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We used multi-wavelength high-resolution data from ARIES, THEMIS, and SDO instruments, to analyze a non-standard, C3.3 class flare produced within the active region NOAA 11589 on 2012 October 16. Magnetic flux emergence and cancellation…

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Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

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During late October 2014, active region NOAA 2192 caused an unusual high level of solar activity, within an otherwise weak solar cycle. While crossing the solar disk, during a period of 11 days, it was the source of 114 flares of GOES class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Julia K. Thalmann , Yang Su , Manuela Temmer , Astrid M. Veronig

Solar flares are one of the main forces behind space weather events. However the mechanism that drives such energetic phenomena is not fully understood. The standard eruptive flare model predicts that magnetic reconnection occurs high in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Imada , K. Aoki , H. Hara , T. Watanabe , L. K. Harra , T. Shimizu

Helioseismic data from the HMI instrument have revealed a sunquake associated with the X1 flare SOL2014-03-29T17:48 in active region NOAA 12017. We try to discover if acoustic-like impulses or actions of the Lorentz force caused the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Philip G. Judge , Lucia Kleint , Alina Donea , Alberto Sainz Dalda , Lyndsay Fletcher

Combining the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Vacuum Solar Telescope observations, we study a confined flare triggered by a rising flux rope within the trailing sunspots of active region 12733. The flux rope lying above the sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Qiao Song , Yi Bi , Ting Li

Magnetic-field reconnection is believed to play a fundamental role in magnetized plasma systems throughout the Universe1, including planetary magnetospheres, magnetars and accretion disks around black holes. This letter present extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-06 Yang Su , Astrid M. Veronig , Gordon D. Holman , Brian R. Dennis , Tongjiang Wang , Manuela Temmer , Weiqun Gan

We present multi-wavelength analysis of an eruption event that occurred in Active Region (AR) NOAA 11093 on 7 August 2010, using data obtained from SDO, STEREO, RHESSI and GONG H$\alpha$ network telescope. From these observations, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Vemareddy , R. A. Maurya , A. Ambastha

The origin of multiple peaks in lightcurves of various wavelengths remains illusive during flares. Here we discuss the flare of SOL2023-05-09T03:54M6.5 with six flux peaks as recorded by a tandem of new microwave and Hard X-ray instruments.…

The fan-spine magnetic topology is believed to be responsible for many curious features in solar explosive events. A spine field line links distinct flux domains, but direct observation of such feature has been rare. Here we report a unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Guillaume Aulanier , Yingna Su , Iain G. Hannah , Rachel A. Hock

We investigate the formation, activation and eruption of a flux rope from the sigmoid active region NOAA 11719 by analyzing E(UV), X-ray and radio measurements. During the pre-eruption period of ~7 hours, the AIA 94 A images reveal the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-05 Bhuwan Joshi , Upendra Kushwaha , Astrid M. Veronig , Sajal Kumar Dhara , A. Shanmugaraju , Yong-Jae Moon

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are closely coupled through magnetic reconnection. CMEs are usually accelerated impulsively within the low solar corona, synchronized with the impulsive flare energy release. We investigate the…

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…

We report a detailed event analysis on the M6.6-class flare in the active region (AR) NOAA 11158 on 2011 February 13. AR 11158, which consisted of two major emerging bipoles, showed prominent activities including one X- and several M-class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Shin Toriumi , Yusuke Iida , Yumi Bamba , Kanya Kusano , Shinsuke Imada , Satoshi Inoue

Observations show that the mutual relationship between filament eruptions and solar flares cannot be described in terms of an unique scenario. In some cases, the eruption of a filament appears to trigger a flare, while in others the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-08 Fatima Rubio da Costa , Francesca Zuccarello , Lyndsay Fletcher , Paolo Romano , Nicolas Labrosse

We report a failed solar filament eruption that involves external magnetic reconnection in a quadrupolar magnetic configuration. The evolution exhibits three kinematic evolution phases: a slow-rise phase, an acceleration phase, and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Yuehong Chen , Xin Cheng , Jun Chen , Yu Dai , Mingde Ding

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

Using the multi-wavelength data from Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on board the Solar Dynamic Observatory, we investigated two successive solar flares, a C5.1 confined flare and an X4.9 ejective flare with a halo coronal mass ejection,in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Huadong Chen , Jun Zhang , Xin Cheng , Suli Ma , Shuhong Yang , Ting Li

Magnetic reconnection is a rapid energy release process that is believed to be responsible for flares on the Sun and stars. Nevertheless, such flare-related reconnection is mostly detected to occur in the corona, while there have been few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-21 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Ying Li , Kai Yang , Xin Cheng , Feng Chen , Cheng Fang , Wenda Cao

We observe a solar surge in NOAA AR11271 using SDO AIA 304 image data on 25 August, 2011. The surge rises vertically from its origin upto a height of 65 Mm with a terminal velocity of 100 km/s, and thereafter falls and fades gradually. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. Kayshap , A. K. Srivastava , K. Murawski