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 …

Solar prominences: theory and models: Fleshing out the magnetic skeleton

SE Gibson - Living reviews in solar physics, 2018 - Springer
Magnetic fields suspend the relatively cool material of solar prominences in an otherwise hot
corona. A comprehensive understanding of solar prominences ultimately requires complex …

MPI-AMRVAC 3.0: Updates to an open-source simulation framework

R Keppens, BP Braileanu, Y Zhou, W Ruan… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Computational astrophysics nowadays routinely combines grid-adaptive
capabilities with modern shock-capturing, high resolution spatio-temporal integration …

Resolving the solar prominence/filament paradox using the magnetic Rayleigh–Taylor instability

JM Jenkins, R Keppens - Nature Astronomy, 2022 - nature.com
Prominences and filaments are manifestations of magnetized, levitated plasma within the
solar coronal atmosphere. Their structure is assumed to be driven by the ambient magnetic …

Thermal instability and non-equilibrium in solar coronal loops: from coronal rain to long-period intensity pulsations

P Antolin - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The complex interaction of the magnetic field with matter is the key to some of the most
puzzling observed phenomena at multiple scales across the Universe, from tokamak plasma …

Achievements of Hinode in the first eleven years

Hinode Review Team, K Al-Janabi… - Publications of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Hinode is Japan's third solar mission following Hinotori (1981–1982) and Yohkoh (1991–
2001): it was launched on 2006 September 22 and is in operation currently. Hinode carries …

Coronal rain in randomly heated arcades

X Li, R Keppens, Y Zhou - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Adopting the MPI-AMRVAC code, we present a 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic
simulation, which includes thermal conduction and radiative cooling, to investigate the …

Some interesting topics provoked by the solar filament research in the past decade

PF Chen, AA Xu, MD Ding - Research in Astronomy and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Solar filaments are an intriguing phenomenon, like cool clouds suspended in the hot corona.
Similar structures exist in the intergalactic medium as well. Despite being a long-studied …

3D coupled tearing-thermal evolution in solar current sheets

S Sen, J Jenkins, R Keppens - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The tearing instability plays a major role in the disruption of current sheets, whereas
thermal modes can be responsible for condensation phenomena (forming prominences and …

Thermally enhanced tearing in solar current sheets: Explosive reconnection with plasmoid-trapped condensations

S Sen, R Keppens - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Thermal instability plays a major role in condensation phenomena in the solar
corona (eg, for coronal rain and prominence formation). In flare-relevant current sheets …