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Context: Solar active regions (ARs) are key manifestations of the Sun's magnetic activity, displaying diverse spatial and temporal characteristics. Their formation and evolution play a crucial role in understanding the solar dynamo and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 M. Švanda , J. Jurčák , M. Schmassmann

Solar active regions are driven dissipative dynamical systems. The turbulent convection zone forces new magnetic flux tubes to rise above the photosphere and shuffles the magnetic fields which are already above the photosphere. The driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Loukas Vlahos

Earlier studies using extreme-ultraviolet images and line-of-sight magnetograms from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have suggested that active region (AR) plages and strong network concentrations often have small, looplike features…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 Y. -M. Wang , I. Ugarte-Urra , J. W. Reep

We measure the horizontal subsurface flow in a fast emerging active region (NOAA 11158) using the ring-diagram technique and the HMI high-spatial resolution Dopplergrams. This active region had a complex magnetic structure and displayed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-04 Kiran Jain , S. C. Tripathy , F. Hill

Finding the formation mechanisms for bipolar configurations of strong local magnetic field under control of the relatively weak global magnetic field of the Sun is a key problem of the physics of solar activity. This study is aimed at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 A. V. Getling , A. A. Buchnev

Using multi-wavelength observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we investigated the six-month decay process of the solar active region NOAA AR 12738 from April to October 2019. We systematically analyzed the region's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Jiasheng Wang , Yu Xu , Zhengyong Hou

We propose a phenomenological technique for modelling the emergence of active regions within a three-dimensional, kinematic dynamo framework. By imposing localised velocity perturbations, we create emergent flux-tubes out of toroidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. R. Yeates , A. Muñoz-Jaramillo

In the solar corona, magnetic helicity slowly and continuously accumulates in response to plasma flows tangential to the photosphere and magnetic flux emergence through it. Analyzing this transfer of magnetic helicity is key for identifying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 K. Dalmasse , E. Pariat , G. Valori , J. Jing , P. Démoulin

We analyze the temporal evolution of the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic structure of the flaring active region (AR) NOAA 10930 by using the nonlinear force-free fields extrapolated from the photospheric vector magnetic fields observed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Inoue , D. Shiota , T. T. Yamamoto , V. S. Pandey , T. Magara , G. S. Choe

We present a comparison of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) analysis of NOAA Active Region (AR) 11158 and numerical simulations of flux-tube emergence, aiming to investigate the formation process of this flare-productive AR. First, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 S. Toriumi , Y. Iida , K. Kusano , Y. Bamba , S. Imada

We present results of a study of intermittency and multifractality of magnetic structures in solar active regions (ARs). Line-of-sight magnetograms for 214 ARs of different flare productivity observed at the center of the solar disk from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-08 Valentyna Abramenko , Vasyl Yurchyshyn

Studying the hemispheric distribution of active regions (ARs) with different magnetic morphology may clarify the features of the dynamo process that is hidden under the photospheric level. The magnetic flux data for 3047 ARs from the CrAO…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 A. Zhukova

Observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have the potential for allowing the helioseismic study of the formation of hundreds of active regions, which would enable us to perform statistical analyses. Our goal is to collate a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 H. Schunker , D. C. Braun , A. C. Birch , R. B. Burston , L. Gizon

Solar active regions (ARs) are the primary source of solar eruptions and space weather. Accurate detection and tracking of ARs is crucial for understanding their evolution and predicting solar activities. In the previous work, based on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 C. X. Shi , Q. Hao , P. F. Chen , Y. Guo

Typical solar flares display two quasi-parallel, bright ribbons on the chromosphere. In between is the polarity inversion line (PIL) separating concentrated magnetic fluxes of opposite polarity in active regions (ARs). Intriguingly a series…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-30 Rui Liu , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang , Kai Liu

Understanding the nature and evolution of the photospheric helicity flux transfer is a key to reveal the role of magnetic helicity in coronal dynamics of solar active regions. Using SDO/HMI photospheric vector magnetograms and the derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 P. Vemareddy , P. Démoulin

Solar sub-surface fluid topology provides an indirect approach to examine the internal characteristics of active regions (ARs). Earlier studies have revealed the prevalence of strong flows in the interior of ARs having complex magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-19 R. A. Maurya , A. Ambastha

We studied the temporal evolution of the magnetic topology of the active region (AR) 11158 based on the reconstructed three-dimensional magnetic fields in the corona. The \nlfff\ extrapolation method was applied to the 12 minutes cadence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jie Zhao , Hui Li , Etienne Pariat , Brigitte Schmieder , Yang Guo , Thomas Wiegelmann

Active regions (ARs) are the main sources of variety in solar dynamic events. Automated detection and identification tools need to be developed for solar features for a deeper understanding of the solar cycle. Of particular interest here…

Local helioseismology provides a unique opportunity to investigate the subsurface structure and dynamics of active regions and their effect on the large-scale flows and global circulation of the Sun. We use measurements of plasma flows in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao , Stathis Ilonidis