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With multiple vantage points around the Sun, STEREO and SDO imaging observations provide a unique opportunity to view the solar surface continuously. We use He II 304 A data from these observatories to isolate and track ten active regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Lisa Upton , Harry P. Warren , David H. Hathaway

Data for 3046 solar active regions (ARs) observed since May 12, 1996 to December 27, 2021 were utilized to explore how the magnetic fluxes from ARs of different complexity follow the solar cycle. Magnetograms from the Michelson Doppler…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-15 Valentina I. Abramenko , Regina A. Suleymanova , Anastasija V. Zhukova

In this study we report detailed observations of magnetic environment at four footpoints of two warm coronal loops observed on 5 May 2016 in NOAA AR 12542 (Loop I) and 17 Dec 2015 in NOAA AR 12470 (Loop II). These loops were connecting a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 Seray Şahin , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Pankaj Kumar , Ali Kilcik , Kwangsu Ahn , Xu Yang

Recent studies of NOAA active region 10953, by Okamoto {\it et al.} ({\it Astrophys. J. Lett.} {\bf 673}, 215, 2008; {\it Astrophys. J.} {\bf 697}, 913, 2009), have interpreted photospheric observations of changing widths of the polarities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Santiago Vargas Dominguez , David MacTaggart , Lucie Green , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Alan Hood

We report a solar jet phenomenon associated with successive flares on November 10th 2014. These explosive events were involved with the satellite spots' emergence around a delta-type sunspot in the decaying active region NOAA 12205. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Takahito Sakaue , Akiko Tei , Ayumi Asai , Satoru Ueno , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Kazunari Shibata

To better understand the formation and decay of sunspot penumbra, we studied the evolution of sunspots in the three regions of the active-region NOAA 12673 in detail. The evolution of sunspots in the three regions were all involved in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Qiaoling Li , Xiaoli Yan , Jincheng Wang , Defang Kong , Zhike Xue , Liheng Yang

We studied the formation of the first penumbral sector around a pore in the following polarity of the Active Region (AR) NOAA 11490. We used a high spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution data set acquired by the Interferometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 M. Murabito , P. Romano , S. L. Guglielmino , F. Zuccarello

In recent high-resolution observations of complex active regions, long-lasting and well-defined regions of strong flows were identified in major flares and associated with bright kernels of visible, near-infrared, and X-ray radiation. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Denker , N. Deng , A. Tritschler , V. Yurchyshyn

The emergence of magnetic flux from the convection zone into the corona is an important process for the dynamical evolution of the coronal magnetic field. In this paper we extend our previous numerical investigations, by looking at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 K. Galsgaard , V. Archontis , F. Moreno-Insertis , A. W. Hood

We investigate how representing active regions with bipolar magnetic regions (BMRs) affects the end-of-cycle polar field predicted by the surface flux transport model. Our study is based on a new database of BMRs derived from the SDO/HMI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 A. R. Yeates

Penumbrae are the manifestation of magnetoconvection in highly inclined (to the vertical direction) magnetic field. The penumbra of a sunspot tends to form, initially, along the arc of the umbra antipodal to the main region of flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 David MacTaggart , Salvo Guglielmino , Francesca Zuccarello

The emergence of magnetic flux from the deep convection zone plays an important role in the solar magnetism, such as the generation of active regions and triggering of various eruptive phenomena, including jets, flares, and coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Shin Toriumi , Hideyuki Hotta , Kanya Kusano

Multi-wavelength ultraviolet (UV) observations by the IRIS satellite in active region NOAA 12529 have recently pointed out the presence of long-lasting brightenings, akin to UV bursts, and simultaneous plasma ejections occurring in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Salvo L. Guglielmino , Peter R. Young , Francesca Zuccarello

We have analyzed multi-wavelength observations and magnetic-field data for the solar flare of May 10, 2012 (04:18 UT) and have detected a sign inversion of the signal in the line-of-sight magnetic measurements in the umbra of a small spot.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 M. A. Livshits , I. Yu. Grigoryeva , I. I. Myshyakov , G. V. Rudenko

We study the dynamics and topology of an emerging magnetic flux concentration using high spatial resolution spectropolarimetric data acquired with the Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment on board the Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory. We…

Stably stratified layers are present in stellar interiors (radiative zones) as well as planetary interiors - recent observations and theoretical studies of the Earth's magnetic field seem to indicate the presence of a thin, stably…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-10 J. Philidet , C. Gissinger , F. Lignières , L. Petitdemange

The Hinode satellite opens a new era to the sunspots research, because of its high spatial resolution and temporal stability. Fine scale structures in sunspots, called umbral dots (UDs), have become one of the hottest topics in terms of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hiroko Watanabe

We present the first model that couples the formation of the corona of a solar active region to a model of the emergence of a sunspot pair. This allows us to study when, where, and why active region loops form, and how they evolve. We use a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 F. Chen , H. Peter , S. Bingert , M. C. M. Cheung

Light bridges, the bright structure dividing umbrae in sunspot regions, show various activity events. In Paper I, we reported on analysis of multi-wavelength observations of a light bridge in a developing active region (AR) and concluded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shin Toriumi , Mark C. M. Cheung , Yukio Katsukawa

The interaction between emerging active regions and the pre-existing coronal magnetic field is important to understand better the mechanisms of storage and release of magnetic energy from the convection zone to the high corona. We are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Regnier