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Solar flares are intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation, which occur due to a rapid destabilization and reconnection of the magnetic field. While pre-flare signatures and trends have been investigated from magnetic observations prior…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Kara L. Kniezewski , Emily I. Mason , Daniel J. Emmons , Kyle E. Fitch , Seth H. Garland

Magnetic flux ropes play a key role in triggering solar flares in the solar atmosphere. In this paper, we investigate the evolution of active region NOAA 12268 within 36 hours from 2015 January 29 to 30, during which a flux rope was formed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Z. Zhong , Y. Guo , M. D. Ding , C. Fang , Q. Hao

With SDO observations and a data-constrained MHD model, we identify a confined multi-ribbon flare occurred on 2010 October 25 in solar active region 11117 as a magnetic bald patch (BP) flare with strong evidences. From the photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , S. T. Wu , Qiang Hu

Microflares are small activities in solar low atmosphere, some are in the low corona, and others in the chromosphere. Observations show that some of the microflares are triggered by magnetic reconnection between emerging flux and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. -L. Jiang , C. Fang , P. -F. Chen

The dynamics of magnetic fields in the Sun's active regions plays a key role in triggering solar eruptions. Studies have shown that changes in the photosphere's magnetic field can destabilize large-scale structure of the corona, leading to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Partha Chowdhury , Belur Ravindra , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari

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

Solar active region 12673 produced two successive X-class flares (X2.2 and X9.3) approximately 3 hours apart in September 2017. The X9.3 was the recorded largest solar flare in Solar Cycle 24. In this study we perform a data-constrained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Satoshi Inoue , Yumi Bamba

Solar flares may be the best-known examples of the explosive conversion of magnetic energy into bulk motion, plasma heating, and particle acceleration via magnetic reconnection. The energy source for all flares is the highly sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 Joel T. Dahlin , Spiro K. Antiochos , Jiong Qiu , C. Richard DeVore

The energy storage and trigger mechanisms of solar flares are important for understanding of solar activity. We analyzed multi-wavelength observations of a M1.5 flare on 1 August 2014, in active region NOAA 12127 (SOL2014-08-01T18:13).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-04 S. Liu , J. T. Su

The magnetohydrodynamics of active region NOAA 11283 is simulated using an initial non-force-free magnetic field extrapolated from its photospheric vector magnetogram. We focus on the magnetic reconnections at a magnetic null point that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Avijeet Prasad , Karin Dissauer , Qiang Hu , R. Bhattacharyya , Astrid M. Veronig , Sanjay Kumar , Bhuwan Joshi

Magnetic-field reconnection is believed to play a fundamental role in magnetized plasma systems throughout the Universe1, including planetary magnetospheres, magnetars and accretion disks around black holes. This letter present extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-06 Yang Su , Astrid M. Veronig , Gordon D. Holman , Brian R. Dennis , Tongjiang Wang , Manuela Temmer , Weiqun Gan

We report multi-wavelength study of a complex M-class solar eruptive flare that consists of three different sets of flare ribbons, viz. circular, parallel, and remote ribbons. Magnetic field modeling of source active region NOAA 12242…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Navin Chandra Joshi , Bhuwan Joshi , Prabir K. Mitra

We examine two successive flare eruptions (X5.4 and X1.3) on 2012 March 7 in the NOAA active region 11429 and investigate the magnetic field reconfiguration associated with the two eruptions. Using an advanced non-linear force-free field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , Zhongwei Yang , Huidong Hu

We studied a flare onset process in terms of stability of a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field in active region 12371 producing an eruptive M6.5 flare in 2015 June 22. In order to reveal the 3D magnetic structure, we first extrapolated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-06 Jihye Kang , Satoshi Inoue , Kanya Kusano , Sung-Hong Park , Yong-Jae Moon

Radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation includes sufficiently realistic physics to allow for the synthesis of remote sensing observables that can be quantitatively compared with observations. We analyze the largest flare in a simulation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

We have analyzed multi-wavelength observations and magnetic-field data for the solar flare of May 10, 2012 (04:18 UT) and have detected a sign inversion of the signal in the line-of-sight magnetic measurements in the umbra of a small spot.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 M. A. Livshits , I. Yu. Grigoryeva , I. I. Myshyakov , G. V. Rudenko

$\delta$-sunspots, with highly complex magnetic structures, are very productive in energetic eruptive events, such as X-class flares and homologous eruptions. We here study the formation of such complex magnetic structures by numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fang Fang , Yuhong Fan

Magnetic reconnections (MRs) for various magnetic field line (MFL) topologies are believed to be the initiators of various solar eruptive events like flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Consequently, important is a thorough…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Sushree S. Nayak , R. Bhattacharyya , A. Prasad , Qiang Hu

The relationship between solar eruption and sunspot rotation has been widely reported, and the underlying mechanism requires to be studied. Here we performed a full 3D MHD simulation of data-constrained approach to study the mechanism of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Xinyi Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Aiying Duan , Xinkai Bian

We study the evolution of the observed photospheric magnetic field and the modeled global coronal magnetic field during the past 3 1/2 solar activity cycles observed since the mid-1970s. We use synoptic magnetograms and extrapolated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. J. D. Petrie