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The soft X-ray emissions of solar flares come mainly from the bright coronal loops at the highest temperatures normally achieved in the flare process. Their ubiquity has led to their use as a standard measure of flare occurrence and energy,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paulo J. A. Simões , Hugh S. Hudson , Lyndsay Fletcher

Plasmoids (or magnetic islands) are believed to play an important role in the onset of fast magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration during solar flares and eruptions. Direct imaging of flare current sheets and formation/ejection of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Pankaj Kumar , Judith T. Karpen , Joel T. Dahlin

The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray radiation emitted during solar flares has been shown to significantly increase the electron density of the Earth's ionosphere. During flares, quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in X-ray flux originating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Aisling N. O'Hare , Susanna Bekker , Laura A. Hayes , Ryan O. Milligan

We present multi-wavelength analysis of a quasi-periodic pulsation (QPP) observed in the hard X-ray, radio, and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) channels during an M1.9 flare occurred on 23-24 September 2011. The non-thermal hard X-ray emission in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Pankaj Kumar , Valery M. Nakariakov , Kyung-Suk Cho

The nature of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares is poorly constrained, and critically the general prevalence of such signals in solar flares is unknown. Therefore, we perform a large-scale search for evidence of signals consistent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 A. R. Inglis , J. Ireland , B. R. Dennis , L. A. Hayes , P. T. Gallagher

We report the detection of multiple quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) observed during the flaring activity of KIC 8414845, a young, active solar-type star observed by the Kepler mission launched by NASA. We analyzed the QQP signal using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 S. Mancuso , D. Barghini , D. Telloni

Recent observations have revealed that MHD waves and oscillations are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere, with a wide range of periods. We give a brief review of some aspects of MHD waves and coronal seismology which have recently been the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ineke De Moortel , Valery M. Nakariakov

We present simultaneous X-ray and spectral ultraviolet (UV) observations of strikingly-coherent oscillations in emission from a coronal looptop and fan structure, during the impulsive phase of a long-duration M-class solar flare. The 50 s…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Ryan J. French , Laura A. Hayes , Maria D. Kazachenko , Katharine K. Reeves , Chengcai Shen , Juraj Lörinčík

The aim of the present paper is to use quasi-periodic oscillations in hard X-rays (HXRs) of solar flares as a diagnostic tool for investigation of impulsive electron acceleration. We have selected a number of flares which showed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Jakimiec , M. Tomczak

Solar transients and eruptive phenomena which are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere, can shed new light to the understanding of the outstanding problems like coronal heating and the solar wind acceleration. Observations in the entire…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-05 Abhishek K. Srivastava , V. M. Nakariakov , B. N. Dwivedi , Pankaj Kumar

Oscillatory reconnection is a process that has been suggested to underlie several solar and stellar phenomena, and is likely to play an important role in transient events such as flares. Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in flare emissions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 J. Stewart , P. K. Browning , M. Gordovskyy

Small scale extreme ultraviolet (EUV) transient brightenings are observationally abundant and critically important to investigate. Determining whether they share the same physical mechanisms as larger scale flares would have significant…

Solar flares are the most powerful explosions occurring in the solar system, which may lead to disastrous space weather events and impact various aspects of our Earth. So far, it is still a big challenge in modern astrophysics to understand…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Baolin Tan , Zhiqiang Yu , Jing Huang , Chengming Tan , Yin Zhang

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) are often detected in solar and stellar flare lightcurves. These events may contain valuable information about the underlying fundamental plasma dynamics as they are not described by the standard flare model.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-12 Sergey A. Belov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Anne-Marie Broomhal

Quasi-periodic, fast-mode, propagating wave trains (QFPs) are a new observational phenomenon recently discovered in the solar corona by the Solar Dynamics Observatory with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imaging observations. They originate from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Wei Liu , Leon Ofman , Brittany Broder , Marian Karlicky , Cooper Downs

We investigated the intermittent energy-releasing processes by analyzing the long-period pulsations during a C2.8 flare on 2023 June 03. The C2.8 flare shows three successive and repetitive pulsations in soft X-ray (SXR) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Dong Li , Jianping Li , Jinhua Shen , Qiwu Song , Haisheng Ji , Zongjun Ning

Standing long-period (with the periods longer than several minutes) oscillations in large hot (with the temperature higher than 3 MK) coronal loops have been observed as the quasi-periodic modulation of the EUV and microwave intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Sanjay Kumar , V. M. Nakariakov , Y. -J. Moon

Using RHESSI and some auxiliary observations we examine possible connections between spatial and temporal morphology of the sources of non-thermal hard X-ray (HXR) emission which revealed minute quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) during the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. V. Zimovets , A. B. Struminsky

We present the analysis of three kinds of oscillating behavior using multi-wavelength observations of the 10 November 2013 (SOL2013-11-10T05:14) circular-ribbon flare. This event is a typical circular-ribbon flare with an outer spine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Zongjun Ning , Ya Wang , Zhenxiang Hong , Dong Li

A peculiar microwave quasi-periodic pulsation with zigzag pattern (Z-QPP) is observed first by the Chinese Solar Broadband Spectrometer in Huairou (SBRS/Huairou) at 1.10-1.34 GHz in a solar flare on 2005-01-15. The Z-QPP occurred just in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-14 Baolin Tan