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We track and investigate from white-light data taken with the Wide-field Instrument for Solar PRobe (WISPR) aboard Parker Solar Probe (PSP), localized density enhancements, reflecting small-scale magnetic structures belonging to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 G. M. Cappello , M. Temmer , A. Vourlidas , C. Braga , P. C. Liewer , J. Qiu , G. Stenborg , A. Kouloumvakos , A. M. Veronig , V. Bothmer

One main goal of the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) which is located at the \emph{Fuxian Solar Observatory} is to image the Sun at high resolution. Based on the high spatial and temporal resolution NVST H$\alpha$ data and combined with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Zhong Liu , Yongyuan Xiang

We investigate the plasma and magnetic environment of active region NOAA 11261 on 2 August 2011 around a GOES M1.4 flare/CME (SOL2011-08-02T06:19). We compare coronal emission at (extreme) ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths, using SDO AIA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Julia K. Thalmann , Astrid M. Veronig , Yang Su

We firstly present the Solar Dynamics Observatory observations of four homologous flux ropes in active region (AR) 11745 on 2013 May 20-22. The four flux ropes are all above the neutral line of the AR, with endpoints anchoring at the same…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ting Li , Jun Zhang

Using multi-wavelength observations of SoHO/MDI, SOT-Hinode/blue-continuum (4504 \AA), G-band (4305 \AA), Ca II H (3968 \AA) and TRACE 171 \AA, we present the observational signature of highly twisted magnetic loop in AR 10960 during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. K. Srivastava , T. V. Zaqarashvili , Pankaj Kumar , M. L. Khodachenko

Magnetic reconnection is essential to release the flux rope during its ejection. The question remains: how does the magnetic reconnection change the flux rope structure? Following the original study of \citet{Qiu2007}, we compare properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-30 Qiang Hu , Jiong Qiu , B. Dasgupta , A. Khare , G. M. Webb

We investigate numerically the time evolution of velocity and magnetic field fluctuations in a coronal loop, focusing on the dynamics due to both phase mixing and turbulent cascade. The intensity, doppler velocity and non-thermal broadening…

Magnetic flux ropes play a central role in the physics of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Although a flux rope topology is inferred for the majority of coronagraphic observations of CMEs, a heated debate rages on whether the flux ropes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , G. Stenborg

Magnetic flux ropes are the centerpiece of solar eruptions. Direct measurements for the magnetic field of flux ropes are crucial for understanding the triggering and energy release processes, yet they remain heretofore elusive. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yuqian Wei , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Haimin Wang , Ju Jing , Dale E. Gary

Flares are dynamic events which involve rapid changes in coronal magnetic topology end energy release. Even if they may be localized phenomena, the magnetic disturbance at their origin may propagate and be effective in a larger part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-18 S. Parenti , F. Reale , K. K. Reeves

A key aim in space weather research is to be able to use remote-sensing observations of the solar atmosphere to extend the lead time of predicting the geoeffectiveness of a coronal mass ejection (CME). In order to achieve this, the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-16 Erika Palmerio , Emilia K. J. Kilpua , Alexander W. James , Lucie M. Green , Jens Pomoell , Alexey Isavnin , Gherardo Valori

We analyze the structure and evolution of ribbons from the M7.3 SOL2014-04-18T13 flare using ultraviolet (UV) images from IRIS and SDO/AIA, magnetic data from SDO/HMI, hard X-ray (HXR) images from RHESSI, and light curves from Fermi/GBM, in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Stephen J. Naus , Jiong Qiu , C. Richard DeVore , Spiro K. Antiochos , Joel T. Dahlin , James F. Drake , Marc Swisdak

Magnetic flux ropes are bundles of twisted magnetic field enveloping a central axis. They harbor free magnetic energy and can be progenitors of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), but identifying flux ropes on the Sun can be challenging. One of…

The magnetic configuration hosting prominences and their surrounding coro- nal structure is a key research topic in solar physics. Recent theoretical and observational studies strongly suggest that a helical magnetic flux rope is an es-…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Yang Guo

Magnetic flux ropes within interplanetary coronal mass ejections are often characterized as simplistic cylindrical or toroidal tubes with field lines that twist around the cylinder or torus axis. Recent multi-point observations suggest that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Andreas J. Weiss , Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla , Christian Möstl

Flux ropes are generally believed to be core structures of solar eruptions that are significant for the space weather, but their formation mechanism remains intensely debated. We report on the formation of a tiny flux rope beneath clusters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Ruisheng Zheng , Yao Chen , Bing Wang , Hongqiang Song , Wenda Cao

In this article, we study the origin of precursor flare activity and investigate its role towards triggering the eruption of a flux rope which resulted into a dual-peak M-class flare (SOL2015-06-21T02:36) in the active region NOAA 12371.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Prabir K. Mitra , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad

Helical magnetic flux rope (MFR) is a fundamental structure of corona mass ejections (CMEs) and has been discovered recently to exist as a sigmoidal channel structure prior to its eruption in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) high temperature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , C. Fang

Magnetic flux ropes are characterized by coherently twisted magnetic field lines, which are ubiquitous in magnetized plasmas. As the core structure of various eruptive phenomena in the solar atmosphere, flux ropes hold the key to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-10 Rui Liu

We present the multi-wavelength observations of a flux rope that was trying to erupt from NOAA AR 11045 and the associated M-class solar flare on 12 February 2010 using space and ground based observations from TRACE, STEREO, SOHO/MDI,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pankaj Kumar , A. K. Srivastava , B. Filippov , R. Erdelyi , Wahab Uddin