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Shin TORIUMI

  (鳥海 森)

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Affiliation
Associate Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Department of Solar System Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Degree
Ph.D. (Science)(Mar, 2014, The University of Tokyo)
Contact information
toriumi.shinjaxa.jp
Researcher number
30738290
ORCID ID
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1276-2403
J-GLOBAL ID
201801010150385982
researchmap Member ID
B000334089

Graduated from the School of Science, the University of Tokyo (PhD in Science, March 2014), Shin Toriumi has been working on the formation of sunspots and genesis of solar flares through both numerical simulations and observational data analysis. He is also interested in stellar activity phenomena. ADS Google Scholar ORCID

  • Magnetic flux emergence and sunspot formation: Sunspots are created through emergence of magnetic fields from the solar interior, which cannot be investigated by direct optical observations. Toriumi performed large-scale numerical simulations and revealed the physical properties of emerging magnetic fields such as a rising speed and magentic structure. He also developed a new method of probing subsurface magnetic fields using helioseismology and estimated the emergence speed, which was in accordance with the numerical result.
  • Sunspot jets and explosions: Sunspots harbor a variety of activity events like jets and explosions. He analyzed the observational data from Hinode and IRIS and numerical model of sunspots, revealing that the sunspots jets are caused by magnetic reconnection, driven by turbulent convection. → NAOJ press release
  • Flare-producing sunspots: Major solar flares tend to occur in complex-shaped sunspot groups. Toriumi analyzed a number of flare-producing sunspots and revealed their statistical properties. He also succeeded in the first-ever modling of spontaneous generation of flaring sunspots via realistic simulation of magnetic flux emergence. → HMI Nuggets Web release
  • Solar-Stellar connections: To see what starspots would look like, Toriumi surveyed sun-as-a-star light curves of sunspot transit events for a variety of wavelengths and explored the ways to characterize the magnetic and thermal circumstances of starspots.→ NASA press release He also revealed that ultra-hot atmospheres of the Sun and Sun-like stars are produced by the common heating mechanisms.→ American Univ press release
  • SOLAR-C: With the target launch in FY2028, Japan's next-generation solar-observing satellite SOLAR-C is now in Phase B. Toriumi is leading the development of science operation, data handling, ground segments, etc.
  • PR: He is involved in PR activities for the ISAS/JAXA, including the host for the live-streaming of the lunar landing of the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM).→ YouTube Live

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  • Miki Kurihara, Wataru Buz Iwakiri, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Ken Ebisawa, Shin Toriumi, Shinsuke Imada, Yohko Tsuboi, Kazuki Usui, Keith C. Gendreau, Zaven Arzoumanian
    The Astrophysical Journal, 965(2) 135, Apr 16, 2024  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ...965..135K/abstract
  • P. Santamarina Guerrero, Yukio Katsukawa, Shin Toriumi, D. Orozco Suarez
    The Astrophysical Journal, 964(1) 32, Mar 13, 2024  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ...964...32S/abstract
  • Yu Zhou, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Shin Toriumi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128(12) e2023JA032069, Dec 19, 2023  Peer-reviewed
  • Hisashi Hayakawa, Edward, W. Cliver, Frédéric Clette, Yusuke Ebihara, Shin Toriumi, Ilaria Ermolli, Theodosios Chatzistergos, Kentaro Hattori, Delores J. Knipp, Séan P. Blake, Gianna Cauzzi, Kevin Reardon, Philippe-A. Bourdin, Dorothea Jus, Mikhail Vokhmyanin, Keitaro Matsumoto, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, José R. Ribeiro, Ana P. Correia, David M. Willis, Matthew N. Wild, Sam M. Silverman
    The Astrophysical Journal, 959(1) 23, Dec 1, 2023  Peer-reviewed
  • Munehito Shoda, Steven R. Cranmer, Shin Toriumi
    The Astrophysical Journal, 957(2) 71, Sep, 2023  Peer-reviewed
  • Louise Harra, Lyndsay Fletcher, Laurent Gizon, Sami Solanki, Marco Romoli, Louise Harra, Kanya Kusano, Hideyuki Hotta, Yukio Katsukawa, Richard Harrison, Chris Owen, Jackie Davies, Shinsuke Imada, Shin Toriumi, Kostas Tziotziou, David Orozco-Suarez, Daniele Verscharen, Athanasios Papaioannou, Ryan Milligan, Georgia Tsiropoula, Hiroshisa Hara, Toshifumi Shimizu, Säm Krucker, Duncan Mackay, David Berghmans, Marie Dominique, Laurent Dolla, Sergei Shestov, Ioannis Daglis, George Balasis, Alexander Nindos, Kostis Moraitis, Costis Gontikakis, Sarah Matthews, Ineke De Moortel, Xenophon Moussas, Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta, Mihalis Mathioudakis, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Daniele Spadaro, Peter Gallagher, Duncan Mackay, Vincenzo Andretta, Andrew Fazakerley, Frederic Auchère, Silvano Fineschi, Daniele Telloni, Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber, Lucia Kleint, Hardi Peter, Natalie Krivova, Lakshmi Pradeeep Chitta, Krzysztof Barczynski, Wolfgang Finsterle, Alexis Rouillard, James McLaughlin, Nour E. Raouafi, Daniel Verscharen, Silvia Dalla, Anastasios Anastasiadis
    Bulletin of the AAS, Jul 31, 2023  
  • Minami Yoshida, Toshifumi Shimizu, Shin Toriumi
    The Astrophysical Journal, 950(2) 156, Jun 20, 2023  Peer-reviewed
  • Shin Toriumi, Hideyuki Hotta, Kanya Kusano
    Nature Scientific Reports, 13 8994, Jun 2, 2023  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023NatSR..13.8994T/abstract
  • Kosuke Namekata, Shin Toriumi, Vladimir, S. Airapetian, Munehito Shoda, Kyoko Watanabe
    The Astrophysical Journal, 945(2) 147, Mar 16, 2023  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ...945..147N/abstract
  • Kenji Hamaguchi, Jeffrey W. Reep, Vladimir Airapetian, Shin Toriumi, Keith C. Gendreau, Zaven Arzoumanian
    The Astrophysical Journal, 944(2) 163, Feb 22, 2023  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ...944..163H/abstract
  • Kanya Kusano, Shin Toriumi, Daikou Shiota, Takashi Minoshima
    Solar-Terrestrial Environmental Prediction, 289-325, Feb 1, 2023  
  • Takashi Sakurai, Shin Toriumi
    The Astrophysical Journal, 943(1) 10, Jan 19, 2023  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ...943...10S/abstract
  • Shin Toriumi, Vladimir S. Airapetian, Kosuke Namekata, Yuta Notsu
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 262(2) 46, Sep 30, 2022  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJS..262...46T/abstract
  • Takafumi Kaneko, Hideyuki Hotta, Shin Toriumi, Kanya Kusano
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(2) 2775-2786, Sep 16, 2022  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.517.2775K/abstract Strong solar flares occur in δ-spots characterized by the opposite-polarity magnetic fluxes in a single penumbra. Sunspot formation via flux emergence from the convection zone to the photosphere can be strongly affected by convective turbulent flows. It has not yet been shown how crucial convective flows are for the formation of δ-spots. The aim of this study is to reveal the impact of convective flows in the convection zone on the formation and evolution of sunspot magnetic fields. We simulated the emergence and transport of magnetic flux tubes in the convection zone using radiative magnetohydrodynamics code R2D2. We carried out 93 simulations by allocating the twisted flux tubes to different positions in the convection zone. As a result, both δ-type and β-type magnetic distributions were reproduced only by the differences in the convective flows surrounding the flux tubes. The δ-spots were formed by the collision of positive and negative magnetic fluxes on the photosphere. The unipolar and bipolar rotations of the δ-spots were driven by magnetic twist and writhe, transporting magnetic helicity from the convection zone to the corona. We detected a strong correlation between the distribution of the non-potential magnetic field in the photosphere and the position of the downflow plume in the convection zone. The correlation could be detected 20–30 h before the flux emergence. The results suggest that high free energy regions in the photosphere can be predicted even before the magnetic flux appears in the photosphere by detecting the downflow profile in the convection zone.
  • Shin Toriumi
    Advances in Space Research, 70(6) 1549-1561, Sep 15, 2022  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
  • Yijun Hou, Ting Li, Shuhong Yang, Shin Toriumi, Yilin Guo, Jun Zhang
    The Astrophysical Journal, 929 12, Apr 8, 2022  Peer-reviewedInvited
  • Shin Toriumi, Vladimir S. Airapetian
    The Astrophysical Journal, 927(2) 179, Mar 15, 2022  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    American University press release https://www.american.edu/media/news/20220315-magnetic-flux-sun-and-stars.cfm ISAS/JAXA web release https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/topics/002979.html
  • Kanya Kusano, Kiyoshi Ichimoto, Mamoru Ishii, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Shigeo Yoden, Hideharu Akiyoshi, Ayumi Asai, Yusuke Ebihara, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Tada‐Nori Goto, Yoichiro Hanaoka, Hisashi Hayakawa, Keisuke Hosokawa, Hideyuki Hotta, Kornyanat Hozumi, Shinsuke Imada, Kazumasa Iwai, Toshihiko Iyemori, Hidekatsu Jin, Ryuho Kataoka, Yuto Katoh, Takashi Kikuchi, Yûki Kubo, Satoshi Kurita, Haruhisa Matsumoto, Takefumi Mitani, Hiroko Miyahara, Yasunobu Miyoshi, Tsutomu Nagatsuma, Aoi Nakamizo, Satoko Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakata, Naoto Nishizuka, Yuichi Otsuka, Shinji Saito, Susumu Saito, Takashi Sakurai, Tatsuhiko Sato, Toshifumi Shimizu, Hiroyuki Shinagawa, Kazuo Shiokawa, Daikou Shiota, Takeshi Takashima, Chihiro Tao, Shin Toriumi, Satoru Ueno, Kyoko Watanabe, Shinichi Watari, Seiji Yashiro, Kohei Yoshida, Akimasa Yoshikawa
    Earth, Planets and Space, 73(1) 159, Aug 5, 2021  Peer-reviewedInvited
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021EP%26S...73..159K/abstract
  • Chaowei Jiang, Shin Toriumi
    The Astrophysical Journal, 903(1) 11, Oct 26, 2020  Peer-reviewedLast author
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...903...11J/abstract
  • Shin Toriumi, Vladimir S. Airapetian, Hugh S. Hudson, Carolus J. Schrijver, Mark C.M. Cheung, Marc L. DeRosa
    The Astrophysical Journal, 902(1) 36, Oct 8, 2020  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...902...36T/abstract
  • Hideyuki Hotta, Shin Toriumi
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498(2) 2925-2935, Aug 21, 2020  Peer-reviewedLast author
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.498.2925H/abstract
  • Aiying Duan, Chaowei Jiang, Shin Toriumi, Petros Syntelis
    Astrophysical Journal Letters, 896(1) L9, Jun 9, 2020  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...896L...9D/abstract
  • Ryohtaroh T. Ishikawa, Yukio Katsukawa, Patrick Antolin, Shin Toriumi
    Solar Physics, 295 53, Apr 7, 2020  Peer-reviewedLast author
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020SoPh..295...53I/abstract
  • Kosuke Namekata, James R. A. Davenport, Brett M. Morris, Suzanne L. Hawley, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yuta Notsu, Shin Toriumi, Kai Ikuta, Shota Notsu, Satoshi Honda, Daisaku Nogami, Kazunari Shibata
    The Astrophysical Journal, 891(2) 103-103, Mar 11, 2020  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...891..103N/abstract
  • Shin Toriumi, Shinsuke Takasao, Mark C. M. Cheung, Chaowei Jiang, Yang Guo, Keiji Hayashi, Satoshi Inoue
    The Astrophysical Journal, 890(2) 103, Feb 18, 2020  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...890..103T/abstract https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3591984
  • Shin Toriumi, Hideyuki Hotta
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 886(1) L21, Nov 20, 2019  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...886L..21T/abstract
  • Hinode Review Team, K. Al-Janabi, P. Antolin, D. Baker, L.R. Bellot Rubio, L. Bradley, D.H. Brooks, R. Centeno, J.L. Culhane, G. Del Zanna, G.A. Doschek, L. Fletcher, H. Hara, L.K. Harra, A.S. Hillier, S. Imada, J.A. Klimchuk, J.T. Mariska, T.M.D. Pereira, K.K. Reeves, T. Sakao, T. Sakurai, T. Shimizu, M. Shimojo, D. Shiota, S.K. Solanki, A.C. Sterling, Y. Su, Y. Suematsu, T.D. Tarbell, S.K. Tiwari, S. Toriumi, I. Ugarte-Urra, H.P. Warren, T. Watanabe, P.R. Young
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 71(5) R1, Oct 16, 2019  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019PASJ...71R...1H/abstract
  • H. Hayakawa, Y. Ebihara, D.M. Willis, S. Toriumi, T. Iju, K. Hattori, M.N. Wild, D.M. Oliveira, I. Ermolli, J.R. Ribeiro, A.P. Correia, A.I. Ribeiro, D.J. Knipp
    Space Weather, 17 1553-1569, Aug 29, 2019  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019SpWea..17.1553H/abstract
  • Shin Toriumi, Haimin Wang
    Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 16(3) 1-128, May 21, 2019  Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019LRSP...16....3T/abstract
  • M. Fujiyama, H. Hayakawa, T. Iju, T. Kawai, S. Toriumi, K. Otsuji, K. Kondo, Y. Watanabe, S. Nozawa, S. Imada
    Solar Physics, 294(4) 43, Apr 17, 2019  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019SoPh..294...43F/abstract
  • H. Hayakawa, Y. Ebihara, E. Cliver, K. Hattori, S. Toriumi, J.J. Love, N. Umemura, K. Namekata, T. Sakaue, T. Takahashi, K. Shibata
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(3) 4083-4099, Apr, 2019  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.484.4083H/abstract
  • Kosuke Namekata, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yuta Notsu, Shin Toriumi, Hisashi Hayakawa, Kai Ikuta, Shota Notsu, Satoshi Honda, Daisaku Nogami, Kazunari Shibata
    The Astrophysical Journal, 871(2) 187-187, Jan 30, 2019  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...871..187N/abstract
  • P.R. Young, H. Tian, H. Peter, R.J. Rutten, C.J. Nelson, Z. Huang, B. Schmieder, G.J. Vissers, S. Toriumi, L.H.M.R, van, der Voort, M.S. Madjarska, S. Danilovic, A. Berlicki, L.P. Chitta, M.C.M. Cheung, C. Madsen, K.P. Reardon, Y. Katsukawa, P. Heinzel
    Space Science Reviews, 214(8) 120, Dec, 2018  Peer-reviewedInvited
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018SSRv..214..120Y/abstract
  • H. Hayakawa, K. Iwahashi, M. Fujiyama, T. Kawai, S. Toriumi, H. Hotta, H. Iijima, S. Imada, H. Tamazawa, K. Shibata
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 70(4) 63, Aug, 2018  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018PASJ...70...63H/abstract
  • H. Hayakawa, Y. Ebihara, D.M. Willis, K. Hattori, A.S. Giunta, M.N. Wild, S. Hayakawa, S. Toriumi, Y. Mitsuma, L.T. Macdonald, K. Shibata, S.M. Silverman
    The Astrophysical Journal, 862(1) 15, Jul 18, 2018  Peer-reviewed
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...862...15H/abstract
  • Hisashi Hayakawa, Kiyomi Iwahashi, Harufumi Tamazawa, Shin Toriumi, Kazunari Shibata
    Solar Physics, 293(1) 8, Jan 1, 2018  Peer-reviewed
    Three Japanese sunspot drawings associated with Iwahashi Zenbei (1756 – 1811) are shown here from contemporary manuscripts and woodprint documents with the relevant texts. We reveal the observational date of one of the drawings to be 26 August 1793, and the overall observations lasted for over a year. Moreover, we identify the observational site for the dated drawing as Fushimi in Japan. We then compare Zenbei’s observations with the group sunspot number and the raw group count from the Sunspot Index and Long-term Solar Observations (SILSO) to reveal the context of the data, and we conclude that these drawings fill gaps in our understanding that are due to the fragmental sunspot observations around 1793. These drawings are important as a clue to evaluate astronomical knowledge of contemporary Japan in the late eighteenth century and are valuable as a non-European observation, considering that most sunspot observations up to the middle of the nineteenth century are from Europe.
  • Jeffrey W. Reep, Shin Toriumi
    The Astrophysical Journal, 851(1) 4, Dec 10, 2017  Peer-reviewedLast author
    GOES soft X-ray light curves are used to measure the timing and duration of solar flare emission. The timing and duration of the magnetic reconnection and subsequent energy release that drive solar flares are unknown, though the light curves are presumably related. It is therefore critical to understand the physics that connect the two: how does the timescale of reconnection produce an observed GOES light curve? In this work, we model the formation and expansion of an arcade of loops with a hydrodynamic model, which we then use to synthesize GOES light curves. We calculate the FWHM and the e-folding decay time of the light curves and compare them to the separation of the centroids of the two ribbons that the arcade spans, which is representative of the size scale of the loops. We reproduce a linear relation between the two, as found observationally in previous work. We show that this demonstrates a direct connection between the duration of energy release and the evolution of these light curves. We also show that the cooling processes of individual loops comprising the flare arcade directly affect the measured timescales. From the clear consistency between the observed and modeled linearity, we conclude that the primary factors that control the flare timescales are the duration of reconnection and the loop lengths.
  • Shin Toriumi, Shinsuke Takasao
    The Astrophysical Journal, 850(1) 39, Nov, 2017  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    Solar active regions (ARs) that produce strong flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are known to have a relatively high non-potentiality and are characterized by delta-sunspots and sheared magnetic structures. In this study, we conduct a series of flux emergence simulations from the convection zone to the corona and model four types of active regions that have been observationally suggested to cause strong flares, namely the spot-spot, spot-satellite, quadrupole, and inter-AR cases. As a result, we confirm that delta-spot formation is due to the complex geometry and interaction of emerging magnetic fields, and we find that the strong-field, high-gradient, highly sheared polarity inversion line (PIL) is created by the combined effect of the advection, stretching, and compression of magnetic fields. We show that free magnetic energy builds up in the form of a current sheet above the PIL. It is also revealed that photospheric magnetic parameters that predict flare eruptions reflect the stored free energy with high accuracy, while CME-predicting parameters indicate the magnetic relationship between flaring zones and entire ARs.
  • Anna Khlystova, Shin Toriumi
    ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 839(1) 63, Apr, 2017  Peer-reviewed
    We study the plasma flows in the solar photosphere during the emergence of two small active regions, NOAA 9021 and 10768. Using Solar and Heliospheric Observatory/Michelson Doppler Imager data, we find that the strong plasma upflows appear at the initial stage of active region formation, with maximum upflow velocities of -1650 and -1320 m s(-1). The structures with enhanced upflows have size similar to 8 Mm in diameter, and they exist for 1-2 hr. The parameters of the enhanced upflows are consistent with those of the large active region NOAA 10488, which may suggest the possibility that the elementary emerging magnetic loops that appear at the earliest phase of active region formation have similar properties, irrespective of scales of active regions. Comparison between the observations and a numerical simulation of magnetic flux emergence shows a striking consistency. We find that the driving force of the plasma upflow is at first the gas pressure gradient and later the magnetic pressure gradient.
  • Shin Toriumi, Yukio Katsukawa, Mark C. M. Cheung
    ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 836(1) 63, Feb, 2017  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    Emerging flux regions (EFRs) are known to exhibit various sporadic local heating events in the lower atmosphere. To investigate the characteristics of these events, especially to link the photospheric magnetic fields and atmospheric dynamics, we analyze Hinode, Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), and Solar Dynamics Observatory data of a new EFR in NOAA AR 12401. Out of 151 bright points (BPs) identified in Hinode/SOT Ca images, 29 are overlapped by an SOT/SP scan. Seven BPs in the EFR center possess mixed-polarity magnetic backgrounds in the photosphere. Their IRIS UV spectra (e.g., Si IV 1402.8 A) are strongly enhanced and red-or blueshifted, with tails reaching. +/- 150 km s (1), which is highly suggestive of bi-directional jets; each brightening lasts for 10-15 minutes, leaving flare-like light curves. Most of this group show bald patches, the U-shaped photospheric magnetic loops. Another 10 BPs are found in unipolar regions at the EFR edges. They are generally weaker in UV intensities and exhibit systematic redshifts with Doppler speeds up to 40 km s-1, which could exceed the local sound speed in the transition region. Both types of BPs show signs of strong temperature increase in the low chromosphere. These observational results support the physical picture that heating events in the EFR center are due to magnetic reconnection within cancelling undular fields like Ellerman bombs, while the peripheral heating events are due to shocks or strong compressions caused by fast downflows along the overlying arch filament system.
  • Shin Toriumi, Carolus J. Schrijver, Louise K. Harra, Hugh Hudson, Kaori Nagashima
    ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 834(1) 56, Jan, 2017  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), especially the larger ones, emanate from active regions (ARs). With the aim of understanding the magnetic properties that govern such flares and eruptions, we systematically survey all flare events with Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite levels of >= M5.0 within 45 degrees from disk center between 2010 May and 2016 April. These criteria lead to a total of 51 flares from 29 ARs, for which we analyze the observational data obtained by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. More than 80% of the 29 ARs are found to exhibit delta-sunspots, and at least three ARs violate Hale's polarity rule. The flare durations are approximately proportional to the distance between the two flare ribbons, to the total magnetic flux inside the ribbons, and to the ribbon area. From our study, one of the parameters that clearly determine whether a given flare event is CME-eruptive or not is the ribbon area normalized by the sunspot area, which may indicate that the structural relationship between the flaring region and the entire AR controls CME productivity. AR characterization shows that even X-class events do not require delta-sunspots or strong-field, high-gradient polarity inversion lines. An investigation of historical observational data suggests the possibility that the largest solar ARs, with magnetic flux of 2 x 10(23) Mx, might be able to produce "superflares" with energies of the order of 10(34) erg. The proportionality between the flare durations and magnetic energies is consistent with stellar flare observations, suggesting a common physical background for solar and stellar flares.
  • Louise K. Harra, Carolus J. Schrijver, Miho Janvier, Shin Toriumi, Hugh Hudson, Sarah Matthews, Magnus M. Woods, Hirohisa Hara, Manuel Guedel, Adam Kowalski, Rachel Osten, Kanya Kusano, Theresa Lueftinger
    SOLAR PHYSICS, 291(6) 1761-1782, Aug, 2016  Peer-reviewed
    This paper explores the characteristics of 42 solar X-class flares that were observed between February 2011 and November 2014, with data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and other sources. This flare list includes nine X-class flares that had no associated CMEs. In particular our aim was to determine whether a clear signature could be identified to differentiate powerful flares that have coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from those that do not. Part of the motivation for this study is the characterization of the solar paradigm for flare/CME occurrence as a possible guide to the stellar observations; hence we emphasize spectroscopic signatures. To do this we ask the following questions: Do all eruptive flares have long durations? Do CME-related flares stand out in terms of active-region size vs. flare duration? Do flare magnitudes correlate with sunspot areas, and, if so, are eruptive events distinguished? Is the occurrence of CMEs related to the fraction of the active-region area involved? Do X-class flares with no eruptions have weaker non-thermal signatures? Is the temperature dependence of evaporation different in eruptive and non-eruptive flares? Is EUV dimming only seen in eruptive flares? We find only one feature consistently associated with CME-related flares specifically: coronal dimming in lines characteristic of the quiet-Sun corona, i.e. 1 - 2 MK. We do not find a correlation between flare magnitude and sunspot areas. Although challenging, it will be of importance to model dimming for stellar cases and make suitable future plans for observations in the appropriate wavelength range in order to identify stellar CMEs consistently.
  • Shin Toriumi, Mark C. M. Cheung, Yukio Katsukawa
    ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 811(2) 138, Oct, 2015  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    Light bridges, the bright structure dividing umbrae in sunspot regions, show various activity events. In Paper I, we reported on an analysis of multi-wavelength observations of a light bridge in a developing active region (AR) and concluded that the activity events are caused by magnetic reconnection driven by magnetconvective evolution. The aim of this second paper is to investigate the detailed magnetic and velocity structures and the formation mechanism of light bridges. For this purpose, we analyze numerical simulation data from a radiative magnetohydrodynamics model of an emerging AR. We find that a weakly magnetized plasma upflow in the near-surface layers of the convection zone is entrained between the emerging magnetic bundles that appear as pores at the solar surface. This convective upflow continuously transports horizontal fields to the surface layer and creates a light bridge structure. Due to the magnetic shear between the horizontal fields of the bridge and the vertical fields of the ambient pores, an elongated cusp-shaped current layer is formed above the bridge, which may be favorable for magnetic reconnection. The striking correspondence between the observational results of Paper I and the numerical results of this paper provides a consistent physical picture of light bridges. The dynamic activity phenomena occur as a natural result of the bridge formation and its convective nature, which has much in common with those of umbral dots and penumbral filaments.
  • Shin Toriumi, Yukio Katsukawa, Mark C. M. Cheung
    ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 811(2) 137, Oct, 2015  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    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 events in solar active regions (ARs). It is also known that the light bridges appear in the assembling process of nascent sunspots. The ultimate goal of this series of papers is to reveal the nature of light bridges in developing ARs and the occurrence of activity events associated with the light bridge structures from both observational and numerical approaches. In this first paper, exploiting the observational data obtained by Hinode, the. Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, and the. Solar Dynamics Observatory, we investigate the detailed structure of the light bridge in NOAA AR 11974 and its dynamic activity phenomena. As a result, we find that the light bridge has a weak, horizontal magnetic field, which is transported from the interior by a large-scale convective upflow and is surrounded by strong, vertical fields of adjacent pores. In the chromosphere above the bridge, a transient brightening occurs repeatedly and intermittently, followed by a recurrent dark surge ejection into higher altitudes. Our analysis indicates that the brightening is the plasma heating due to magnetic reconnection at lower altitudes, while the dark surge is the cool, dense plasma ejected from the reconnection region. From the observational results, we conclude that the dynamic activity observed in a light bridge structure such as chromospheric brightenings and dark surge ejections are driven by magnetoconvective evolution within the light bridge and its interaction with the surrounding magnetic fields.
  • Shin Toriumi
    PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 66(SP1) S610, Dec, 2014  Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
    In a wide variety of magnetic activity phenomena occurring in the Sun, flux emergence is one of the most prominent events. It is important to study flux emergence since this is the process that transports the magnetic flux from the deep interior to the upper atmosphere, creates active regions, and sometimes causes catastrophic flaring eruptions. Recent observations have revealed that flux emergence ranges from the formation of large-scale active regions including sunspots to small-scale events observable only with advanced instruments, covering a very broad spectrum of scale involved. In addition, helioseismology may allow us to investigate the process even before the flux itself appears at the visible surface of the Sun. At the same time, recent development in the numerical modeling of flux emergence opens the door to a further understanding of physical processes, such as resistive and convective emergence. In this paper, we review the observational and numerical progress in the field of flux emergence study, while focusing particularly on three important aspects: emergence in the interior, the first appearance in the surface layer, and their relation with flaring activity. Based on these studies, we also discuss what should be investigated in the future.
  • Shin Toriumi, Keiji Hayashi, Takaaki Yokoyama
    ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 794(1) 19, Oct, 2014  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    Solar active regions (ARs) are thought to be formed by magnetic fields from the convection zone. Our flux emergence simulations revealed that a strong horizontal divergent flow (HDF) of unmagnetized plasma appears at the photosphere before the flux begins to emerge. In our earlier study, we analyzed HMI data for a single AR and confirmed presence of this precursor plasma flow in the actual Sun. In this paper, as an extension of our earlier study, we conducted a statistical analysis of the HDFs to further investigate their characteristics and better determine the properties. From SDO/HMI data, we picked up 23 flux emergence events over a period of 14 months, the total flux of which ranges from 10(20) to 10(22) Mx. Out of 23 selected events, 6 clear HDFs were detected by the method we developed in our earlier study, and 7 HDFs detected by visual inspection were added to this statistic analysis. We found that the duration of the HDF is on average 61 minutes and the maximum HDF speed is on average 3.1 We also estimated the rising speed of the subsurface magnetic flux to be 0.6-1.4 km s(-1). These values are highly consistent with our previous one-event analysis as well as our simulation results. The observation results lead us to the conclusion that the HDF is a rather common feature in the earliest phase of AR emergence. Moreover, our HDF analysis has the capability of determining the subsurface properties of emerging fields that cannot be directly measured.
  • S. Toriumi, Y. Iida, K. Kusano, Y. Bamba, S. Imada
    SOLAR PHYSICS, 289(9) 3351-3369, Sep, 2014  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    We present a comparison of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) analysis of NOAA Active Region (AR) 11158 and numerical simulations of flux-tube emergence, aiming to investigate the formation process of this flare-productive AR. First, we use SDO/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) magnetograms to investigate the photospheric evolution and Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) data to analyze the relevant coronal structures. Key features of this quadrupolar region are a long sheared polarity inversion line (PIL) in the central delta-sunspots and a coronal arcade above the PIL. We find that these features are responsible for the production of intense flares, including an X2.2-class event. Based on the observations, we then propose two possible models for the creation of AR 11158 and conduct flux-emergence simulations of the two cases to reproduce this AR. Case 1 is the emergence of a single flux tube, which is split into two in the convection zone and emerges at two locations, while Case 2 is the emergence of two isolated but neighboring tubes. We find that, in Case 1, a sheared PIL and a coronal arcade are created in the middle of the region, which agrees with the AR 11158 observation. However, Case 2 never builds a clear PIL, which deviates from the observation. Therefore, we conclude that the flare-productive AR 11158 is, between the two cases, more likely to be created from a single split emerging flux than from two independent flux bundles.
  • Shin Toriumi
    東京大学, Mar, 2014  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    PhD thesis
  • Shin Toriumi, Yusuke Iida, Yumi Bamba, Kanya Kusano, Shinsuke Imada, Satoshi Inoue
    ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 773(2) 128, Aug, 2013  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    We report a detailed event analysis of the M6.6 class flare in the active region (AR) NOAA 11158 on 2011 February 13. AR 11158, which consisted of two major emerging bipoles, showed prominent activity including one X- and several M-class flares. In order to investigate the magnetic structures related to the M6.6 event, particularly the formation process of a flare-triggering magnetic region, we analyzed multiple spacecraft observations and numerical results of a flare simulation. We observed that, in the center of this quadrupolar AR, a highly sheared polarity inversion line (PIL) was formed through proper motions of the major magnetic elements, which built a sheared coronal arcade lying over the PIL. The observations lend support to the interpretation that the target flare was triggered by a localized magnetic region that had an intrusive structure, namely, a positive polarity penetrating into a negative counterpart. The geometrical relationship between the sheared coronal arcade and the triggering region is consistent with the theoretical flare model based on the previous numerical study. We found that the formation of the trigger region was due to the continuous accumulation of small-scale magnetic patches. A few hours before the flare occurred, the series of emerged/advected patches reconnected with a pre-existing field. Finally, the abrupt flare eruption of the M6.6 event started around 17:30 UT. Our analysis suggests that in the process of triggering flare activity, all magnetic systems on multiple scales are included, not only the entire AR evolution but also the fine magnetic elements.
  • Shin Toriumi, Stathis Ilonidis, Takashi Sekii, Takaaki Yokoyama
    ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 770(1) L11, Jun, 2013  Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
    In this Letter, we present a seismological detection of a rising motion of magnetic flux in the shallow convection zone of the Sun, and show estimates of the emerging speed and its decelerating nature. In order to evaluate the speed of subsurface flux that creates an active region, we apply six Fourier filters to the Doppler data of NOAA AR 10488, observed with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory/Michelson Doppler Imager, to detect the reduction of acoustic power at six different depths from -15 to -2 Mm. All the filtered acoustic powers show reductions, up to 2 hr before the magnetic flux first appears at the visible surface. The start times of these reductions show a rising trend with a gradual deceleration. The obtained velocity is first several km s(-1) in a depth range of 15-10 Mm, then similar to 1.5 km s(-1) at 10-5 Mm, and finally similar to 0.5 km s(-1) at 5-2 Mm. If we assume that the power reduction is actually caused by the magnetic field, the velocity of the order of 1 km s(-1) is well in accordance with previous observations and numerical studies. Moreover, the gradual deceleration strongly supports the theoretical model that the emerging flux slows down in the uppermost convection zone before it expands into the atmosphere to build an active region.

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    Japan Geoscience Union (Makuhari Messe / Virtual), May 30, 2024 - May 30, 2024
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    (Niigata, Japan), Sep 25, 2023 - Sep 29, 2023
    Served as the chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) for the 6th NAOJ Symposium Hinode-16/IRIS-13
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    Japan Geoscience Union (Makuhari Messe / Virtual), May 21, 2023 - May 26, 2023
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    Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) (Athens / Online), Aug 21, 2022 - Aug 23, 2022
    Session title: Connecting Solar and Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections: Lessons Learned, Challenges and Perspectives
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    Japan Geoscience Union (Makuhari Messe / Virtual), May 24, 2022 - Jun 1, 2022
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