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Context. To investigate the source of a type III radio burst storm during encounter 2 of NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission. Aims. It was observed that in encounter 2 of NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission there was a large amount of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 L. Harra , D. H. Brooks , S. D. Bale , C. H. Mandrini , K. Barczynski , R. Sharma , S. T. Badman , S. Vargas Dominguez , M. Pulupa

Fluctuations in the flow velocity and magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Solar System. These fluctuations are turbulent, in the sense that they are disordered and span a broad range of scales in both space and time. The study of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-04 F. Fraternale , L. Gallana , M. Iovieno , M. Opher , J. D. Richardson , D. Tordella

We studied the developing conditions of sigmoid structure under the influence of magnetic non-potential characteristics of a rotating sunspot in the active region (AR) 12158. Vector magnetic field measurements from Helioseismic Magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 P. Vemareddy , X. Cheng , B. Ravindra

Electric currents play a critical role in the triggering of solar flares and their evolution. The aim of the present paper is to test whether the surface electric current has a surface or subsurface fixed source as predicts the circuit…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Krzysztof Barczynski , Guillaume Aulanier , Miho Janvier , Brigitte Schmieder , Sophie Masson

Solar radio type IV bursts can sometimes show directivity, so that no burst is observed when the source region in located far from the solar disk center. This has recently been verified also from space observations, at decameter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Silja Pohjolainen , Nasrin Talebpour Sheshvan

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

Context: On 26-27 January 2020, the wide-field imager WISPR on Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observed a coronal mass ejection (CME) from a distance of approximately 30 solar radii as it passed through the instrument's 95 degree field-of-view,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 P. C. Liewer , J. Qiu , A. Vourlidas , J. R. Hall , P. Penteado

Using data collected by the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission in October 2021, we investigated coronal regions of the Sun by analyzing the Doppler spectral width of radio signals to estimate solar wind velocity. A simplified equation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Keshav Aggarwal , R. K. Choudhary , Abhirup Datta , Roopa M. V. , Bijoy K. Dai

When observed at 1 AU, slow solar wind is typically considered to have originated in source regions with magnetic topologies that are intermittently open to the heliosphere. Fast wind is typically considered to have originated in source…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 B. L. Alterman , Y. J. Rivera , S. T. Lepri , J. M. Raines , R. D'Amicis

We estimate the near-Sun axial magnetic field of a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 10 March 2022. Solar Orbiter's in situ measurements, 7.8 degrees east of the Sun-Earth line at 0.43 AU, provided a unique vantage point, along with the WIND…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Shifana Koya , Spiros Patsourakos , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Alexander Nindos

Here, we present several examples of unusual evolutionary patterns in solar coronal loops that resemble cross-field drift motions. These loops were simultaneously observed from two vantage points by two different spacecraft: the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Sudip Mandal , Hardi Peter , James A. Klimchuk , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta

We present an investigation of the rotation and non-radial motion of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from AR 12468 on 2015 December 16 using observations from SDO, SOHO, STEREO A and Wind. The EUV and HMI observations of the source region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Yi A. Liu , Ying D. Liu , Huidong Hu , Rui Wang , Xiaowei Zhao

Here we report evidence of a large solar filament eruption on 2013, September 29. This smooth eruption, which passed without any previous flare, formed after a two-ribbon flare and a coronal mass ejection towards Earth. The coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-29 J. Palacios , C. Cid , A. Guerrero , E. Saiz , Y. Cerrato

Magnetic flux ropes (FRs) are twisted structures appearing on the sun, predominantly in the magnetically concentrated regions. These structures appear as coronal features known as filaments or prominences in H$\alpha$ observations, and as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 P. Vemareddy

Fluctuations in the Sun's photospheric magnetic field are the primary source of the turbulence that can heat and accelerate the solar atmosphere, and thus play an important role in the production and evolution of the solar wind that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Rohit Chhiber , Raphael Attie , William H. Matthaeus , Sohom Roy , Barbara J. Thompson

The Sun shrinks during solar maximum and regrows during solar minimum by a few kilometers. Here, we observe, for the first time, that the solar radius variation shows planetary relationship. This suggests that some remote planetary links…

General Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Konstantin Zioutas , Marios Maroudas , Alexander Kosovichev

The dynamic process of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the heliosphere provides us the key information for evaluating CMEs' geo-effectiveness and improving the accurate prediction of CME induced Shock Arrival Time (SAT) at the Earth. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 Fang Shen , Chenglong Shen , Jie Zhang , Phillip Hess , Yuming Wang , Xueshang Feng , Hongze Cheng , Yi Yang

Aims. This study investigates the magnetic evolution of solar active regions (ARs), with a particular focus on understanding how the magnetic morphology of simple and complex ARs changes throughout their lifetime. Methods. To analyse the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Shabnam Nikbakhsh , Eija I. Tanskanen , Thomas Hackman

The coronal magnetic field evolution of AR 11437 is simulated by applying the magnetofrictional relaxation technique of Mackay et al. (2011). A sequence of photospheric line-of-sight magnetograms produced by SDO/HMI are used to drive the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Stephanie L. Yardley , Duncan H. Mackay , Lucie M. Green

The Athens Neutron Monitor Data Processing (ANMODAP) Center recorded an unusual Forbush decrease with a sharp enhancement of cosmic ray intensity right after the main phase of the Forbush decrease on 16 July 2005, followed by a second…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-21 C. Caroubalos , P. Preka-Papadema , H. Mavromichalaki , X. Moussas , A. Papaioannou , E. Mitsakou , A. Hillaris