Poedts

The role of carbon monoxide as a cooling agent for the thermal structure of the mid-photospheric to low-chromospheric layers of the solar atmosphere in internetwork regions is investigated. The treatment of radiative cooling via spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Wedemeyer-Böhm , M. Steffen

In this paper we seek to understand the timescale on which the photospheric motions on the Sun braid coronal magnetic field lines. This is a crucial ingredient for determining the viability of the braiding mechanism for explaining the high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Simon Candelaresi , David Pontin , Anthony Yeates , Paul Bushby , Gunnar Hornig

Static distributions of temperature and wind velocity at the transition region are calculated within the framework of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) of completely ionized hydrogen plasma. The numerical solution of the derived equations gives…

We study the magnetic field and current structure associated with a coronal loop. Through this we investigate to what extent the assumptions of a force-free magnetic field break down and where they might be justified. We analyse a 3D MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-05 Jörn Warnecke , Feng Chen , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

We present a comprehensive radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the quiet Sun and large solar active regions. The 197 Mm wide simulation domain spans from 18 (10) Mm beneath the photosphere to 113 Mm in the solar corona. Radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

We present the first results of three-dimensional (3D) numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the onset of magnetic reconnection via the tearing instability in dynamically thinning current sheets in the solar corona. In all our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 James Leake , Lars Daldorff , James Klimchuk

This article discusses the magnetic connectivity between the Sun and the Earth, which is essential for understanding solar wind and space weather events. Due to limited direct observations, reliable simulations are necessary. The most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Silke Kennis , Barbara Perri , Stefaan Poedts

It is well known that magnetic fields dominate the dynamics in the solar corona, and new generation of numerical modelling of the evolution of coronal magnetic fields, as featured with boundary conditions driven directly by observation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-16 Chaowei Jiang , Xinkai Bian , Tingting Sun , Xueshang Feng

We present the application of the data-driven branch of the MURaM code, which follows the evolution of the active region 11640 over 4 days starting from 2012 December 30 at 12:00 UT and reproduces many key coronal extreme-ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Feng Chen