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Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark structures descending towards post-reconnection flare loops observed in extreme ultraviolet or X-ray observations and are closely related to magnetic reconnection during solar flares. Due to the lack…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Guangyu Tan , Yijun Hou , Hui Tian

Context. Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) have been frequently observed during the gradual phase of solar flares near the limb. In coronal emission lines sensitive to flaring plasmas, they appear as tadpole-like dark voids against the diffuse…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Xin Chen , Rui Liu , Na Deng , Haimin Wang

Solar flares are rapid energy release phenomena that appear as bright ribbons in the chromosphere and high-temperature loops in the corona, respectively. Supra-arcade Downflows (SADs) are plasma voids that first come out above the flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Z. F. Li , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , Katharine K. Reeves , DeOndre Kittrell , Mark Weber , David E. McKenzie

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark voids descending through plasma above the post-flare arcade. Although they are generally viewed as byproducts of flare reconnections in the corona, the nature of SADs is under debate. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Arun Kumar Awasthi , Rui Liu , Tingyu Gou

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark voids descending towards the post-reconnection flare loops and exhibit obvious variation in properties like width. However, due to the lack of further statistical studies, the mechanism behind such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Guangyu Tan , Yijun Hou , Hui Tian

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark, sunward-moving structures above the arcade of flare loops. Naturally they are considered to be associated with outflows resulting from magnetic reconnection at the vertical current sheet beneath the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Zichao Yang , Rui Liu

Supra-arcade fans are bright, irregular regions of emission that develop during eruptive flares, above flare arcades. The underlying flare arcades are thought to be a consequence of magnetic reconnection along a current sheet in the corona.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Davina Innes , Lijia Guo , Amitava Bhattacharjee , Yi-Min Huang , Don Schmit

Sunward-flowing voids above post-coronal mass ejection flare arcades, also known as supra-arcade downflows (SADs), have characteristics consistent with post-reconnection magnetic flux tube cross-sections. Applying semi-automatic detection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-26 Sabrina Savage , David McKenzie

Despite their somewhat-frequent appearance in EUV imaging of off-limb flares, the origins of Supra-Arcade Downflows (SADs) remain a mystery. Appearing as dark, tendril-like downflows above growing flare loop arcades, SADs themselves are yet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Ryan J. French , Maria D. Kazachenko , Teodora Mihailescu , Katharine K. Reeves

Supra-arcade downflows (hereafter referred to as SADs) are low-emission, elongated, finger-like features usually observed in active-region coronae above post-eruption flare arcades. Observations exhibit downward moving SADs intertwined with…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 L. -J. Guo , A. Bhattacharjee , Y. -M. Huang , Davina E. Innes

Following the eruption of a filament from a flaring active region, sunward-flowing voids are often seen above developing post-eruption arcades. First discovered using the soft X-ray telescope aboard Yohkoh, these supra-arcade downflows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sabrina L. Savage , David E. McKenzie , Katharine K. Reeves

We perform a detailed analysis of the thermal structure of the region above the post-eruption arcade for a flare that occurred on 2011 October 22. During this event, a sheet of hot plasma is visible above the flare loops in the 131 \AA\…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Katharine K. Reeves , Michael S. Freed , David E. McKenzie , Sabrina L. Savage

A model of supra-arcade downflows (SADs), dark low density regions also known as tadpoles that propagate sunward during solar flares, is presented. It is argued that the regions of low density are flow channels carved by sunward-directed…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 P. A. Cassak , J. F. Drake , J. T. Gosling , T. -D. Phan , M. A. Shay , L. S. Shepherd

Coronal supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are observed as dark trails descending towards hot turbulent fan shaped regions. Due to the large temperature values, and gradients in these fan regions the thermal conduction should be very efficient.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 E. Zurbriggen , A. Costa , A. Esquivel , M. Schneiter , M. Cécere

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are sunward, generally dark, plasma density depletions originated above posteruption flare arcades. In this paper using 3D MHD simulations we investigate if the SAD cavities can be produced by a direct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-12 M. Cécere , E. Zurbriggen , A. Costa , M. Schneiter

Sunward-flowing voids above post-coronal mass ejection (CME) flare arcades were first discovered using the soft X-ray telescope (SXT) aboard Yohkoh and have since been observed with TRACE (extreme ultra-violet (EUV)), SOHO/LASCO (white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sabrina L. Savage , David E. McKenzie

We investigate the aftermath of a giant quiescent solar filament eruption on December 24, 2023. One feature of the eruption is an extensive fan above the filament channel that is about three times as wide as similar structures that appear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 Xiaoyan Xie , Katharine Reeves , Chengcai Shen , Nishu Karna , Yan Xu , Christopher Moore , Crisel Suarez , Ritesh Patel , Daniel Seaton

Magnetic reconnection is a universal process that powers explosive energy release events such as solar flares, geomagnetic substorms, and some astrophysical jets. A characteristic feature of magnetic reconnection is the production of fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Chengcai Shen , Bin Chen , Katharine K. Reeves , Sijie Yu , Vanessa Polito , Xiaoyan Xie

Spatially unresolved observations show that the cooling phase in solar flares can be much longer than theoretical models predict. It has not yet been determined whether this is also the case for different subregions within the flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Malte Bröse , Alexander Warmuth , Taro Sakao , Yang Su

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
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