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Using the H$\alpha$ observations from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope at Fuxian Solar Observatory, we focus on the fine structures of three confined flares and the issue why all the three flares are confined instead of eruptive. All the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Yongyuan Xiang

A broad variety of observational methods allows us to see the effect of magnetic reconnection in high-temperature strongly-magnetized plasma of the solar corona. Some specific features of the large-scale reconnection in large solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-23 B. V. Somov , S. I. Bezrodnykh , L. S. Ledentsov

The energy and spectral shape of radio bursts may help us understand the generation mechanism of solar eruptions, including solar flares, CMEs, eruptive filaments, and various scales of jets. The different kinds of flares may have different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Chengming Tan , Karl-Ludwig Klein , Yihua Yan , Satoshi Masuda , Baolin Tan , Jing Huang , Guowu Yuan

Two counter-propagating cool and equally dense electron beams are modelled with particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The electron beam filamentation instability is examined in one spatial dimension. The box length resolves one pair of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-10-30 M E Dieckmann , G Rowlands , I Kourakis , M Borghesi

The elongated bright structures above solar flare loops are suggested to be current sheets, where magnetic reconnection takes place. Observations have revealed various characteristics of the current sheet; however, their physical origin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Zining Ren , Yulei Wang , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding

Solar flares are often accompanied by filament/prominence eruptions, sometimes leading to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). By analogy, we expect that stellar flares are also associated with stellar CMEs whose properties are essential to know…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 Kosuke Namekata , Hiroyuki Maehara , Satoshi Honda , Yuta Notsu , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

We report on the formation of small solar flares produced by patchy magnetic reconnection between interacting magnetic loops. A three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical experiment was performed, where a uniform magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 V. Archontis , V. Hansteen

We analyze 152 large confined flares (GOES class $\geq$M1.0 and $\leq$$45^{\circ}$ from disk center) during 2010$-$2019, and classify them into two types according to the criterion taken from the work of Li et al. (2019). "Type I" flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Xuchun Duan , Ting Li , Qihang Jing

It remains unclear how solar flares are triggered and in what conditions they can be eruptive with coronal mass ejections. Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) has been suggested as the central magnetic structure of solar eruptions, and their ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Zhenjun Zhou , Xueshang Feng , Jun Cui

Coronal cavities have previously been observed associated with long-lived quiescent filaments and are thought to correspond to the associated magnetic flux rope. Although the standard flare model predicts a coronal cavity corresponding to…

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

Solar flares - which are the most prominent manifestation of the solar activity - typically manifest themselves as a single or a set of luminous arcs (magnetic flux tubes) rooted in regions of opposite polarity in the photosphere. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Yurii V. Dumin , Boris V. Somov

Solar filament eruptions play a key role in driving space weather, yet their fine-scale evolution remains poorly understood due to observational limitations. Using unprecedented high-resolution observations from Solar Orbiter's Extreme…

The nonlinear interaction between electromagnetic waves and plasmas attracts significant attention in astrophysics because it can affect the propagation of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) -- luminous millisecond-duration pulses detected at radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 Masanori Iwamoto , Emanuele Sobacchi , Lorenzo Sironi

Solar eruptions are explosive disruption of coronal magnetic fields, and often launch coronal mass ejections into the interplanetary space. Intriguingly, many solar eruptions fail to escape from the Sun, and the prevailing theory for such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Chaowei Jiang , Aiying Duan , Peng Zou , Zhenjun Zhou , Xinkai Bian , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

A fundamental problem of forced magnetic reconnection has been solved taking into account the plasmoid instability of thin reconnecting current sheets. In this problem, the reconnection is driven by a small amplitude boundary perturbation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Luca Comisso , Daniela Grasso , François L. Waelbroeck

This work is a continuation of Paper I [Sharykin et al., 2018] devoted to analysis of nonthermal electron dynamics and plasma heating in the confined M1.2 class solar flare SOL2015-03-15T22:43 revealing energy release in the highly sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 I. N. Sharykin , I. V. Zimovets , I. I. Myshyakov

We propose the particle acceleration model coupled with multiple plasmoid ejections in a solar flare. Unsteady reconnection produces plasmoids in a current sheet and ejects them out to the fast shocks, where particles in a plasmoid are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Nishizuka , K. Shibata

It is widely believed that magnetic flux ropes are the key structure of solar eruptions; however, their observable counterparts are not clear yet. We study a flare associated with flux rope eruption in a comprehensive radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Can Wang , Feng Chen , Mingde Ding , Zekun Lu

The eruption of the filament with the kink fashion is often regarded as a signature of the kink instability. However, the kink instability threshold for the filament magnetic structure has been not widely understood. Using the H-alpha…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yi Bi , Yunchun Jiang , Jiayan Yang , Yongyuan Xiang , Yunfang Cai , Weiwei Liu