Nonlinear force-free field extrapolation in spherical geometry: Improved boundary data treatment applied to a SOLIS/VSM vector magnetogram

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 527, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Tadesse, T ^a,b   Wiegelmann, T ^a   Inhester, B ^a   Pevtsov, A ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

magnetic fields; methods: numerical; Sun: corona; Sun: photosphere

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; ACTIVE REGIONS; BOUNDARY DATA; BOUNDARY FIELDS; CARTESIAN GEOMETRY; CORONAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; CORONAL MASS EJECTION; DATA GAP; FIELD MODEL; FIELD STRENGTHS; MAGNETIC ENERGIES; MAGNETIC HELICITY; MEASURED DATA; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; METHODS: NUMERICALS; NONLINEAR FORCE; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; SCATTERED DATA; SMALL AREA; SOLAR ATMOSPHERE; SOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPHERICAL COORDINATES; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; SUN: CORONA; SUN: PHOTOSPHERE; UPPER LAYER; VECTOR MAGNETOGRAMS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EXTRAPOLATION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOMETERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SPHERES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VECTORS;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

EID: 78951469529     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015491     Document Type: Article

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