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The separation and elongation motions of solar flare ribbons have extensively been investigated. The degradation and disappearance of ribbons have rarely been explored. In this paper, we report our multiwavelength observations of a C5.5…

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The X8.2-class limb flare on September 10, 2017 is among the best studied solar flare events owing to its great similarity to the standard flare model and the broad coverage by multiple spacecraft and ground-based observations. These…

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We aim to characterise the appearance and behaviour of a flare and filament ejection which occurred on 8th September 1999 and was observed by TRACE in L-alpha as well as by the Yohkoh Soft and Hard X-ray telescopes. We explore the flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 F. Rubio da Costa , L. Fletcher , N. Labrosse , F. Zuccarello

We present observations of distinct UV spectral properties at different locations during an atypical X-shaped flare (SOL2014-11-09T15:32) observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). In this flare, four chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Y. Li , M. Kelly , M. D. Ding , J. Qiu , X. S. Zhu , W. Q. Gan

On May 17, 2012 an M5.1-class flare exploded from the sun. An O-type coronal mass ejection (CME) was also associated with this flare. There was an instant increase in proton flux with peak at $\geq 100$ MeV, leading to S2 solar radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-30 C. R. A. Augusto , V. Kopenkin , C. E. Navia , A. C. S. Felicio , F. Freire , A. C. S. Pinto , B. Pimentel , M. Paulista , J. Vianna , C. Fauth , T. Sinzi

We investigate coronal transients associated with a GOES M6.7 class flare and a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 13 July 2004. During the rising phase of the flare, a filament eruption, loop expansion, a Moreton wave, and an ejecta were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-03 S. Pohjolainen , K. Hori , T. Sakurai

We present the results of observations of XTE J0421+560 X-ray transient with Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer in the beginning of April 1998. Lightcurve, obtained by ASM all-sky monitor, shows unusually fast decrease in the object's luminosity.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Revnivtsev , A. Emelyanov , K. Borozdin

The X2.2-class solar flare of February 15, 2011, produced a powerful sunquake event, representing a helioseismic response to the flare impact in the solar photosphere, which was observed with the HMI instrument on the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Alexander G. Kosovichev

On April 17, 2024, the third successful Hi-C sounding rocket flight, Hi-C Flare, recorded coronal images in Fe XXI 129 A emission from 11 MK plasma during the post-maximum phase of an M1.6-class solar flare, achieving unprecedented spatial…

The Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) detection of the X8.2 GOES class solar flare of 2017 September 10 provides for the first time observations of a long duration high-energy gamma-ray flare associated with a Ground Level Enhancement (GLE).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Nicola Omodei , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Francesco Longo , Alice Allafort , Säm Krucker

We present the study of the X2-class flare which occurred on the 27 October 2014 and was observed with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board the Hinode satellite. Thanks to the high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 V. Polito , J. W. Reep , K. K. Reeves , P. J. A. Simões , J. Dudík , G. Del Zanna , H. E. Mason , L. Golub

On the 29 March 2014 NOAA active region (AR) 12017 produced an X1 flare which was simultaneously observed by an unprecedented number of observatories. We have investigated the pre-flare period of this flare from 14:00 UT until 19:00 UT…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 M. M. Woods , L. K. Harra , S. A. Matthews , D. H. Mackay , S. Dacie , D. M. Long

The Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) on board Yohkoh revealed that the ejection of X-ray emitting plasmoid is sometimes observed in a solar flare. It was found that the ejected plasmoid is strongly accelerated during a peak in the hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 N. Nishizuka , H. Takasaki , A. Asai , K. Shibata

We analyse multiwavelength observations of a western limb flare (C3.9) occurred in AR NOAA 111465 on 30 April 2012. The high resolution images recorded by SDO/AIA 304, 1600 \AA\ and Hinode/SOT H$\alpha$ show the activation of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 Pankaj Kumar , Kyung-Suk Cho

Coronal mass ejection spray plasma associated with the M1.5-class flare of 16 February 2011 is found to exhibit a Doppler blue-shift of 850 km/s - the largest value yet reported from ultraviolet (UV) or extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Peter R. Young

We present an X-ray imaging and spectroscopic study of a partially occulted C7.7 flare on 2003 April 24 observed by RHESSI that accompanied a prominence eruption observed by TRACE. (1) The activation and rise of the prominence occurs during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Wei Liu , Tong-Jiang Wang , Brian R. Dennis , Gordon D. Holman

Recently, blazar 4C +27.50 was found to be flaring in gamma-rays since its detection with Fermi-LAT in 2008. For the first time, a dedicated temporal and spectral study of the blazar 4C +27.50 has been performed in this work to understand…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Joysankar Majumdar , Sakshi Maurya , Raj Prince

Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) detected a superflare, releasing $5\times 10^{37}$ erg in 2$-$10 keV, of the RS CVn-type star IM Peg at 10:41 UT on 2023 July 23 with its Gas Slit Camera (GSC; 2$-$30 keV). We conducted X-ray follow-up…

The X2.2-class solar flare of February 15, 2011, produced a powerful `sunquake' event, representing a seismic response to the flare impact. The impulsively excited seismic waves formed a compact wavepacket traveling through the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-22 A. G. Kosovichev

We present the H$\alpha$ observations from ARIES, Nainital of a compact and impulsive solar flare occurred on March 10, 2001 and associated with a CME. We have also analysed HXT, SXT/Yohkoh observations as well as radio observations from…