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Coronal X-ray sources (CXSs) are phenomenon very often occurring in solar flares regardless of a flare size, duration or power. The nature of the sources was difficult to uncover for many years. It seems that at last, combining data from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Sylwester Kolomanski , Tomasz Mrozek , Ewa Chmielewska

The observation of eclipses during X-rays flares taking place in active cool stars binaries allows us to calculate the position and size of the flares. This information cannot be derived by analyzing the decay of the flares, a frequently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Sanz-Forcada , F. Favata , G. Micela

Understanding the relationship among different emission components plays an essential role in the study of particle acceleration and energy conversion in solar flares. In flares where gradual and impulsive emission components can be readily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Siming Liu , Youping Li , Lyndsay Fletcher

The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray radiation emitted during solar flares has been shown to significantly increase the electron density of the Earth's ionosphere. During flares, quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in X-ray flux originating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Aisling N. O'Hare , Susanna Bekker , Laura A. Hayes , Ryan O. Milligan

Imaging observations of the solar lower atmosphere by the Atmosphere Imaging Assembly (AIA) have been mostly used as the context, and their quantitative information has been much less explored. The chromosphere responds rapidly to energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Jiong Qiu , Rhiannon Fleming

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

Typical solar flares display two quasi-parallel, bright ribbons on the chromosphere. In between is the polarity inversion line (PIL) separating concentrated magnetic fluxes of opposite polarity in active regions (ARs). Intriguingly a series…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-30 Rui Liu , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang , Kai Liu

Small flares frequently occur in the quiet Sun. Previous studies have noted that they share many common characteristics with typical solar flares in active regions. However, their similarities and differences are not fully understood,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Yuji Kotani , Takako T. Ishii , Daiki Yamasaki , Kenichi Otsuji , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Ayumi Asai , Kazunari Shibata

This paper reports the results of a survey of Doppler shift oscillations measured during solar flares in emission lines of S XV and Ca XIX with the Bragg Crystal Spectrometer (BCS) on Yohkoh. Data from 20 flares that show oscillatory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John T. Mariska

Oscillations of coronal loops in the Sun have been reported in both imaging and spectral observations at the onset of flares. Images reveal transverse oscillations, whereas spectra detect line-of-sight velocity or Doppler-shift…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danica Tothova , Davina Innes , Guillermo Stenborg

Solar white-light flares (WLFs) have been observed since 1859, but their occurrence rate is not yet fully understood. The physical properties of WLFs in super active regions (SARs) are also well worth investigating. With full-disk images at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zhichen Jing , Ying Li , Jingwei Li , Qiao Li

In this paper, we present a multi-wavelength analysis of two X-class solar eruptive flares of classes X2.2 and X9.3 that occurred in the sigmoidal active region NOAA 12673 on 2017 September 6, by combining observations of Atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Prabir K. Mitra , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad , Astrid M. Veronig , R. Bhattacharyya

We examine SDO/EVE data to better understand solar flare irradiance, and how that irradiance may vary for large events. We measure scaling laws relating GOES flare classes to irradiance in 21 lines measured with SDO/EVE, formed across a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Jeffrey W. Reep , David E. Siskind , Harry P. Warren

We investigated the quasi-periodic pulsation (QPP) in Lyman-alpha, X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) emissions during two solar flares, i.e., an X-class (SOL2012-01-27T) and a C-class (SOL2016-02-08T). The full-disk Lyman-alpha and X-Ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Dong Li , Lei Lu , Zongjun Ning , Li Feng , Weiqun Gan , Hui Li

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) are common in solar flares and are now regularly observed in stellar flares. We present the detection of two different types of QPP signals in the thermal emission light curves of the X9.3 class solar flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Chloe E. Pugh , Anne-Marie Broomhall , Valery M. Nakariakov

Coronal loops are building blocks of solar active regions. However, their formation mechanism is still not well understood. Here we present direct observational evidence for the formation of coronal loops through magnetic reconnection as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Zhenyong Hou , Hui Tian , Hechao Chen , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Zhenghua Huang , Xianyong Bai , Jiansen He , Yongliang Song , Lidong Xia

In this paper, we report our multiwavelength imaging observations of chromospheric evaporation in a C5.5 circular-ribbon flare (CRF) on 2014 August 24. The flare was observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Q. M. Zhang , D. Li , Y. Huang

Super active region NOAA 13664 produced 12 X-class flares (including the largest one, an occulted X8.7 flare, in solar cycle 25 so far) during 2024 May 8-15 and 11 of them are identified as white-light flares. Here we present various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Ying Li , Xiaofeng Liu , Zhichen Jing , Wei Chen , Qiao Li , Yang Su , De-Chao Song , M. D. Ding , Li Feng , Hui Li , Weiqun Gan

This paper investigates the temporal evolution of temperature, emission measure, energy loss and velocity in a C-class solar flare from both an observational and theoretical perspective. The properties of the flare were derived by following…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Claire L. Raftery , Peter T. Gallagher , Ryan O. Milligan , James A. Klimchuk

Temporally-resolved electron density measurements of solar flare plasmas are presented using data from the EUV Variability Experiment (EVE) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The EVE spectral range contains emission lines formed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ryan O. Milligan , Michael B. Kennedy , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Francis P. Keenan