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Of all the activity observed on the Sun, two of the most energetic events are flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Usually, solar active regions that produce large flares will also produce a CME, but this is not always true (Yashiro et…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-25 Monica G. Bobra , Stathis Ilonidis

We apply the magneto-frictional approach to investigate which quantity or quantities can best predict the loss of equilibrium of a translationally-invariant magnetic flux rope. The flux rope is produced self-consistently by flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 Oliver E. K. Rice , Anthony R. Yeates

Current operational forecasts of solar eruptions are made by human experts using a combination of qualitative shape-based classification systems and historical data about flaring frequencies. In the past decade, there has been a great deal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 V. Deshmukh , T. E. Berger , E. Bradley , J. D. Meiss

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are powerful drivers of space weather, with magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) widely regarded as their primary precursors. However, the variation in reconnection flux during the evolution of MFR during CME eruptions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Samriddhi Sankar Maity , Piyali Chatterjee , Ranadeep Sarkar , Ijas S. Mytheen

Solar energetic events are caused by the release of magnetic energy accumulated in the solar atmosphere. To understand their initiating physical mechanisms, the dynamics of the coronal magnetic fields must be studied. Unfortunately, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Yeongmin Kang , Takafumi Kaneko , K. D. Leka , Kanya Kusano

Solar filament eruptions play a crucial role in triggering coronal mass ejections (CMEs). More than 80 % of eruptions lead to a CME. This correlation has been studied extensively during the past solar cycles and the last long solar minimum.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Schmieder , P. Demoulin , G. Aulanier

We explore the processes of repetitive build-up and explosive release of magnetic energy together with the formation of magnetic flux ropes that eventually resulted into three homologous eruptive flares of successively increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Suraj Sahu , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad , Kyung-Suk Cho

Three-dimensional magnetic topology is crucial to understanding the explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona during solar flares. Much attention has been given to the pre-flare magnetic topology to identify candidate sites of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Rui Liu , P. Vemareddy , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

Erupting magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) play a crucial role in producing solar flares. However, the formation of erupting MFRs in complex coronal magnetic configurations and their subsequent evolution in the flaring events are not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Avijeet Prasad , Sanjay Kumar , Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Guillaume Aulanier , R. Bhattacharyya , Qiang Hu

Eruptive flares are sudden releases of magnetic energy that involve many phenomena, several of which can be explained by the standard 2D flare model and its realizations in three-dimensions. We analyze a three-dimensional…

It remains unclear how solar flares are triggered and in what conditions they can be eruptive with coronal mass ejections. Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) has been suggested as the central magnetic structure of solar eruptions, and their ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Zhenjun Zhou , Xueshang Feng , Jun Cui

Using an efficient magnetic complexity index in the active-region solar photosphere, we quantify the preflare strength of the photospheric magnetic polarity inversion lines in 23 eruptive active regions with flare/CME/ICME events tracked…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. K. Georgoulis

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

Magnetic flux ropes are the centerpiece of solar eruptions. Direct measurements for the magnetic field of flux ropes are crucial for understanding the triggering and energy release processes, yet they remain heretofore elusive. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yuqian Wei , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Haimin Wang , Ju Jing , Dale E. Gary

Investigating the early-stage evolution of an erupting flux rope from the Sun is important to understand the mechanisms of how it looses its stability and its space weather impacts. Our aim is to develop an efficient scheme for tracking the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Andreas Wagner , Emilia K. J. Kilpua , Ranadeep Sarkar , Daniel J. Price , Anshu Kumari , Farhad Daei , Jens Pomoell , Stefaan Poedts

Context: Many previous studies have shown that the magnetic precursor of a coronal mass ejection (CME) takes the form of a magnetic flux rope, and a subset of them have become known as `hot flux ropes' due to their emission signatures in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Alexander W James , Lucie M Green , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Gherardo Valori

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most spectacular eruptive phenomena in the solar atmosphere. It is generally accepted that CMEs are results of eruptions of magnetic flux ropes (MFRs). However, a heated debate is on whether MFRs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hongqiang Song , Jie Zhang , Yao Chen , Xin Cheng

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are thought to be the central structure of solar eruptions, and their ideal MHD instabilities can trigger the eruption. Here we performed a study of all the MFR configurations that lead to major solar flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Wen He , Xueshang Feng , Peng Zou , Jun Cui

With the aim of investigating how the magnetic field in solar active regions (ARs) controls flare activity, i.e., whether a confined or eruptive flare occurs, we analyze 106 flares of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Ting Li , Xudong Sun , Yijun Hou , Anqin Chen , Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang