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Magnetic-field reconnection is believed to play a fundamental role in magnetized plasma systems throughout the Universe1, including planetary magnetospheres, magnetars and accretion disks around black holes. This letter present extreme…

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We investigated two consecutive solar eruption events in the solar active region (AR) 12994 at the solar eastern limb on 2022 April 15. We found that the flare loops formed by the first eruption were involved in the second eruption. During…

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We attempt to model magnetic reconnection during the two-ribbon flare in the gravitationally stratified solar atmosphere with the Lundquist number of $S=10^6$ using 2D simulations. We found that the tearing mode instability leads to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Yining Zhang , Jing Ye , Zhixing Mei , Yan Li , Jun Lin

Multi-wavelength observations of an M 2.0 flare event on 2000 March 23 in NOAA active region 8910 provide us a good chance to study the detailed structure and dynamics of the magnetic reconnection region. In the process of the flare,…

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Certain solar flares exhibit a distinctive candle-flame or cusp-shaped feature above the bright flare arcade visible in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray channels sensitive to high-temperature plasma. The presence of a cusp-like structure…

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The fan-spine magnetic topology is believed to be responsible for many curious features in solar explosive events. A spine field line links distinct flux domains, but direct observation of such feature has been rare. Here we report a unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Guillaume Aulanier , Yingna Su , Iain G. Hannah , Rachel A. Hock

Off-limb observations of the solar corona after Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) often show strong, compact, and persistent UV sources behind the eruption. They are primarily observed by the SOHO/UVCS instrument in the "hot" Fe XVIII…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Roberto Susino , Alessandro Bemporad , Säm Krucker

The 2011 January 28 M1.4 flare exhibits two side-by-side candle-flame-shaped flare loop systems underneath a larger cusp-shaped structure during the decay phase, as observed at the northwestern solar limb by the Solar Dynamics Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Tingyu Gou , Rui Liu , Yuming Wang , Kai Liu , Bin Zhuang , Jun Chen , Quanhao Zhang , Jiajia Liu

For a solar flare occurring on 2010 November 3, we present observations using several SDO/AIA extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) passbands of an erupting flux rope followed by inflows sweeping into a current sheet region. The inflows are soon…

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Solar flares are driven by release of free magnetic energy and often associated with restructurization of the magnetic field topology. Yet, observations of evolving magnetic field in the flaring volume are limited to very few cases…

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The dynamics of magnetic reconnection in the solar current sheet (CS) is studied by high-resolution 2.5-dimensional MHD simulation. With the commence of magnetic reconnection, a number of magnetic islands are formed intermittently and move…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yulei Wang , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding , Quanming Lu

Flares are dynamic events which involve rapid changes in coronal magnetic topology end energy release. Even if they may be localized phenomena, the magnetic disturbance at their origin may propagate and be effective in a larger part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-18 S. Parenti , F. Reale , K. K. Reeves

We studied the rapid filament evolution in AR 12975 during a confined C2 flare on 28 March 2022, which led to an eruptive M4 flare 1.5 h later. It is characterized by the breakup of the filament, the disappearance of its southern half, and…

We investigate the X-ray and UV emission detected by RHESSI and TRACE in the context of a solar flare on the 16th November 2002 with the goal of better understanding the evolution of the flare. We analysed the characteristics of the X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hamish A. S. Reid , Nicole Vilmer , Guillaume Aulanier , Etienne Pariat

A solar flare releases magnetic energy by reconnecting field lines across a current sheet, thereby allowing their relaxation to a lower energy state. The maximum possible energy is released if all field lines relax to a current-free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Drake Osaben , Jiong Qiu , Dana W. Longcope

The commonly observed jets provide critical information on the small-scale energy release in the solar atmosphere. We report a near disk-center jet on 2010 July 20, observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. In this event, the standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chang Liu , Na Deng , Rui Liu , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Shuo Wang , Haimin Wang

We analyze multi-wavelength data of a M7.9/1N class solar flare which occurred on 27 April, 2006 from AR NOAA 10875. GOES soft X-ray images provide the most likely signature of two interacting loops and their reconnection, which triggers…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Pankaj Kumar , A. K. Srivastava , B. V. Somov , P. K. Manoharan , R. Erdelyi , Wahab Uddin

Explosive energy release is a common phenomenon occurring in magnetized plasma systems ranging from laboratories, Earth's magnetosphere, the solar corona and astrophysical environments. Its physical explanation is usually attributed to…

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