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Verified and updated calibrated absolute solar flux in the He II 30.4 nm spectral band-pass as measured by the Solar EUV Monitor (SEM) allows us to study variations of the solar EUV irradiance near the minima of Solar Cycles 22/23 and…

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The precise physical process that triggers solar flares is not currently understood. Here we attempt to capture the signature of this mechanism in solar image data of various wavelengths and use these signatures to predict flaring activity.…

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Active region NOAA 14274 produced some of the strongest flares of Solar Cycle 25, including the X1.2 and X5.1 flares on 10 and 11 November 2025, respectively. We present the first large mosaic of speckle-restored images obtained with the…

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Flare-prolific active region NOAA 12673 produced consecutive X2.2 and X9.3 flares on 06/09/2017. To scrutinize the morphological, magnetic, and horizontal flow properties associated with these flares, a 7-hour time-series was used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 M. Verma

The dependence of the sources and properties of the near-Earth solar wind on solar cycle activity is an important issue in solar and space physics. We use the improved two-step mapping procedure that takes into account the initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Xinzheng Shi , Hui Fu , Zhenghua Huang , Limei Yan , Chi Ma , Chenxi Huangfu , Hongqiang Song , Lidong Xia

We identify a set of ~100 "cold" solar flares and perform a statistical analysis of them in the microwave range. Cold flares are characterized by a weak thermal response relative to nonthermal emission. This work is a follow up of a…

The most energetic solar flares are typically associated with the ejection of a cloud of coronal material into the heliosphere in the form of a coronal mass ejection (CME). However, there exist large flares which are not accompanied by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Marc L. DeRosa , Graham Barnes

We investigated four major solar flare events that occurred in active regions NOAA 10930 (December 13 and 14, 2006) and NOAA 11158 (February 13 and 15, 2011) by using data observed by the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) onboard the Hinode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Y. Bamba , K. Kusano , T. T. Yamamoto , T. J. Okamoto

Solar Cycle 24 data are used to determine how often the Sun emerges sunspots in `activity nests', i.e., regions where sunspots and active regions (ARs) repeatedly emerge. We use the Solar Photospheric Ephemeral Active Region (SPEAR) catalog…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Aimee Norton , Alex Mendez , Ruizhu Chen , Mausumi Dikpati , S. Aswin Amirtha Raj

We performed statistical and event studies of linear polarization in the H$\alpha$ line during solar flares. The statistical study revealed that, among 71 H$\alpha$ flares analyzed, including 64 GOES flares, only one event shows significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Tomoko Kawate , Yoichiro Hanaoka

Solar activity and solar wind parameters decreased significantly in solar cycles (SCs) 23-24. In this paper, we analyze solar wind measurements at the rising phase of SC 25 and compare them with similar data from the previous cycles. For…

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are frequently observed in solar and stellar flare emission, with recent studies suggesting that an increasing instantaneous period is a common characteristic of QPPs. Determining the prevalence of…

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A phenomenological model is presented for the quantitative description of individual solar cycles' features, such as onset, intensity, evolution, in terms of the number of M and X-class solar flares. The main elements of the model are the…

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We used multi-wavelength high-resolution data from ARIES, THEMIS, and SDO instruments, to analyze a non-standard, C3.3 class flare produced within the active region NOAA 11589 on 2012 October 16. Magnetic flux emergence and cancellation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 K. Dalmasse , R. Chandra , B. Schmieder , G. Aulanier

Whether the upcoming cycle 24 of solar activity will be strong or not is being hotly debated. The solar cycle is produced by a complex dynamo mechanism. We model the last few solar cycles by `feeding' observational data of the Sun's polar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Arnab Rai Choudhuri , Piyali Chatterjee , Jie Jiang

A large sample of active-region-targeted time-series images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory / Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, the AIA Active Region Patch database ("AARPs", Paper I: Dissauer et al 2022) is used to investigate whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 KD Leka , Karin Dissauer , Graham Barnes , Eric L. Wagner

Neutrinos generated during solar flares remain elusive. However, after $50$ years of discussion and search, the potential knowledge unleashed by their discovery keeps the search crucial. Neutrinos associated with solar flares provide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-12 K. Okamoto , Y. Nakano , S. Masuda , Y. Itow , M. Miyake , T. Terasawa , S. Ito , M. Nakahata

This study explores the behavior of machine learning-based flare forecasting models deployed in a simulated operational environment. Using Georgia State University's Space Weather Analytics for Solar Flares benchmark dataset (Angryk et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Griffin T. Goodwin , Viacheslav M. Sadykov , Petrus C. Martens

In our earlier study of this series (Park et al. 2020, Paper I), we examined the hemispheric sign preference (HSP) of magnetic helicity flux $dH/dt$ across photospheric surfaces of 4802 samples of 1105 unique active regions (ARs) observed…

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