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Magnetic Reconnection Governs the Entire Lifecycle of Solar Eruptive Magnetic Flux Rope
Xinkai Bian, Chaowei Jiang, Qingjun Liu +3
While magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are widely accepted to exist prior to many solar eruptions, the physical mechanism responsible for triggering and subsequently driving their erupti…
An investigation of magnetic energy and helicity thresholds at the onset of solar eruptions based on numerical simulations
Xinkai Bian, Chaowei Jiang, Qingjun Liu +5
Identifying universal, topology-independent thresholds in the coronal magnetic fields at onset of solar eruptions is crucial for physics-based prediction of eruptions. To this end,…
Modeling of Coronal Mass Ejection Originated from a Sheared Arcade of Realistic Active-Region Scale and Its Propagation in the Heliosphere: Methodology
Chaowei Jiang, Xueshang Feng, Liping Yang +4
Simulating coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from their origin in active regions (ARs) to their propagation to Earth remains challenging, particularly when aiming to resolve AR scales…
The role of photospheric magnetic flux diffusion in initiation of solar eruptions
Xinkai Bian, Chaowei Jiang, Yang Wang +4
Solar eruptions may occur at different evolutionary stages of active regions, during which the photospheric motions manifest in various forms, including flux emergence, sunspot rot…
MHD Modeling of the Near-Sun Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejection Initiated from a Sheared Arcade
Jinnan Cai, Ling Zhang, Chaowei Jiang +4
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are phenomena in which the Sun suddenly releases a mass of energy and magnetized plasma, potentially leading to adverse space weather. Numerical simul…
Why are non-radial solar eruptions less frequent than radial ones?
Qingjun Liu, Chaowei Jiang, Xuesheng Feng +2
Coronal mass ejections from the Sun are not always initiated along a radial trajectory; such non-radial eruptions are well known to be caused by the asymmetry of the pre-eruption m…
A Model of Solar Magnetic Flux Rope Eruption Initiated Primarily by Magnetic Reconnection
Qingjun Liu, Chaowei Jiang, Xinkai Bian +3
There is a heated debate regarding the specific roles played by ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instability and magnetic reconnection in the causes of solar eruptions. In the conte…
Magnetic Reconnection as the Key Mechanism in Sunspot Rotation Leading to Solar Eruption
Chaowei Jiang, Xueshang Feng, Xinkai Bian +8
The rotation of sunspots around their umbral center has long been considered as an important process in leading to solar eruptions, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. A…
Data-driven MHD simulation of a sunspot rotating active region leading to solar eruption
Chaowei Jiang, Xueshang Feng, Xinkai Bian +8
Solar eruptions are the leading driver of space weather, and it is vital for space weather forecast to understand in what conditions the solar eruptions can be produced and how the…
A fundamental mechanism of solar eruption initiation in multipolar magnetic field
Xinkai Bian, Chaowei Jiang, Xueshang Feng +2
Recently we established a fundamental mechanism of solar eruption initiation, in which an eruption can be initiated from a bipolar field through magnetic reconnection in the curren…
A model of failed solar eruption initiated and destructed by magnetic reconnection
Chaowei Jiang, Aiying Duan, Peng Zou +5
Solar eruptions are explosive disruption of coronal magnetic fields, and often launch coronal mass ejections into the interplanetary space. Intriguingly, many solar eruptions fail…
Numerical Simulation of Solar Magnetic Flux Emergence Using the AMR--CESE--MHD Code
Zhipeng Liu, Chaowei Jiang, Xueshang Feng +2
Magnetic flux emergence from the solar interior to the atmosphere is believed to be a key process of formation of solar active regions and driving solar eruptions. Due to the limit…
Homologous Coronal Mass Ejections Caused by Recurring Formation and Disruption of Current Sheet within a Sheared Magnetic Arcade
Xinkai Bian, Chaowei Jiang, Xueshang Feng +2
The Sun often produces coronal mass ejections with similar structure repeatedly from the same source region, and how these homologous eruptions are initiated remains an open questi…
Numerical Simulation of a Fundamental Mechanism of Solar Eruption with Different Magnetic Flux Distributions
Xinkai Bian, Chaowei Jiang, Xueshang Feng +3
Solar eruptions are explosive release of coronal magnetic field energy as manifested in solar flares and coronal mass ejection. Observations have shown that the core of eruption-pr…
Investigations of Sizes and Dynamical Motions of Solar Photospheric Granules by a Novel Granular Segmenting Algorithm
Liu Yanxiao, Jiang Chaowei, Yuan Ding +3
Granules observed in solar photosphere are believed to be convective and turbulent, but the physical picture of granular dynamical process remains unclear. Here we performed an inv…
A fundamental mechanism of solar eruption initiation
Chaowei Jiang, Xueshang Feng, Rui Liu +8
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 t…
Data-driven MHD Simulation of the Formation and Initiation of a Large-scale Pre-flare Magnetic Flux Rope in Solar Active Region 12371
Wen He, Chaowei Jiang, Peng Zou +4
Solar eruptions are the most powerful drivers of space weather. To understand their cause and nature, it is crucial to know how the coronal magnetic field evolves before eruption.…
Continuous Null-Point Magnetic Reconnection Builds Up a Torus Unstable Magnetic Flux Rope Triggering the X9.3 Flare in Solar Active Region~12673
Peng Zou, Chaowei Jiang, Fengsi Wei +3
Two X-class solar flares occurred on 2017 September 6 from active region NOAA 12673: the first one is a confined X2.2 flare, and it is followed only hours later by the sec…
A Statistical Study of Solar Filament Eruptions That Forms High-Speed Coronal Mass Ejections
Peng Zou, Chaowei Jiang, Fengsi Wei +2
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) play a decisive role in driving space weather, especially, the fast ones (e.g., with speeds above ~km~s). Understanding the trigger mechan…
A Two-Step Magnetic Reconnection in a Confined X-class Flare in Solar Active Region 12673
Peng Zou, Chaowei Jiang, Xueshang Feng +3
Solar flares are often associated with coronal eruptions, but there are confined ones without eruption, even for some X-class flares. How such large flares occurred and why they ar…
Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of the X9.3 Flare on 2017 September 6: Evolving Magnetic Topology
Chaowei Jiang, Peng Zou, Xueshang Feng +7
Three-dimensional magnetic topology is crucial to understanding the explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona during solar flares. Much attention has been given to the pre…
Decipher the Three-Dimensional Magnetic Topology of a Great Solar Flare
Chaowei Jiang, Peng Zou, Xueshang Feng +5
Three-dimensional magnetic topology of solar flare plays a crucial role in understanding its explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona. However, such three-dimensional cor…
Reconstruction of a Large-scale Pre-flare Coronal Current Sheet Associated with an Homologous X-shaped Flare
Chaowei Jiang, Xiaoli Yan, Xueshang Feng +4
As a fundamental magnetic structure in the solar corona, electric current sheets (CSs) can form either prior to or during solar flare, and they are essential for magnetic energy di…