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Multiple recent investigations of solar magnetic field measurements have raised claims that the scale-free (fractal) or multiscale (multifractal) parameters inferred from the studied magnetograms may help assess the eruptive potential of…

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The multi-scaled solar magnetic field consists of two major components: active regions (ARs) and magnetic network. Unraveling the cycle-dependent properties and interrelations of these components is crucial for understanding the evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Yukun Luo , Jie Jiang , Ruihui Wang

The magnetic non-potentiality is important for understanding flares and other solar activities in active regions (ARs). Five non-potential parameters, i.e., electric current, current helicity, source field, photospheric free energy, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Qiao Song , Jun Zhang , Shuhong Yang , Yang Liu

Identifying solar active regions (ARs), which consist of one or more pairs of magnetic patches with opposite polarities, is essential due to their significant role in dynamic solar atmospheric phenomena. In this study, we analyze ARs during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zahra Tajik , Hasan Rezaei , Mehdi Simiari , Hossien Safari

Solar active regions are where sunspots are located and photospheric magnetic fluxes are concentrated, therefore being the sources of energetic eruptions in the solar atmosphere. The detection and statistics of solar active regions have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Jinhui Pan , Jiajia Liu , Shaofeng Fang , Rui Liu

Using vector magnetograms from the HMI/SDO and a magnetic connectivity-based method, we calculate the instantaneous relative magnetic helicity and free magnetic energy budgets for several days in two solar active regions (ARs), AR11890 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 E. Liokati , A. Nindos , M. K. Georgoulis

A hemispheric preference in the dominant sign of magnetic helicity has been observed in numerous features in the solar atmosphere: i.e., left-handed/right-handed helicity in the northern/southern hemisphere. The relative importance of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Sung-Hong Park , K. D. Leka , Kanya Kusano

Solar active regions (ARs) are areas on the Sun with very strong magnetic fields where various activities take place. Prominences are one of the typical solar features in the solar atmosphere, whose eruptions often lead to solar flares and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 T. Zhang , Q. Hao , P. F. Chen

Magnetic fields dominate most solar activities, there exist direct relations between solar flare and the distributions of magnetic field, and also its corresponding magnetic energy. In this paper, the statistical results about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-03 Suo Liu

Solar eruptive events, like flares and coronal mass ejections, are characterized by the rapid release of energy that can give rise to emission of radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and to an abrupt significant increase in…

In this study, the non-potential magnetic field parameters of active region NOAA 9077 are investigated; this AR experienced a super-strong X5.7 solar flare. Using advanced extrapolation techniques, the 3D magnetic field structure from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Liu Suo , Shahid Idrees , Liu Dian , Zeng Shuguang

Solar flares are intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation, which occur due to a rapid destabilization and reconnection of the magnetic field. While pre-flare signatures and trends have been investigated from magnetic observations prior…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Kara L. Kniezewski , Emily I. Mason , Daniel J. Emmons , Kyle E. Fitch , Seth H. Garland

Linking solar wind properties to the activities and characteristics of its source regions can enhance our understanding of its origin and generation mechanisms. Using the Mount Wilson magnetic classification (MWMC), we categorize all active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Xinzheng Shi , Hui Fu , Zhenghua Huang , Limei Yan , Qi Liu , Lidong Xia

Large scale solar eruptions significantly impact space weather and damages space-based human infrastructures. It is necessary to predict large scale solar eruptions, which will enable us to protect our vulnerable infrastructures of modern…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Soumitra Hazra , Gopal Sardar , Partha Choudhuri

Based on several magnetic nonpotentiality parameters obtained from the vector photospheric active region magnetograms obtained with the Solar Magnetic Field Telescope at the Huairou Solar Observing Station over two solar cycles, a machine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-29 Xiao Yang , GangHua Lin , HongQi Zhang , XinJie Mao

Using a recently suggested magneto-morphological classification (MMC, Abramenko, 2021, MNRAS Vol 507) of solar active regions (ARs), we explored 3048 ARs, observed from12 May 1996 to 27 December 2021. Magnetograms were acquired with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Anastasiya Zhukova , Valentina Abramenko

With the aim of understanding how the magnetic properties of active regions (ARs) control the eruptive character of solar flares, we analyze 719 flares of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) class $\geq$C5.0 during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Ting Li , Anqin Chen , Yijun Hou , Astrid M. Veronig , Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), especially the larger ones, emanate from active regions (ARs). With the aim to understand the magnetic properties that govern such flares and eruptions, we systematically survey all flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Shin Toriumi , Carolus J. Schrijver , Louise K. Harra , Hugh Hudson , Kaori Nagashima

Active regions (ARs) appear in the solar atmosphere as a consequence of the emergence of magnetic flux-ropes (FR). In this study, we use Bayesian methods to analyze line-of-sight magnetograms of emerging ARs. We employ a FR model consisting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Mariano Poisson , Marcelo López Fuentes , Cristina H. Mandrini , Pascal Démoulin , Francisco Grings

Solar flares create adverse space weather impacting space and Earth-based technologies. However, the difficulty of forecasting flares, and by extension severe space weather, is accentuated by the lack of any unique flare trigger or a single…