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Newly emerging flux (NEF) has been widely studied as a trigger of solar filament eruptions, but its influence on the subsequent dynamics remains poorly explored. Because NEF typically emerges adjacent to filaments, it imposes magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Yuhao Chen , Chengcai Shen , Zhixing Mei , Jing Ye , Jialiang Hu , Zehao Tang , Guanchong Cheng , Shanshan Xu , Abdullah Zafar , Yujia Song , Jun Lin

We present the observation of a major solar eruption that is associated with fast sunspot rotation. The event includes a sigmoidal filament eruption, a coronal mass ejection, and a GOES X2.1 flare from NOAA active region 11283. The filament…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Guiping Ruan , Yao Chen , Shuo Wang , Hongqi Zhang , Gang Li , Ju Jing , Jiangtao Su , Xing Li , Haiqing Xu , Guohui Du , Haimin Wang

Advancements in instrumentation have revealed a multitude of small-scale EUV events in the solar atmosphere. Our aim is to employ high-resolution magnetograms to gain a detailed understanding of the magnetic origin of such phenomena. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 D. Nóbrega-Siverio , I. Cabello , S. Bose , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , R. Joshi , C. Froment , V. M. J. Henriques

Solar flares are one of the most energetic events in the solar atmosphere. It is widely accepted that flares are powered by magnetic reconnection in the corona. An eruptive flare is usually accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, both of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Y. Li , X. Sun , M. D. Ding , J. Qiu , E. R. Priest

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

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

Sympathetic eruptions on the Sun have been observed for several decades, but the mechanisms by which one eruption can trigger another one remain poorly understood. We present a 3D MHD simulation that suggests two possible magnetic trigger…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Torok , O. Panasenco , V. S. Titov , Z. Mikic , K. K. Reeves , M. Velli , J. A. Linker , G. De Toma

Magnetic flux ropes are a bundle of twisted magnetic field lines produced by internal electric currents, which are responsible for solar eruptions and are the major drivers of geomagnetic storms. As such, it is crucial to develop a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 J. H. Guo , Y. W. Ni , Y. Guo , C. Xia , B. Schmieder , S. Poedts , Z. Zhong , Y. H. Zhou , F. Yu , P. F. Chen

We study the emergence of magnetic flux from the near-surface layers of the solar convection zone into the photosphere. To model magnetic flux emergence, we carried out a set of numerical radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Chun Ming Cheung , Manfred Schuessler , Fernando Moreno-Insertis

The nature of various plausible causal links between sympathetic events is still a controversial issue. In this work, we present multi-wavelength observations of sympathetic eruptions, associated flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Navin Chandra Joshi , Brigitte Schmieder , Tetsuya Magara , Yang Guo , Guillaume Aulanier

We present results from 3D visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the emergence of a convection zone magnetic flux tube into a solar atmosphere containing a pre-existing dipole coronal field, which is orientated to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Tibor Török

Flux emergence is responsible for various solar eruptions. Combining observation and simulations, we investigate the influence of flux emergence at one footpoint of an arcade on coronal rain as well as induced eruptions. The emergence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Xiaohong Li , Rony Keppens , Yuhao Zhou

Impulsive solar energetic particle events are widely believed to be due to the prompt escape into the interplanetary medium of flare-accelerated particles produced by solar eruptive events. According to the standard model for such events,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Masson , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore

Flux ropes are generally believed to be core structures of solar eruptions that are significant for the space weather, but their formation mechanism remains intensely debated. We report on the formation of a tiny flux rope beneath clusters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Ruisheng Zheng , Yao Chen , Bing Wang , Hongqiang Song , Wenda Cao

$\delta$-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

We follow two small, magnetically isolated CME-producing solar active regions (ARs) from the time of their emergence until several days later, when their core regions erupt to produce the CMEs. In both cases, magnetograms show: (a)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Navdeep K. Panesar

Explosive energy release is a common phenomenon occurring in magnetized plasma systems ranging from laboratories, Earth's magnetosphere, the solar corona and astrophysical environments. Its physical explanation is usually attributed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 J. Zhang , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

We perform a study of fluid motions and its temporal evolution in and around a small bipolar emerging flux region using observations made by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on-board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We employ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 C. R. Sangeetha , Durgesh Tripathi , S. P. Rajaguru

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

Here, we present numerical simulations of magnetic flux buoyantly rising from a granular convection zone into the low corona. We study the complex interaction of the magnetic field with the turbulent plasma. The model includes the radiative…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst