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Chromospheric flare ribbons observed in H-alpha appear well-organized when first examined: ribbons impulsively brighten, morphologically evolve, and exponentially decay back to pre-flare levels. Upon closer inspection of H-alpha flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Michael S. Kirk , K. S. Balasubramaniam , Jason Jackiewicz , R. T. James McAteer

We present a new automated algorithm to identify, track, and characterize small-scale brightening associated with solar eruptive phenomena observed in H{\alpha}. The temporal spatially-localized changes in chromospheric intensities can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. S. Kirk , K. S. Balasubramaniam , J. Jackiewicz , B. J. McNamara , R. T. J. McAteer

Sequential chromospheric brightenings (SCBs) are often observed in the immediate vicinity of erupting flares and are associated with coronal mass ejections. Since their initial discovery in 2005, there have been several subsequent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Michael S. Kirk , K. S. Balasubramaniam , Jason Jackiewicz , Holly R. Gilbert

We report on the physical properties of solar sequential chromospheric brightenings (SCBs) observed in conjunction with moderate-sized chromospheric flares with associated CMEs. To characterize these ephemeral events, we developed automated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Michael S. Kirk , K. S. Balasubramaniam , Jason Jackiewicz , R. T. James McAteer , Ryan O. Milligan

The chromosphere is a complex region that acts as an intermediary between the magnetic flux emergence in the photosphere and the magnetic features seen in the corona. Large eruptions in the chromosphere of flares and filaments are often…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Michael S. Kirk , K. S. Balasubramaniam , Jason Jackiewicz , Holly R. Gilbert

Coronal bright points (BPs) are numerous, bright, small-scale dynamical features found in the solar corona. Bright points have been observed to exhibit intensity oscillations across a wide range of periodicities and are likely an important…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Brad Ramsey , Erwin Verwichte , Huw Morgan

Remote brightenings often appear at outskirts of source active regions of solar eruptive events, nevertheless, their origin remains to be ascertained. In this study, we report imaging and spectroscopic observations of sequential remote…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-29 B. T. Wang , X. Cheng , C. Li , J. Chen , M. D. Ding

Solar small scale microwave bursts (SMBs), including microwave dot, spike, and narrow band type III bursts, are characterized with very short timescales, narrow frequency bandwidth, and very high brightness temperatures. Based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Baolin Tan

Plumes have been proposed to channel MHD waves and the solar wind into the heliosphere. High-speed propagating disturbances (PDs), though well detected in plumes, cannot yet be clearly assigned to MHD waves or to mass flows. Additionally,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Ziwen Huang , L. P. Chitta , L. Teriaca , R. Aznar Cuadrado , H. Peter , S. K. Solanki , T. Wiegelmann , F. Plaschke

This work aims to detect and classify stellar flares and potential stellar coronal mass ejection (CME) signatures in optical spectra provided by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 14. The sample is constrained to all F, G, K,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Florian Koller , Martin Leitzinger , Manuela Temmer , Petra Odert , Paul G. Beck , Astrid Veronig

Solar flares result in an increase of the solar irradiance at all wavelengths. While the distribution of the flare fluence observed in coronal emission has been widely studied and found to scale as f(E) ~ E^{-\alpha}, with \alpha slightly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 M. Kretzschmar

We report observations of white-light ejecta in the low corona, for two X-class flares on the 2013 May 13, using data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) of the Solar Dynamics Observatory. At least two distinct kinds of sources…

Multiwavelength observations of blazars such as Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 show that they exhibit strong short time variabilities in flare-like phenomena. Based on the homogeneous synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model and assuming that time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Li , M. Kusunose

We investigate the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray flares of Mrk 421 on 2008 June 6-15 using the synchrotron self- Compton(SSC) model with electron acceleration, in which an evident correlation between the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray bands appears, while…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Gang Cao , Jiancheng Wang

{Chromospheric evaporation is a key process in solar flares that has extensively been investigated using the spectroscopic observations. However, direct soft X-ray (SXR) imaging of the process is rare, especially in remote brightenings…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Q. M. Zhang , H. S. Ji

Chromospheric wave activity around flares and filaments has been a research focus for years, and could provide indirect measurements of local conditions that are not otherwise accessible. One interesting observed phenomenon is oscillations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-14 J. Jackiewicz , K. S. Balasubramaniam

The study of multiwavelength flux and spectral variations during rapid flares from blazars provides strong constraints on the physical parameters of the compact emission regions responsible for these still poorly understood events. Although…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-06 Paloma Thevenet , Andreas Zech , Catherine Boisson , Anton Dmytriiev

We use high spatial and temporal resolution observations from the Swedish Solar Telescope to study the chromospheric velocities of a C-class flare originating from active region NOAA 10969. A time-distance analysis is employed to estimate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Peter H. Keys , David B. Jess , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Francis P. Keenan

Solar flare ribbon fronts appear ahead of the bright structures that normally characterise solar flares, and can persist for an extended period of time in spatially localised patches before transitioning to `regular' bright ribbons. They…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Graham S. Kerr , Vanessa Polito , Yan Xu , Joel C. Allred

We propose a new method for investigating the evolution of the properties of the blazar brightness variability on timescales from a few hours to a few days. Its essence lies in detecting sequentially located time intervals along the entire…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 M. S. Butuzova , V. A. Guseva , M. A. Gorbachev , A. S. Krivenko , S. V. Nazarov
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