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Sunspot proper motions and flares of a super active region NOAA 5395, which was the biggest and the most flare-active region in the 22nd sunspot cycle, were analyzed in details. We measured sunspot proper motions by using the H-alpha - 5.0…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takako T. Ishii , Hiroki Kurokawa , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

We present the magnetic landscape of the polar region of the Sun that is unprecedented in terms of high spatial resolution, large field of view, and polarimetric precision. These observations were carried out with the Solar Optical…

The photospheric Evershed flow is normally oriented radially outward, yet sometimes opposite velocities are observed not only in the chromosphere but also in the photospheric layers of the penumbra. We study the velocity field in a special…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 H. Balthasar , C. Denker , A. Diercke , S. J. González Manrique , C. Kuckein , J. Löhner Böttcher , R. E. Louis , M. Sobotka , M. Verma

We estimate the temporal change of magnetic flux perpendicular to the solar surface in a decaying active region by using a time series of the spatial distribution of vector magnetic fields in the photosphere. The vector magnetic fields are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kubo , B. W. Lites , T. Shimizu , K. Ichimoto

Solar magnetic fields are generated in the solar interior and pop up at the solar surface to form active regions. As the magnetic field appears on the surface, it forms various structures like small magnetic elements, pores, and sunspots.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-07 Rolf Schlichenmaier , Reza Rezaei , Nazaret Bello Gonzalez

Continuous observations of a flare productive active region 10930 were successfully carried out with the Solar Optical Telescope onboard the Hinode spacecraft during 2007 December 6 to 19. We focus on the evolution of photospheric magnetic…

Evidence of surface magnetism is now observed on an increasing number of cool stars. The detailed manner by which dynamo-generated magnetic fields giving rise to starspots traverse the convection zone still remains unclear. Some insight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Maria A. Weber , Matthew K. Browning , Suzannah Boardman , Joshua Clarke , Samuel Pugsley , Edward Townsend

$\delta$-sunspots, with highly complex magnetic structures, are very productive in energetic eruptive events, such as X-class flares and homologous eruptions. We here study the formation of such complex magnetic structures by numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fang Fang , Yuhong Fan

The main objective of this paper is to build and compare vector magnetic maps obtained by two spectral polarimeters, i.e. THEMIS/MTR and Hinode SOT/SP, using two inversion codes (UNNOFIT and MELANIE) based on the Milne-Eddington solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-24 Y. Guo , B. Schmieder , V. Bommier , S. Gosain

Aims. We investigate the configuration of a complex flux rope above a {\delta} sunspot region in NOAA AR 11515, and its eruptive expansion during a confined M5.3-class flare. Methods. We study the formation of the {\delta} sunspot using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Lijuan Liu , Jiajia Liu , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang , Guoqiang Wang , Zhenjun Zhou , Jun Cui

On 2016 September 20, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph observed an active region during its earliest emerging phase for almost 7 hours. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hui Tian , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Hardi Peter , Jie Zhao , Tanmoy Samanta , Yajie Chen

Context. Observations of many active regions show a slow systematic outflow/upflow from their edges lasting from hours to days. At present no physical explanation has been proven, while several suggestions have been put forward. Aims. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 K. Galsgaard , M. S. Madjarska , K. Vanninathan , Z. Huang , M. Presmann

Our aim is to study the photospheric flux distribution of a twisted flux tube that emerges from the solar interior. We also report on the eruption of a new flux rope when the emerging tube rises into a pre-existing magnetic field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-12 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

Upflows observed at the edges of active regions have been proposed as the source of the slow solar wind. In the particular case of Active Region (AR) 10942, where such an upflow has been already observed, we want to evaluate the part of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-11 Céline Boutry , Eric Buchlin , Jean-Claude Vial , Stéphane Régnier

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

We study five sequential solar flares (SOL2015-08-07) occurring in Active Region 12396 observed with the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at the BBSO, complemented by IRIS and SDO observations. The main flaring region is an arch filament system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-19 Yingna Su , Rui Liu , Shangwei Li , Wenda Cao , Kwangsu Ahn , Haisheng Ji

We observed small scale magnetic flux emergence in a sunspot moat region by the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard the Hinode satellite. We analyzed filtergram images observed in the wavelengths of Fe 6302 angstrom, G-band and Ca II H. In…

One of the intriguing mechanisms of the Sun is the formation of the bipolar magnetic regions (BMRs) in the solar convection zone which are observed as regions of concentrated magnetic fields of opposite polarity on photosphere. These BMRs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Anu Sreedevi , Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Bidya Binay Karak , Dipankar Banerjee

Solar active regions and sunspots are believed to be formed by the emergence of strong toroidal magnetic flux from the solar interior. Modeling of such events has focused on the dynamics of compact magnetic entities, colloquially known as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Bhishek Manek , Nicholas Brummell

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