Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2021

Presentation information

[E] Oral

P (Space and Planetary Sciences ) » P-EM Solar-Terrestrial Sciences, Space Electromagnetism & Space Environment

[P-EM08] Space Weather and Space Climate

Sat. Jun 5, 2021 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Ch.06 (Zoom Room 06)

convener:Ryuho Kataoka(National Institute of Polar Research), A Antti Pulkkinen(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Kanya Kusano(Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University), Kaori Sakaguchi(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), Chairperson:Kanya Kusano(Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University), Kaori Sakaguchi(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

[PEM08-18] Data-driven MHD simulation of successive solar plasma eruptions

*Takafumi Kaneko1, Sung-Hong Park1, Kanya Kusano1 (1.Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University)

Keywords:solar filament/prominence, filament eruption, data-driven simulation

Solar flares and plasma eruptions are the origins of the strong space weather events. They are manifestations of sudden energy release in the solar magnetized atmosphere. To understand the physical mechanisms and predict their occurrences, three-dimensional magnetic fields from the
photosphere up to the corona must be studied. The solar photospheric magnetic fields are observable, whereas the coronal magnetic fields cannot be measured. One method for inferring coronal magnetic fields is performing data-driven simulations, which involves time-series observational data of the photospheric magnetic fields with the bottom boundary of magnetohydrodynamic simulations. We developed a data-driven method in which temporal evolutions of the observational vector magnetic field can be reproduced at the bottom boundary in the simulation by introducing an inverted velocity field. This velocity field is obtained by inversely solving the induction equation and applying an appropriate gauge transformation. Using this method, we performed a data-driven simulation of successive small eruptions observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Solar Magnetic Activity Telescope in November 2017. The simulation well reproduced the converging motion between opposite-polarity magnetic patches, demonstrating successive formation and eruptions of helical flux ropes.