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As the Solar MURI project progresses, this page will showcase some of the latest and most
interesting results. These will include images and movies of both the actual data and the
theoretical models constructed to simulate and understand that data.
Flux Emergence from the Solar Interior into the Corona:
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The left panel shows a snapshot of an emerging,
modestly twisted Omega-loop configuration computed with ANMHD
(case SS3 from Abbett, Fisher, & Fan 2000, ApJ 540, 548)
driving our ZEUS3D simulations of flux emergence through the
photosphere and corona. The red box outlines the computational
domain in ANMHD. The grey plane near the top of that box shows
the horizontal plane we have used to couple to the ZEUS3D
simulation. The expanded region near the top of this panel
shows a false line-of-sight magnetogram of the bottom boundary
of the ZEUS3D simulation, along with computed
coronal field line trajectories. The 4 grey scale panels at
the right of the figure show how the magnetic field line morphology
changes as the bipoles separate and flux emerges into the corona. The
field lines are color coded to indicate the field strength in the
lower boundary, roughly coinciding with the photosphere. Note the
strong, sigmoidally shaped lower field lines, and the weaker
overlying field lines that are sheared relative to the lower ones.
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