English
Related papers

Related papers: Imaging and spectral study on the null point of a …

200 papers

Triggering mechanisms of solar eruptions have long been a challenge. A few previous case studies have indicated that preceding gentle filament merging via magnetic reconnection may launch following intense eruption, according with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Huadong Chen , Jun Zhang , Leping Li , Suli Ma

Perhaps the most compelling evidence for the role of magnetic reconnection in solar flares comes from the supra-arcade downflows that have been observed above many post-flare loop arcades. These downflows are thought to be related to highly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Harry P. Warren , Casey M. O'Brien , Neil R. Sheeley

The topology of magnetic fields near the open-closed flux boundary in the Sun's corona is an important influencing factor in the process of interchange reconnection, whereby plasma is exchanged between open and closed flux domains. Maps of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Roger B. Scott , David I. Pontin , Anthony R. Yeates , Peter F. Wyper

We present a quantitative model of the magnetic energy stored and then released through magnetic reconnection for a flare on 26 Feb 2004. This flare, well observed by RHESSI and TRACE, shows evidence of non-thermal electrons only for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-21 D. W. Longcope , A. C. Des Jardins , T. Carranza-Fulmer , J. Qiu

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

As one of the most spectacular energy release events in the solar system, solar flares are generally powered by magnetic reconnection in the solar corona. As a result of the re-arrangement of magnetic field topology after the reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-29 Tanmoy Samanta , Hui Tian , Bin Chen , Katharine K. Reeves , Mark C. M. Cheung , Angelos Vourlidas , Dipankar Banerjee

Magnetic reconnection in strongly magnetized regions around the temperature minimum region of the low solar atmosphere is studied by employing MHD-based simulations of a partially ionized plasma within a reactive 2.5D multi-fluid model. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

Solar flares abruptly release the free energy stored as a non-potential magnetic field in the corona and may be accompanied by eruptions of the coronal plasma. Formation of a non-potential magnetic field and the mechanisms for triggering…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Toshifumi Shimizu , Bruce W. Lites , Yumi Bamba

Solar eruptions are sudden ejections of coronal mass and magnetic fields accompanied by intense energy release. The eruptive structure does not always erupt successfully, but sometimes fails to escape the Sun after initiation. The failure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves , Peter R. Young , Astrid M. Veronig , Xingyao Chen , Sijie Yu , Bin Chen , Bin Zhuang

Three-dimensional magnetic topology of solar flare plays a crucial role in understanding its explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona. However, such three-dimensional coronal magnetic field is still elusive in direct observation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

On 2016 September 20, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph observed an active region during its earliest emerging phase for almost 7 hours. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hui Tian , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Hardi Peter , Jie Zhao , Tanmoy Samanta , Yajie Chen

A standard model for eruptive flares aims at describing observational 3D features of the reconnecting coronal magnetic field. Extensions to the 2D model require the physical understanding of 3D reconnection processes at the origin of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Miho Janvier , Guillaume Aulanier , Etienne Pariat , Pascal Demoulin

We report microwave spectral imaging observations of an erupting magnetic flux rope during the early impulsive phase of the X8.2-class limb flare on 2017 September 10, obtained by the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array. A few days prior to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Katharine K. Reeves , Dale E. Gary

Coronal jets are ubiquitous in active regions (ARs) and coronal holes. In this paper, we study a coronal jet related to a C3.4 circular-ribbon flare in active region 12434 on 2015 October 16. Two minifilaments were located under a 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Q. M. Zhang , Z. H. Huang , Y. J. Hou , D. Li , Z. J. Ning , Z. Wu

Aims. We investigate the configuration of a complex flux rope above a {\delta} sunspot region in NOAA AR 11515, and its eruptive expansion during a confined M5.3-class flare. Methods. We study the formation of the {\delta} sunspot using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Lijuan Liu , Jiajia Liu , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang , Guoqiang Wang , Zhenjun Zhou , Jun Cui

We analyze a set of full Stokes profile observations of the flaring active region NOAA 10808 recorded with the Vector-Spectromagnetograph (VSM) of the SOLIS facility. We aim to quantify transient and permanent changes in the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. E. Fischer , C. U. Keller , F. Snik , L. Fletcher , H. Socas-Navarro

The solar active region (AR) 12192 was one of the most flare productive region of solar cycle 24, which produced many X-class flares; the most energetic being an X3.1 flare on October 24, 2014 at 21:10 UT. Customarily, such events are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya , Q. Hu , S. S. Nayak , Sanjay Kumar

We examine spectropolarimetric data from the CoMP instrument, acquired during the evolution of the September 10th 2017 X8.2 solar flare on the western solar limb. CoMP captured linearly polarized light from two emission lines of Fe XIII at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ryan J. French , Philip G. Judge , Sarah A. Matthews , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi

In this paper we present a topological magnetic field investigation of seven two-ribbon flares in sigmoidal active regions observed with Hinode, STEREO, and SDO. We first derive the 3D coronal magnetic field structure of all regions using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 A. Savcheva , E. Pariat , S. McKillop , P. McCauley , E. Hanson , Y. Su , E. Werner , E. E. DeLuca

Within the coronae of stars, abundances of those elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) often differ from their photospheric values. The coronae of the Sun and solar-type stars mostly show enhancements of low-FIP elements (the…