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Data-driven magnetohydrodynamic modelling of a flux-emerging active region leading to solar eruption.


ABSTRACT: Solar eruptions are well-recognized as major drivers of space weather but what causes them remains an open question. Here we show how an eruption is initiated in a non-potential magnetic flux-emerging region using magnetohydrodynamic modelling driven directly by solar magnetograms. Our model simulates the coronal magnetic field following a long-duration quasi-static evolution to its fast eruption. The field morphology resembles a set of extreme ultraviolet images for the whole process. Study of the magnetic field suggests that in this event, the key transition from the pre-eruptive to eruptive state is due to the establishment of a positive feedback between the upward expansion of internal stressed magnetic arcades of new emergence and an external magnetic reconnection which triggers the eruption. Such a nearly realistic simulation of a solar eruption from origin to onset can provide important insight into its cause, and also has the potential for improving space weather modelling.

SUBMITTER: Jiang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4873661 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Data-driven magnetohydrodynamic modelling of a flux-emerging active region leading to solar eruption.

Jiang Chaowei C   Wu S T ST   Feng Xuesheng X   Hu Qiang Q  

Nature communications 20160516


Solar eruptions are well-recognized as major drivers of space weather but what causes them remains an open question. Here we show how an eruption is initiated in a non-potential magnetic flux-emerging region using magnetohydrodynamic modelling driven directly by solar magnetograms. Our model simulates the coronal magnetic field following a long-duration quasi-static evolution to its fast eruption. The field morphology resembles a set of extreme ultraviolet images for the whole process. Study of  ...[more]

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