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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

Flares and eruptions from solar active regions are associated with atmospheric electrical currents accompanying distortions of the coronal field away from a lowest-energy potential state. In order to better understand the origin of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 C. J. Schrijver

We study the physical mechanism of a major X-class solar flare that occurred in the super NOAA active region (AR) 12192 using a data-driven numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modeling complemented with observations. With the evolving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Chaowei Jiang , Shi Tsan Wu , Vasyl B Yurchyshyn , Haimin Wang , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu

The dynamics of magnetic fields in the Sun's active regions plays a key role in triggering solar eruptions. Studies have shown that changes in the photosphere's magnetic field can destabilize large-scale structure of the corona, leading to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Partha Chowdhury , Belur Ravindra , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari

Homologous flares are flares that occur repetitively in the same active region, with similar structure and morphology. A series of at least eight homologous flares occurred in active region NOAA 11237 over 16 - 17 June 2011. A nearby…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Navdeep K. Panesar , Alphonse C. Sterling , Davina E. Innes , Ronald L. Moore

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are believed to be the core structure in solar eruptions, nevertheless, their formation remains intensely debated. Here we report a rapid buildup process of an MFR-system during a confined X2.2 class flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-29 Lijuan Liu , Xin Cheng , Yuming Wang , Zhenjun Zhou , Yang Guo , Jun cui

Solar active region (AR) 12673 produced 4 X-class, 27 M-class, and numerous lower class flares during its passage across the visible solar disk in September 2017. Our study is to answer the questions why this AR was so flare-productive and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Qiao Song

During late October 2014, active region NOAA 2192 caused an unusual high level of solar activity, within an otherwise weak solar cycle. While crossing the solar disk, during a period of 11 days, it was the source of 114 flares of GOES class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Julia K. Thalmann , Yang Su , Manuela Temmer , Astrid M. Veronig

Some types of solar flares are observed in X-shaped quadrupolar field configuration. To understand the magnetic energy storage in such a region, we studied non-potential field formation in an X-shaped quadrupolar field region formed in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-22 Yusuke Kawabata , Satoshi Inoue , Toshifumi Shimizu

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

The non-association of coronal mass ejections with high energetic flares is sparse. For this reason, the magnetic conditions required for the confinedness of major flares is a topic of active research. Using multi-instrument observations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 N. Vasantharaju , F. Zuccarello , F. Ferrente , S. L. Guglielmino

The unusually large NOAA active region 2192, observed in October 2014, was outstanding in its productivity of major two-ribbon flares without coronal mass ejections. On a large scale, a predominantly north-south oriented magnetic system of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. K. Thalmann , Y. Su , M. Temmer , A. M. Veronig

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

Sunquakes are created by the hydrodynamic response of the lower atmosphere to a sudden deposition of energy and momentum. In this study we investigate a sunquake that occurred in NOAA active region 11675 on 17 February 2013. Observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Lucie M. Green , Gherardo Valori , Francesco P. Zuccarello , Sergei Zharkov , Sarah Matthews , Salvo L. Guglielmino

We present the multi-wavelength observations of a flux rope that was trying to erupt from NOAA AR 11045 and the associated M-class solar flare on 12 February 2010 using space and ground based observations from TRACE, STEREO, SOHO/MDI,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pankaj Kumar , A. K. Srivastava , B. Filippov , R. Erdelyi , Wahab Uddin

Using the observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we investigate six X-class and twenty-nine M-class flares occurring in solar active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Huadong Chen , Jun Zhang , Suli Ma , Shuhong Yang , Leping Li , Xin Huang , Junmin Xiao

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

Strong solar flares and coronal mass ejections, here defined not only as the bursts of electromagnetic radiation but as the entire process in which magnetic energy is released through magnetic reconnection and plasma instability, emanate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Shin Toriumi , Haimin Wang

We performed a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation using a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) in solar active region 11158 to clarify the dynamics of an X2.2-class solar flare. We found that the NLFFF never shows the drastic dynamics seen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Inoue , K. Hayashi , T. Magara , G. S. Choe , Y. D. Park

This Letter reports two rarely observed three-ribbon flares (M1.9 and C9.2) on 2012 July 6 in NOAA AR 11515, which we found with Halpha observations of 0.1" resolution from the New Solar Telescope and CaII H images from Hinode. The flaring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Haimin Wang , Chang Liu , Na Deng , Zhicheng Zeng , Yan Xu , Ju Jing , Wenda Cao