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Using vector magnetograms from the HMI/SDO and a magnetic connectivity-based method, we calculate the instantaneous relative magnetic helicity and free magnetic energy budgets for several days in two solar active regions (ARs), AR11890 and…

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The solar active region NOAA 12887 produced a strong X1.0 flare on 2021 October 28, which exhibits X-shaped flare ribbons and a circle-shaped erupting filament. To understand the eruption process with these characteristics, we conducted a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Daiki Yamasaki , Satoshi Inoue , Yumi Bamba , Jeongwoo Lee , Haimin Wang

Solar flares are powered by energy stored in the coronal magnetic field, a portion of which is released when the field reconfigures into a lower energy state. Investigation of sunspot magnetic field topology during flare activity is useful…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-10 Sophie A. Murray , D. Shaun Bloomfield , Peter T. Gallagher

We present for the first time the evolution of the photospheric electric currents during an eruptive X-class flare, accurately predicted by the standard 3D flare model. We analyze this evolution for the February 15, 2011 flare using HMI/SDO…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Miho Janvier , G. Aulanier , V. Bommier , B. Schmieder , P. Démoulin , E. Pariat

Solar flares are explosive releases of magnetic energy stored in the solar corona, driven by magnetic reconnection. These events accelerate electrons, generating hard X-ray emissions and often display Quasi Periodic Pulsations (QPPs) across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Luiz A. C. A. Schiavo , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Gert J. J. Botha , James A. McLaughlin

With machine learning entering into the awareness of the heliophysics community, solar flare prediction has become a topic of increased interest. Although machine learning models have advanced with each successive publication, the input…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Brandon Panos , Lucia Kleint

We study the physical properties and behavior of the solar atmosphere during the GOES X1.6 solar flare on 2014 September 10. The steady plasma flows and the fast sausage MHD waves were analysed with the wavelet separation method. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Hana Meszarosova , Peter Gomory

Spectroscopic observations of solar flares provide critical diagnostics of the physical conditions in the flaring atmosphere. Some key features in observed spectra have not yet been accounted for in existing flare models. Here we report a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Fatima Rubio da Costa , Lucia Kleint , Vahé Petrosian , Wei Liu , Joel C. Allred

Flare productivity varies among solar active regions (ARs). This study analyzed 20 ARs of contrasting sunspot areas and flare productivities to understand the super flare productivity of certain ARs. We used the flare index (FI) as an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Suman K. Dhakal , Jie Zhang

Solar active regions contain a broad range of temperatures, with the thermal plasma distribution often observed to peak in the few millions of kelvin. Differential emission measure (DEM) analysis can allow instruments with diverse…

Solar filament eruptions, flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are manifestations of drastic release of energy in the magnetic field, which are related to many eruptive phenomena from the Earth magnetosphere to black hole accretion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Jin-han Guo , Yi-wei Ni , Ze Zhong , Yang Guo , Chun Xia , Hai-tang Li , Stefaan Poedts , Brigitte Schmieder , Peng-fei Chen

We establish the largest eruptive/confined flare database to date and analyze 322 flares of \emph{GOES} class M1.0 and larger that occurred during 2010$-$2019, i.e., almost spanning the entire solar cycle 24. We find that the total unsigned…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-31 Ting Li , Yijun Hou , Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Lijuan Liu , Astrid M. Veronig

We analyze and model an M8.0 flare on 2005 May 13 observed by TRACE and RHESSI to determine the energy release rate from magnetic reconnection that forms and heats numerous flare loops. The flare exhibits two ribbons in UV 1600 {\AA}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 Wen-Juan Liu , Jiong Qiu , Dana W. Longcope , Amir Caspi

We analyse the spatial distribution and vertical stratification of the physical parameters of the solar atmosphere when an X-class flare occurs. We made use of observations acquired by the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectropolarimeter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 F. Ferrente , C. Quintero Noda , F. Zuccarello , S. L. Guglielmino

Recent progress in obtaining high spatial resolution images of the solar corona in the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) with Hinode, TRACE, SDO and recent Hi-C missions and soft X-ray (SXR) bands opened a new avenue in understanding the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 V. S. Airapetian , J. Allred

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager provides 45 s cadence intensity images and 720 s cadence vector magnetograms. These unprecedented high-cadence and high-resolution data give us a unique opportunity to study the change of photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Shuo Wang , Chang Liu , Na Deng , Haimin Wang

Line-of-sight magnetograms for 217 active regions (ARs) of different flare rate observed at the solar disk center from January 1997 until December 2006 are utilized to study the turbulence regime and its relationship to the flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Valentyna Abramenko , Vasyl Yurchyshyn

Solar flares are major space weather events that result from the explosive conversion of stored magnetic energy into bulk motion, plasma heating, and particle acceleration. While the standard flare model has proven highly successful in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Joel T. Dahlin , Spiro K. Antiochos , Peter F. Wyper , Jiong Qiu , C. Richard DeVore

Diagnosing solar flare conditions is essential for understanding coronal energy release. Using combined microwave and X-ray data, we reconstruct three-dimensional maps of the magnetic field and plasma parameters in the SOL2021-05-07 flare.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Tatyana Kaltman , Sijie Yu , Gregory D. Fleishman , Daniel F. Ryan

For the first time, we have used RHESSI's spatial and energy resolution to determine the combined chromospheric and coronal density profile of the flaring solar atmosphere in a statistical manner, using a dataset of 838 flares observable in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Sam Krucker , Robert P. Lin