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Twisted coronal loops in the solar atmosphere may become kink-unstable when their magnetic field lines are sufficiently twisted. This instability can trigger magnetic reconnection, leading to the emission of electromagnetic radiation, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 James Stewart , Philippa K. Browning , Mykola Gordovskyy

Twisted magnetic fields should be ubiquitous in flare-producing active regions where the magnetic fields are strongly non-potential. It has been shown that reconnection in helical magnetic coronal loops results in plasma heating and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 R. F. Pinto , M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , N. Vilmer

This work demonstrates the possibility of magnetic field topology investigations using microwave polarimetric observations. We study a solar flare of GOES M1.7 class that occurred on 11 February, 2014. This flare revealed a clear signature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-16 I. N. Sharykin , A. A. Kuznetsov , I. I. Myshyakov

Solar flares are associated with intense soft X-ray emission generated by the hot flaring plasma. Kink unstable twisted flux-ropes provide a source of magnetic energy which can be released impulsively and account for the flare plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 R. F. Pinto , N. Vilmer , A. S. Brun

Twisted coronal loops should be ubiquitous in the solar corona. Twisted magnetic fields contain excess magnetic energy, which can be released during magnetic reconnection, causing solar flares. The aim of this work is to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 Mykola Gordovskyy , Philippa Browning , Eduard Kontar , Nicolas Bian

Polarisation measurements of solar flares at millimetre-waves were used to investigate the magnetic field configuration of the emitting sources. We analyse two solar flares (SOL2013-02-17 and SOL2013-11-05) observed by the POlarisation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Douglas F. da Silva , Paulo J. A. Simões , R. F. Hidalgo Ramírez , Adriana Válio

We present results revealing microwave pulsations produced in a model of a flaring twisted solar coronal loop, without any external oscillatory driver. Two types of oscillations are identified: slowly-decaying oscillations with a period of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 C. Smith , M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning

We have performed microwave diagnostics of the magnetic field strengths in solar flare loops based on the theory of gyrosynchrotron emission. From Nobeyama Radioheliograph observations of three flare events at 17 and 34 GHz, we obtained the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-30 Rui Zhu , Baolin Tan , Yingna Su , Hui Tian , Yu Xu , Xingyao Chen , Yongliang Song , Guangyu Tan

Microwave emission of solar flares is formed primarily by incoherent gyrosynchrotron radiation generated by accelerated electrons in coronal magnetic loops. The resulting emission depends on many factors, including pitch-angle distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita , Gregory D. Fleishman

Decayless kink oscillations are frequently observed in solar coronal loops and are considered potential contributors to coronal heating. Despite the ubiquity of this wave phenomenon, its driving mechanism remains unclear. Studies to derive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sudip Mandal , Cosima Breu , Hardi Peter

The modulation of the intensity of microwave emission from a plasma slab caused by a standing linear kink fast magnetoacoustic wave is considered. The slab is stretched along a straight magnetic field, and can represent, for example, a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 T. I. Kaltman , E. G. Kupriyanova

Microwave gyrosynchrotron radio emission generated by nonthermal electrons in twisted magnetic loops is modelled using the recently developed simulation tool GX Simulator. We consider isotropic and anisotropic pitch-angle distributions. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 I. N. Sharykin , A. A. Kuznetsov

Polarization measurements provide strong constraints on models for emission from rotation-powered pulsars. We present multiwavelength polarization predictions showing that measurements over a range of frequencies can be particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

Decayless kink oscillations of plasma loops in the solar corona may contain an answer to the enigmatic problem of solar and stellar coronal heating. The polarisation of the oscillations gives us a unique information about their excitation…

There are observational evidences for the existence of twisted magnetic field in the solar corona. This inspires us to investigate the effect of a twisted magnetic field on the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves in coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 Zanyar Ebrahimi , Kayoomars Karami , Roberto Soler

Unstable states of the solar coronal magnetic field structure result in various flare behaviors. In this study, we compared the confined and eruptive flares that occurred under similar magnetic circumstances in the active region 12673, on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Kouhei Teraoka , Daiki Yamasaki , Yusuke Kawabata , Shinsuke Imada , Toshifumi Shimizu

The new generations of multiwavelength radioheliographs with high spatial resolution will employ microwave imaging spectropolarimetry to recover flare topology and plasma parameters in the flare sources and along the wave propagation paths.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 A. Altyntsev , N. Meshalkina , I. Myshyakov , V. Pal`shin , G. Fleishman

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

Context. Gravitational waves (GW) provide a unique probe of the explosion mechanism of massive stars and the evolution of nascent proto-neutron stars (PNS). Magnetorotational explosions are one of the promising non-canonical core-collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Shota Shibagaki , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Takami Kuroda , Tobias Fischer

Radio observations of solar flares often reveal various periodic or quasi-periodic oscillations. Most likely, these oscillations are caused by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) oscillations of flaring loops which modulate the emission.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alexey Kuznetsov , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Veronika Reznikova
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