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Magnetic reconnection in the partially ionized solar chromosphere is studied in 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations including radiative cooling and ambipolar diffusion. A Harris current sheet with and without a guide field is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-24 Lei Ni , Bernhard Kliem , Jun Lin , Ning Wu

Ellerman bombs (EBs) seem to be a part of a whole spectrum of phenomena that might have the same underlying physical mechanism, but with observed characteristics which pose a considerable challenge to models. The aim of this study is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-17 S. Danilovic

We carried out a multi-wavelength study of a CME and a medium-size 1B/C1.3 flare occurring on 12 May 1997. We present the investigation of magnetic-field variations in the NOAA Active Region 8038 which was observed on the Sun during 7--16…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-15 Rajmal Jain , Arun K. Awasthi , Babita Chandel , Lokesh Bharti , Y. Hanaoka , A. L. Kiplinger

Through three-dimensional MHD simulations, we have uncovered a kind of fast coronal wave originating from both ends of a current sheet (CS) during a solar eruption. These waves are observed to appear near the top and bottom ends of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Jialiang Hu , Xiaozhou Zhao , Guiping Zhou , Yuhao Chen , Chunlan Jin , Mijie Shi , Guanchong Cheng , Xiaoxia Yu , Jing Ye , Xinping Zhou , Hanxian Fang

Fine-scale braiding of coronal magnetic loops by continuous footpoint motions may power coronal heating via nanoflares, which are spontaneous fine-scale bursts of internal reconnection. An initial nanoflare may trigger an avalanche of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Caroline E. Alexander , Amy R. Winebarger , Ronald L. Moore

The acceleration of solar flare ions during magnetic reconnection is explored via particle-in-cell simulations that self-consistently follow the motions of both protons and $\alpha$ particles. We demonstrate that the dominant ion heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Kalman Knizhnik , Marc Swisdak , James F. Drake

Magnetic reconnection is believed to be the primary mechanism by which non-potential energy stored in coronal magnetic fields is rapidly released during solar eruptive events. Unfortunately, owing to the small spatial scales on which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Aidan M. O'Flannagain , Shane A. Maloney , Peter T. Gallagher , Philippa Browning , Jose Refojo

Solar active regions (ARs) are thought to be formed by magnetic fields from the convection zone. Our flux emergence simulations revealed that a strong horizontal divergent flow (HDF) of unmagnetized plasma appears at the photosphere before…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Shin Toriumi , Keiji Hayashi , Takaaki Yokoyama

We study the magnetic field structures of hard X-ray sources and flare ribbons of the M1.1 flare in active region NOAA 10767 on 2005 May 27. We have found in a nonlinear force-free field extrapolation, over the same polarity inversion line,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Y. Guo , M. D. Ding , B. Schmieder , P. Démoulin , H. Li

Magnetic null has long been recognized as a special structure serving as a preferential site for magnetic reconnection (MR). However, the direct observational study of MR at null-points is largely lacking. Here, we show the observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 J. Q. Sun , J. Zhang , K. Yang , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

Poynting flux generated by random shuffling of photospheric magnetic footpoints is transferred through the upper atmosphere of the Sun where the plasma is heated to over 1 MK in the corona. High spatiotemporal resolution observations of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 L. P. Chitta , M. van Noort , H. N. Smitha , E. R. Priest , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

In this Letter, we present Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph Fe XXI 1354.08 A forbidden line emission of two magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) that caused two fast coronal mass ejections with velocities of $\ge$1000 km s$^{-1}$ and strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

We have obtained H$\alpha$ high spatial and time resolution observations of the upper solar chromosphere and supplemented these with multi-wavelength observations from the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) and the {\it Hinode}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Damian J. Christian , David B. Jess , Patrick Antolin , Mihalis Mathioudakis

Ellerman bombs (EBs) and Ultraviolet (UV) bursts are common brightening phenomena which are usually generated in the low solar atmosphere of emerging flux regions. In this paper, we have investigated the emergence of an initial un-twisted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Yajie Chen , Udo Ziegler , Jun Lin

We examine a small prominence eruption that occurred on 2014 May 1 at 01:35 UT and was observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Pre- and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Katharine K. Reeves , Patrick I. McCauley , Hui Tian

We firstly report the quasi-periodic slipping motion of flare loops during an eruptive X-class flare on 2014 September 10. The slipping motion was investigated at a specific location along one of the two ribbons and can be observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ting Li , Jun Zhang

Recent experiments have observed magnetic reconnection in high-energy-density, laser-produced plasma bubbles, with reconnection rates observed to be much higher than can be explained by classical theory. Based on fully kinetic particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 W. Fox , A. Bhattacharjee , K. Germaschewski

Ellerman bombs (EBs) have been widely studied in recent years due to their dynamic, explosive nature and apparent links to the underlying photospheric magnetic field implying that they may be formed by magnetic reconnection in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 C. J. Nelson , E. M. Scullion , J. G. Doyle , N. Freij , R. Erdélyi

We investigate accelerated electron energy spectra for different sources in a large flare using simultaneous observations obtained with two instruments, the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph (NoRH) at 17 and 34 GHz, and the Reuven Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. R. Kundu , V. V. Grechnev , S. M. White , E. J. Schmahl , N. S. Meshalkina , L. K. Kashapova

The (sub)millimeter radiation of solar flares is poorly understood. Without spatial resolution, it cannot be compared easily to flare emissions in other wavelengths. The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) offers sufficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 I. Skokić , A. O. Benz , R. Brajša , D. Sudar , F. Matković , M. Bárta