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Solar active region (AR) 11283 is a very magnetically complex region and it has produced many eruptions. However, there exists a non-eruptive filament in the plage region just next to an eruptive one in the AR, which gives us an opportunity…

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Magnetic reconnection is one of the primary mechanisms for triggering solar eruptive events, but direct observation of its rapid process has been of challenge. In this Letter we present, using a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-24 Chang Liu , Na Deng , Jeongwoo Lee , Thomas Wiegelmann , Ronald L. Moore , Haimin Wang

We investigate the failed partial eruption of a filament system in NOAA AR 12104 on 2014 July 5, using multiwavelength EUV, magnetogram, and H$\alpha$ observations, as well as magnetic field modeling. The filament system consists of two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Jialin Chen , Yingna Su , Rui Liu , Bernhard Kliem , Qingmin Zhang , Haisheng Ji , Tie Liu

The solar active region NOAA 12887 produced a strong X1.0 flare on 2021 October 28, which exhibits X-shaped flare ribbons and a circle-shaped erupting filament. To understand the eruption process with these characteristics, we conducted a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Daiki Yamasaki , Satoshi Inoue , Yumi Bamba , Jeongwoo Lee , Haimin Wang

The solar active region (AR) 12192 was one of the most flare productive region of solar cycle 24, which produced many X-class flares; the most energetic being an X3.1 flare on October 24, 2014 at 21:10 UT. Customarily, such events are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya , Q. Hu , S. S. Nayak , Sanjay Kumar

During 2017, when the Sun was moving toward the minimum phase of solar cycle 24, an exceptionally eruptive active region (AR) NOAA 12673 emerged on the Sun during August 28-September 10. During the highest activity level, the AR turned into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-22 Bhuwan Joshi , Prabir K. Mitra

Two X-class solar flares occurred on 2017 September 6 from active region NOAA 12673: the first one is a confined X2.2 flare, and it is followed only $\sim 3$ hours later by the second one, which is the strongest flare in solar cycle 24,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Peng Zou , Chaowei Jiang , Fengsi Wei , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

We report multi-wavelength study of a complex M-class solar eruptive flare that consists of three different sets of flare ribbons, viz. circular, parallel, and remote ribbons. Magnetic field modeling of source active region NOAA 12242…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Navin Chandra Joshi , Bhuwan Joshi , Prabir K. Mitra

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

We report two sympathetic solar eruptions, including a partial and a full flux rope eruption in a quadrupolar magnetic region, where a large and a small filament resided above the middle and the east neutral lines respectively. The large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yuandeng Shen , Yu Liu , Jiangtao Su

We study a complex GOES M1.1 circular ribbon flare and related pre-flare activity on 26 January 2015 [SOL26-01-2015] in solar active region NOAA 12268. This flare activity was observed by the AIA on board SDO and the RHESSI. The examination…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Pooja Devi , Bhuwan Joshi , Ramesh Chandra , Prabir K. Mitra , Astrid M. Veronig3 , Reetika Joshi

In order to understand the flare trigger mechanism, we conducted three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations using a coronal magnetic field model derived from data observed by the Hinode satellite. Several types of magnetic bipoles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-23 Johan Muhamad , Kanya Kusano , Satoshi Inoue , Daikou Shiota

The violent disruption of the coronal magnetic field is often observed to be restricted to the low corona, appearing as a confined eruption. The possible causes of the confinement remain elusive. Here, we model the eruption of a magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Jun Chen , Xin Cheng , Bernhard Kliem , Mingde Ding

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are associated with rapid changes in field connectivity and powered by the partial dissipation of electrical currents in the solar atmosphere. A critical unanswered question is whether the currents…

Here we report evidence of a large solar filament eruption on 2013, September 29. This smooth eruption, which passed without any previous flare, formed after a two-ribbon flare and a coronal mass ejection towards Earth. The coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-29 J. Palacios , C. Cid , A. Guerrero , E. Saiz , Y. Cerrato

The coronal magnetic field evolution of 20 bipolar active regions (ARs) is simulated from their emergence to decay using the time-dependent nonlinear force-free field method of Mackay et al. A time sequence of cleaned photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Stephanie L. Yardley , Duncan H. Mackay , Lucie M. Green

We investigated the initiation and the evolution of an X7.1-class solar flare observed in solar active region NOAA 13842 on October 1, 2024, based on a data-constrained magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation. The nonlinear force-free field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Keitarou Matsumoto , Satoshi Inoue , Nian Liu , Keiji Hayashi , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

Using the H$\alpha$ data from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) at the Fuxian Solar Observatory together with multi-wavelength images and magnetograms obtained by Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we study the detailed process of three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Guorong Chen , Xiaoli Yan

We report a study of a compound solar eruption that was associated with two consecutively erupting magnetic structures and correspondingly two distinct peaks, during impulsive phase, of an M-class flare (M8.5). Simultaneous multi-viewpoint…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-03 Suman K. Dhakal , Georgios Chintzoglou , Jie Zhang

In this article, we study the origin of precursor flare activity and investigate its role towards triggering the eruption of a flux rope which resulted into a dual-peak M-class flare (SOL2015-06-21T02:36) in the active region NOAA 12371.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Prabir K. Mitra , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad