8 papers
Solar Wind Dependence on Source Distance from the Open-Closed Boundary
Chloe P. Wilkins, David I. Pontin, Anthony R. Yeates +2
The origin and variability of the slow solar wind remains an open question in solar physics, but is thought to be closely linked to dynamics at the Sun's open-closed magnetic flux…
UK White Paper on Space-based total solar eclipse observations: structure and dynamics of the solar atmosphere
Lucie M. Green, Nicola Baresi, Huw Morgan +19
Our Sun is uniquely placed to enable a detailed study of astrophysical plasmas and how they are governed by the magnetic fields that thread through them. On the one hand, magnetic…
Global Coronal Equilibria with Solar Wind Outflow II -- Optimizing the Outflow Model
Oliver Rice, Anthony Yeates
We expand upon our paper (Rice and Yeates, 2021) which introduced `Outflow Fields': alternatives to the widely-used potential field source surface (PFSS) extrapolations of the Sun'…
Energy Bounds from Relative Magnetic Helicity in Spherical Shells
Anthony R. Yeates, Gunnar Hornig
Relative magnetic helicity is commonly used in solar physics to avoid the well known gauge ambiguity of standard magnetic helicity in magnetically open domains. But its physical in…
UK White Paper on Magnetic Reconnection
Alexander J. B. Russell, James A. McLaughlin, Philippa Browning +25
Magnetic reconnection powers explosive releases of magnetic energy, heating and particle acceleration throughout the plasma universe. Knowledge of this universal process is vital t…
Witnessing Magnetic Reconnection in Tangled Superpenumbral Fibrils Around a Sunspot
Hechao Chen, Hui Tian, Eric R. Priest +8
Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process crucial for heating the solar corona and generating the solar wind, but resolving and characterizing it on t…