Computing nonlinear force-free fields in spherical geometry
arXiv:astro-ph/0612124 · doi:10.1007/s11207-006-0266-3
Abstract
We describe a newly developed code for the extrapolation of nonlinear force-free coronal magnetic fields in spherical coordinates. The program uses measured vector magnetograms on the solar photosphere as input and solves the force-free equations in the solar corona. The method is based on an optimization principle and the heritage of the newly developed code is a corresponding method in Cartesian geometry. We test the newly developed code with the help of a semi-analytic solution and rate the quality of our reconstruction qualitatively by magnetic field line plots and quantitatively with a number of comparison metrics. We find that we can reconstruct the original test field with high accuracy. The method is fast if the computation is limited to low co-latitudes (say ), but becomes significantly slower if the polar regions are included.
16 pages, 3 figures, Solar Physics, accepted
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