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We investigated in detail the M5.8 class solar flare that occurred on 2023-03-06. This flare was one of the first strong flares observed by the Siberian Radioheliograph in the microwave range and the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory…

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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

In this study, we investigate motions in the hot plasma above the flare loops during the 2017 September 10 X8.2 flare event. We examine the region to the south of the main flare arcade, where there is data from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Katharine K. Reeves , Vanessa Polito , Bin Chen , Giselle Galan , Sijie Yu , Wei Liu , Gang Li

We analyzed spectral and imaging data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and magnetograms from the Helioseismic and Magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 C. E. Alissandrakis , A. Koukras , S. Patsourakos , A. Nindos

In this multi-instrument paper, we search for evidence of sustained magnetic reconnection far beyond the impulsive phase of the X8.2-class solar flare on 2017 September 10. Using Hinode/EIS, CoMP, SDO/AIA, K-Cor, Hinode/XRT, RHESSI, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-01 Ryan J. French , Sarah A. Matthews , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , David M. Long , Philip G. Judge

We report observations of an X class flare on 2011 September 6 by the instruments onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The flare occurs in a complex active region with multiple polarities. The Extreme-Ultraviolet (EUV) Variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Y. Dai , M. D. Ding , Y. Guo

We investigated the initiation and the evolution of an X7.1-class solar flare observed in solar active region NOAA 13842 on October 1, 2024, based on a data-constrained magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation. The nonlinear force-free field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Keitarou Matsumoto , Satoshi Inoue , Nian Liu , Keiji Hayashi , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

During a solar flare, electrons are accelerated to non-thermal energies as a result of magnetic reconnection. These electrons then propagate upwards and downwards from the energy release site along magnetic field lines and produce radio and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Shilpi Bhunia , Laura A. Hayes , Karl Ludwig Klein , Nicole Vilmer , Shane A. Maloney , Peter T. Gallagher

Solar flares are powerful particle accelerators, and in the accepted standard flare model most of the flare energy is transported from a coronal energy-release region by accelerated electrons which stop collisionally in the chromosphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Paulo J. A. Simões , Lyndsay Fletcher , Hugh S. Hudson , Graham S. Kerr , Matt Penn , Karla F. Lopez

We present a database of 3137 solar flare ribbon events corresponding to every flare of GOES class C1.0 and greater within 45 degrees from the central meridian, from April 2010 until April 2016, observed by the \emph{Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Maria D. Kazachenko , Benjamin J. Lynch , Brian T. Welsch , Xudong Sun

Magnetic reconnection is a well-accepted part of the theory of solar eruptive events, though the evidence is still circumstantial. Intrinsic to the reconnection picture of a solar eruptive event, particularly in the standard model for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Juntao Wang , P. J. A. Simoes , N. L. S. Jeffrey , L. Fletcher , P. J. Wright , I. G. Hannah

We investigated two consecutive solar eruption events in the solar active region (AR) 12994 at the solar eastern limb on 2022 April 15. We found that the flare loops formed by the first eruption were involved in the second eruption. During…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Huadong Chen , Lyndsay Fletcher , Guiping Zhou , Xin Cheng , Ya Wang , Sargam Mulay , Ruisheng Zheng , Suli Ma , Xiaofan Zhang

In this paper, we report the multiwavelength observations of the partial filament eruption associated with a C1.2 class flare in NOAA active region 11236 on 13 June 2011. The event occurred at the eastern limb in the field of view (FOV) of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-13 Yanjie Zhang , Qingmin Zhang , Jun Dai , Dong Li , Haisheng Ji

We perform Differential Emission Measure (DEM) analysis of an M7.7 flare that occurred on 2012 July 19 and was well observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamic Observatory. Using the observational data with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Q. Sun , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

We analyzed and modeled an M1.2 non-eruptive solar flare on 2011 September 9. The flare exhibits a strong late-phase peak of the warm coronal emissions ($\sim$3~MK) of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV), with peak emission over 1.3 times that of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Yu Dai , Mingde Ding , Weiguo Zong , Kai E. Yang

On the 29 March 2014 NOAA active region (AR) 12017 produced an X1 flare which was simultaneously observed by an unprecedented number of observatories. We have investigated the pre-flare period of this flare from 14:00 UT until 19:00 UT…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 M. M. Woods , L. K. Harra , S. A. Matthews , D. H. Mackay , S. Dacie , D. M. Long

We study flare processes in the solar atmosphere using observational data for a M1-class flare of June 12, 2014, obtained by New Solar Telescope (NST/BBSO) and Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI/SDO). The main goal is to understand triggers…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 I. N. Sharykin , V. M. Sadykov , A. G. Kosovichev , S. Vargas-Dominguez , I. V. Zimovets

The relationship between X-ray and UV emission during flares, particularly in the context of quasi-periodic pulsations, remains unclear. To address this, we study the impulsive X-ray and UV emission during the eruptive flare of 2011 June 7…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrew R. Inglis , Holly R. Gilbert

The acceleration and transport of energetic electrons during solar flares is one of the outstanding topics in solar physics. Recent X-ray and radio imaging and spectroscopy observations have provided diagnostics of the distribution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Xiangliang Kong , Bin Chen , Fan Guo , Chengcai Shen , Xiaocan Li , Jing Ye , Lulu Zhao , Zelong Jiang , Sijie Yu , Yao Chen , Joe Giacalone

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