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We describe the peculiarity of two recurrent white light flares occurred on Sept. 06, 2017, in the super Active Region (SAR) NOAA 12673, with a time interval, between their peaks, of about 3 hours. These events of X2.2 and X9.3 GOES class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 P. Romano , A. Elmhamdi , M. Falco , P. Costa , A. S. Kordi , H. A. Al-Trabulsy , R. M. Al-Shammari

Two X-class solar flares occurred on 2017 September 6 from active region NOAA 12673: the first one is a confined X2.2 flare, and it is followed only $\sim 3$ hours later by the second one, which is the strongest flare in solar cycle 24,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Peng Zou , Chaowei Jiang , Fengsi Wei , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Using high-resolution ring analysis (HRRA) we deduce subsurface flows within magnetic active regions and within quiet sun. With this procedure we are capable of measuring flows with a horizontal spatial resolution of 2 degrees in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Bradley W. Hindman , Deborah A. Haber , Juri Toomre

Local helioseismology provides a unique opportunity to investigate the subsurface structure and dynamics of active regions and their effect on the large-scale flows and global circulation of the Sun. We use measurements of plasma flows in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao , Stathis Ilonidis

We present a comparison of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) analysis of NOAA Active Region (AR) 11158 and numerical simulations of flux-tube emergence, aiming to investigate the formation process of this flare-productive AR. First, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 S. Toriumi , Y. Iida , K. Kusano , Y. Bamba , S. Imada

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

Shearing motion and magnetic flux cancellation around the polarity inversion line (PIL) play significant roles in the build-up of free magnetic energy and magnetic flux rope (MFR) in source region of major solar flares. Here we investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Yijun Hou , Ting Li , Shuhong Yang , Leping Li , Yingjie Cai , Xiaofeng Liu , Shuo Yang , Yilin Guo , Shihao Rao , Chuan Li , Guiping Zhou

The solar active region NOAA 11719 produced a large two-ribbon flare on 11 April 2013. We have investigated the sudden variations in the photospheric magnetic fields in this active region during the flare employing the magnetograms obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Brajesh Kumar , A. Raja Bayanna , P. Venkatakrishnan , Shibu K. Mathew

On SOL2017-09-06 solar active region 12673 produced an X9.3 flare which is regarded as largest to occur in solar cycle 24. In this work we have preformed a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation in order to reveal the three-dimensional (3D)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Satoshi Inoue , Daikou Shiota , Yumi Bamba , Sung-Hong Park

We present the multi-wavelength observations of a flux rope that was trying to erupt from NOAA AR 11045 and the associated M-class solar flare on 12 February 2010 using space and ground based observations from TRACE, STEREO, SOHO/MDI,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pankaj Kumar , A. K. Srivastava , B. Filippov , R. Erdelyi , Wahab Uddin

We follow the eruption of two related intermediate filaments observed in H$\alpha$ (from GONG) and in EUV (from SDO/AIA) and the resulting large-amplitude longitudinal oscillations of the plasma in the filament channels. The events occurred…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 M. Luna , Y. Su , B. Schmieder , R. Chandra , T. A. Kucera

Employing the high-resolution observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), we statistically investigate flux rope proxies in NOAA AR 11897 from 14-Nov-2013 to 19-Nov-2013 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Y. J. Hou , T. Li , J. Zhang

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager provides 45 s cadence intensity images and 720 s cadence vector magnetograms. These unprecedented high-cadence and high-resolution data give us a unique opportunity to study the change of photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Shuo Wang , Chang Liu , Na Deng , Haimin Wang

This paper continues the cycle of authors' works on the detection of precursors of large flares (M5 and higher classes) in active regions (ARs) of the Sun by their microwave radiation and magnetographic characteristics. Generalization of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-28 V. E. Abramov-Maximov , V. N. Borovik , L. V. Opeikina , A. G. Tlatov , L. V. Yasnov

Accurate measurements of magnetic and velocity fields in and around solar active regions are key to unlocking the mysteries of the formation and the decay of sunspots. High spatial resolution image and spectral sequences with a high cadence…

We study five sequential solar flares (SOL2015-08-07) occurring in Active Region 12396 observed with the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at the BBSO, complemented by IRIS and SDO observations. The main flaring region is an arch filament system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-19 Yingna Su , Rui Liu , Shangwei Li , Wenda Cao , Kwangsu Ahn , Haisheng Ji

Solar white-light flares (WLFs) have been observed since 1859, but their occurrence rate is not yet fully understood. The physical properties of WLFs in super active regions (SARs) are also well worth investigating. With full-disk images at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zhichen Jing , Ying Li , Jingwei Li , Qiao Li

Studying the hemispheric distribution of active regions (ARs) with different magnetic morphology may clarify the features of the dynamo process that is hidden under the photospheric level. The magnetic flux data for 3047 ARs from the CrAO…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 A. Zhukova

We study the magnetic field structures of hard X-ray sources and flare ribbons of the M1.1 flare in active region NOAA 10767 on 2005 May 27. We have found in a nonlinear force-free field extrapolation, over the same polarity inversion line,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Y. Guo , M. D. Ding , B. Schmieder , P. Démoulin , H. Li

We investigate the evolution of NOAA Active Region 11817 during 2013 August 10--12, when it developed a complex field configuration and produced four confined, followed by two eruptive, flares. These C-and-above flares are all associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 Rui Liu , Bernhard Kliem , Viacheslav S. Titov , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang , Haimin Wang , Chang Liu , Yan Xu , Thomas Wiegelmann