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Small-scale magnetic flux emergence in the quiet Sun is crucial for maintaining solar magnetic activity. On the smallest scales studied so far, namely within individual granules, two mechanisms have been identified: emergence in tiny…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 S. M. Díaz-Castillo , C. E. Fischer , F. Moreno-Insertis , S. L. Guglielmino , R. Ishikawa , S. Criscuoli

The magnetic field plays a key role in producing solar flares, so that the investigation on the relationship between the magnetic field properties and flares is significant. In this paper, based on the magnetic field extrapolated from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 S. Liu , D. Liu

Small-scale transient phenomena in the quiet Sun are believed to play an important role in coronal heating and solar wind generation. One of them named as "X-ray jet" is the subject of our study. We indent to investigate the dynamics,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. S. Madjarska

We report on the formation of small solar flares produced by patchy magnetic reconnection between interacting magnetic loops. A three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical experiment was performed, where a uniform magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 V. Archontis , V. Hansteen

We examine a simulation of flux emergence and cancellation, which shows a complex sequence of processes that accumulate free magnetic energy in the solar corona essential for the eruptive events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in various astrophysical, space, and laboratory environments. Many pieces of evidence for magnetic reconnection have been uncovered. However, its specific processes that could be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 X. Cheng , Y. Li , L. F. Wan , M. D. Ding , P. F. Chen , J. Zhang , J. J. Liu

Particle acceleration is one of the most significant features that are ubiquitous among space and cosmic plasmas. It is most prominent during flares in the case of the Sun, with which huge amount of electromagnetic radiation and high-energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Masumi Shimojo , Taro Sakao

Magnetic reconnection is a universal process that powers explosive energy release events such as solar flares, geomagnetic substorms, and some astrophysical jets. A characteristic feature of magnetic reconnection is the production of fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Chengcai Shen , Bin Chen , Katharine K. Reeves , Sijie Yu , Vanessa Polito , Xiaoyan Xie

Solar flares are one of the most energetic events in the solar atmosphere. It is widely accepted that flares are powered by magnetic reconnection in the corona. An eruptive flare is usually accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, both of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Y. Li , X. Sun , M. D. Ding , J. Qiu , E. R. Priest

We investigate the characteristics of the solar flares complex network. The limited predictability, non-linearity, and self-organized criticality of the flares allow us to study systems of flares in the field of the complex systems. Both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Akbar Gheibi , Hossein Safari , Mohsen Javaherian

Recent observations suggest that magnetic flux cancellation may play a crucial role in heating the Sun's upper atmosphere (chromosphere, transition region, corona). Here, we intended to validate an analytic model for magnetic reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Sung-Hong Park

Magnetic reconnection is a rapid energy release process that is believed to be responsible for flares on the Sun and stars. Nevertheless, such flare-related reconnection is mostly detected to occur in the corona, while there have been few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-21 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Ying Li , Kai Yang , Xin Cheng , Feng Chen , Cheng Fang , Wenda Cao

Giant flares on soft gamma-ray repeaters that are thought to take place on magnetars release enormous energy in a short time interval. Their power can be explained by catastrophic instabilities occurring in the magnetic field configuration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. Meng , J. Lin , L. Zhang , K. K. Reeves , Q. S. Zhang , F. Yuan

Microflares are small dynamic signatures observed in X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet channels. Because of their impulsive emission enhancements and wide distribution, they are thought to be closely related to coronal heating. By using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-01 Fayu Jiang , Jun Zhang , Shuhong Yang

We demonstrate that for weak flares the dependence on spottedness can be rather weak. The fact is that such flares can occur both in small and large active regions. At the same time, powerful large flares of classes M and X occur much more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 M. M. Katsova , V. N. Obridko , D. D. Sokoloff , I. M. Livshits

The energy released in solar flares derives from a reconfiguration of magnetic fields to a lower energy state, and is manifested in several forms, including bulk kinetic energy of the coronal mass ejection, acceleration of electrons and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 E. P. Kontar , J. E. Perez , L. K. Harra , A. A. Kuznetsov , A. G. Emslie , N. L. S. Jeffrey , N. H. Bian , B. R. Dennis

There is a recurring question in solar physics about whether or not electric currents are neutralized in active regions (ARs). This question was recently revisited using three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 K. Dalmasse , G. Aulanier , P. Démoulin , B. Kliem , T. Török , E. Pariat

Turbulent convection efficiently transports energy up to the solar photosphere, but its multi-scale nature and dynamic properties are still not fully understood. Several works in the literature have investigated the emergence of patterns of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 F. Giannattasio , F. Berrilli , G. Consolini , D. Del Moro , M. Gosic , L. Bellot Rubio

We study the evolution of a small-scale emerging flux region (EFR) in the quiet Sun, from its emergence to its decay. We track processes and phenomena across all atmospheric layers, explore their interrelations and compare our findings with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 I. Kontogiannis , G. Tsiropoula , K. Tziotziou , C. Gontikakis , C. Kuckein , M. Verma , C. Denker

Most models of solar eruptions assume that coronal field lines are anchored in the dense photosphere and thus the photospheric magnetic fields would not have rapid, irreversible changes associated with eruptions resulted from the coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Haimin Wang , Chang Liu