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NOAA Active Region (AR) 11429 was the source of twin super-fast Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). The CMEs took place within a hour from each other, with the onset of the first taking place in the beginning of March 7, 2012. This AR fulfills…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-13 Georgios Chintzoglou , Spiros Patsourakos , Angelos Vourlidas

The nature of three-dimensional reconnection when a twisted flux tube erupts during an eruptive flare or coronal mass ejection is considered. The reconnection has two phases: first of all, 3D "zipper reconnection" propagates along the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Eric Priest , Dana Longcope

Employing Solar Dynamic Observatory/Atmosphertic Imaging Assembly (AIA) multi-wavelength images, we study an eruption of two crossing filaments, and firstly report the current sheets (CSs) connecting the lower flare ribbons and the upper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Jun Dai , Jiayan Yang , Leping Li , Jun Zhang

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun and are considered the main driver of adverse space weather events. Hence, undrstanding its formation process, particularly the magnetic topology, is critical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Jinhan Guo , Y. W. Ni , B. Schmieder , Y. Guo , C. Xia , P. Devi , R. Chandra , S. Poedts , R. Joshi , Y. H. Zhou , H. T. Li , P. F. Chen

From vector measurements of the photospheric magnetic field with the SDO/HMI instrument, we studied the field variations within the 2011 June 7 eruptive event related to the filament eruption (FE), flare, and coronal mass ejection (CME). We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 V. G. Fainshtein , Ya. I. Egorov , G. V. Rudenko

Coronal implosions - the convergence motion of plasmas and entrained magnetic field in the corona due to a reduction in magnetic pressure - can help to locate and track sites of magnetic energy release or redistribution during solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-06 Juntao Wang , P. J. A. Simoes , L. Fletcher , J. K. Thalmann , H. S. Hudson , I. G. Hannah

We present a detailed analysis of the properties of magnetic reconnection at large-scale current sheets in a high cadence version of the Lynch & Edmondson (2013) 2.5D MHD simulation of sympathetic magnetic breakout eruptions from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 B. J. Lynch , J. K. Edmondson , M. D. Kazachenko , S. E. Guidoni

We perform a data-constrained simulation with the zero-$\beta$ assumption to study the mechanisms of strong rotation and failed eruption of a filament in active region 11474 on 2012 May 5 observed by Solar Dynamics Observatory and Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Xiaomeng Zhang , Jinhan Guo , Yang Guo , Mingde Ding , Rony Keppens

We report observations of an eruptive X2.8 flare on 2013 May 13, which shows two distinct episodes of energy release in the impulsive phase. The first episode is characterized by the eruption of a magnetic flux rope, similar to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-07 Tingyu Gou , Astrid M. Veronig , Ewan Dickson , Aaron Hernandez-Perez , Rui Liu

In this letter, we present a spectacular eruptive flare (X8.2) associated with a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2017 September 10 at the west limb of the Sun. A flux rope eruption is followed by the inflow, the formation of a current sheet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 X. L. Yan , L. H. Yang , Z. K. Xue , Z. X. Mei , D. F. Kong , J. C. Wang , Q. L. Li

The magnetic breakout model has been widely used to explain solar eruptive activities. Here, we apply it to explain successive filament eruptions occurred in a quadrupolar magnetic source region. Based on the high temporal and spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-09 Yuandeng Shen

We perform a numerical study of the evolution of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) and its interaction with the coronal magnetic field based on the May 12, 1997, CME event using a global MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD) model for the solar corona. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 O. Cohen , G. D. R. Attrill , N. A. Schwadron , N. U. Crooker , M. J. Owens , C. Downs , T. I. Gombosi

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale explosions of the coronal magnetic field. It is believed that magnetic reconnection significantly builds up the core structure of CMEs, a magnetic flux rope, during the eruption. However, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 C. Xing , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

We present an investigation of partial filament eruption on 2012 June 17 in the active region NOAA 11504. For the first time, we observed the vertical splitting process during the partial eruption with high resolution narrow band images at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Jun Dai , Zhentong Li , Ya Wang , Zhe Xu , Yanjie Zhang , Leping Li , Qingmin Zhang , Yingna Su , Haisheng Ji

It remains an open question how magnetic energy is rapidly released in the solar corona so as to create solar explosions such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Recent studies have confirmed that a system consisting of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Y. Chen , Y. Q. Hu , L. D. Xia

Solar eruptions are sudden ejections of coronal mass and magnetic fields accompanied by intense energy release. The eruptive structure does not always erupt successfully, but sometimes fails to escape the Sun after initiation. The failure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves , Peter R. Young , Astrid M. Veronig , Xingyao Chen , Sijie Yu , Bin Chen , Bin Zhuang

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental mechanism through which energy stored in magnetic fields is released explosively on a massive scale, they could be presented as eruptive or confined flares, depending on their association with coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-21 Kanniah Balamuralikrishna , John Y. H. Soo , Norhaslinda Mohamed Tahrin , Abdul Halim Abdul Aziz

In the implosion conjecture, coronal loops contract as the result of magnetic energy release in solar eruptions and flares. However, after almost two decades, observations of this phenomenon are still rare, and most of previous reports are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Juntao Wang , P. J. A. Simoes , L. Fletcher

Filament eruptions and hard X-ray (HXR) source motions are commonly observed in solar flares, which provides critical information on the coronal magnetic reconnection. This Letter reports an event on 2005 January 15, in which we found an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Chang Liu , Jeongwoo Lee , Ju Jing , Rui Liu , Na Deng , Haimin Wang

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from pseudostreamers represent a significant fraction of large-scale eruptions from the Sun. In some cases, these CMEs take a narrow jet-like form reminiscent of coronal jets; in others, they have a much…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 P. F. Wyper , B. J. Lynch , C. R. DeVore , P. Kumar , S. K. Antiochos , L. K. S. Daldorff