Aug 17 – 21, 2026
National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
America/Sao_Paulo timezone

Detection of Rapid Coronal Hole Boundary Reconfigurations Using Correlation Dimension Mapping

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Fernando de Mendonça - LIT (National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil)

Fernando de Mendonça - LIT

National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

Av. dos Astronautas, 1758 - Jardim da Granja, São José dos Campos - SP, 12227-010
Oral Heliophysics & Space Weather Oral Contributions

Speaker

Dr Eduardo Flandez (Universidad de Chile)

Description

This study investigates how magnetic reconnection reshapes coronal-hole (CH) boundaries during eruptive events. Using high-cadence EUV and magnetogram observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory on 2015 June 4, we apply Correlation Dimension Mapping (CDM), a technique designed to quantify the geometric complexity of CH boundaries across multiple spatial scales.
We find that localized jet eruptions are systematically accompanied by rapid increases in the correlation dimension, indicating enhanced boundary irregularity during magnetic reconfiguration. Two of the three detected events correspond to coronal jets occurring within a multipolar magnetic configuration characterized by a polarity inversion line and a fan–spine topology favorable for reconnection.
In both cases, the peak in boundary complexity occurs shortly after the jet’s intensity maximum, suggesting a delayed response of the large-scale magnetic structure to localized reconnection.
These results demonstrate that CDM provides a sensitive diagnostic of dynamic restructuring at coronal-hole boundaries. The method offers a new way to track the geometric response of open–closed magnetic interfaces during eruptive activity and may help identify regions prone to reconnection-driven events in the solar corona.

Author

Dr Eduardo Flandez (Universidad de Chile)

Co-authors

Dr Judith Karpen (Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Dr Pankaj Kumar (Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Dr Vadim Uritsky (Catholic University of America) Dr Víctor Muñoz (Universidad de Chile)

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