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A qualitative analysis is given to the data on the full magnetic and velocity vector fields in a growing sunspot group, recorded nearly simultaneously with the Solar Optical Telescope on the Hinode satellite. Observations of a young bipolar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-22 A. V. Getling , R. Ishikawa , A. A. Buchnev

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

Combining high-resolution spectropolarimetric and imaging data is key to understanding the decay process of sunspots as it allows us scrutinizing the velocity and magnetic fields of sunspots and their surroundings. Active region NOAA 12597…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 M. Verma , C. Denker , H. Balthasar , C. Kuckein , R. Rezaei , M. Sobotka , N. Deng , H. Wang , A. Tritschler , M. Collados , A. Diercke , S. J. González Manrique

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…

Solar active regions show a wide variety of oscillatory phenomena. The presence of the magnetic field leads to the appearance of several wave modes, whose behavior is determined by the sunspot thermal and magnetic structure. We aim to study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 T. Felipe , C. Kuckein , E. Khomenko , I. Thaler

We analyze the magnetic evolution of solar active region (AR) NOAA 11476 that, between 9 and 10 May 2012, produced a series of surge-type eruptions accompanied by GOES X-ray class M flares. Using force-free models of the AR coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Marcelo López Fuentes , Mariano Poisson , Cristina H. Mandrini

Magnetic twist of the active region has been measured over a decade using photospheric vector field data, chromospheric H_alpha data, and coronal loop data. The twist and tilt of the active regions have been measured at the photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 B. Ravindra , P. Venkatakrishnan , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari

In our earlier study of this series (Park et al. 2020, Paper I), we examined the hemispheric sign preference (HSP) of magnetic helicity flux $dH/dt$ across photospheric surfaces of 4802 samples of 1105 unique active regions (ARs) observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Sung-Hong Park , K. D. Leka , Kanya Kusano

As each solar cycle progresses, remnant magnetic flux from active regions (ARs) migrates poleward to cancel the old-cycle polar field. We describe this polarity reversal process during Cycle 24 using four years (2010.33--2014.33) of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Junwei Zhao

Finding the formation mechanisms for bipolar configurations of strong local magnetic field under control of the relatively weak global magnetic field of the Sun is a key problem of the physics of solar activity. This study is aimed at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 A. V. Getling , A. A. Buchnev

Solar flares abruptly release the free energy stored as a non-potential magnetic field in the corona and may be accompanied by eruptions of the coronal plasma. Formation of a non-potential magnetic field and the mechanisms for triggering…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Toshifumi Shimizu , Bruce W. Lites , Yumi Bamba

It is well known that photospheric flux emergence is an important process for stressing coronal fields and storing magnetic free energy, which may then be released during a flare. The \emph{Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager} (HMI) onboard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lucas A. Tarr , Dana W. Longcope , Margaret Millhouse

We performed a systematic study of 12 active regions (ARs) with a broad range of areas, magnetic flux and associated solar activity in order to determine whether there are upflows present at the AR boundaries and if these upflows exist,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 S. L. Yardley , D. H. Brooks , D. Baker

Sunspot regions often form complexes of activity that may live for several solar rotations, and represent a major component of the Sun's magnetic activity. It had been suggested that the close appearance of active regions in space and time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. G. Kosovichev , T. L. Duvall

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

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

Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves

Magnetic active regions on the Sun are harbingers of space weather events. Understanding the physics of how they form and evolve will improve space weather forecasting. Our aim is to characterise the surface magnetic field and flows for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Camron S. Alley , Hannah Schunker

We carry out a comprehensive investigation comparing the three-dimensional magnetic field restructuring, flare energy release, and the helioseismic response, of two homologous flares, the 2011 September 6 X2.1 (FL1) and September 7 X1.8…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chang Liu , Na Deng , Jeongwoo Lee , Thomas Wiegelmann , Chaowei Jiang , Brian R. Dennis , Yang Su , Alina Donea , Haimin Wang

It is important to study the fine structures of solar filaments with high-resolution observations since it can help us understand the magnetic and thermal structures of the filaments and their dynamics. In this paper, we study a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 P. Zou , C. Fang , P. F. Chen , K. Yang , Q. Hao , Wenda Cao