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Getting insights into the 3D structure of the solar coronal magnetic field have been done in the past by two completely different approaches: (1.) Nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) extrapolations, which use photospheric vector magnetograms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Iulia Chifu , Thomas Wiegelmann , Bernd Inhester

Due to the absence of direct measurement, the magnetic field in the solar corona is usually extrapolated from the photosphere in numerical way. At the moment, the nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model dominates the physical models for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

Context: This paper presents a method which can be used to calculate models of the global solar corona from observational data. Aims: We present an optimization method for computing nonlinear magnetohydrostatic equilibria in spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann , T. Neukirch , P. Ruan , B. Inhester

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

We present a newly developed approach to solar coronal magnetic field extrapolation from vector magnetograms, based on the Principle of Minimum Dissipation Rate (MDR). The MDR system was derived from a variational problem that is more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. Hu , B. Dasgupta , D. P. Choudhary , J. Büchner

The magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere structure the plasma, store free magnetic energy and produce a wide variety of active solar phenomena, like flare and coronal mass ejections(CMEs). The distribution and strength of magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , K. Olson , P. J. MacNeice

Magnetic field in the solar corona is usually extrapolated from photospheric vector magnetogram using a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model. NLFFF extrapolation needs a considerable effort to be devoted for its numerical realization.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

The coronal magnetic field cannot be directly observed, but in principle it can be reconstructed from the comparatively well observed photospheric magnetic field. A popular approach uses a nonlinear force-free model. Non-magnetic forces at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-28 S. A. Gilchrist , M. S. Wheatland

A combination of analytical calculations and vectormagnetogram data are utilized to develop a non-axisymmetric non-force-free magnetic field and asses its viability in describing solar active regions. For the purpose, we construct a local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-21 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya

We use SDO/HMI and SOLIS/VSM photospheric magnetic field measurements to model the force-free coronal field above a solar active region, assuming magnetic forces to dominate. We take measurement uncertainties caused by, e.g., noise and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. K. Thalmann , A. Pietarila , X. Sun , T. Wiegelmann

Magnetic field extrapolation from the solar photosphere to the corona plays an important role in solar physics research. In this work, we present a fully-implicit viscous-relaxation nonlinear force-free field (FIVR-NLFFF) extrapolation code…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Zhenhua Liu , Chaowei Jiang

For the extrapolation of magnetic fields into the solar corona from measurements taken in the photosphere (or chromosphere) force-free magnetic fields are typically used. This does not take into account that the lower layers of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Thomas Neukirch , Thomas Wiegelmann

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

Numerical reconstruction/extrapolation of coronal nonlinear force-free magnetic field (NLFFF) usually takes the photospheric vector magnetogram as input at the bottom boundary. Magnetic field observed at the photosphere, however, contains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

We developed a {\sl coronal non-linear force-free field (COR-NLFFF)} forward-fitting code that fits an approximate {\sl non-linear force-free field (NLFFF)} solution to the observed geometry of automatically traced coronal loops. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Markus J. Aschwanden , Xudong Sun , Yang Liu

Measurements of magnetic fields and electric currents in the pre-eruptive corona are crucial to study solar eruptive phenomena, like flare and coronal mass ejections(CMEs). However, spectro-polarimetric measurements of certain photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , K. Olson , P. J. MacNeice , A. Pevtsov

We derive an analytical approximation of nonlinear force-free magnetic field solutions (NLFFF) that can efficiently be used for fast forward-fitting to solar magnetic data, constrained either by observed line-of-sight magnetograms and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-27 Markus J. Aschwanden

3D picture of the coronal magnetic field remains an outstanding problem in solar physics, particularly, in active regions. Nonlinear force-free field reconstructions that employ routinely available full-disk photospheric vector magnetograms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Gregory Fleishman , Ivan Mysh'yakov , Alexey Stupishin , Maria Loukitcheva , Sergey Anfinogentov

In this paper, we present a systematic study of the force-free field equation for simple axisymmetric configurations in spherical geometry and apply it to the solar active regions. The condition of separability of solutions in the radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 A. Prasad , A. Mangalam , B. Ravindra

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model is often used to describe the solar coronal magnetic field, however a series of earlier studies revealed difficulties in the numerical solution of the model in application to photospheric…