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Context. The observation of >100 MeV {\gamma}-rays in the minutes to hours following solar flares suggests that high-energy particles interacting in the solar atmosphere can be stored and/or accelerated for long time periods. The occasions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 I. Plotnikov , A. P. Rouillard , G. H. Share

The magnetic fields in the solar corona are generally neither force-free nor axisymmetric and have complex dynamics that are difficult to characterize. Here we simulate the topological evolution of solar coronal magnetic field lines (MFLs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-09 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya , Sanjay Kumar

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are interrelated phenomena that together are known as solar eruptive events. These are the main drivers of space weather and understanding their origins is a primary goal of Heliophysics. In this…

Magnetic flux emergence is traditionally considered a key trigger of solar filament eruptions; however, its role in suppressing filament eruptions remains less understood. Using multi-wavelength observations from the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-26 Chengrui Zhou , Yuandeng Shen , Chun Xia , Hao Liang , Zehao Tang , Dongxu Liu , Surui Yao

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

The presence of current sheet instabilities, such as the tearing mode instability, are needed to account for the observed rate of energy release in solar flares. Insights into these current sheet dynamics can be revealed by the behaviour of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Ryan J. French , Sarah A. Matthews , I. Jonathan Rae , Andrew W. Smith

In this paper, we present a multi-wavelength analysis of two X-class solar eruptive flares of classes X2.2 and X9.3 that occurred in the sigmoidal active region NOAA 12673 on 2017 September 6, by combining observations of Atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Prabir K. Mitra , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad , Astrid M. Veronig , R. Bhattacharyya

Flares are intense explosions on the solar and stellar surfaces, and solar flares are sometimes accompanied by filament or prominence eruptions. Recently, a large filament eruption associated with a superflare on a solar-type star EK Dra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Kai Ikuta , Kazunari Shibata

Coronal and interplanetary shock waves produced by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are major drivers of space-weather phenomena, inducing major changes in the heliospheric radiation environment and directly perturbing the near-Earth…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Manon Jarry , Alexis P. Rouillard , Illya Plotnikov , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Alexander Warmuth

This paper reviews the latest observational evidence for the existence of propagating waves in the open magnetic flux tubes of the solar corona. SOHO measurements have put tentative limits on the fluxes of various types of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven R. Cranmer

We investigated mini-filament (MF) eruptions near coronal hole (CH) boundaries to explore their role in coronal dynamics and their potential contributions to the solar wind. Using high-resolution H$\alpha$ images from the 1.6m Goode Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Nengyi Huang , Haimin Wang

There are still debates whether particle acceleration in solar flares may occur due to interruption of electric currents flowing along magnetic loops. To contribute to this problem, we performed the first statistical study of relationships…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 I. V. Zimovets , I. N. Sharykin , W. Q. Gan

We report on three-dimensional (3D) MHD simulations of recurrent mini CME-like eruptions in a small active region (AR), which is formed by the dynamical emergence of a twisted (not kink unstable) flux tube from the solar interior. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-28 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood , K. Tsinganos

We analyse the evolution of a sigmoidal (S shaped) active region toward eruption, which includes a coronal mass ejection (CME) but leaves part of the filament in place. The X-ray sigmoid is found to trace out three different magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 L. M. Green , B. Kliem

With the global view and high-cadence observations from SDO/AIA and STEREO, many spatially separated solar eruptive events appear to be coupled. However, the mechanisms for "sympathetic" events are still largely unknown. In this study, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-17 M. Jin , C. J. Schrijver , M. C. M. Cheung , M. L. DeRosa , N. V. Nitta , A. M. Title

The variations of the 3-D coronal magnetic fields associated with the X3.4-class flare of active region 10930 are studied in this paper. The coronal magnetic field data are reconstructed from the photospheric vector magnetograms obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-03 Han He , Huaning Wang , Yihua Yan , P. F. Chen , Cheng Fang

The magnetic breakout model has been widely used to explain solar eruptive activities. Here, we apply it to explain successive filament eruptions occurred in a quadrupolar magnetic source region. Based on the high temporal and spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-09 Yuandeng Shen

We study the magnetic field and current structure associated with a coronal loop. Through this we investigate to what extent the assumptions of a force-free magnetic field break down and where they might be justified. We analyse a 3D MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-05 Jörn Warnecke , Feng Chen , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

Unstable states of the solar coronal magnetic field structure result in various flare behaviors. In this study, we compared the confined and eruptive flares that occurred under similar magnetic circumstances in the active region 12673, on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Kouhei Teraoka , Daiki Yamasaki , Yusuke Kawabata , Shinsuke Imada , Toshifumi Shimizu

We carry out a three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to model the initiation of the coronal mass ejection (CME) on 13 December 2006 in the emerging {\delta}-sunspot active region NOAA 10930. The setup of the simulation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Yuhong Fan