Search Results - "Cheung, Mark"
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The Origin of Major Solar Activity: Collisional Shearing between Nonconjugated Polarities of Multiple Bipoles Emerging within Active Regions
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-01-2019)“…Active regions (ARs) that exhibit compact polarity inversion lines (PILs) are known to be very flare productive. However, the physical mechanisms behind this…”
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Solar Ultraviolet Bursts
Published in Space science reviews (01-12-2018)“…The term “ultraviolet (UV) burst” is introduced to describe small, intense, transient brightenings in ultraviolet images of solar active regions. We…”
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The Multi-slit Approach to Coronal Spectroscopy with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE)
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2020)“…The Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) is a proposed mission aimed at understanding the physical mechanisms driving the heating of the solar corona and the…”
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Destabilizing the Fundamental Mode of Black Holes: The Elephant and the Flea
Published in Physical review letters (18-03-2022)“…Recent work applying the notion of pseudospectrum to gravitational physics showed that the quasinormal mode spectrum of black holes is unstable, with the…”
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THERMAL DIAGNOSTICS WITH THE ATMOSPHERIC IMAGING ASSEMBLY ON BOARD THE SOLAR DYNAMICS OBSERVATORY: A VALIDATED METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIAL EMISSION MEASURE INVERSIONS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-07-2015)“…ABSTRACT We present a new method for performing differential emission measure (DEM) inversions on narrow-band EUV images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly…”
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Stellar-mass microlensing of gravitational waves
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-05-2021)“…ABSTRACT When gravitational waves (GWs) pass through the nuclear star clusters of galactic lenses, they may be microlensed by the stars. Such microlensing can…”
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A METHOD FOR DATA-DRIVEN SIMULATIONS OF EVOLVING SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2012)“…We present a method for performing data-driven simulations of solar active region formation and evolution. The approach is based on magnetofriction, which…”
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Various Local Heating Events in the Earliest Phase of Flux Emergence
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-02-2017)“…Emerging flux regions (EFRs) are known to exhibit various sporadic local heating events in the lower atmosphere. To investigate the characteristics of these…”
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Exploring the Limits of Synthetic Creation of Solar EUV Images via Image-to-image Translation
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2022)“…The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a NASA multispectral decade-long mission that has been daily producing terabytes of observational data from the Sun, has…”
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Flux Emergence (Theory)
Published in Living reviews in solar physics (01-01-2014)“…Magnetic flux emergence from the solar convection zone into the overlying atmosphere is the driver of a diverse range of phenomena associated with solar…”
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A Critical Assessment of Nonlinear Force-Free Field Modeling of the Solar Corona for Active Region 10953
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-05-2009)“…Nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) models are thought to be viable tools for investigating the structure, dynamics, and evolution of the coronae of solar…”
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Data-driven Radiative Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations with the MURaM Code
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2023)“…We present a method of conducting data-driven simulations of solar active regions and flux emergence with the MURaM radiative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code…”
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NUMERICAL STUDY ON THE EMERGENCE OF KINKED FLUX TUBE FOR UNDERSTANDING OF POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF δ-SPOT REGIONS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2015)“…ABSTRACT We carried out an magnetohydrodynamic simulation where a subsurface twisted kink-unstable flux tube emerges from the solar interior to the corona…”
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Comparative Study of Data-driven Solar Coronal Field Models Using a Flux Emergence Simulation as a Ground-truth Data Set
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-02-2020)“…For a better understanding of the magnetic field in the solar corona and dynamic activities such as flares and coronal mass ejections, it is crucial to measure…”
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Probing the Physics of the Solar Atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE). II. Flares and Eruptions
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2022)“…Current state-of-the-art spectrographs cannot resolve the fundamental spatial (subarcseconds) and temporal (less than a few tens of seconds) scales of the…”
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Comprehensive Radiative MHD Simulations of Eruptive Flares above Collisional Polarity Inversion Lines
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2023)“…We present a new simulation setup using the MURaM radiative MHD code that allows the study of the formation of collisional polarity inversion lines (cPILs) in…”
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Solar Orbiter and SDO Observations, and a Bifrost Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of Small-scale Coronal Jets
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2023)“…We report high-resolution, high-cadence observations of five small-scale coronal jets in an on-disk quiet Sun region observed with Solar Orbiter’s EUI/HRI EUV…”
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LIGHT BRIDGE IN A DEVELOPING ACTIVE REGION. I. OBSERVATION OF LIGHT BRIDGE AND ITS DYNAMIC ACTIVITY PHENOMENA
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2015)“…ABSTRACT Light bridges, the bright structures that divide the umbra of sunspots and pores into smaller pieces, are known to produce a wide variety of activity…”
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Surface Flux Transport on the Sun
Published in Space science reviews (01-06-2023)“…We review the surface flux transport model for the evolution of magnetic flux patterns on the Sun’s surface. Our underlying motivation is to understand the…”
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Sun-as-a-star Spectral Irradiance Observations of Transiting Active Regions
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2020)“…Major solar flares are prone to occur in active-region (AR) atmospheres associated with large, complex, dynamically evolving sunspots. This points to the…”
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