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Solar eruptions often show the rotation of filaments, which is a manifestation of the rotation of erupting magnetic flux rope (MFR). Such a rotation of MFR can be induced by either the torque exerted by a background shear-field component…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-23 Zhenjun Zhou , Chaowei Jiang , Xiaoyu Yu , Yuming Wang , Yongqiang Hao , Jun Cui

Filament eruptions often lead to coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which can affect critical technological systems in space and on the ground when they interact with the geo-magnetosphere in high speeds. Therefore, it is an important issue to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hongqiang Song , Yao Chen , Jie Zhang , Xin Cheng , Hui Fu , Gang Li

It is recently noted that solar eruptions can be associated with the contraction of coronal loops that are not involved in magnetic reconnection processes. In this paper, we investigate five coronal eruptions originating from four sigmoidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Rui Liu , Chang Liu , Tibor Török , Yuming Wang , Haimin Wang

Filament eruptions often result in flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Most studies attribute the filament eruptions to their instabilities or magnetic reconnection. In this study, we report a unique observation of a filament eruption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yongliang Song , Jiangtao Su , Qingmin Zhang , Mei Zhang , Yuanyong Deng , Xianyong Bai , Suo Liu , Xiao Yang , Jie Chen , Haiqing Xu , Kaifan Ji , Ziyao Hu

Filament eruptions are magnetically driven violent explosions commonly observed on the Sun and late-type stars, sometimes leading to monster coronal mass ejections that directly affect the nearby planets' environments. More than a century…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Hechao Chen , Hui Tian , Quanhao Zhang , Chuan Li , Chun Xia , Xianyong Bai , Zhenyong Hou , Kaifan Ji , Yuanyong Deng , Xiao Yang , Ziyao Hu

The solar active region NOAA 12887 produced a strong X1.0 flare on 2021 October 28, which exhibits X-shaped flare ribbons and a circle-shaped erupting filament. To understand the eruption process with these characteristics, we conducted a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Daiki Yamasaki , Satoshi Inoue , Yumi Bamba , Jeongwoo Lee , Haimin Wang

A filament eruption on 2010 October 21 observed from three different viewpoints by the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) is analyzed with invoking also data from the Solar and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Boris Filippov

Context: The origin of the variable component of the solar wind is of great intrinsic interest for heliophysics and space-weather, e.g. the initiation of coronal mass ejections, and the problem of mass loss of all stars. It is also related…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 K. Bocchialini , F. Baudin , S. Koutchmy , G. Pouget , J. Solomon

We present stereoscopic observations of six sequent eruptions of a filament in the active region NOAA 11045 on 2010 Feb 8, with the advantage of the STEREO twin viewpoints in combination with the earth viewpoint from SOHO instruments and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-09 Yuandeng Shen , Yu Liu , Rui Liu

Sunspots are concentrations of magnetic field visible on the solar surface (photosphere). It was considered implausible that solar flares, as resulted from magnetic reconnection in the tenuous corona, would cause a direct perturbation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-12 Chang Liu , Yan Xu , Wenda Cao , Na Deng , Jeongwoo Lee , Hugh S. Hudson , Dale E. Gary , Jiasheng Wang , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

In this paper, we focus on the pre-flare coronal dimmings. We report our multiwavelength observations of the GOES X1.6 solar flare and the accompanying halo CME produced by the eruption of a sigmoidal magnetic flux rope (MFR) in NOAA active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Q. M. Zhang , Y. N. Su , H. S. Ji

We have studied a B-class solar flare and an associated filament eruption through multi-wavelength observations. The flare triggers at 16:24~UT on June 7$^{th}$, 2017 from an active region (AR) 12661, and it maximizes at 16:54~UT. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 B. Suresh Babu , Pradeep kayshap , Ashok Kumar Baral , Bhola N. Dwivedi

Context. Solar filament eruptions usually appear to occur in association with the sudden explosive release of magnetic energy accumulated in long-lived arched magnetic structures. It is the released energy that occasionally drives…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 Denis P. Cabezas , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Ayumi Asai , Satoru UeNo , Satoshi Morita , Ken-ichi Otsuji , Kazunari Shibata

We carried out a multi-wavelength study of a CME and a medium-size 1B/C1.3 flare occurring on 12 May 1997. We present the investigation of magnetic-field variations in the NOAA Active Region 8038 which was observed on the Sun during 7--16…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-15 Rajmal Jain , Arun K. Awasthi , Babita Chandel , Lokesh Bharti , Y. Hanaoka , A. L. Kiplinger

We perform a data-constrained simulation with the zero-$\beta$ assumption to study the mechanisms of strong rotation and failed eruption of a filament in active region 11474 on 2012 May 5 observed by Solar Dynamics Observatory and Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Xiaomeng Zhang , Jinhan Guo , Yang Guo , Mingde Ding , Rony Keppens

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

We present RHESSI and TRACE observations of multiple flare activity that occurred in the active region NOAA 10656 over the period of two hours on 2004 August 18. Out of four successive flares, there were three events of class C while the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Bhuwan Joshi , Upendra Kushwaha , K. -S. Cho , Astrid M. Veronig

The relationship between solar eruption and sunspot rotation has been widely reported, and the underlying mechanism requires to be studied. Here we performed a full 3D MHD simulation of data-constrained approach to study the mechanism of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Xinyi Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Aiying Duan , Xinkai Bian

On 2012 July 11, two solar filaments were observed in the northeast of the solar disk and their eruptions due to the interaction between them are studied by using the data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Solar TErrestrial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Z. K. Xue , X. L. Yan , Z. Q. Qu , C. L. Xu , L. Zhao

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