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Solar flares are one of the most energetic events in the solar atmosphere. It is widely accepted that flares are powered by magnetic reconnection in the corona. An eruptive flare is usually accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, both of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Y. Li , X. Sun , M. D. Ding , J. Qiu , E. R. Priest

Rapid increase of horizontal magnetic field ($B_h$) around the flaring polarity inversion line is the most prominent photospheric field change during flares. It is considered to be caused by the contraction of flare loops, the details…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Lijuan Liu , Zhenjun Zhou , Yuming Wang , Xudong Sun , Guoqiang Wang

Aims: This work aims to identify the mechanism driving pulsations in hard X-ray (HXR) and microwave emission during solar flares. Here, by using combined HXR and microwave observations from Solar Orbiter/STIX and EOVSA we investigate an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Hannah Collier , Laura A. Hayes , Sijie Yu , Andrea F. Battaglia , William Ashfield , Vanessa Polito , Louise K. Harra , Säm Krucker

Magnetic flux ropes play a key role in triggering solar flares in the solar atmosphere. In this paper, we investigate the evolution of active region NOAA 12268 within 36 hours from 2015 January 29 to 30, during which a flux rope was formed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Z. Zhong , Y. Guo , M. D. Ding , C. Fang , Q. Hao

Flare ribbons with parallel and circular morphologies are typically associated with different magnetic reconnection models, and the simultaneous observation of both types in a single event remains rare. Using multi-wavelength observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Ruifei Huang , Hao Ning , Ze Zhong , Ye Qiu , Zhenyong Hou , Yang Su , Chuan Li , Xiangliang Kong , Yao Chen

It has been found that photospheric magnetic fields can change in accordance with the three-dimensional magnetic field restructuring following solar eruptions. Previous studies mainly use vector magnetic field data taken for events near the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Dandan Ye , Chang Liu , Haimin Wang

We have explored the relationship between hard X-ray (HXR) emissions and Doppler velocities caused by the chromospheric evaporation in two X1.6 class solar flares on 2014 September 10 and October 22, respectively. Both events display double…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Dong Li , Zongjun Ning , Qingmin Zhang

Three-dimensional magnetic topology is crucial to understanding the explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona during solar flares. Much attention has been given to the pre-flare magnetic topology to identify candidate sites of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Rui Liu , P. Vemareddy , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

Multiple-ribbon flares are usually complex in their magnetic topologies and eruption mechanisms. In this paper, we investigate an X2.1 flare (SOL2015-03-11T16:22) that occurred in active region 12297 near the center of the solar disk by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-21 Ye Qiu , Yang Guo , M. D. Ding , Ze Zhong

We present fast cadence and high resolution observations of flare ribbons from the Solar Orbiter Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI). Utilizing the short-exposure observations from the EUI High Resolution Imager in EUV (HRIEUV), we find…

Observations have shown a clear association of filament/prominence eruptions with the emergence of magnetic flux in or near filament channels. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been employed to systematically study the conditions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 T. Török , M. G. Linton , J. E. Leake , Z. Mikić , R. Lionello , V. S. Titov , C. Downs

Magnetic flux ropes are the centerpiece of solar eruptions. Direct measurements for the magnetic field of flux ropes are crucial for understanding the triggering and energy release processes, yet they remain heretofore elusive. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yuqian Wei , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Haimin Wang , Ju Jing , Dale E. Gary

We investigated in detail the M5.8 class solar flare that occurred on 2023-03-06. This flare was one of the first strong flares observed by the Siberian Radioheliograph in the microwave range and the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Alexey Kuznetsov , Zhao Wu , Sergey Anfinogentov , Yang Su , Yao Chen

We study a sequence of eruptive events including filament eruption, a GOES C4.3 flare and a coronal mass ejection. We aim to identify the possible trigger(s) and precursor(s) of the filament destabilisation; investigate flare kernel…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Z. Huang , M. S. Madjarska , K. Koleva , J. G. Doyle , P. Duchlev , M. Dechev , K. Reardon

Large solar flares (GOES M-class or higher) are usually associated with eruptions of material. However, when considering flare irradiance enhancements and dynamics such as chromospheric evaporation, potential contributions from erupted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Luke Majury , Marie Dominique , Ryan Milligan , Dana-Camelia Talpeanu , Ingolf Dammasch , David Berghmans

We investigate the plasma and magnetic environment of active region NOAA 11261 on 2 August 2011 around a GOES M1.4 flare/CME (SOL2011-08-02T06:19). We compare coronal emission at (extreme) ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths, using SDO AIA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Julia K. Thalmann , Astrid M. Veronig , Yang Su

A solar flare releases magnetic energy by reconnecting field lines across a current sheet, thereby allowing their relaxation to a lower energy state. The maximum possible energy is released if all field lines relax to a current-free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Drake Osaben , Jiong Qiu , Dana W. Longcope

The evolution of an X2.7 solar flare, that occurred in a complex $\beta\gamma\delta$ magnetic configuration region on 2003 November 3 is discussed utilizing a multi-wavelength data set. The very first signature of pre-flare coronal activity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhuwan Joshi , P. K. Manoharan , Astrid M. Veronig , P. Pant , Kavita Pandey

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

Using the observations from Solar Dynamics Observatory, we study an eruption of a hot-channel flux rope (FR) near the solar-limb on February 9, 2015. The pre-eruptive structure is visible mainly in EUV 131 $\mathring{\mathrm{A}}$ images…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 P. Vemareddy , P. Démoulin , K. Sasikumar Raja , J. Zhang , N. Gopalswamy , N. Vasantharaju