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We investigate the evolution of NOAA Active Region 11817 during 2013 August 10--12, when it developed a complex field configuration and produced four confined, followed by two eruptive, flares. These C-and-above flares are all associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 Rui Liu , Bernhard Kliem , Viacheslav S. Titov , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang , Haimin Wang , Chang Liu , Yan Xu , Thomas Wiegelmann

Circular ribbon flares are usually related to spine-fan type magnetic topology containing null-points. In this paper, we investigate an X-class circular ribbon flare on 2012 October 23, using the multi-wavelength data from the \textit{Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kai Yang , Yang Guo , M. D. Ding

We studied the magnetic topology of active region 12158 on 2014 September 10 and compared it with the observations before and early in the flare which begins at 17:21 UT (SOL2014-09-10T17:45:00). Our results show that the sigmoidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Jie Zhao , Stuart A. Gilchrist , Guillaume Aulanier , Brigitte Schmieder , Etienne Pariat , Hui Li

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

We analyze H-alpha images, soft X-ray profiles, magnetograms, extreme ultra-violet images and radio observations of two homologous flare events (M1.4/1N and M9.6/2B) on 20 November 2003 in the active region NOAA 10501 and study properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Pankaj Kumar , P. K. Manoharan , Wahab Uddin

Three homologous C-class flares and one last M-class flare were observed by both the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) in the AR 11429 on March 9, 2012. All the recurrent flares occurred within a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 V. Polito , G. Del Zanna , G. Valori , E. Pariat , H. E. Mason , J. Dudik , M. Janvier

We have recently developed the capability to make solar vector (Stokes IQUV) magnetograms using the infrared line of MgI at 12.32 microns. On 24 April 2001, we obtained a vector magnetic map of solar active region NOAA 9433, fortuitously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Donald E. Jennings , Drake Deming , George McCabe , Pedro Sada , Thomas Moran

Solar active region (AR) 12673 in 2017 September produced two largest flares in Solar Cycle 24: the X9.3 flare on September 06 and the X8.2 flare on September 10. We attempt to investigate the evolutions of the two great flares and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-21 Y. J. Hou , J. Zhang , T. Li , S. H. Yang , X. H. Li

Solar flares are often associated with coronal eruptions, but there are confined ones without eruption, even for some X-class flares. How such large flares occurred and why they are confined are still not well understood. Here we studied a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Peng Zou , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

This paper is an attempt to understand the physical processes occurring in different layers of solar atmosphere during a solar flare. For a complete understanding of the flare we must analyze multi-wavelength datasets, as emission at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Shirsh Lata Soni , Radhe Shyam Gupta , Adya Prasad Mishra

We explore the processes of repetitive build-up and explosive release of magnetic energy together with the formation of magnetic flux ropes that eventually resulted into three homologous eruptive flares of successively increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Suraj Sahu , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad , Kyung-Suk Cho

Solar flares are sudden and violent releases of magnetic energy in the solar atmosphere that can be divided in eruptive flares, when plasma is ejected from the solar atmosphere, resulting in a coronal mass ejection (CME), and confined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 F. P. Zuccarello , R. Chandra , B. Schmieder , G. Aulanier , R. Joshi

To better understand the structures of active-region filaments and the eruption process, we study an active-region filament eruption in active region NOAA 11082 in detail on June 22, 2010. Before the filament eruption, the opposite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 X. L. Yan , Z. K. Xue , J. H. Liu , D. F. Kong , C. L. Xu

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…

We present a clear case study on the occurrence of two successive X-class flares including a decade-class flare (X9.3) and two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) triggered by shearing motion and sunspot rotation in active region NOAA 12673 on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 X. L. Yan , J. C. Wang , G. M. Pan , D. F. Kong , Z. K. Xue , L. H. Yang , Q. L. Li , X. S. Feng

We analyze a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic structure and its stability in large solar active region(AR) 12192, using the 3D coronal magnetic field constructed under a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) approximation. In particular, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 S. Inoue , K. Hayashi , K. Kusano

We present multiwavelength analysis of an M7.9 /1N solar flare which occurred on 27 April 2006 in AR NOAA 10875. The flare was triggered due to the interaction of two loop systems. GOES soft X-ray and TRACE 195 {\AA} image sequences show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-23 Pankaj Kumar , Abhishek K. Srivastava , B. V. Somov , P. K. Manoharan , R. Erdélyi , Wahab Uddin

In order to understand the flare trigger mechanism, we conducted three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations using a coronal magnetic field model derived from data observed by the Hinode satellite. Several types of magnetic bipoles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-23 Johan Muhamad , Kanya Kusano , Satoshi Inoue , Daikou Shiota

Super active region NOAA 13664 produced 12 X-class flares (including the largest one, an occulted X8.7 flare, in solar cycle 25 so far) during 2024 May 8-15 and 11 of them are identified as white-light flares. Here we present various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Ying Li , Xiaofeng Liu , Zhichen Jing , Wei Chen , Qiao Li , Yang Su , De-Chao Song , M. D. Ding , Li Feng , Hui Li , Weiqun Gan

Solar active regions (ARs) are the main sources of flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). NOAA AR 12089, which emerged on 2014 June 10, produced two C-class flares accompanied by CMEs within five hours after its emergence. When producing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Hanzhao Yang , Lijuan Liu