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Magnetic field extrapolation is an important tool to study the three-dimensional (3D) solar coronal magnetic field which is difficult to directly measure. Various analytic models and numerical codes exist but their results often drastically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Qiang Hu , Huai Zhang , G. Allen Gary , S. T. Wu , Jinbin Cao

Coronal loops are the basic structures of the solar transition region and corona. The understanding of physical mechanism behind the loop heating, plasma flows, and filling are still considered a major challenge in the solar physics. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 G. R. Gupta , Durgesh Tripathi , Helen E. Mason

Recent IRIS observations have revealed a prevalence of intermittent small-scale jets with apparent speeds of 80 - 250 km s$^{-1}$, emanating from small-scale bright regions inside network boundaries of coronal holes. We find that these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-22 Nancy Narang , Rebecca T. Arbacher , Hui Tian , Dipankar Banerjee , Steven R. Cranmer , Ed E. DeLuca , Sean McKillop

Potential field extrapolations are widely used as minimum-energy models for the Sun's coronal magnetic field. As the reference to which other magnetic fields are compared, they have -- by any reasonable definition -- no global (signed)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 A. R. Yeates

The topology of the coronal magnetic field produces a strong impact on the properties of the solar corona and presumably on the origin of the slow solar wind. To advance our understanding of this impact, we revisit the concept of so-called…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 R. Lionello , V. S. Titov , Z. Mikić , J. A. Linker

We identify coronal holes using a histogram-based intensity thresholding technique and compare their properties to fast solar wind streams at three different points in the heliosphere. The thresholding technique was tested on EUV and X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-13 Larisza D. Krista , Peter T. Gallagher

We review (i) observations and numerical simulations of vortical flows in the solar atmosphere and (ii) measurements of the horizontal magnetic field in quiet Sun regions. First, we discuss various manifestations of vortical flows and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-21 O. Steiner , R. Rezaei

The origination and generation mechanisms of small magnetic flux ropes (SFRs), which are important structures in solar wind, are not clearly known. In present study, 1993 SFRs immersed in coronal holes, active regions, and quiet Sun solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Changhao Zhai , Hui Fu , Jiachen Si , Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia

We study the coronal magnetic field structure inside active regions and its temporal evolution. We attempt to compare the magnetic configuration of an active region in a very quiet period with that for the same region during a flare.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. K. Thalmann , T. Wiegelmann , N. -E. Raouafi

Understanding many physical processes in the solar atmosphere requires determination of the magnetic field in each atmospheric layer. However, direct measurements of the magnetic field in the Sun's corona are difficult to obtain. Using…

We intend to investigate the underlying physics for the coronal rain phenomenon in a representative bipolar magnetic field, including the formation and the dynamics of coronal rain blobs. With the MPI-AMRVAC code, we performed three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Xia Fang

We study a series of relations between physical parameters in coronal loops of the quiet Sun reconstructed by combining tomographic techniques and modeling of the coronal magnetic field. We use differential emission measure tomography…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 C. Mac Cormack , M. López Fuentes , C. H. Mandrini , D. G. Lloveras , M. Poisson , A. M. Vásquez

Coronal magnetic flux ropes are closely related to large-scale solar activities. Using a 2.5-dimensional time-dependent ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model in Cartesian coordinates, we carry out numerical simulations to investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Quanhao Zhang , Yuming Wang , Youqiu Hu , Rui Liu , Kai Liu , Jiajia Liu

The potential field (PF) solution of the solar corona is a vital modeling tool for a wide range of applications, including minimum energy estimates, coronal magnetic field modeling, and empirical solar wind solutions. Given its popularity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Ronald M. Caplan , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Zoran Mikic

We compare magnetic field measurements taken by the FIELDS instrument on Parker Solar Probe (PSP) during its first solar encounter to predictions obtained by Potential Field Source Surface (PFSS) modeling. Ballistic propagation is used to…

The magnetic field permeating the solar atmosphere is generally thought to provide the energy for much of the activity seen in the solar corona, such as flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), etc. To overcome the unavailability of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , S. Gosain , P. MacNeice , Alexei A. Pevtsov

The open solar flux, that is, the total magnetic flux escaping the Sun, is one of the most important parameters connecting solar activity to the Earth. The open solar flux is commonly estimated from photospheric magnetic field measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Ismo Tähtinen , Timo Asikainen , Kalevi Mursula

(Abridged) Aim: We attempt to determine robust estimates of the heliospheric magnetic flux ($\Phi_H$) using Parker Solar Probe (PSP) data, analyze how susceptible this is to overestimation compared to the true open flux ($\Phi_{open}$),…

Estimating the magnetic field strength in the solar corona is crucial for understanding different physical processes happening over diverse spatio-temporal scales. However, the high temperatures and low density of the solar corona make this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-07 Upasna Baweja , Vaibhav Pant , Iñigo Arregui

In-situ measurements by several spacecraft have revealed that the solar wind is frequently perturbed by transient structures (magnetic folds, jets, waves, flux-ropes) that propagate rapidly away from the Sun over large distances. Parker…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 R. F. Pinto , N. Poirier , A. P. Rouillard , A. Kouloumvakos , L. Griton , N. Fargette , R. Kieokaew , B. Lavraud , A. S. Brun