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We present the first part of a project on the global energetics of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that includes about 400 M- and X-class flares observed with AIA and HMI onboard SDO. We calculate the potential energy, free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-02 Markus J. Aschwanden , Yan Xu , Ju Jing

The magnetohydrodynamics of active region NOAA 11283 is simulated using an initial non-force-free magnetic field extrapolated from its photospheric vector magnetogram. We focus on the magnetic reconnections at a magnetic null point that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Avijeet Prasad , Karin Dissauer , Qiang Hu , R. Bhattacharyya , Astrid M. Veronig , Sanjay Kumar , Bhuwan Joshi

The rapid and irreversible change of photospheric magnetic fields associated with flares has been confirmed by many recent studies. These studies showed that the photospheric magnetic fields respond to coronal field restructuring and turn…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-11 Shuo Wang , Chang Liu , Haimin Wang

Magnetic flux rope (MFR) plays an important role in solar activities. A quantitative assessment of the topology of an MFR and its evolution is crucial for a better understanding of the relationship between the MFR and the associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Kai Yang , Yang Guo , M. D. Ding

Coronal electric currents store the magnetic energy that is released in solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Here, we use photospheric vector magnetic field observations to study currents in active regions 10930 and 11158, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Brian T. Welsch

A more accurate analytical solution of the {\sl vertical-current approximation nonlinear force-free field (VCA3-NLFFF)} model is presented that includes besides the radial $(B_r)$ and the azimuthal $(B_\varphi)$ magnetic field components a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Markus J. Aschwanden

We carry out a comprehensive investigation comparing the three-dimensional magnetic field restructuring, flare energy release, and the helioseismic response, of two homologous flares, the 2011 September 6 X2.1 (FL1) and September 7 X1.8…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chang Liu , Na Deng , Jeongwoo Lee , Thomas Wiegelmann , Chaowei Jiang , Brian R. Dennis , Yang Su , Alina Donea , Haimin Wang

The structure and dynamics of the solar corona is dominated by the magnetic field. In most areas in the corona magnetic forces are so dominant that all non-magnetic forces like plasma pressure gradient and gravity can be neglected in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Thomas Wiegelmann , Takashi Sakurai

Solar flares occur due to the sudden release of energy stored in active-region magnetic fields. To date, the pre-cursors to flaring are still not fully understood, although there is evidence that flaring is related to changes in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-01 Sophie A. Murray , D. Shaun Bloomfield , Peter T. Gallagher

Solar filament are commonly thought to be supported in magnetic dips, in particular, of magnetic flux ropes (FRs). In this Letter, from the observed photospheric vector magnetogram, we implement a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Chaowei Jiang , S. T. Wu , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu

Adopting the thermal free-free emission mechanism, the coronal and chromospheric magnetic fields are derived from the polarization and spectral observations with the Nobeyama Radioheliograph at 1.76 cm. The solar active regions (AR) located…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. Mouner , Abdelrazek M. K. Shaltout , M. M. Beheary , K. A. K. Gadallah , K. A. Edris

The large field-of-view of the Sun Watcher using Active Pixel System detector and Image Processing (SWAP) instrument on board the PRoject for Onboard Autonomy 2 (PROBA2) spacecraft provides a unique opportunity to study extended coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Karen A. Meyer , Duncan H. Mackay , Dana-Camelia Talpeanu , Lisa A. Upton , Matthew J. West

The magnetic field plays a key role in producing solar flares, so that the investigation on the relationship between the magnetic field properties and flares is significant. In this paper, based on the magnetic field extrapolated from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 S. Liu , D. Liu

Magnetic free energy powers solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and the buildup of magnetic helicity might play a role in the development of unstable structures that subsequently erupt. To better understand the roles of energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yang Liu , Brian T. Welsch , Gherardo Valori , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Yang Guo , Etienne Pariat , Sung-Hong Park , Julia K. Thalmann

In this work, we have studied the temporal evolution of some properties of a sample of superactive regions with the aim to single out the most significant for flare activity forecasting. We have investigated properties of 14 superactive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Criscuoli , P. Romano , F. Zuccarello , F. Giorgi

Unstable states of the solar coronal magnetic field structure result in various flare behaviors. In this study, we compared the confined and eruptive flares that occurred under similar magnetic circumstances in the active region 12673, on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Kouhei Teraoka , Daiki Yamasaki , Yusuke Kawabata , Shinsuke Imada , Toshifumi Shimizu

Magnetograms acquired with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) were used to calculate and analyze time variations of turbulence and multifractality in the photosphere during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Valentina Abramenko

We present analysis of the magnetic field in seven solar flare regions accompanied by the pulsations of hard X-ray (HXR) emission. These flares were studied by Kuznetsov et al. (2016) (Paper~I), and chosen here because of the availability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 I. V. Zimovets , R. Wang , Y. D. Liu , C. C. Wang , S. A. Kuznetsov , I. N. Sharykin , A. B. Struminsky , V. M. Nakariakov

Magnetic flux ropes (FRs) are twisted structures appearing on the sun, predominantly in the magnetically concentrated regions. These structures appear as coronal features known as filaments or prominences in H$\alpha$ observations, and as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 P. Vemareddy

We study the relative helicity of active region (AR) NOAA~12673 during a ten-hour time interval centered around a preceding X2.2 flare (SOL2017-09-06T08:57) and also including an eruptive X9.3 flare that occurred three hours later…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Julia K. Thalmann , X. Sun , K. Moraitis , M. Gupta
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