Structure, stability, and evolution of magnetic flux ropes from the perspective of magnetic twist

R Liu, B Kliem, VS Titov, J Chen, Y Wang… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the evolution of NOAA Active Region (AR) 11817 during 2013 August 10–12,
when it developed a complex field configuration and produced four confined, followed by …

Magnetic Kelvin–Helmholtz instability at the sun

C Foullon, E Verwichte, VM Nakariakov… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Flows and instabilities play a major role in the dynamics of magnetized plasmas including
the solar corona, magnetospheric and heliospheric boundaries, cometary tails, and …

Solar stereoscopy and tomography

MJ Aschwanden - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2011 - Springer
We review stereoscopic and tomographic methods used in the solar corona, including
ground-based and space-based measurements, using solar rotation or multiple spacecraft …

Eruption of a multi-flux-rope system in solar active region 12673 leading to the two largest flares in Solar Cycle 24

YJ Hou, J Zhang, T Li, SH Yang, XH Li - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. Solar active region (AR) 12673 in 2017 September produced the two largest flares
in Solar Cycle 24: the X9. 3 flare on September 6 and the X8. 2 flare on September 10. Aims …

Magnetic flux ropes in the solar corona: structure and evolution toward eruption

R Liu - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic flux ropes are characterized by coherently twisted magnetic field lines, which are
ubiquitous in magnetized plasmas. As the core structure of various eruptive phenomena in …

Solar magnetic flux ropes

B Filippov, O Martsenyuk, AK Srivastava… - Journal of Astrophysics …, 2015 - Springer
In the early 1990s, it was found that the strongest disturbances of the space–weather were
associated with huge ejections of plasma from the solar corona, which took the form of …

Understanding the twist distribution inside magnetic flux ropes by anatomizing an interplanetary magnetic cloud

Y Wang, C Shen, R Liu, J Liu, J Guo… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic flux rope (MFR) is the core structure of the greatest eruptions, that is, the coronal
mass ejections (CMEs), on the Sun, and magnetic clouds are posteruption MFRs in …

Magnetic reconnection from a multiscale instability cascade

AL Moser, PM Bellan - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Magnetic reconnection, the process whereby magnetic field lines break and then reconnect
to form a different topology, underlies critical dynamics of magnetically confined plasmas in …

Origin of Quasi-periodic Pulsation at the Base of a Kink-unstable Jet

SK Mishra, K Sangal, P Kayshap… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We studied a blowout jet that occurred at the west limb of the Sun on 2014 August 29 using
high-resolution imaging/spectroscopic observations provided by the Solar Dynamics …

On the twists of interplanetary magnetic flux ropes observed at 1 AU

Y Wang, B Zhuang, Q Hu, R Liu… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are one kind of fundamental structures in the solar/space
physics and involved in various eruption phenomena. Twist, characterizing how the …