Uncovering Mechanisms of Coronal Magnetism via Advanced 3D Modeling of Flares and Active Regions

TL;DR

This paper emphasizes the importance of advanced 3D modeling of solar active regions and flares to leverage upcoming high-resolution solar data and improve understanding of coronal magnetism.

Contribution

It advocates for a comprehensive effort to develop realistic 3D models, visualization tools, and data-model comparison methods for solar active regions and flares.

Findings

Highlights the need for sophisticated 3D modeling in solar physics

Proposes a coordinated effort to develop visualization and analysis tools

Prepares for upcoming high-resolution solar observations

Abstract

The coming decade will see the routine use of solar data of unprecedented spatial and spectral resolution, time cadence, and completeness. To capitalize on the new (or soon to be available) facilities such as SDO, ATST and FASR, and the challenges they present in the visualization and synthesis of multi-wavelength datasets, we propose that realistic, sophisticated, 3D active region and flare modeling is timely and critical, and will be a forefront of coronal studies over the coming decade. To make such modeling a reality, a broad, concerted effort is needed to capture the wealth of information resulting from the data, develop a synergistic modeling effort, and generate the necessary visualization, interpretation and model-data comparison tools to accurately extract the key physics.