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Solar active regions (ARs) are thought to be formed by magnetic fields from the convection zone. Our flux emergence simulations revealed that a strong horizontal divergent flow (HDF) of unmagnetized plasma appears at the photosphere before…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Shin Toriumi , Keiji Hayashi , Takaaki Yokoyama

We report on magnetic field emergences covering significant areas of exploding granules. The balloon-borne mission SUNRISE provided high spatial and temporal resolution images of the solar photosphere. Continuum images, longitudinal and…

Bipolar emerging flux regions (EFRs) form active regions (ARs) that generally evolve in a pre-existing magnetic environment in the solar atmosphere. Reconfiguration of the small- and large-scale magnetic connectivities is invoked to explain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Mariarita Murabito , Ilaria Ermolli , Salvo L. Guglielmino , Paolo Romano , Fabrizio Giorgi

Magnetic flux emergence from the convection zone into the photosphere and beyond is a critical component of the behaviour of large-scale solar magnetism. Flux rarely emerges amid field-free areas at the surface, but when it does, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-04 Prasad Mani , Chris S. Hanson , Siddarth Dhanpal , Shravan Hanasoge , Srijan Bharati Das , Matthias Rempel

Aims. Solar active regions (ARs), which are formed by flux emergence, serve as the primary sources of solar eruptions. However, the specific physical mechanism that governs the emergence process and its relationship with flare productivity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Zheng Sun , Ting Li , Quan Wang , Shangbin Yang , Mei Zhang , Yajie Chen

Emerging active regions are associated with convective flows on the spatial scale and lifetimes of supergranules. To understand how these flows are involved in the formation of active regions, we aim to identify where active regions emerge…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Hannah Schunker , William Roland-Batty , Aaron C. Birch , Douglas C. Braun , Robert H. Cameron , L. Gizon

Magnetic flux emergence and decay in the Sun span from days to months. However, their tracking is typically limited to about half a solar rotation when relying on single-vantage-point observations. Combining observations from both the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 I. Kontogiannis , Y. Zhu , K. Barczynski , M. Z. Stiefel , H. Collier , J. McKevitt , J. S. Castellanos Durán , S. Berdyugina , L. K. Harra

The current study aims to quantify characteristic features of bipolar flux appearance of solar intranetwork (IN) magnetic elements. To attack such a problem, we use the Narrow-band Filter Imager (NFI) magnetograms from the Solar Optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-06 Jingxiu Wang , Guiping Zhou , Chunlan Jin , Hui Li

We study the photospheric evolution of an exploding granule observed in the quiet Sun at high spatial ($0.3^{\prime\prime}$) and temporal (31.5 s) resolution by the imaging magnetograph Sunrise/IMaX in June 2009. These observations show…

Solar active regions (ARs) play a fundamental role in driving many of the geo-effective eruptions which propagate into the Solar System. However, we are still unable to consistently predict where and when ARs will occur across the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 T. Rees-Crockford , C. J. Nelson , M. Mathioudakis

Arch filament systems (AFSs) are chromospheric and coronal manifestations of emerging magnetic flux. Using high spatial resolution observations taken at a high cadence by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board Solar Orbiter, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Yajie Chen , Sudip Mandal , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta

We investigate the temporal evolution of magnetic flux emerging within a granule in the quiet-Sun internetwork at disk center. We combined IR spectropolarimetry performed in two Fe I lines at 1565 nm with speckle-reconstructed G-band…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 P. Gömöry , C. Beck , H. Balthasar , J. Rybák , A. Kucera , J. Koza , H. Wöhl

We study the magnetic field evolution in the active region (AR) 12673 that produced the largest solar flare in the past decade on 2017 September 6. Fast flux emergence is one of the most prominent features of this AR. We calculate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , J. Todd Hoeksema , I. V. Zimovets , Yang Liu

It is widely accepted that solar active regions including sunspots are formed by the emerging magnetic flux from the deep convection zone. In previous numerical simulations, we found that the horizontal divergent flow (HDF) occurs before…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Toriumi , K. Hayashi , T. Yokoyama

We investigate the evolution of subsurface flows during the emergence and the active phase of sunspot regions using the time-distance helioseismology analysis of the full-disk Dopplergrams from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Viacheslav M. Sadykov

We use observations of line-of-sight magnetograms from Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board of Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to investigate polarity separation, magnetic flux, flux emergence rate, twist and tilt of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 A. S. Kutsenko , V. I. Abramenko , A. A. Pevtsov

Context. The dynamics of the flaring loops in active region (AR) 11429 are studied. The observed dynamics consist of several evolution stages of the flaring loop system during both the ascending and descending phases of the registered…

Magnetic flux emergence into the outer layers of the Sun is a fundamental mechanism for releasing energy into the chromosphere and the corona. In this paper, we study the emergence of granular-sized flux concentrations and the structuring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Viggo Hansteen , Luis Bellot-Rubio , Ada Ortiz

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 K. Dalmasse , R. Chandra , B. Schmieder , G. Aulanier

We analyze the magnetic evolution of solar active region (AR) NOAA 11476 that, between 9 and 10 May 2012, produced a series of surge-type eruptions accompanied by GOES X-ray class M flares. Using force-free models of the AR coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Marcelo López Fuentes , Mariano Poisson , Cristina H. Mandrini