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Living Reviews Articles

Articles published in Living Reviews in Solar Physics since 2004.

Journal cover: Living Reviews in Solar PhysicsLiving Reviews in Solar Physics is a full open-access journal publishing critical reviews of research in all areas of solar and heliospheric physics. They evaluate existing work, place it in meaningful context, and suggest areas for new research. These “living” articles are kept up-to-date by the authors.

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Sun-Earth Connection
Solar Wind and Heliosphere

2021 - 18:3
Aline A. Vidotto, 
The evolution of the solar wind

2019 - 16:5
Daniel Verscharen / Kristopher G. Klein / Bennett A. Maruca, 
The multi-scale nature of the solar wind

2018 - 15:4
Tamas I. Gombosi / Bart van der Holst / Ward B. Manchester / Igor V. Sokolov, 
Extended MHD modeling of the steady solar corona and the solar wind

2018 - 15:2
Yasuhito Narita, 
Space–time structure and wavevector anisotropy in space plasma turbulence

2018 - 15:1
Ian G. Richardson, 
Solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere

2017 - 14:5
Emilia Kilpua / Hannu E. J. Koskinen / Tuija I. Pulkkinen, 
Coronal mass ejections and their sheath regions in interplanetary space

2016 - 13:3 
Mihir Desai / Joe Giacalone, 
Large gradual solar energetic particle events

lrsp-2015-7
Giannina Poletto,
Solar Coronal Plumes

lrsp-2013-5
Mathew J. Owens / Robert J. Forsyth,
The Heliospheric Magnetic Field

lrsp-2013-3
Marius S. Potgieter,
Solar Modulation of Cosmic Rays

lrsp-2013-2
Roberto Bruno / Vincenzo Carbone,
The Solar Wind as a Turbulence Laboratory

lrsp-2011-1
P. F. Chen,
Coronal Mass Ejections: Models and Their Observational Basis

lrsp-2010-4
Leon Ofman,
Wave Modeling of the Solar Wind

lrsp-2009-3
Steven R. Cranmer,
Coronal Holes

lrsp-2006-1
Eckart Marsch,
Kinetic Physics of the Solar Corona and Solar Wind

Solar Surface and Atmosphere

2021 - 18:1
Thomas Wiegelmann / Takashi Sakurai, 
Solar force-free magnetic fields

2020 - 17:5
David I. Pontin / Gunnar Hornig, 
The Parker problem: existence of smooth force-free fields and coronal heating

2020 - 17:3
Jorrit Leenarts, 
Radiation hydrodynamics in simulations of the solar atmosphere

2020 - 17:1
Rainer Arlt / José M. Vaquero, 
Historical sunspot records

2019 - 16:3
Shin Toriumi / Haimin Wang, 
Flare-productive active regions

2019 - 16:1
Luis Bellot Rubio / David Orozco Suárez, 
Quiet Sun magnetic fields: an observational view

2018 - 15:7
Sarah E. Gibson, 
Solar prominences: theory and models. Fleshing out the magnetic skeleton

2018 - 15:3
Iñigo Arregui / Ramón Oliver / José Luis Ballester, 
Prominence Oscillations

2016 - 13:1
Carlos Allende Prieto, 
Solar and stellar photospheric abundances

lrsp-2015-7
Giannina Poletto, 
Solar Coronal Plumes

lrsp-2015-6
Elena Khomenko / Manuel Collados, 
Oscillations and Waves in Sunspots

lrsp-2015-5
Gordon J. D. Petrie, 
Solar Magnetism in the Polar Regions

lrsp-2015-3
Alexander Warmuth, 
Large-scale Globally Propagating Coronal Waves

lrsp-2015-2
J. Martin Laming, 
The FIP and Inverse FIP Effects in Solar and Stellar Coronae

lrsp-2015-1
Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi / Lucie May Green, 
Evolution of Active Regions

lrsp-2014-4
Fabio Reale, 
Coronal Loops: Observations and Modeling of Confined Plasma

lrsp-2014-3
Mark C. M. Cheung / Hiroaki Isobe, 
Flux Emergence (Theory)

lrsp-2014-1
Susanna Parenti, 
Solar Prominences: Observations

lrsp-2012-6
Duncan Mackay / Anthony Yeates, 
The Sun's Global Photospheric and Coronal Magnetic Fields: Observations and Models

lrsp-2012-4
Robert F. Stein, 
Solar Surface Magneto-Convection

lrsp-2011-4
Juan M. Borrero / Kiyoshi Ichimoto, 
Magnetic Structure of Sunspots

lrsp-2011-3
Matthias Rempel / Rolf Schlichenmaier, 

Sunspot Modeling: From Simplified Models to Radiative MHD Simulations

lrsp-2009-3
Steven R. Cranmer, 
Coronal Holes

lrsp-2009-2
Åke Nordlund / Robert F. Stein / Martin Asplund, 
Solar Surface Convection

lrsp-2006-1
Eckart Marsch, 
Kinetic Physics of the Solar Corona and Solar Wind

lrsp-2005-5
Neil R. Sheeley, Jr., 
Surface Evolution of the Sun's Magnetic Field: A Historical Review of the Flux-Transport Mechanism

lrsp-2005-3
Valery M. Nakariakov / Erwin Verwichte,  
Coronal Waves and Oscillations

Solar-Stellar Connection

2019 - 16:4 
Rafael A. García & Jérôme Ballot
Asteroseismology of solar-type stars

2017 - 14:4
Allan Sacha Brun / Matthew K. Browning
Magnetism, dynamo action and the solar-stellar connection

lrsp-2015-8
Günter Houdek / Marc-Antoine Dupret,
Interaction Between Convection and Pulsation

lrsp-2012-1
Ansgar Reiners, 
Observations of Cool-Star Magnetic Fields

lrsp-2008-2
Jeffrey C. Hall, 
Stellar Chromospheric Activity

lrsp-2007-3
Manuel Güdel, 
The Sun in Time: Activity and Environment

lrsp-2005-8
Svetlana V. Berdyugina, 
Starspots: A Key to the Stellar Dynamo

lrsp-2004-2
Brian E. Wood, 
Astrospheres and Solar-like Stellar Winds

Solar Interior

2021 - 18:2
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, 
Solar structure and evolution

2020 - 17:4
Paul Charbonneau, 
Dynamo models of the solar cycle

2018 - 15:6
François Rincon / Michel Rieutord, 
The Sun's supergranulation

2016 - 13:2
Sarbani Basu, 
Global seismology of the Sun

lrsp-2015-8
Günter Houdek / Marc-Antoine Dupret, 
Interaction Between Convection and Pulsation

lrsp-2014-3
Mark C. M. Cheung / Hiroaki Isobe, 
Flux Emergence (Theory)

lrsp-2010-2
Michel Rieutord / François Rincon, 
The Sun's Supergranulation

lrsp-2009-4
Yuhong Fan, 
Magnetic Fields in the Solar Convection Zone

lrsp-2009-1
Rachel Howe, 
Solar Interior Rotation and its Variation

lrsp-2005-6
Laurent Gizon / Aaron C. Birch, 
Local Helioseismology

lrsp-2005-1
Mark S. Miesch, 
Large-Scale Dynamics of the Convection Zone and Tachocline

Solar Activity

2020 - 17:2
Kristóf Petrovay, 
Solar Cycle Prediction

2020 - 17:1
Rainer Arlt / José M. Vaquero, 
Historical sunspot records

2019 - 16:2
Maria S. Madjarska, 
Coronal bright points

2017 - 14:5
Emilia Kilpua / Hannu E. J. Koskinen / Tuija I. Pulkkinen, 
Coronal mass ejections and their sheath regions in interplanetary space

2017 - 14:3
Ilya G. Usoskin, 
A History of Solar Activity over Millennia

2017 - 14:2
Arnold O. Benz, 
Flare Observations

2016 - 13:3 
Mihir Desai / Joe Giacalone, 
Large gradual solar energetic particle events

lrsp-2015-4
David H. Hathaway, 
The Solar Cycle

lrsp-2015-1
Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi / Lucie May Green, 
Evolution of Active Regions

lrsp-2013-4
Mike Lockwood, 
Reconstruction and Prediction of Variations in the Open Solar Magnetic Flux and Interplanetary Conditions

lrsp-2013-3
Marius S. Potgieter, 
Solar Modulation of Cosmic Rays

lrsp-2012-3
David F. Webb / Timothy A. Howard
Coronal Mass Ejections: Observations

lrsp-2011-6
Kazunari Shibata / Tetsuya Magara, 
Solar Flares: Magnetohydrodynamic Processes

lrsp-2011-1
P. F. Chen, 
Coronal Mass Ejections: Models and Their Observational Basis

lrsp-2010-3
Paul Charbonneau, 
Dynamo Models of the Solar Cycle

lrsp-2007-3
Manuel Güdel, 
The Sun in Time: Activity and Environment

Physical Foundations

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Instruments, Methods and Techniques

2018 - 15:5
Giulio Del Zanna / Helen E. Mason, 
Solar UV and X-ray spectral diagnostics

lrsp-2016-4
Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta / Basilio Ruiz Cobo,
Inversion of the radiative transfer equation for polarized light

lrsp-2014-2
Matthew J. Penn, 
Infrared Solar Physics

lrsp-2012-1
Ansgar Reiners, 
Observations of Cool-Star Magnetic Fields

lrsp-2011-5
Markus J. Aschwanden, 
Solar Stereoscopy and Tomography

lrsp-2011-2
Thomas R. Rimmele / Jose Marino, 
Solar Adaptive Optics

lrsp-2005-7
Dana W. Longcope, 
Topological Methods for the Analysis of Solar Magnetic Fields