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We study flare processes in the lower solar atmosphere using observational data for a M1-class flare of June 12, 2014, obtained by New Solar Telescope (NST/BBSO) and Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI/SDO). The main goal is to understand…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 I. N. Sharykin , V. M. Sadykov , A. G. Kosovichev , S. Vargas-Dominguez , I. V. Zimovets

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 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

The solar flare on July 30, 2011 was of a modest X-ray class (M9.3), but it made a strong photospheric impact and produced a "sunquake," observed with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 I. N. Sharykin , A. G. Kosovichev

Aims: Changes of the magnetic field and the line-of-sight velocities in the photosphere are being reported for an M-class flare that originated at a $\delta$-spot belonging to active region NOAA 11865. Methods: High-resolution ground-based…

The largest X9.3 solar flare in solar cycle 24 and the preceding X2.2 flare occurred on September 6, 2017, in the solar active region NOAA 12673. This study aims to understand the onset mechanism of these flares via analysis of multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Yumi Bamba , Satoshi Inoue , Shinsuke Imada

The observations of magnetic field variations as a signature of flaring activity is one of the main goal in solar physics. Some efforts in the past give apparently no unambiguous observations of changes. We observed that the scaling laws of…

We analyze the temporal evolution of the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic structure of the flaring active region (AR) NOAA 10930 by using the nonlinear force-free fields extrapolated from the photospheric vector magnetic fields observed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Inoue , D. Shiota , T. T. Yamamoto , V. S. Pandey , T. Magara , G. S. Choe

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

In this article, we study the origin of precursor flare activity and investigate its role towards triggering the eruption of a flux rope which resulted into a dual-peak M-class flare (SOL2015-06-21T02:36) in the active region NOAA 12371.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Prabir K. Mitra , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad

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

The solar active region NOAA 11158 produced a series of flares during its passage through the solar disk. The first major flare (of class X2.2) of the current solar cycle occurred in this active region on 2011 February 15 around 01:50 UT.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Raja Bayanna , Brajesh Kumar , P. Venkatakrishnan , Shibu K Mathew , B. Ravindra , Savita Mathur , R. A. Garcia

When and where the magnetic field energy is released and converted in eruptive solar flares remains an outstanding topic in solar physics. To shed light on this question, here we report multi-wavelength observations of a C9.4-class eruptive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Yuqian Wei , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Haimin Wang , Yixian Zhang , Lindsay Glesener

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

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

Many previous studies have shown that magnetic fields as well as sunspot structures present rapid and irreversible changes associated with solar flares. In this paper we first use five X-class flares observed by SDO/HMI to show that not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Yongliang Song , Mei Zhang

Solar flares are driven by release of free magnetic energy and often associated with restructurization of the magnetic field topology. Yet, observations of evolving magnetic field in the flaring volume are limited to very few cases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Gregory D. Fleishman , Tatyana Kaltman , Sijie Yu

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

Magnetic field plays an important role in various solar eruptions like flares, coronal mass ejections, etc. The formation and evolution of characteristic magnetic field topology in solar eruptions are critical problems that will ultimately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Wen He , Qiang Hu , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Sushree S. Nayak , Avijeet Prasad

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