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Aims. Working towards improved space weather predictions, we aim to quantify how the critical height at which the torus instability drives coronal mass ejections (CMEs) varies over time in a sample of solar active regions. Methods. We model…

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A long-standing problem is to predict the future flare productivity of an active region (AR) when it is on the stage of early emergence. The aim of this study is to probe two parameters of the photospheric magnetic field, both derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Alexander S. Kutsenko , Valentina I. Abramenko , Olga K. Kutsenko

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are among the most prominent manifestations of the magnetic activity of the Sun. The strongest events of them tend to occur in active regions (ARs) that are large, complex, and dynamically evolving.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Shin Toriumi

Solar flares are frequently accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that release significant amount of energetic plasma into interplanetary space, potentially causing geomagnetic disturbances on Earth. However, many solar flares have…

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Recent progress in obtaining high spatial resolution images of the solar corona in the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) with Hinode, TRACE, SDO and recent Hi-C missions and soft X-ray (SXR) bands opened a new avenue in understanding the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 V. S. Airapetian , J. Allred

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) waves are large-scale propagating disturbances observed in the solar corona, frequently associated with coronal mass ejections and flares. They appear as faint, extended structures propagating from a source region…

The ANTARES radiation hydrodynamics code is capable of simulating the solar granulation in detail unequaled by direct observation. We introduce a state-of-the-art numerical tool to the solar physics community and demonstrate its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 P. Leitner , B. Lemmerer , A. Hanslmeier , T. Zaqarashvili , A. Veronig , H. Grimm-Strele , H. J. Muthsam

We present a series of numerical simulations aimed at understanding the nature and origin of turbulence in coronal loops in the framework of the Parker model for coronal heating. A coronal loop is studied via reduced magnetohydrodynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli , G. Einaudi

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and other solar eruptive phenomena can be physically linked by combining data from a multitude of ground-based and space-based instruments alongside models, however this can be challenging for automated…

In order to understand whether major flares or coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can be related to changes in the longitudinal photospheric magnetic field, we study 4 young active regions during seven days of their disc passage. This time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. M. Green , P. Demoulin , C. H. Mandrini , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi

Measurements of magnetic fields and electric currents in the pre-eruptive corona are crucial to study solar eruptive phenomena, like flare and coronal mass ejections(CMEs). However, spectro-polarimetric measurements of certain photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , K. Olson , P. J. MacNeice , A. Pevtsov

Forecasting the geomagnetic effects of solar storms, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), is currently severely limited by our inability to predict the magnetic field configuration in the CME magnetic core and by observational effects of…

Aims. This study investigates the magnetic evolution of solar active regions (ARs), with a particular focus on understanding how the magnetic morphology of simple and complex ARs changes throughout their lifetime. Methods. To analyse the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Shabnam Nikbakhsh , Eija I. Tanskanen , Thomas Hackman

Quasi-periodic fast propagating magnetosonic waves (QFPs) were discovered in the solar corona in EUV since the launch of SDO spacecraft more than a decade ago. The QFP waves are associated with flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Leon Ofman , Tongjiang Wang , Xudon Sun , Meng Jin

Deriving a well-constrained differential emission measure (DEM) distribution for solar flares has historically been difficult, primarily because no single instrument is sensitive to the full range of coronal temperatures observed in flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 Amir Caspi , James M. McTiernan , Harry P. Warren

Here, we present numerical simulations of magnetic flux buoyantly rising from a granular convection zone into the low corona. We study the complex interaction of the magnetic field with the turbulent plasma. The model includes the radiative…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

The study of the evolution of coronal holes (CHs) is especially important in the context of high-speed solar wind streams (HSS) emanating from them. Stream interaction regions may deliver large amount of energy into the Earths system, cause…

The differential rotation of the solar corona for the period 1976-2004 was studied as a function of the distance from the center of the Sun. For this study, we developed a method using the coronal magnetic field as a tracer. The field in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 O. G. Badalyan , V. N. Obridko

We used magnetograms acquired with the {\it Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager} (HMI) on board the {\it Solar Dynamics Observatory} (SDO) to calculate and analyze spatial correlation functions and the multi-fractal spectra in solar active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-11 Valentina Abramenko , Regina Suleymanova

Observations the Sun's photospheric magnetic field are often confined to the Sun-Earth line. Surface flux transport (SFT) models, such as the Advective Flux Transport (AFT) model, simulate the evolution of the photospheric magnetic field to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Lisa A. Upton , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Harry P. Warren , David H. Hathaway