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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

We describe the peculiarity of two recurrent white light flares occurred on Sept. 06, 2017, in the super Active Region (SAR) NOAA 12673, with a time interval, between their peaks, of about 3 hours. These events of X2.2 and X9.3 GOES class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 P. Romano , A. Elmhamdi , M. Falco , P. Costa , A. S. Kordi , H. A. Al-Trabulsy , R. M. Al-Shammari

Filament eruption on 30 April - 1 May 2010, which shows the reconnection of one filament leg with a region far away from its initial position, is analyzed. Observations from three viewpoints are used for as precise as possible measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-23 Boris Filippov

Quasi-periodic oscillations in solar flaring emission have been observed over the past few decades. To date, the underpinning processes resulting in the quasi-periodic oscillations remain unknown. In this paper, we report a unique event…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Yining Zhang , Ting Li , Jing Ye

We report the intriguing large-scale dynamic phenomena associated with the M6.5 flare~(SOL2015-06-22T18:23) in NOAA active region 12371, observed by RHESSI, Fermi, and the Atmospheric Image Assembly (AIA) and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Ju Jing , Rui Liu , Mark C. M. Cheung , Jeongwoo Lee , Yan Xu , Chang Liu , Chunming Zhu , Haimin Wang

Eruptive flares (EFs) are associated with erupting filaments and, in some models, filament eruption drives flare reconnection. Recently, however, observations of a confined flare (CF) have revealed all the hallmarks of an EF (impulsive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 David MacTaggart , Lyndsay Fletcher

An eruption event launched from solar active region (AR) NOAA 11719 is investigated based on coronal EUV observations and photospheric magnetic field measurements obtained from Solar Dynamic Observatory. The AR consists of a filament…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Vemareddy , J. Zhang

Solar filaments often erupt partially. Although how they split remains elusive, the splitting process has the potential of revealing the filament structure and eruption mechanism. Here we investigate the pre-eruption splitting of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Hanya Pan , Rui Liu , Tingyu Gou , Bernhard Kliem , Yingna Su , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang

On October 3rd, 2024, the Sun emitted an X9.0-class flare from active region NOAA 13842. The event was recorded by multiple space-based instruments, beginning hours before the eruption, granting a unique opportunity to provide insight into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Louis Seyfritz , Maria Kazachenko , Ryan French

We present observations of a failed eruption of a magnetic flux rope recorded during the M6.2 flare of 14 July 2004. The observations were mainly made with TRACE 171 {\AA} and 1600 {\AA} filters. The flare was accompanied by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tomasz Mrozek

We analyze 152 large confined flares (GOES class $\geq$M1.0 and $\leq$$45^{\circ}$ from disk center) during 2010$-$2019, and classify them into two types according to the criterion taken from the work of Li et al. (2019). "Type I" flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Xuchun Duan , Ting Li , Qihang Jing

We analyse the spatial distribution and vertical stratification of the physical parameters of the solar atmosphere when an X-class flare occurs. We made use of observations acquired by the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectropolarimeter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 F. Ferrente , C. Quintero Noda , F. Zuccarello , S. L. Guglielmino

A large filament composed principally of two sections erupted sequentially in the southern hemisphere on January 26 2016. The central, thick part of the northern section was first lifted up and lead to the eruption of the full filament.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 T. Roudier , B. Schmieder , B. Filippov , R. Chandra , J. M. Malherbe

Combining the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Vacuum Solar Telescope observations, we study a confined flare triggered by a rising flux rope within the trailing sunspots of active region 12733. The flux rope lying above the sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Qiao Song , Yi Bi , Ting Li

Studying the dynamics of filaments at pre-eruption phase can shed light on the precursor of eruptive events. Such studies in high-resolution (in the order of 0.1") are highly desirable yet very rare so far. In this work, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Qin Li , Na Deng , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

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

The question of the nature of precursors of solar flares, as well as their relationship with subsequent flares, still has no unambiguous answer. This is due, in particular, to the lack of systematic statistical work, the relative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 G. G. Motorina , I. N. Sharykin , I. V. Zimovets , A. S. Motorin

We report a detailed study of the pre-eruption activities that led to the occurrence of an M9.0 flare/CME event on 2012 October 20 in NOAA AR 11598. This includes the study of the preceding confined C2.4 flare that occurred on the same AR…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Aaron Hernandez-Perez , Yang Su , Astrid M. Veronig , Julia K. Thalmann , Peter Gömöry , Bhuwan Joshi

We study the quasi-static evolution of coronal magnetic fields constructed from the Non Linear Force Free Field (NLFFF) approximation aiming to understand the relation between the magnetic field topology and ribbon emission during an X1.5…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Vemareddy , T. Wiegelmann

With the observations of the Solar Dynamics Observatory, we present the slipping magnetic reconnections with multiple flare ribbons (FRs) during an X1.2 eruptive flare on 2014 January 7. A center negative polarity was surrounded by several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Ruisheng Zheng , Yao Chen , Bing Wang