Flare-productive active regions

S Toriumi, H Wang - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2019 - Springer
Strong solar flares and coronal mass ejections, here defined not only as the bursts of
electromagnetic radiation but as the entire process in which magnetic energy is released …

Data-driven modeling of solar coronal magnetic field evolution and eruptions

C Jiang, X Feng, Y Guo, Q Hu - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
Magnetic fields play a fundamental role in the structure and dynamics of the solar corona. As
they are driven by their footpoint motions on the solar surface, which transport energy from …

A fundamental mechanism of solar eruption initiation

C Jiang, X Feng, R Liu, XL Yan, Q Hu, RL Moore… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Solar eruptions are spectacular magnetic explosions in the Sun's corona, and how they are
initiated remains unclear. Prevailing theories often rely on special magnetic topologies that …

Origin and structures of solar eruptions I: magnetic flux rope

X Cheng, Y Guo, MD Ding - Science China Earth Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar flares are the large-scale and most energetic
eruptive phenomena in our solar system and able to release a large quantity of plasma and …

A model of failed solar eruption initiated and destructed by magnetic reconnection

C Jiang, A Duan, P Zou, Z Zhou, X Bian… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Solar eruptions are explosive disruption of coronal magnetic fields, and often launch coronal
mass ejections into the interplanetary space. Intriguingly, many solar eruptions fail to escape …

Magnetic cage and rope as the key for solar eruptions

T Amari, A Canou, JJ Aly, F Delyon, F Alauzet - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Solar flares are spectacular coronal events that release large amounts of energy. They are
classified as either eruptive or confined,, depending on whether they are associated with a …

The Grad-Shafranov reconstruction in twenty years: 1996–2016

Q Hu - Science China Earth Sciences, 2017 - Springer
We review and summarize the applications of the Grad-Shafranov (GS) reconstruction
technique to space plasma structures in the Earth's magnetosphere and in the interplanetary …

Buildup of a highly twisted magnetic flux rope during a solar eruption

W Wang, R Liu, Y Wang, Q Hu, C Shen, C Jiang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The magnetic flux rope is among the most fundamental magnetic configurations in plasma.
Although its presence after solar eruptions has been verified by spacecraft measurements …

Decoding the pre-eruptive magnetic field configurations of coronal mass ejections

S Patsourakos, A Vourlidas, T Török, B Kliem… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
A clear understanding of the nature of the pre-eruptive magnetic field configurations of
Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) is required for understanding and eventually predicting …

Origin and structures of solar eruptions II: Magnetic modeling

Y Guo, X Cheng, MD Ding - Science China Earth Sciences, 2017 - Springer
The topology and dynamics of the three-dimensional magnetic field in the solar atmosphere
govern various solar eruptive phenomena and activities, such as flares, coronal mass …