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Understanding solar flares is critical for predicting space weather, as their activity shapes how the Sun influences Earth and its environment. The development of reliable forecasting methodologies of these events depends on robust flare…

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Active regions (AR) appearing on the surface of the Sun are classified into $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, and $\delta$ by the rules of the Mount Wilson Observatory, California on the basis of their topological complexity. Amongst these, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Piyali Chatterjee , Viggo Hansteen , Mats Carlsson

Filaments play a crucial role in providing the necessary environmental conditions for star formation, actively participating in the process. To facilitate the identification and analysis of filaments, we introduce DPConCFil (Directional and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 Yu Jiang

Colour analysis is a crucial step in image-based fire detection algorithms. Many of the proposed fire detection algorithms in a still image are prone to false alarms caused by objects with a colour similar to fire. To design a colour-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-13 Oluwarotimi Giwa , Abdsamad Benkrid

The phenomenon of turbulent photon filamentation occurs in lasers and other active optical media at high Fresnel numbers. A description of this phenomenon is suggested. The solutions to evolution equations are presented in the form of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. I. Yukalov

We have calculated the H$\alpha$ and Ca {\sc ii} 8542 {\AA} line profiles based on four different atmospheric models, including the effects of nonthermal electron beams with various energy fluxes. These two lines have different responses to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , J. P. Li

The hydrogen Lyman lines provide important diagnostic information about the dynamics of the chromosphere, but there have been few systematic studies of their variability during flares. We investigate Doppler shifts in these lines in several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 Stephen A Brown , Lyndsay Fletcher , Nicolas Labrosse

Solar flares, along with other sun-originated events such as Coronal Mass Ejections, fast solar wind streams, and solar energetic particles are among the most relevant events in Space Weather. Moreover, solar flares are the most energetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-21 Nicola Plutino , Francesco Berrilli , Dario Del Moro , Luca Giovannelli

Small-scale vortices in the solar photosphere play a central role in transporting mass, energy, and momentum into the upper solar atmosphere, yet reliably detecting these structures remains rather challenging. We address this problem by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Lauren McClure , Suzana Silva , Gary Verth , Istvan Ballai , Viktor Fedun

Reflective flare is a phenomenon that occurs when light reflects inside lenses, causing bright spots or a "ghosting effect" in photos, which can impact their quality. Eliminating reflective flare is highly desirable but challenging. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuekun Dai , Yihang Luo , Shangchen Zhou , Chongyi Li , Chen Change Loy

Recently, there has been growing interest in the use of machine-learning methods for predicting solar flares. Initial efforts along these lines employed comparatively simple models, correlating features extracted from observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Varad Deshmukh , Srinivas Baskar , Elizabeth Bradley , Thomas Berger , James D. Meiss

In this paper, we propose an x-ray fluorescence imaging system for elemental analysis. The key idea is what we call "x-ray fluorescence sectioning". Specifically, a slit collimator in front of an x-ray tube is used to shape x-rays into a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

We present a new method to automatically track filaments over the solar disk. The filaments are first detected on Meudon Spectroheliograph H{\alpha} images of the Sun, applying the technique developed by Fuller, Aboudarham, and Bentley…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-30 Xavier Bonnin , Jean Aboudarham , Nicolas Fuller , Andre Csillaghy , Robert D. Bentley

Filaments are clearly visible in galaxy distributions, but they are hardly detected by computer algorithms. Most methods of filament detection can be used only with numerical simulations of a large-scale structure. New simple and effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-14 Anatoliy V. Tugay

Spatially-resolved X-ray observations are the key to understanding electron acceleration in solar flares. Currently, the underlying processes that efficiently energize solar flare particles are poorly constrained. Abundant flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Morgan Stores , Natasha Jeffrey , Ewan Dickson , James McLaughlin , Eduard Kontar

Solar flares originate from magnetically active regions but not all solar active regions give rise to a flare. Therefore, the challenge of solar flare prediction benefits by an intelligent computational analysis of physics-based properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Cristina Campi , Federico Benvenuto , Anna Maria Massone , D Shaun Bloomfield , Manolis K Georgoulis , Michele Piana

Far-infrared imaging surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel have shown that a substantial part of the cold interstellar medium appears as a fascinating web of omnipresent filamentary structures. This highly anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Men'shchikov

We investigate accelerated electron energy spectra for different sources in a large flare using simultaneous observations obtained with two instruments, the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph (NoRH) at 17 and 34 GHz, and the Reuven Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. R. Kundu , V. V. Grechnev , S. M. White , E. J. Schmahl , N. S. Meshalkina , L. K. Kashapova

Sun-as-a-star spectroscopic characteristics of solar flares can be used as a benchmark for the detection and analyses of stellar flares. Here, we study the Sun-as-a-star properties of an X1.0 solar flare using high-resolution spectroscopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-15 Y. L. Ma , Q. H. Lao , X. Cheng , B. T. Wang , Z. H. Zhao , S. H. Rao , C. Li , M. D. Ding