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Unstable states of the solar coronal magnetic field structure result in various flare behaviors. In this study, we compared the confined and eruptive flares that occurred under similar magnetic circumstances in the active region 12673, on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Kouhei Teraoka , Daiki Yamasaki , Yusuke Kawabata , Shinsuke Imada , Toshifumi Shimizu

Understanding how active-region properties influence coronal mass ejection (CME) dynamics is essential for constraining eruption models and improving space-weather prediction. Magnetic diagnostics derived above polarity inversion lines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Harshita Gandhi , Huw Morgan

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are among the most energetic events in the solar system, impacting the near-Earth environment. Flare productivity is empirically known to be correlated with the size and complexity of active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-16 Chloé Guennou , Etienne Pariat , Nicole Vilmer , James E. Leake

With the aim of investigating how the magnetic field in solar active regions (ARs) controls flare activity, i.e., whether a confined or eruptive flare occurs, we analyze 106 flares of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Ting Li , Xudong Sun , Yijun Hou , Anqin Chen , Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang

Using the HMI/SDO vector magnetic field observations, we studied the relation of degree of magnetic non-potentiality with the observed flare/CME in active regions. From a sample of 77 flare/CME cases, we found a general relation that degree…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 N. Vasantharaju , P. Vemareddy , B. Ravindra , V. H. Doddamani

Photospheric vector magnetograms from Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamic Observatory are utilized as the boundary conditions to extrapolate both non-linear force-free and potential magnetic fields in solar corona.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. T. Su , J. Jing , S. Wang , T. Wiegelmann , H. M. Wang

Magnetic free energy powers solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and the buildup of magnetic helicity might play a role in the development of unstable structures that subsequently erupt. To better understand the roles of energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yang Liu , Brian T. Welsch , Gherardo Valori , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Yang Guo , Etienne Pariat , Sung-Hong Park , Julia K. Thalmann

We use multiwavelength data from space and ground based instruments to study the solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on January 23, 2012 that were responsible for one of the largest solar energetic particle (SEP) events of solar…

Several studies have correlated observations of impulsive solar activity -- flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) -- with the amount of magnetic flux near strong-field polarity inversion lines (PILs) in active regions' photospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-03 B. T. Welsch , Y. Li

An isolated and fast decayed active region (NOAA 9729) was observed when passing through solar disk. There is only one CME related with it that give us a good opportunity to investigate the whole process of the CME. Filament in this active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Shangbin Yang , Wenbin Xie , Jihong Liu

The dynamics of magnetic fields in the Sun's active regions plays a key role in triggering solar eruptions. Studies have shown that changes in the photosphere's magnetic field can destabilize large-scale structure of the corona, leading to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Partha Chowdhury , Belur Ravindra , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari

Flares and eruptions from solar active regions are associated with atmospheric electrical currents accompanying distortions of the coronal field away from a lowest-energy potential state. In order to better understand the origin of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 C. J. Schrijver

Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are main drivers of the most powerful non-recurrent geomagnetic storms. In the extreme-ultraviolet range, CMEs are accompanied by bright post-eruption arcades and dark dimmings. The analysis of events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 I. M. Chertok , M. A. Abunina , A. A. Abunin , A. V. Belov , V. V. Grechnev

Aims: Changes of the magnetic field and the line-of-sight velocities in the photosphere are being reported for an M-class flare that originated at a $\delta$-spot belonging to active region NOAA 11865. Methods: High-resolution ground-based…

Solar active region (AR) 11283 is a very magnetically complex region and it has produced many eruptions. However, there exists a non-eruptive filament in the plage region just next to an eruptive one in the AR, which gives us an opportunity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Chaowei Jiang , S. T. Wu , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu

This work is a continuation of Paper I [Sharykin et al., 2018] devoted to analysis of nonthermal electron dynamics and plasma heating in the confined M1.2 class solar flare SOL2015-03-15T22:43 revealing energy release in the highly sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 I. N. Sharykin , I. V. Zimovets , I. I. Myshyakov

We present a combined analysis of the applications of the weighted horizontal magnetic gradient (denoted as WG_M in Korsos et al., ApJ, 802, L21, 2015) method and the magnetic helicity tool (Berger & Field, JFM, 147, 133, 1984) employed for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-03 Yudong Ye , M. B. Korsos , R. Erdelyi

We study the influence of the large-scale interplanetary magnetic field configuration on the solar energetic particles (SEPs) as detected at different satellites near Earth and on the correlation of their peak intensities with the parent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 R. Miteva , K. -L. Klein , O. Malandraki , G. Dorrian

Solar flares are one of the most energetic events in the solar atmosphere. It is widely accepted that flares are powered by magnetic reconnection in the corona. An eruptive flare is usually accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, both of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Y. Li , X. Sun , M. D. Ding , J. Qiu , E. R. Priest

Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) show a large variety in their kinematic properties. CMEs originating in active regions and accompanied by strong flares are usually faster and accelerated more impulsively than CMEs associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-11 T. Toeroek , B. Kliem