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Coronal jets are short-lived eruptive features commonly observed in polar coronal holes and are thought to play a key role in the transfer of mass and energy into the solar corona. We describe unique contemporaneous observations of a…

We perform direct numerical simulations of an externally driven two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic system over extended periods of time to simulate the dynamics of a transverse section of a solar coronal loop. A stationary and large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pablo Dmitruk , Daniel O. Gomez

The solar wind emanates from the hot and tenuous solar corona. Earlier studies using 1.5 dimensional simulations show that Alfv\'{e}n waves generated in the photosphere play an important role in coronal heating through the process of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Takuma Matsumoto , Takeru Ken Suzuki

Observations reveal a correspondence between chromospheric type II spicules and bright upwardly moving fronts in the corona observed in the EUV band. However, theoretical considerations suggest that these flows are unlikely to be the main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 A. Petralia , F. Reale , S. Orlando , J. A. Klimchuk

Flux emergence is crucial for the formation of solar active regions and triggering of various eruptions. However, the detailed mechanisms by which flux emergence drives these eruptions remain unclear and require numerical investigation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Xiaohong Li , Yuhao Zhou , Rony Keppens

We investigate the evolutions of two prominences (P1,P2) and two bundles of coronal loops (L1,L2), observed with SDO/AIA near the east solar limb on 2012 September 22. It is found that there were large-amplitude oscillations in P1 and L1,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Quanhao Zhang , Yuming Wang , Rui Liu , Chenglong Shen , Min Zhang , Tingyu Gou , Jiajia Liu , Kai Liu , Zhenjun Zhou , Shui Wang

We present a unified computational framework which can be used to describe impulsive flares on the Sun and on dMe stars. The models assume that the flare impulsive phase is caused by a beam of charged particles that is accelerated in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Joel C. Allred , Adam F. Kowalski , Mats Carlsson

Post-flare loops are loop-like plasmas observed during the decay phase of solar flares, and they are expected to exist for stellar flares. However, it is unclear how post-flare loops are observed in stellar flares' cases. To clarify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 Takato Otsu , Ayumi Asai , Kai Ikuta , Kazunari Shibata

We present rare observational evidence of vertical kink oscillations in a laminar and diffused large-scale plasma curtain as observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The X6.9 class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-04 A. K. Srivastava , M. Goossens

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most powerful explosions in the Sun. They are major sources of potentially destructive space weather conditions. However, the possible causes of their initiation remain controversial.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 X. L. Yan , C. W. Jiang , Z. K. Xue , J. C. Wang , E. R. Priest , L. H. Yang , D. F. Kong , W. D. Cao , H. S. Ji

We provide estimates of the wave energy reaching the solar chromosphere and corona in a network-like magnetic field topology, including a coronal null point. The waves are excited by an instantaneous strong subphotospheric source and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 Irantzu C. Santamaria , Elena Khomenko , Manuel Collados , Angel de Vicente

Globally-propagating shocks in the solar corona have long been studied to quantify their involvement in the acceleration of energetic particles. However, this work has tended to focus on large events associated with strong solar flares and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 David M. Long , Hamish A. S. Reid , Gherardo Valori , Jennifer O'Kane

Many questions must be answered before understanding the relationship between the emerging magnetic flux through the solar surface and the extreme geoeffective events. The main ingredients for getting X-ray class flares and large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Brigitte Schmieder , Jinhan Guo , Guillaume Aulanier , Anwesha Maharana , Stefaan Poedts

We present first results of the hybrid data-driven magnetofrictional (MF) and data-constrained magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of solar active region NOAA 11158, which produced an X-class flare and coronal mass ejection on 2011…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 A. Afanasyev , Y. Fan , M. Kazachenko , M. Cheung

Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the emergence of twisted magnetic flux tubes from the solar interior into the corona are discussed to illustrate how twisted and sheared coronal magnetic structures (with free magnetic energy),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-29 Yuhong Fan

This paper is an attempt to understand the physical processes occurring in different layers of solar atmosphere during a solar flare. For a complete understanding of the flare we must analyze multi-wavelength datasets, as emission at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Shirsh Lata Soni , Radhe Shyam Gupta , Adya Prasad Mishra

We present an X-ray imaging and spectroscopic study of a partially occulted C7.7 flare on 2003 April 24 observed by RHESSI that accompanied a prominence eruption observed by TRACE. (1) The activation and rise of the prominence occurs during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Wei Liu , Tong-Jiang Wang , Brian R. Dennis , Gordon D. Holman

We present a theoretical model describing magnetar giant flares on the basis of solar flare/coronal mass ejection theory. In our model, a preflare activity plays a crucial role in driving evaporating flows and supplying baryonic matters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Youhei Masada , Shigehiro Nagataki , Kazunari Shibata , Toshio Terasawa

The nature and detailed properties of the heating of the million-degree solar corona are important issues that are still largely unresolved. Nanoflare heating might be dominant in active regions and quiet Sun, although direct signatures of…

We carry out magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the quasi-static evolution and eruption of a twisted coronal flux rope under a coronal streamer built up by an imposed flux emergence at the lower boundary. The MHD model incorporates a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Yuhong Fan