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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02616-8
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- MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI Grant [JP15H05814]
- MEXT as Exploratory Challenge on Post-K computer (Elucidation of the Birth of Exoplanets [Second Earth])
- MEXT as Exploratory Challenge on Post-K computer (Environmental Variations of Planets in the Solar System)
- Alexander von Humboldt foundation
- computational joint research program of the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University
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Solar eruptions are well-known drivers of extreme space weather, which can greatly disturb the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. The triggering process and initial dynamics of these eruptions are still an area of intense study. Here we perform a magnetohydrodynamic simulation taking into account the observed photospheric magnetic field to reveal the dynamics of a solar eruption in a real magnetic environment. In our simulation, we confirmed that tether-cutting reconnection occurring locally above the polarity inversion line creates a twisted flux tube, which is lifted into a toroidal unstable area where it loses equilibrium, destroying the force-free state, and driving the eruption. Consequently, a more highly twisted flux tube is built up during this initial phase, which can be further accelerated even when it returns to a stable area. We suggest that a nonlinear positive feedback process between the flux tube evolution and reconnection is the key to ensure this extra acceleration.
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