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The solar magnetic field in a flare-producing active region (AR) is much more complicated than theoretical models, which assume a very simple magnetic field structure. The X1.0 flare, which occurred in AR 12192 on 2014 October 25, showed a…

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Coronal magnetic fields are responsible for the onset of solar flares and solar eruptions. However, the type of magnetic field parameters that can be used to measure the critical condition for a solar eruption is still unclear. As an effort…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Johan Muhamad , Kanya Kusano , Satoshi Inoue , Yumi Bamba

Typical solar flares display two quasi-parallel, bright ribbons on the chromosphere. In between is the polarity inversion line (PIL) separating concentrated magnetic fluxes of opposite polarity in active regions (ARs). Intriguingly a series…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-30 Rui Liu , Jun Chen , Yuming Wang , Kai Liu

All three components of the current density are required to compute the heating rate due to free magnetic energy dissipation. Here we present a first test of a new model developed to determine if the times of increases in the resistive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Michael L. Goodman , Chiman Kwan , Bulent Ayhan , Eric L. Shang

To better understand magnetic structure and eruptive process of solar filaments, a solar active-region filament (labeled F2) eruption associated with a B-class flare was investigated by using high-resolution H$\alpha$ data from the 1 m New…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 X. L. Yan , Q. L. Li , G. R. Chen , Z. K. Xue , L. Feng , J. C. Wang , L. H. Yang , Y. Zhang

The subsurface properties of active regions prior to their appearance at the solar surface may shed light on the process of active region formation. Helioseismic holography has been applied to samples taken from two populations of regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 G. Barnes , A. C. Birch , K. D. Leka , D. C. Braun

Context. Relative field line helicity (RFLH) is a recently developed quantity which can approximate the density of relative magnetic helicity. Aims. This paper aims to determine whether RFLH can be used as an indicator of solar eruptivity.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 K. Moraitis , S. Patsourakos , A. Nindos , J. K. Thalmann , É. Pariat

Magnetic helicity is an invariant of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that encodes information on the topology of magnetic field lines. It has long been appreciated that magnetic topology is an important constraint for the evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-25 David MacTaggart , Chris Prior

We observed three recurrent blowout jets in an active regio with Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Using Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) data. We found that the magnetic flux of an emerging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Chang Zhou , Yang Guo , Guoyin Chen , Ye Qiu , M. D. Ding

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

An isolated and fast decayed active region (NOAA 9729) was observed when passing through solar disk. There is only one CME related with it that give us a good opportunity to investigate the whole process of the CME. Filament in this active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Shangbin Yang , Wenbin Xie , Jihong Liu

The relationship between solar eruption and sunspot rotation has been widely reported, and the underlying mechanism requires to be studied. Here we performed a full 3D MHD simulation of data-constrained approach to study the mechanism of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Xinyi Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Aiying Duan , Xinkai Bian

The properties of active region nests, which are locations on the Sun with recurring flux emergence, are poorly constrained by observations from Earth alone. ESA's Solar Orbiter now monitors the far side of the Sun for extended periods of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Adam J. Finley , Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek , Barbara Perri

Efficient prediction of solar flares relies on parameters that quantify the eruptive capability of solar active regions. Several such quantitative predictors have been proposed in the literature, inferred mostly from photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Ioannis Kontogiannis , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Sung-Hong Park , Jordan A Guerra

In order to improve our understanding on the pre-requisites of eruptive solar flares, we study and compare different measures that characterize the eruptive potential of solar active regions - the critical height for torus instability as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Manu Gupta , J. K. Thalmann , A. M. Veronig

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), especially the larger ones, emanate from active regions (ARs). With the aim to understand the magnetic properties that govern such flares and eruptions, we systematically survey all flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Shin Toriumi , Carolus J. Schrijver , Louise K. Harra , Hugh Hudson , Kaori Nagashima

Magnetic fields dominate most solar activities, there exist direct relations between solar flare and the distributions of magnetic field, and also its corresponding magnetic energy. In this paper, the statistical results about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-03 Suo Liu

n order to better understand the solar genesis of interplanetary magnetic clouds (MCs) we model the magnetic and topological properties of four large eruptive solar flares and relate them to observations. We use the three-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Maria D. Kazachenko , Richard C. Canfield , Dana W. Longcope , Jiong Qiu

Flares and eruptions from solar active regions are associated with atmospheric electrical currents accompanying distortions of the coronal field away from a lowest-energy potential state. In order to better understand the origin of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 C. J. Schrijver

Based on a decomposition of the magnetic field into potential and nonpotential components, magnetic energy and relative helicity can both also be decomposed into two quantities: potential and free energies, and volume-threading and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Luis Linan , Étienne Pariat , Guillaume Aulanier , Kostas Moraitis , Gherardo Valori