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Active regions (AR) appearing on the surface of the Sun are classified into $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, and $\delta$ by the rules of the Mount Wilson Observatory, California on the basis of their topological complexity. Amongst these, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Piyali Chatterjee , Viggo Hansteen , Mats Carlsson

We consider a magnetic configuration consisting of an arcade structure and a detached plasmoid, resulting from a magnetic reconnection process, as is typically found in connection with solar flares. We study spontaneous current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Dieter H. Nickeler , Marian Karlicky , Thomas Wiegelmann , Michaela Kraus

We measure the horizontal subsurface flow in a fast emerging active region (NOAA 11158) using the ring-diagram technique and the HMI high-spatial resolution Dopplergrams. This active region had a complex magnetic structure and displayed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-04 Kiran Jain , S. C. Tripathy , F. Hill

Magnetic fields and the occurrence of flares and microflares are strongly concentrated near that portion (the Hale boundary) in each solar hemisphere where the change in magnetic sector polarity is the same as that between leading and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Leif Svalgaard , Iain G. Hannah

Three dimensional electron density distributions in the solar corona are reconstructed for 100 Carrington Rotations (CR 2054$-$2153) during 2007/03$-$2014/08 using the spherically symmetric method from polarized white-light observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-25 Tongjiang Wang , Nelson L. Reginald , Joseph M. Davila , O. Chris St. Cyr , William T. Thompson

A set-up is introduced which can be superimposed onto the existing solar flare cellular automata (CA) models, and which specifies the interpretation of the model's variables. It extends the CA models, yielding the magnetic field, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Isliker , A. Anastasiadis , L. Vlahos

A technique is described for measuring electrical currents in the solar corona. It uses radioastronomical polarization measurements of a spatially-extended radio source viewed through the corona. The observations yield the difference in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven R. Spangler

Swirl-shaped flow structures have been observed throughout the solar atmosphere, in both emission and absorption, at different altitudes and locations, and are believed to be associated with magnetic structures. However, the distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Quan Xie , Jiajia Liu , Chris J. Nelson , Robert Erdélyi , Yuming Wang

Solar active region (AR) 11283 is a very magnetically complex region and it has produced many eruptions. However, there exists a non-eruptive filament in the plage region just next to an eruptive one in the AR, which gives us an opportunity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Chaowei Jiang , S. T. Wu , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu

The solar flare on July 30, 2011 was of a modest X-ray class (M9.3), but it made a strong photospheric impact and produced a "sunquake," observed with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 I. N. Sharykin , A. G. Kosovichev

Active region 11029 was a small, highly flare-productive solar active region observed at a time of extremely low solar activity. The region produced only small flares: the largest of the $>70$ Geostationary Observational Environmental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. S. Wheatland

Understanding the nature and evolution of the photospheric helicity flux transfer is a key to reveal the role of magnetic helicity in coronal dynamics of solar active regions. Using SDO/HMI photospheric vector magnetograms and the derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 P. Vemareddy , P. Démoulin

Solar active regions (ARs) determine solar polar fields and cause solar cycle variability within the framework of the Babcock-Leighton (BL) dynamo. The contribution of an AR to the polar field is measured by its dipole field, which results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ruihui Wang , Jie Jiang , Yukun Luo

Solar flares are known to be prolific electron accelerators, yet identifying the mechanism(s) for such efficient electron acceleration in solar flare (and similar astrophysical settings) presents a major challenge. This is due in part to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie , Galina G. Motorina , Brian R. Dennis

Using multi-wavelength observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we investigated the six-month decay process of the solar active region NOAA AR 12738 from April to October 2019. We systematically analyzed the region's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Jiasheng Wang , Yu Xu , Zhengyong Hou

Magnetic fields in the solar corona are responsible for a wide range of phenomena. However, any direct measurements of the coronal magnetic fields are very difficult due to lack of suitable spectral lines, weak magnetic fields, and high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-28 P. Vemareddy , A. Ambastha , T. Wiegelmann

In the context of Sun-Earth connection of coronal mass ejections and magnetic flux ropes (MFRs), we studied the solar active region (AR) and the magnetic properties of magnetic cloud (MC) event during April 14-15, 2013. We use in-situ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 P. Vemareddy , C. Möstl , T. Rollett , W. Mishra , C. Farrugia , M. Leitner

The effect of using two representations of the normal-to-surface magnetic field to calculate photospheric measures that are related to active region (AR) potential for flaring is presented. Several AR properties were computed using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Jordan A. Guerra , Sung-H. Park , Ioannis Kontogiannis , Peter T. Gallagher , Manolis Georgoulis , D. Shaun Bloomfield

We investigate the evolution of subsurface flows during the emergence and the active phase of sunspot regions using the time-distance helioseismology analysis of the full-disk Dopplergrams from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Viacheslav M. Sadykov

Extrapolation codes for modelling the magnetic field in the corona in cartesian geometry do not take the curvature of the Sun's surface into account and can only be applied to relatively small areas, \textit{e.g.}, a single active region.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-13 T. Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , A. Pevtsov