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Eruptivity Criteria for Solar Coronal Flux Ropes in Magnetohydrodynamic and Magnetofrictional Models (2023)
Journal Article
Rice, O. E. K., & Yeates, A. R. (2023). Eruptivity Criteria for Solar Coronal Flux Ropes in Magnetohydrodynamic and Magnetofrictional Models. Astrophysical Journal, 955(2), Article 114. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acefc1

We investigate which scalar quantity or quantities can best predict the loss of equilibrium and subsequent eruption of magnetic flux ropes in the solar corona. Our models are initialized with a potential magnetic arcade, which is then evolved by mean... Read More about Eruptivity Criteria for Solar Coronal Flux Ropes in Magnetohydrodynamic and Magnetofrictional Models.

Eruptivity Criteria for Two-dimensional Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Solar Corona (2022)
Journal Article
Rice, O. E., & Yeates, A. R. (2022). Eruptivity Criteria for Two-dimensional Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Solar Corona. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 9, Article 849135. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.849135

We apply the magneto-frictional approach to investigate which quantity or quantities can best predict the loss of equilibrium of a translationally-invariant magnetic flux rope. The flux rope is produced self-consistently by flux cancellation combined... Read More about Eruptivity Criteria for Two-dimensional Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Solar Corona.

Exploring the Origin of Stealth Coronal Mass Ejections with Magnetofrictional Simulations (2022)
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Bhowmik, P., Yeates, A., & Rice, O. (2022). Exploring the Origin of Stealth Coronal Mass Ejections with Magnetofrictional Simulations. Solar Physics, 297(3), Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-022-01974-x

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) – among the most energetic events originating from the Sun – can cause significant and sudden disruption to the magnetic and particulate environment of the heliosphere. Thus, in the current era of space-based technologie... Read More about Exploring the Origin of Stealth Coronal Mass Ejections with Magnetofrictional Simulations.

Global Coronal Equilibria with Solar Wind Outflow (2021)
Journal Article
Rice, O. E., & Yeates, A. R. (2021). Global Coronal Equilibria with Solar Wind Outflow. Astrophysical Journal, 923(1), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2c71

Given a known radial magnetic field distribution on the Sun’s photospheric surface, there exist wellestablished methods for computing a potential magnetic field in the corona above. Such potential fields are routinely used as input to solar wind mode... Read More about Global Coronal Equilibria with Solar Wind Outflow.