# Slip-Back Mapping as a Tracker of Topological Changes in Evolving Magnetic Configurations

## TL;DR

This paper adapts slip-back mapping to track topological changes in the solar corona's magnetic field, revealing detailed flux transfer mechanisms during magnetic reconnection in evolving coronal configurations.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel application of slip-back mapping to analyze magnetic flux transfer and topological changes in the solar corona during evolution.

## Key findings

- Detailed description of flux transfer via interchange reconnection.
- Application to global MHD simulations of the solar corona.
- Enhanced understanding of magnetic topology evolution.

## Abstract

The topology of the coronal magnetic field produces a strong impact on the properties of the solar corona and presumably on the origin of the slow solar wind. To advance our understanding of this impact, we revisit the concept of so-called slip-back mapping (Titov et al. 2009) and adapt it for determining open, closed, and disconnected flux systems that are formed in the solar corona by magnetic reconnection during a given time interval. The developed method allows us, in particular, to describe the magnetic flux transfer between open and closed flux regions via so-called interchange reconnection with an unprecedented level of details. We illustrate the application of this method to the analysis of the global MHD evolution of the solar corona that is driven by an idealized differential rotation of the photospheric plasma.