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In recent years, a two-dimensional (2D) coronal seismology technique applied to spectral-imaging data from the Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) and UCoMP has enabled routine measurement of the global coronal magnetic field. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Zihao Yang , Sarah Gibson , Matthias Rempel , Giuliana de Toma

The magnetic fields in the solar corona are generally neither force-free nor axisymmetric and have complex dynamics that are difficult to characterize. Here we simulate the topological evolution of solar coronal magnetic field lines (MFLs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-09 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya , Sanjay Kumar

We present new measurements of the dependence of the Extreme Ultraviolet radiance on the total magnetic flux in active regions as obtained from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Harry P. Warren , Lisa A. Upton , Peter R. Young

Multiscale topological complexity of solar magnetic field is among the primary factors controlling energy release in the corona, including associated processes in the photospheric and chromospheric boundaries. We present a new approach for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Vadim M. Uritsky , Joseph M. Davila

We present a new improved version of our force-free electrodynamics (FFE) numerical code in spherical coordinates that extrapolates the magnetic field in the inner solar corona from a photospheric vector magnetogram. The code satisfies the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ioannis Contopoulos

Events in the solar corona are often widely separated in their timescales, which can allow them to be identified when they would otherwise be confused with emission from other sources in the corona. Methods for cleanly separating such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-01 Joseph Plowman

This study presents a justification of the use of Stokes-V Cryo-NIRSP/DKIST observations for the 3D Reconstruction of the Coronal Magnetic Field. A magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of the solar corona during solar minimum generated by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-09 Maxim Kramar , Haosheng Lin

We evaluate validity of NLFFF extrapolation performed with Optimization class (OPTI) codes. While explaining inevitable for OPTI partial non-solenoidality caused by the gas pressure notable role in pressure balance at photospheric heights…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-17 G. V. Rudenko , I. S. Dmitrienko

Extrapolation codes for modelling the magnetic field in the corona in cartesian geometry do not take the curvature of the Sun's surface into account and can only be applied to relatively small areas, \textit{e.g.}, a single active region.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-13 T. Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , A. Pevtsov

Aims. We aim to develop a fast and consistent extrapolation method to model multiple layers of the solar atmosphere. Methods. The new approach combines the magnetohydrostatic (MHS) extrapolation which models the solar low atmosphere in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann

We have reported previously on a new method we are developing for using image-based information to improve global coronal magnetic field models. In that work we presented early tests of the method which proved its capability to improve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Shaela I. Jones , Joseph M. Davila , Vadim M. Uritsky

Measurements of the stellar coronal magnetic field are of great importance in understanding the stellar magnetic activity, yet the measurements have been extremely difficult. Recent studies proposed a new method of magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Xianyu Liu , Hui Tian , Yajie Chen , Wenxian Li , Meng Jin , Xianyong Bai , Zihao Yang

Adopting the thermal free-free emission mechanism, the coronal and chromospheric magnetic fields are derived from the polarization and spectral observations with the Nobeyama Radioheliograph at 1.76 cm. The solar active regions (AR) located…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. Mouner , Abdelrazek M. K. Shaltout , M. M. Beheary , K. A. K. Gadallah , K. A. Edris

Non-linear force-free fields are the most general case of force-free fields, but the hardest to model as well. There are numerous methods of computing such fields by extrapolating vector magnetograms from the photosphere, but very few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 A. Malanushenko , D. W. Longcope , D. E. McKenzie

The origin of the heliospheric magnetic flux on the Sun, and hence the origin of the solar wind, is a topic of hot debate.While the prevailing view is that the solar wind originates from outside coronal streamer helmets, there also exists…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bo Li , Xing Li , Hui Yu

The differential rotation of the solar corona for the period 1976-2004 was studied as a function of the distance from the center of the Sun. For this study, we developed a method using the coronal magnetic field as a tracer. The field in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 O. G. Badalyan , V. N. Obridko

The hemispheric pattern of solar filaments is considered in the context of the global magnetic field of the solar corona. In recent work Mackay and van Ballegooijen have shown how, for a pair of interacting magnetic bipoles, the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. R. Yeates , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen

We study the relative helicity of active region (AR) NOAA~12673 during a ten-hour time interval centered around a preceding X2.2 flare (SOL2017-09-06T08:57) and also including an eruptive X9.3 flare that occurred three hours later…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Julia K. Thalmann , X. Sun , K. Moraitis , M. Gupta

We present a novel numerical method that allows the calculation of nonlinear force-free magnetostatic solutions above a boundary surface on which only the distribution of the normal magnetic field component is given. The method relies on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ioannis Contopoulos , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Manolis Georgoulis

We estimated the accuracy of coronal magnetic fields derived from radio observations by comparing them to potential field calculations and the DEM measurements using EUV observations. We derived line of sight component of the coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Shun Miyawaki , Kazumasa Iwai , Kiyoto Shibasaki , Daikou Shiota , Satoshi Nozawa