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Context. In September 2017 the largest X-class flare of Solar Cycle 24 occurred from the most active region (AR) of this cycle, AR 12673. The AR attracted much interest because of its unique morphological and evolution characteristics.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 K. Moraitis , X. Sun , E. Pariat , L. Linan

Solar active region (AR) 12192 of October 2014 hosts the largest sunspot group in 24 years. It is the most prolific flaring site of Cycle 24, but surprisingly produced no coronal mass ejection (CME) from the core region during its disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Xudong Sun , Monica G. Bobra , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Yan Li , Chenglong Shen , Sebastien Couvidat , Aimee A. Norton , George H. Fisher

We investigated in detail the M5.8 class solar flare that occurred on 2023-03-06. This flare was one of the first strong flares observed by the Siberian Radioheliograph in the microwave range and the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Alexey Kuznetsov , Zhao Wu , Sergey Anfinogentov , Yang Su , Yao Chen

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

We report a solar jet phenomenon associated with successive flares on November 10th 2014. These explosive events were involved with the satellite spots' emergence around a delta-type sunspot in the decaying active region NOAA 12205. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Takahito Sakaue , Akiko Tei , Ayumi Asai , Satoru Ueno , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Kazunari Shibata

On 2024 May 10/11, the strongest geomagnetic storm since November 2003 has occurred, with a peak Dst index of -412 nT. The storm was caused by NOAA Active Region (AR) 13664, which was the source of a large number of coronal mass ejections…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 Robert Jarolim , Astrid Veronig , Stefan Purkhart , Peijin Zhang , Matthias Rempel

Using the data on magnetic field maps and continuum intensity for Solar Cycles 23 and 24, we explored 100 active regions (ARs) that produced M5.0 or stronger flares. We focus on the presence/absence of the emergence of magnetic flux in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Alexander S. Kutsenko , Valentina I. Abramenko , Andrei A. Plotnikov

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

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are among the most prominent manifestations of the magnetic activity of the Sun. The strongest events of them tend to occur in active regions (ARs) that are large, complex, and dynamically evolving.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Shin Toriumi

The solar active region NOAA 12887 produced a strong X1.0 flare on 2021 October 28, which exhibits X-shaped flare ribbons and a circle-shaped erupting filament. To understand the eruption process with these characteristics, we conducted a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Daiki Yamasaki , Satoshi Inoue , Yumi Bamba , Jeongwoo Lee , Haimin Wang

We present a detailed study of the formation of an inverse S-shaped filament prior to its eruption in active region NOAA 11884 from October 31 to November 2, 2013. In the initial stage, clockwise rotation of a small positive sunspot around…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 X. L. Yan , E. R. Priest , Q. L. Guo , Z. K. Xue , J. C. Wang , L. H. Yang

In this paper, we present the multi-wavelength study of a high level of solar activity during which a single active region produced multiple flares/CMEs. According to the sunspot observations, the current solar cycle 24 manifest to be less…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-10 Shirsh Lata Soni , Manohar Lal Yadav , Radhe Syam Gupta , Pyare lal Verma

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

Homologous flares are flares that occur repetitively in the same active region, with similar structure and morphology. A series of at least eight homologous flares occurred in active region NOAA 11237 over 16 - 17 June 2011. A nearby…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Navdeep K. Panesar , Alphonse C. Sterling , Davina E. Innes , Ronald L. Moore

In this article, we study the origin of precursor flare activity and investigate its role towards triggering the eruption of a flux rope which resulted into a dual-peak M-class flare (SOL2015-06-21T02:36) in the active region NOAA 12371.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Prabir K. Mitra , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad

Active Region (AR) 12192 is the biggest AR observed in solar cycle 24 so far. This was a long-lived AR which survived for four Carrington rotations (CR) and exhibited several unusual phenomena. We measure the horizontal subsurface flows in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Kiran Jain , S. C. Tripathy , F. Hill

We report one of several homologous non-radial eruptions from NOAA active region (AR) 11158 that are strongly modulated by the local magnetic field as observed with the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO). A small bipole emerged in the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xudong Sun , Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Qingrong Chen , Keiji Hayashi

We present a detailed analysis of a C9.3 white-light flare using high-resolution observations from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST). The flare occurred near the eastern solar limb on September 11, 2023, within NOAA AR 13431, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Zhe Xu , Xiaoli Yan , Zhentong Li , Liheng Yang , Zhike Xue , Jincheng Wang , Yian Zhou

We present RHESSI and TRACE observations of multiple flare activity that occurred in the active region NOAA 10656 over the period of two hours on 2004 August 18. Out of four successive flares, there were three events of class C while the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Bhuwan Joshi , Upendra Kushwaha , K. -S. Cho , Astrid M. Veronig

Super active region NOAA 13664 produced 12 X-class flares (including the largest one, an occulted X8.7 flare, in solar cycle 25 so far) during 2024 May 8-15 and 11 of them are identified as white-light flares. Here we present various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Ying Li , Xiaofeng Liu , Zhichen Jing , Wei Chen , Qiao Li , Yang Su , De-Chao Song , M. D. Ding , Li Feng , Hui Li , Weiqun Gan