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The physical processes that trigger solar flares are not well understood and significant debate remains around processes governing particle acceleration, energy partition, and particle and energy transport. Observations at high resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 D. Shaun Bloomfield , Peter T. Gallagher , William H. Marquette , Ryan O. Milligan , Richard C. Canfield

We report on a study of all major solar eruptions that occurred on the front-side of the Sun during the rise to peak phase of cycle 24 (first 62 months) in order to understand the key factors affecting the occurrence of large solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. Gopalswamy , H. Xie , S. Akiyama , P. Makela , S. Yashiro

Small amplitude quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) detected in soft X-ray emission are commonplace in many flares. To date, the underpinning processes resulting in the QPPs are unknown. In this paper, we attempt to constrain the prevalence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Laura A. Hayes , Andrew R. Inglis , Steven Christe , Brian Dennis , Peter T. Gallagher

Superflares on solar-type stars has been a rapidly developing field ever since the launch of $\it Kepler$. Over the years, there have been several studies investigating the statistics of these explosive events. In this study, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Lauren Doyle , Gavin Ramsay , J. Gerard Doyle

A statistical analysis of dataset of H-alpha, soft X-ray (SXR) and Hard X-ray (HXR) flares comprising almost 318, 401 and 1920 single events respectively that occurred during the period of October-November 2003 is presented. On the basis of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-30 Navin Chandra Joshi , Neeraj Singh Bankoti , Seema Pande , Bimal Pande , Kavita Pandey

We present a statistical analysis of properties of Soft X-Ray (SXR) emission, plasma temperature (T), and emission measure (EM), derived from GOES observations of flares in 2002-2017. The temperature and emission measures are obtained using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Viacheslav M Sadykov , Alexander G Kosovichev , Irina N Kitiashvili , Alexander Frolov

We attempt to forecast M-and X-class solar flares using a machine-learning algorithm, called Support Vector Machine (SVM), and four years of data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, the first instrument…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 Monica G. Bobra , Sebastien Couvidat

We report on the results of a systematic study of X-ray flares from low-mass young stellar objects, using Chandra observations of the main region of the Rho Oph. From 195 X-ray sources, including class I-III sources and some young brown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Imanishi , H. Nakajima , M. Tsujimoto , K. Koyama , Y. Tsuboi

In this work, we examine the association between solar active regions and 152 solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar energetic particle (SEP) events over solar cycles 23-24 (1997-2017). The CDAW center's GOES data in the energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Raj Kumar , Ramesh Chandra , Bimal Pande , Seema Pande

The magnetic field plays a key role in producing solar flares, so that the investigation on the relationship between the magnetic field properties and flares is significant. In this paper, based on the magnetic field extrapolated from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 S. Liu , D. Liu

A multi-wavelength spatial and temporal analysis of solar high energy electrons is conducted using the August 20, 2002 flare of an unusually flat (gamma=1.8) hard X-ray spectrum. The flare is studied using RHESSI, Halpha, radio, TRACE, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Kasparova , M. Karlicky , E. P. Kontar , R. A. Schwartz , B. R. Dennis

On October 3rd, 2024, the Sun emitted an X9.0-class flare from active region NOAA 13842. The event was recorded by multiple space-based instruments, beginning hours before the eruption, granting a unique opportunity to provide insight into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Louis Seyfritz , Maria Kazachenko , Ryan French

This paper presents a statistical analysis of Soft X-ray (SXR) flares during the period January 1976 to December 2007 covering solar cycles (SCs) 21, 22, and 23. We have analysed north-south (N-S) and east-west (E-W) asymmetry of SXR at low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Navin Chandra Joshi , Neeraj Singh Bankoti , Seema Pande , Bimal Pande , Kavita Pandey

To test the standard flare model (CSHKP-model), we measured the magnetic-flux change rate in five flare events of different GOES classes using chromospheric/photospheric observations and compared its progression with observed nonthermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 C. H. Miklenic , A. M. Veronig , B. Vrsnak

The relationship between mass and radius (M-R relation) is the key for inferring the planetary compositions and thus valuable for the studies of formation and migration models. However, the M-R relation alone is not enough for planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-03 Qi Ma , Sujit K Ghosh

Solar flares, along with other sun-originated events such as Coronal Mass Ejections, fast solar wind streams, and solar energetic particles are among the most relevant events in Space Weather. Moreover, solar flares are the most energetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-21 Nicola Plutino , Francesco Berrilli , Dario Del Moro , Luca Giovannelli

We study the prediction of solar flare size and time-to-flare using 38 features describing magnetic complexity of the photospheric magnetic field. This work uses support vector regression to formulate a mapping from the 38-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-09 Laura E. Boucheron , Amani Al-Ghraibah , R. T. James McAteer

Accurate and reliable predictions of solar flares are essential due to their potentially significant impact on Earth and space-based infrastructure. Although deep learning models have shown notable predictive capabilities in this domain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Temitope Adeyeha , Chetraj Pandey , Berkay Aydin

We report a statistical study of flares observed with the Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) onboard Yohkoh in the year of 2000. We measure physical parameters of 77 flares, such as the temporal scale, the size, and the magnetic flux density and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kaori Nagashima , Takaaki Yokoyama