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most citedDecoding the Pre-Eruptive Magnetic Field Configurations of Coronal Mass Ejections

145 citations · 776 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Data-inspired simulation of AR 11158

Matthias Rempel, Georgios Chintzoglou

We present a data-inspired simulation of NOAA active region AR 11158. We simulate the formation of a collisional polarity inversion line (cPIL) by moving sunspots in a quadrupolar…

astro-ph.SR2025

Magnetic Decay Index Profile and Coronal Mass Ejection Speed

Bernhard Kliem, Georgios Chintzoglou, Tibor Török +1

We study the relationship between the speed of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the height profile of the ambient magnetic field, quantified by its decay index, n(h). Our sample i…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Comprehensive radiative MHD simulations of eruptive flares above collisional polarity inversion lines

Matthias Rempel, Georgios Chintzoglou, Mark C. M. Cheung +2

We present a new simulation setup using the MURaM radiative Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code that allows to study the formation of collisional polarity inversion lines (cPILs) in the…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 19 cited

Data-Driven Radiative Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations with the MURaM code

Feng Chen, Mark C. M. Cheung, Matthias Rempel +1

We present a method of conducting data-driven simulations of solar active regions and flux emergence with the MURaM radiative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code. The horizontal electr…

astro-ph.IM2022

Towards data-driven modeling and real-time prediction of solar flares and coronal mass ejections

M. Rempel, Y. Fan, M. Dikpati +7

Modeling of transient events in the solar atmosphere requires the confluence of 3 critical elements: (1) model sophistication, (2) data availability, and (3) data assimilation. Thi…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 59 cited

Probing the Physics of the Solar Atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE): II. Flares and Eruptions

Mark C. M. Cheung, Juan Martínez-Sykora, Paola Testa +25

Current state-of-the-art spectrographs cannot resolve the fundamental spatial (sub-arcseconds) and temporal scales (less than a few tens of seconds) of the coronal dynamics of sola…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 81 cited

Probing the physics of the solar atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE): I. Coronal Heating

Bart De Pontieu, Paola Testa, Juan Martinez-Sykora +24

The Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) is a proposed NASA MIDEX mission, currently in Phase A, composed of a multi-slit EUV spectrograph (in three narrow spectral bands centered arou…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 19 cited

ALMA and IRIS Observations of the Solar Chromosphere II: Structure and Dynamics of Chromospheric Plage

Georgios Chintzoglou, Bart De Pontieu, Juan Martínez-Sykora +7

We propose and employ a novel empirical method for determining chromospheric plage regions, which seems to better isolate plage from its surrounding regions compared to other metho…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 145 cited

Decoding the Pre-Eruptive Magnetic Field Configurations of Coronal Mass Ejections

S. Patsourakos, A. Vourlidas, T. Török +15

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 solar…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 22 cited

High-resolution observations of the solar photosphere, chromosphere and transition region. A database of coordinated IRIS and SST observations

L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort, B. De Pontieu, M. Carlsson +30

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) provides high resolution observations of the solar atmosphere through UV spectroscopy and imaging. Since the launch of IRIS in J…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 21 cited

ALMA and IRIS Observations of the Solar Chromosphere I: an On-Disk Type II Spicule

Georgios Chintzoglou, Bart De Pontieu, Juan Martínez-Sykora +7

We present observations of the solar chromosphere obtained simultaneously with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 24 cited

The Formation Height of Millimeter-wavelength Emission in the Solar Chromosphere

Juan Martinez-Sykora, Bart De Pontieu, Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez +1

In the past few years, the ALMA radio telescope has become available for solar observations. ALMA diagnostics of the solar atmosphere are of high interest because of the theoretica…

astro-ph.SR2019

The multi-thermal chromosphere: inversions of ALMA and IRIS data

J. M. da Silva Santos, J. de la Cruz Rodríguez, J. Leenaarts +4

Numerical simulations of the solar chromosphere predict a diverse thermal structure with both hot and cool regions. Observations of plage regions in particular feature broader and…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 88 cited

The Origin of Major Solar Activity - Collisional Shearing Between Nonconjugated Polarities of Multiple Bipoles Emerging Within Active Regions

Georgios Chintzoglou, Jie Zhang, Mark C. M. Cheung +1

Active Regions (ARs) that exhibit compact Polarity Inversion Lines (PILs) are known to be very flare-productive. However, the physical mechanisms behind this statistical inference…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 26 cited

A Study of a Compound Solar Eruption with Two Consecutive Erupting Magnetic Structures

Suman K. Dhakal, Georgios Chintzoglou, Jie Zhang

We report a study of a compound solar eruption that was associated with two consecutively erupting magnetic structures and correspondingly two distinct peaks, during impulsive phas…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 25 cited

Bridging the Gap: Capturing the Ly Counterpart of a Type-II Spicule and its Heating Evolution with VAULT2.0 and IRIS Observations

Georgios Chintzoglou, Bart De Pontieu, Juan Martínez-Sykora +3

We present results from an observing campaign in support of the VAULT2.0 sounding rocket launch on September 30, 2014. VAULT2.0 is a Ly (1216 Å) spectroheliograph capable of pro…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 48 cited

What causes the high apparent speeds in chromospheric and transition region spicules on the Sun?

Bart De Pontieu, Juan Martinez-Sykora, Georgios Chintzoglou

Spicules are the most ubuiquitous type of jets in the solar atmosphere. The advent of high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 24 cited

Magnetic Flux Rope Shredding by a Hyperbolic Flux Tube: The Detrimental Effects of Magnetic Topology on Solar Eruptions

Georgios Chintzoglou, Angelos Vourlidas, Antonia Savcheva +3

We present the analysis of an unusual failed eruption captured in high cadence and in many wavelengths during the observing campaign in support of the VAULT2.0 sounding rocket laun…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 40 cited

A First Comparison of Millimeter Continuum and Mg II Ultraviolet Line Emission from the Solar Chromosphere

T. S. Bastian, G. Chintzoglou, B. De Pontieu +4

We present joint observations of the Sun by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). The observations were made…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 6 cited

An observationally-driven kinetic approach to coronal heating

K. Moraitis, A. Toutountzi, H. Isliker +3

Coronal heating through the explosive release of magnetic energy remains an open problem in solar physics. Recent hydrodynamical models attempt an investigation by placing swarms o…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 95 cited

Formation of Magnetic Flux Ropes during Confined Flaring Well Before the Onset of a Pair of Major Coronal Mass Ejections

Georgios Chintzoglou, Spiros Patsourakos, Angelos Vourlidas

NOAA Active Region (AR) 11429 was the source of twin super-fast Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). The CMEs took place within a hour from each other, with the onset of the first taking…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 33 cited

Triggering an eruptive flare by emerging flux in a solar active-region complex

Rohan E. Louis, Bernhard Kliem, B. Ravindra +1

A flare and fast coronal mass ejection originated between solar active regions NOAA 11514 and 11515 on July 1, 2012 in response to flux emergence in front of the leading sunspot of…