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We investigate the generation of helical magnetic fields and address the baryon asymmetry of the universe from an inflationary magnetogenesis scenario, in which the conformal and parity symmetries of the electromagnetic field are broken…

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We construct two classes of magnetohydrostatic (MHS) equilibria for an axisymmetric vertical flux tube spanning from the photosphere to the lower part of the transition region within a realistic stratified solar atmosphere subject to solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 Samrat Sen , A. Mangalam

Deviations of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) from Parker's model are frequently observed in the heliosphere at different distances r from the Sun. Usually, it is supposed that the IMF behavior corresponds to Parker's model overall,…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 Olga Khabarova , Vladimir Obridko

Using the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description, we develop a nonlinear dynamo model that couples the evolution of the large scale magnetic field with turbulent dynamics of the plasma at small scale by electromotive force (e.m.f.) in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 Giuseppina Nigro , Pierlugi Veltri

The spontaneous evolution of magnetic reconnection in generalized situations (with thermodynamic asymmetry regarding the current sheet and magnetic shear) is investigated using two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation. We focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Shin-ya Nitta , Koji Kondoh

Magnetic reconnection is the most likely mechanism responsible for the high temperature events that are observed in strongly magnetized locations around the temperature minimum in the low solar chromosphere. This work improves upon our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-26 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

We investigated incompressible and compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) energy cascade rates in the solar wind at different heliocentric distances. We used in situ magnetic field and plasma observations provided by the Parker Solar Probe…

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The magnetosphere of a rotating pulsar naturally develops a current sheet beyond the light cylinder (LC). Magnetic reconnection in this current sheet inevitably dissipates a nontrivial fraction of the pulsar spin-down power within a few LC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We provide a valid magnetohydrostatic equilibrium from the collapse of a 2D X-point in the presence of a finite plasma pressure, in which the current density is not simply concentrated in an infinitesimally thin, one-dimensional current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-13 Jorge Fuentes-Fernández , Clare E. Parnell , Alan W. Hood

The interaction between Jupiter's magnetosphere and the solar wind is not well-constrained: while internal energetic plasma processes are thought to dominate plasma circulation, the solar wind nonetheless exerts significant control over the…

In response to a solar wind dynamic pressure enhancement, the compression of the magnetosphere generates strong ionospheric signatures and a sharp variation in the ground magnetic field, termed sudden commencement (SC). Whilst such…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 J. W. B. Eggington , R. T. Desai , L. Mejnertsen , J. P. Chittenden , J. P. Eastwood

The highly dynamical, complex nature of the solar atmosphere naturally implies the presence of waves in a topologically varied magnetic environment. Here, the interaction of waves with topological features such as null points is inevitable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. W. Threlfall , C. E. Parnell , I. De Moortel , K. G. McClements , T. D. Arber

We recently proposed a method to calculate the relative magnetic helicity in a finite volume for a given magnetic field which however required the flux to be balanced separately on all the sides of the considered volume. In order to allow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Shangbin Yang , Joerg Buechner , Jan Skala , Hongqi Zhang

We consider the free boundary problem for the plasma-vacuum interface in ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In the plasma region, the flow is governed by the usual compressible MHD equations, while in the vacuum region we…

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The pressure balance at the magnetopause is formed by magnetic field and plasma in the magnetosheath, on one side, and inside the magnetosphere, on the other side. In the approach of dipole earth's magnetic field configuration and…

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Magnetic reconnection and non-thermal particle distributions associated with current-driven instabilities are investigated by means of resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations combined with relativistic test particle methods. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Bart Ripperda , Oliver Porth , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

We model the Parker instability in vertically stratified isothermal gas using non-ideal MHD three-dimensional simulations. Rotation, especially differential, more strongly and diversely affects the nonlinear state than the linear stage…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-08 Devika Tharakkal , Anvar Shukurov , Frederick A. Gent , Graeme R. Sarson , Andrew Snodin

We have performed a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation to study the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from -20,000 km of the solar convection zone to the corona through the photosphere and the chromosphere. The middle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Toriumi , T. Yokoyama

The magnetohydrodynamics of active region NOAA 11283 is simulated using an initial non-force-free magnetic field extrapolated from its photospheric vector magnetogram. We focus on the magnetic reconnections at a magnetic null point that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Avijeet Prasad , Karin Dissauer , Qiang Hu , R. Bhattacharyya , Astrid M. Veronig , Sanjay Kumar , Bhuwan Joshi

A 2D incompressible viscoresistive-MHD model [Mahapatra et. al., Phys. Plasmas 28, 072103 (2021)] is used to study the scaling of reconnection parameters in magnetic island coalescence problem under two interesting scenarios. Firstly, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Jagannath Mahapatra , Rajaraman Ganesh , Abhijit Sen