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We analyze high cadence high resolution observations of a C3.2 flare obtained by AIA/SDO on August 1, 2010. The flare is a long duration event with soft X-ray and EUV radiation lasting for over four hours. Analysis suggests that magnetic…

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Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

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We present observations and a magnetic-reconnection scenario of a twin pair of "atypical flares" that occurred on 2022 April 22 in a quadrupolar magnetic configuration formed by two active regions. The spatio-temporal evolution of the two…

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In this study we report detailed observations of magnetic environment at four footpoints of two warm coronal loops observed on 5 May 2016 in NOAA AR 12542 (Loop I) and 17 Dec 2015 in NOAA AR 12470 (Loop II). These loops were connecting a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 Seray Şahin , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Pankaj Kumar , Ali Kilcik , Kwangsu Ahn , Xu Yang

Multi-instrument observations of NOAA AR10938 on Jan. 14-18, 2007, are utilized to study the evolution of a magnetic thread system with multiple crossings suggestive of a twisted coronal flux rope. A C-class flare recorded by GOES on Jan.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-04 Nour-Eddine Raouafi

Solar eruptions occurring at different places within a relatively short time interval are considered to be sympathetic. However, it is difficult to determine whether there exists a cause and effect between them. Here we study a failed and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-04 Dong Wang , Rui Liu , Yuming Wang , Tingyu Gou , Quanhao Zhang , Zhenjun Zhou , Min Zhang

Circular ribbon flares are usually related to spine-fan type magnetic topology containing null-points. In this paper, we investigate an X-class circular ribbon flare on 2012 October 23, using the multi-wavelength data from the \textit{Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kai Yang , Yang Guo , M. D. Ding

We report the observation of an X-class long-duration flare which is clearly confined. It appears as a compact-loop flare in the traditional EUV passbands (171 and 195 {\AA}), but in the passbands sensitive to flare plasmas (94 and 131…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 Rui Liu , Viacheslav S. Titov , Tingyu Gou , Yuming Wang , Kai Liu , Haimin Wang

We present and interpret observations of two morphologically homologous flares that occurred in active region (AR) NOAA 10501 on 20 November 2003. Both flares displayed four homologous H-alpha ribbons and were both accompanied by coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Chandra , B. Schmieder , C. H. Mandrini , P. Démoulin , E. Pariat , T. Torok , W. Uddin

The high-resolution pictures of the solar photosphere from space based 50 cm Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on-board Hinode spacecraft, are now routinely observed. Such images of a delta-sunspot in NOAA 10930 were obtained by Hinode during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 S. Gosain , P. Venkatakrishnan , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari

We investigate the evolution of NOAA Active Region 11817 during 2013 August 10--12, when it developed a complex field configuration and produced four confined, followed by two eruptive, flares. These C-and-above flares are all associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 Rui Liu , Bernhard Kliem , Viacheslav S. Titov , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang , Haimin Wang , Chang Liu , Yan Xu , Thomas Wiegelmann

Context. The dynamics of the flaring loops in active region (AR) 11429 are studied. The observed dynamics consist of several evolution stages of the flaring loop system during both the ascending and descending phases of the registered…

Using HINODE/XRT, GOES, SDO/AIA observations, we study a compact C-1.4 class flare outside a major sunspot of AR 12178 on 4 October 2014. This flare is associated with a peculiar coronal jet, which is erupted in two stages in the overlying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Ritika Solanki , A. K. Srivastava , B. N. Dwivedi

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

We present observations of a confined M4.0 flare from NOAA 11302 on 2011 September 26. Observations at high temporal, spatial, and spectral resolution from Solar Dynamics Observatory, Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-05 Upendra Kushwaha , Bhuwan Joshi , Kyung-Suk Cho , Astrid Veronig , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari , S. K. Mathew

On 27 October, 2003, two GOES M-class flares occurred in the lapse of three hours in active region NOAA 10486. The two flares were confined and their associated brightenings appeared at the same location, displaying a very similar shape…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. L. Luoni , C. H. Mandrini , G. Cristiani , P. Démoulin

The separation of a filament and sigmoid is observed during an X1.4 flare on July 12, 2012 in solar active region 11520, but the corresponding magnetic field change is not clear. We construct a data-constrained magnetohydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Tie Liu , Yuhong Fan , Yingna Su , Yang Guo , Ya Wang , Haisheng Ji

We clarify a relationship of the dynamics of a solar flare and a growing Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) by investigating the dynamics of magnetic fields during the X2.2-class flare taking place in the solar active region 11158 on 2011 February…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Inoue , K. Hayashi , T. Magara , G. S. Choe , Y. D. Park

In this paper, we present unique observations of a blowout coronal jet that possibly triggered a two-ribbon confined C1.2 flare in a bipolar solar active region NOAA 12615 on 2016 December 5. The jet activity initiates at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Bhuwan Joshi , Julia K. Thalmann , Prabir K. Mitra , Ramesh Chandra , Astrid M. Veronig

It is important to study the fine structures of solar filaments with high-resolution observations since it can help us understand the magnetic and thermal structures of the filaments and their dynamics. In this paper, we study a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 P. Zou , C. Fang , P. F. Chen , K. Yang , Q. Hao , Wenda Cao