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Context. High resolution magnetic field measurements are routinely done only in the solar photosphere. Higher layers like the chromosphere and corona can be modeled by extrapolating the photospheric magnetic field upward. In the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann , Sami Solanki

We study five sequential solar flares (SOL2015-08-07) occurring in Active Region 12396 observed with the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at the BBSO, complemented by IRIS and SDO observations. The main flaring region is an arch filament system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-19 Yingna Su , Rui Liu , Shangwei Li , Wenda Cao , Kwangsu Ahn , Haisheng Ji

The concept of surface-flux transport (SFT) is commonly used in evolving models of the large-scale solar surface magnetic field. These photospheric models are used to determine the large-scale structure of the overlying coronal magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Graham Barnes , Marc L. DeRosa , Shaela I. Jones , Charles N. Arge , Carl J. Henney , Mark C. M. Cheung

Coronal holes are the observational manifestation of the solar magnetic field open to the heliosphere and are of pivotal importance for our understanding of the origin and acceleration of the solar wind. Observations from space missions…

Coronal holes (CHs) are magnetically open regions that allow hot coronal plasma to escape from the Sun and form the high-speed solar wind. This wind can interact with Earth's magnetic field. For this reason, developing an accurate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jeremy A. Grajeda , Laura E. Boucheron , Michael S. Kirk , Andrew Leisner , C. Nick Arge , Jaime A. Landeros

The paper presents the results from a multi-year effort to develop and validate image processing methods for selecting the best physical models based on solar image observations. The approach consists of selecting the physical models based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 V. Jatla , M. S. Pattichis , C. N. Arge

In this work, we introduce a novel generative denoising diffusion model for synthesizing the Sun's three-dimensional coronal magnetic field, a complex and dynamic region characterized by evolving magnetic structures. Despite daily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel E. da Silva , Michael Kirk , Nat Mathews , Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo

We introduce DifGa, a fully differentiable error-mitigation framework for continuous-variable (CV) quantum photonic circuits operating under Gaussian loss and weak non-Gaussian noise. The approach is demonstrated using analytic simulations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Dennis Delali Kwesi Wayo , Rodrigo Alves Dias , Leonardo Goliatt , Sven Groppe

Extrapolations of solar photospheric vector magnetograms into three-dimensional magnetic fields in the chromosphere and corona are usually done under the assumption that the fields are force-free. The field calculations can be improved by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Fuhrmann , N. Seehafer , G. Valori , T. Wiegelmann

The assumption of Gaussianity of the primordial perturbations plays an important role in modern cosmology. The most direct test of this hypothesis consists in testing Gaussianity of the CMB maps. Counting the pixels with the temperatures in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Sergei F. Shandarin

Coronal holes (CHs) are regions with unbalanced magnetic flux, and have been associated with open magnetic field (OMF) structures. However, it has been reported that some CHs do not intersect with OMF regions. To investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Guan-Han Huang , Chia-Hsien Lin , Lou-Chuang Lee

The quality of today's research is often tightly limited to the available computing power and scalability of codes to many processors. For example, tackling the problem of heating the solar corona requires a most realistic description of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-26 Philippe-A. Bourdin

The internal dynamics of the Sun generate magnetic and plasma structures in the photosphere and overlying atmosphere across a wide range of spatial scales. Identifying the critical spatial scale is essential for interpreting physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ananya Hore , Prantika Bhowmik

We present a study of the effect of component separation on the recovered cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature distribution, considering Gaussian and non-Gaussian input CMB maps. First, we extract the CMB component from simulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. B. Barreiro , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , P. Vielva , M. P. Hobson

Magnetic flux synoptic charts are critical for reliable modeling of the corona and heliosphere. Until now, however, these charts were provided without any estimate of uncertainties. The uncertainties are due to instrumental noise in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 L. Bertello , A. A. Pevtsov , G. J. D. Petrie , D. Keys

This article presents the first direct "observation" of the global-scale, 3D coronal magnetic fields of Carrington Rotation (CR) Cycle 2112 using vector tomographic inversion techniques. The Vector tomographic inversion uses observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-18 M. Kramar , H. Lin , S. Tomczyk

Solar wind backmapping is a critical technique for analyzing the origin of the solar wind and space weather events by correlating in situ measurements with solar remote-sensing observations. This technique typically traces magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Xinyi Ma , Liping Yang , Xueshang Feng , Hui Tian , Honghong Wu , Fang Shen , Wangning Zhang , Mengxuan Ma , Xiao Zhang , Ziwei Wang

Aims. We aim to infer information about the magnetic field in the low solar corona from coronal rain clumps using high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations in the Ca ii 8542 A line obtained with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 M. Kriginsky , R. Oliver , P. Antolin , D. Kuridze , N. Freij

Segmentation of cardiac magnetic resonance images (MRI) is crucial for the analysis and assessment of cardiac function, helping to diagnose and treat various cardiovascular diseases. Most recent techniques rely on deep learning and usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Bruno Viti , Franz Thaler , Kathrin Lisa Kapper , Martin Urschler , Martin Holler , Elias Karabelas

The solar magnetic fields emerging from the photosphere into the chromosphere and corona are comprised of a combination of "closed" and "open" fields. The closed magnetic field lines are defined as those having both ends rooted in the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 C. Nick Arge , Andrew Leisner , Samantha Wallace , Carl J. Henney