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We investigate how the magnetic loop length of solar flares relates to the timing between their thermal and nonthermal emission signatures. Our study analyzes a sample of 96 C-, M-, and X-class flares observed between 2013 and 2015 with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 S. M. Perriyil , S. S. Sadangaya , C. G. Giménez de Castro , P. J. A. Simões

We present a statistical analysis of properties of Soft X-Ray (SXR) emission, plasma temperature (T), and emission measure (EM), derived from GOES observations of flares in 2002-2017. The temperature and emission measures are obtained using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Viacheslav M Sadykov , Alexander G Kosovichev , Irina N Kitiashvili , Alexander Frolov

The description of the turbulent spectrum of magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind in the kinetic range of scales is not yet completely established. Here, we perform a statistical study of 100 spectra measured by the STAFF instrument on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-04 Olga Alexandrova , Catherine Lacombe , Andre Mangeney , Roland Grappin , Milan Maksimovic

Solar flares are complex phenomena driven by the release of magnetic energy, but a large energy reservoir is not sufficient to determine their eruptive potential; the magnetic topology and plasma dynamics play a key role. We investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 C. J. Díaz Baso , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , H. -P. Doerr , M. van Noort , A. Prasad , A. Feller , D. Kiselman

We study a series of relations between physical parameters in coronal loops of the quiet Sun reconstructed by combining tomographic techniques and modeling of the coronal magnetic field. We use differential emission measure tomography…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 C. Mac Cormack , M. López Fuentes , C. H. Mandrini , D. G. Lloveras , M. Poisson , A. M. Vásquez

Solar flares are driven by release of the free magnetic energy and its conversion to other forms of energy -- kinetic, thermal, and nonthermal. Quantification of partitions between these energy components and their evolution is needed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Galina G. Motorina

We consider the snowplow model for studying discharges in Z pinch devices. In this context, to obtain a complete picture on the physics of those discharges, we replenish the term disregarded in the original formulation of the snowplow…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Miguel Cárdenas , Alejandro Nettle , Leandro Núñez

Solar flare ribbons are believed to map the footpoints of newly reconnected magnetic flux tubes, therefore shedding light on the reconnecting current sheet, which is rarely observed by direct imaging or spectroscopy. Here we study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Yue Zhang , Rui Liu , Wensi Wang , Junyan Liu

We searched for superflares on solar-type stars using the Kepler short-cadence (1-min sampling) data in order to detect superflares with short duration. We found 187 superflares on 23 solar-type stars whose bolometric energy ranges from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Hiroyuki Maehara , Takuya Shibayama , Yuta Notsu , Shota Notsu , Satoshi Honda , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

Solar flares stem from the reconnection of twisted magnetic field lines in the solar photosphere. The energy and waiting time distributions of these events follow complex patterns that have been carefully considered in the past and that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-17 M. Mendoza , A. Kaydul , L. de Arcangelis , J. S. Andrade , H. J. Herrmann

In this paper, we study the phase field models with fractional-order in time. The phase field models have been widely used to study coarsening dynamics of material systems with microstructures. It is known that phase field models are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-15 Lizhen Chen , Jia Zhao , Hong Wang

It is expected that energetic solar flares releasing large amount of energy at the photosphere may be able to excite the acoustic ($p$-) modes of oscillations. We have determined the characteristic properties of mode parameters by applying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 R. A. Maurya , A. Ambastha , S. C. Tripathy

We compute for the first time magnetic helicity and energy spectra of the solar active region NOAA 11158 during 11-15 February 2011 at 20^o southern heliographic latitude using observational photospheric vector magnetograms. We adopt the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-25 Hongqi Zhang , Axel Brandenburg , D. D. Sokoloff

We calculate for the first time the probability density functions (PDFs) P of burst energy e, duration T and inter-burst interval tau for a known turbulent system in nature. Bursts in the earth-sun component of the Poynting flux at 1 AU in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. P. Freeman , N. W. Watkins , D. J. Riley

We study the evolution of growth and decay laws for the magnetic field coherence length xi, energy E_M and magnetic helicity H in freely decaying 3D MHD turbulence. We show that with certain assumptions, self-similarity of the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mattias Christensson , Mark Hindmarsh , Axel Brandenburg

A statistical analysis of the relationship between solar energetic particles (SEPs) and properties of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is presented. SEP events during solar cycle 23 are selected which are associated with solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-18 M. Dierckxsens , K. Tziotziou , S. Dalla , I. Patsou , M. S. Marsh , N. B. Crosby , O. Malandraki , G. Tsiropoula

A magnetic power spectral analysis is performed on 53 solar active regions, observed from August 2011 to July 2012. Magnetic field data obtained from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, inverted as Active Region Patches, are used to study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Revati S. Mandage , R. T. James McAteer

Polarization data from high mass star formation regions (W51 e2/e8, Orion BN/KL) are used to derive statistical properties of the plane of sky projected magnetic field. Structure function and auto-correlation function are calculated for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Patrick M. Koch , Ya-Wen Tang , Paul T. P. Ho

Direct evidence of an inertial-range turbulent energy cascade has been provided by spacecraft observations in heliospheric plasmas. In the solar wind, the average value of the derived heating rate near 1 au is $\sim 10^{3}\,…

Scaling laws arise and are eulogized across disciplines from natural to social sciences for providing pithy, quantitative, `scale-free', and `universal' power law relationships between two variables. On a log-log plot, the power laws…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-04 Marc-Antoine Fardin , Mathieu Hautefeuille , Vivek Sharma