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Sequences of line-of-sight (LOS) magnetograms recorded by the Michelson-Doppler Imager are used to quantitatively characterize photospheric magnetic structure and evolution in three active regions that rotated across the Sun's disk during…

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Active region NOAA 11035 appeared in December 2009, early in the new solar activity cycle. This region achieved a delta sunspot ($\delta$-spot) configuration when parasitic flux emerged near the rotationally leading magnetic polarity and…

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Solar active regions show a wide variety of oscillatory phenomena. The presence of the magnetic field leads to the appearance of several wave modes, whose behavior is determined by the sunspot thermal and magnetic structure. We aim to study…

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Multi-instrument data sets of NOAA AR10938 on Jan. 16, 2007, (e.g., {\emph{Hinode}}, {\it{STEREO}}, {\it{GOES}}, {\it{MLSO}} and {\it{ISOON}} H$\alpha$) are utilized to study the fine structure and evolution of a magnetic loop system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. -E. Raouafi

The relationship between solar eruption and sunspot rotation has been widely reported, and the underlying mechanism requires to be studied. Here we performed a full 3D MHD simulation of data-constrained approach to study the mechanism of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Xinyi Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Aiying Duan , Xinkai Bian

We propose a novel approach to reconstruct the surface magnetic helicity density on the Sun or sun-like stars. The magnetic vector potential is determined via decomposition of vector magnetic field measurements into toroidal and poloidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Valery V. Pipin , Alexei A. Pevtsov , Yang Liu , Alexander G. Kosovichev

The question of the nature of precursors of solar flares, as well as their relationship with subsequent flares, still has no unambiguous answer. This is due, in particular, to the lack of systematic statistical work, the relative…

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We present a study of multi-wavelength observations, of a C 2.3 solar flare in Active Region NOAA 12353, observed on 2015 May 23, which reveal new properties of acoustic waves in the flaring region. The space-, and ground-based data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-07 A. Wisniewska , E. Chmielewska , K. Radziszewski , M. Roth , J. Staiger

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

The physical conditions leading the sunspot penumbra decay are poorly understood so far. We investigate the photospheric magnetic and velocity properties of a sunspot penumbra during the decay phase to advance the current knowledge of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 M. Murabito , S. L. Guglielmino , I. Ermolli , P. Romano , S. Jafarzadeh , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

The emergence and magnetic evolution of solar active regions (ARs) of beta-gamma-delta type, which are known to be highly flare-productive, were studied with the SOHO/MDI data in Cycle 23. We selected 31 ARs that can be observed from their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Kan Takizawa , Reizaburo Kitai

We studied the temporal evolution of the magnetic topology of the active region (AR) 11158 based on the reconstructed three-dimensional magnetic fields in the corona. The \nlfff\ extrapolation method was applied to the 12 minutes cadence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jie Zhao , Hui Li , Etienne Pariat , Brigitte Schmieder , Yang Guo , Thomas Wiegelmann

Two X-class solar flares occurred on 2017 September 6 from active region NOAA 12673: the first one is a confined X2.2 flare, and it is followed only $\sim 3$ hours later by the second one, which is the strongest flare in solar cycle 24,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Peng Zou , Chaowei Jiang , Fengsi Wei , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

To elucidate the cascade direction of the solar wind turbulence, we analyzed magnetic helicity density spectra from the Parker Solar Probe data across more than 500 heliocentric distances. For the first time, we confirmed a persistent…

We study the evolution of electric currents during the emergence of magnetic flux in the solar photosphere and the differences exhibited between solar active regions of different Hale complexity classes. A sample of 59 active regions was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 I. Kontogiannis , M. K. Georgoulis

We observed three recurrent blowout jets in an active regio with Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Using Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) data. We found that the magnetic flux of an emerging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Chang Zhou , Yang Guo , Guoyin Chen , Ye Qiu , M. D. Ding

We present a clear case study on the occurrence of two successive X-class flares including a decade-class flare (X9.3) and two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) triggered by shearing motion and sunspot rotation in active region NOAA 12673 on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 X. L. Yan , J. C. Wang , G. M. Pan , D. F. Kong , Z. K. Xue , L. H. Yang , Q. L. Li , X. S. Feng

It is well known that solar filaments are features in the solar atmosphere which show a hemispheric preference in their chirality. The hemispheric preference is such that the dextral chirality dominates in the northern hemisphere while the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Soumitra Hazra , Sushant S. Mahajan , William Keith Douglas , Petrus C. H. Martens

We compute magnetic helicity and energy spectra from about 2485 patches of about 100 megameters (Mm) side length on the solar surface using data from Hinode during 2006--2017. An extensive database is assembled where we list magnetic energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Sanjay Gosain , Axel Brandenburg

In the solar corona, magnetic helicity slowly and continuously accumulates in response to plasma flows tangential to the photosphere and magnetic flux emergence through it. Analyzing this transfer of magnetic helicity is key for identifying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 K. Dalmasse , E. Pariat , G. Valori , J. Jing , P. Démoulin