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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and coronal jets are two of the best-studied forms of solar eruptions, with the same underlying physics. Previous studies have presented partial eruptions producing coronal jets. We report, for the first time,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Abril Sahade , Judith Karpen , Spiro Antiochos

Images of an east-limb flare on 3 November 2010 taken in the 131 \AA\ channel of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory provide a convincing example of a long current sheet below an erupting plasmoid, as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pankaj Kumar , D. E. Innes

We present a multi-wavelength investigation of a C-class flaring activity that occurred in the active region NOAA 12734 on 8 March 2019. The investigation utilises data from AIA and HMI on board the SDO and the Udaipur-CALLISTO solar radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Bhuwan Joshi , Prabir K. Mitra , R. Bhattacharyya , Kushagra Upadhyay , Divya Oberoi , K. Sasikumar Raja , Christian Monstein

On 2012 July 11, two solar filaments were observed in the northeast of the solar disk and their eruptions due to the interaction between them are studied by using the data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Solar TErrestrial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Z. K. Xue , X. L. Yan , Z. Q. Qu , C. L. Xu , L. Zhao

Magnetic flux rope is believed to be an important structural component of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). While there exist much observational evidence of the flux rope after the eruption, e.g., as seen in remote-sensing coronagraph images…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , Y. Liu , M. D. Ding

We study a sequence of eruptive events including filament eruption, a GOES C4.3 flare and a coronal mass ejection. We aim to identify the possible trigger(s) and precursor(s) of the filament destabilisation; investigate flare kernel…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Z. Huang , M. S. Madjarska , K. Koleva , J. G. Doyle , P. Duchlev , M. Dechev , K. Reardon

The magnetic breakout model has been widely used to explain solar eruptive activities. Here, we apply it to explain successive filament eruptions occurred in a quadrupolar magnetic source region. Based on the high temporal and spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-09 Yuandeng Shen

Recent Solar Dynamic Observatory observations reveal that coronal mass ejections (CMEs) consist of a multi-temperature structure: a hot flux rope and a cool leading front (LF). The flux rope first appears as a twisted hot channel in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , D. M. Ding , Y. Liu , W. Poomvises

Aims: To study the origin and characteristics of a bright coronal downflow seen after a coronal mass ejection associated with erupting prominences on 5 March 2000. Methods: This study extends that of Tripathi et al. (A&A, v. 449, pp. 369)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 D. Tripathi , S. K. Solanki , H. E. Mason , D. F. Webb

Context. We present an analysis of a GOES M1.8 flare with excellent observational coverage in UV, EUV, and X-ray, including observations from the instruments IRIS, SDO with AIA, Hinode/EIS, Hinode/XRT, and Solar Orbiter with the…

Strong solar flares and coronal mass ejections, here defined not only as the bursts of electromagnetic radiation but as the entire process in which magnetic energy is released through magnetic reconnection and plasma instability, emanate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Shin Toriumi , Haimin Wang

Solar eruptions are explosive release of coronal magnetic field energy as manifested in solar flares and coronal mass ejection. Observations have shown that the core of eruption-productive regions are often a sheared magnetic arcade, i.e.,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Xinkai Bian , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Xinyi Wang

We investigated two consecutive solar eruption events in the solar active region (AR) 12994 at the solar eastern limb on 2022 April 15. We found that the flare loops formed by the first eruption were involved in the second eruption. During…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Huadong Chen , Lyndsay Fletcher , Guiping Zhou , Xin Cheng , Ya Wang , Sargam Mulay , Ruisheng Zheng , Suli Ma , Xiaofan Zhang

We investigate the formation times of eruptive magnetic flux ropes relative to the onset of solar eruptions, which is important for constraining models of coronal mass ejection (CME) initiation. We inspected uninterrupted sequences of 131…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 A. Nindos , S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , X. Cheng , J. Zhang

We report on the detection (10 \sigma) of 917 events of long-period (3 to 16 hours) intensity pulsations in the 19.5 nm passband of the SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope. The data set spans from January 1997 to July 2010, i.e the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 F. Auchère , K. Bocchialini , J. Solomon , E. Tison

We investigate intensity variations and energy deposition in five coronal loops in active region cores. These were selected for their strong variability in the AIA/SDO 94 {\AA} intensity channel. We isolate the hot Fe XVIII and Fe XXI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. C. Cadavid , J. K. Lawrence , D. J. Christian , D. B. Jess , G. Nigro

Some of local sources of the slow solar wind can be associated with spectroscopically detected plasma outflows at edges of active regions accompanied with specific signatures in the inner corona. The EUV telescopes (e.g. SPIRIT/CORONAS-F,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-03 V. Slemzin , L. Harra , A. Urnov , S. Kuzin , F. Goryaev , D. Berghmans

Coronal dimmings associated with coronal mass ejections (CME) from the Sun have gained much attention since the late 1990s when they were first observed in high-cadence imagery of the SOHO/EIT and Yohkoh/SXT instruments. They appear as…

Powerful solar eruptions are known to produce fast and wide shock waves in the solar corona and inner heliosphere. The relationship between the coronal shock waves, solar energetic particles and different types of radio emission is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Illya Plotnikov , Alexis P. Rouillard , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Immanuel Jebaraj

The quiet solar corona consists of myriads of loop-like features, with magnetic fields originating from network and internetwork regions on the solar surface. The continuous interaction between these different magnetic patches leads to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , P. R. Young