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Solar filaments are magnetic structures often observed in the solar atmosphere and consist of plasma that is cooler and denser than their surroundings. They are visible for days -- and even weeks -- which suggests that they are often in…

Solar flares are accessible to a broad variety of observational methods to see and investigate the {\em magnetic reconnection} phenomenon in high-temperature strongly-magnetized plasma of the solar corona. An analysis of the topological…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-30 Boris V. Somov

Flux emergence is ubiquitous in the Sun's lower atmosphere, where the emerging magnetic flux can reconnect with the pre-existing magnetic field. We investigate plasmoid formation and the resulting multi-thermal emissions during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Robert Cameron , Hardi Peter , Yajie Chen , Jun Lin

We used multi-wavelength high-resolution data from ARIES, THEMIS, and SDO instruments, to analyze a non-standard, C3.3 class flare produced within the active region NOAA 11589 on 2012 October 16. Magnetic flux emergence and cancellation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 K. Dalmasse , R. Chandra , B. Schmieder , G. Aulanier

This paper presents an improved MHD modeling of the confined filament eruption in solar active region NOAA~9957 on 2002 May~27 by extending the parametric studies of the event in Torok & Kliem 2005 and Hassanin & Kliem 2016. Here the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 Alshaimaa Hassanin , Bernhard Kliem , Norbert Seehafer

In the present work we study Hinode/EIS observations of an active region taken before, during and after a small C2.0 flare in order to monitor the evolution of the magnetic field evolution and its relation to the flare event. We find that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Enrico Landi , Wenxian Li , Tomas Brage , Roger Hutton

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities can play an important role in the dynamics of the pulsar magnetosphere and can be responsible for the formation of various structures. We consider the instability caused by a gradient of the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Vadim Urpin

Combining the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Vacuum Solar Telescope observations, we study a confined flare triggered by a rising flux rope within the trailing sunspots of active region 12733. The flux rope lying above the sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Qiao Song , Yi Bi , Ting Li

Solar flares fall into two types with eruptive ones associated with coronal mass ejection (CME) and confined ones without CME. To explore whether there are pre-flare conditions in terms of magnetic energy and helicity that can effectively…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

Explosive energy release in the solar atmosphere is driven magnetically, but mechanisms triggering the onset of the eruption remain in debate. In the case of flares and CMEs, ideal or non-ideal instabilities usually occur in the corona, but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Jiong Qiu

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

Observations have shown a clear association of filament/prominence eruptions with the emergence of magnetic flux in or near filament channels. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been employed to systematically study the conditions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 T. Török , M. G. Linton , J. E. Leake , Z. Mikić , R. Lionello , V. S. Titov , C. Downs

Erupting magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) play a crucial role in producing solar flares. However, the formation of erupting MFRs in complex coronal magnetic configurations and their subsequent evolution in the flaring events are not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Avijeet Prasad , Sanjay Kumar , Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Guillaume Aulanier , R. Bhattacharyya , Qiang Hu

On 2012 July 11, two solar filaments were observed in the northeast of the solar disk and their eruptions due to the interaction between them are studied by using the data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Solar TErrestrial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Z. K. Xue , X. L. Yan , Z. Q. Qu , C. L. Xu , L. Zhao

Observations show that many solar eruptions remain confined within strong overlying magnetic fields, forming a so-called magnetic cage. While confinement by poloidal overlying fields has been widely investigated, the role of strong external…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jinhan Guo , Y. Guo , H. Wu , B. Schmieder , P. Démoulin , Y. W. Ni , C. Wang , S. Poedts , T. Li , Wensi Wang , Y. H. Zhou , P. F. Chen

Magnetic reconnection changes the magnetic field topology and powers explosive events in astrophysical, space and laboratory plasmas. For flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the solar atmosphere, the standard model predicts the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-11 Rui Liu , Jeongwoo Lee , Tongjiang Wang , Guillermo Stenborg , Chang Liu , Haimin Wang

Emission of solar flares across the electromagnetic spectrum is often observed in the form of two expanding ribbons. The standard flare model explains the flare ribbons as footpoints of magnetic arcades, emitting due to interaction of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 I. N. Sharykin , A. G. Kosovichev

We investigate electrostatic plasma instabilities of Farley-Buneman (FB) type driven by quasi-stationary neutral gas flows in the solar chromosphere. The role of these instabilities in the chromosphere is clarified. We find that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Gogoberidze , Y. Voitenko , S. Poedts , J. De Keyser

On 2024 May 6, Active Region 13663 produced an X4.5-class flare associated with a filament eruption that exhibited remarkable rotation and deflection dynamics. This study aims to investigate two key aspects of this event: the formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Xiaomeng Zhang , Jinhan Guo , Yang Guo , Mingde Ding , Brigitte Schmieder