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Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

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The elongated bright structures above solar flare loops are suggested to be current sheets, where magnetic reconnection takes place. Observations have revealed various characteristics of the current sheet; however, their physical origin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Zining Ren , Yulei Wang , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding

Active region 10961 was observed over a five day period (2007 July 2-6) by instrumentation on-board STEREO, Hinode, TRACE and SOHO. As it progressed from Sun centre to the solar limb a comprehensive analysis of the EUV, X-ray and magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Jane B. Noglik , Robert W. Walsh , Rhona C. Maclean

We present detailed analysis of an active region coronal jet accompanying a minifilament eruption that is fully captured and well-resolved in high spatial resolution 174A coronal images from Solar Orbiters Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI).…

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

One scenario proposed to explain the million degrees solar corona is a finely-stranded corona where each strand is heated by a rapid pulse. However, such fine structure has neither been resolved through direct imaging observations nor…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Fabio Reale , Massimiliano Guarrasi , Paola Testa , Edward E. DeLuca , Giovanni Peres , Leon Golub

Identifying solar active regions (ARs), which consist of one or more pairs of magnetic patches with opposite polarities, is essential due to their significant role in dynamic solar atmospheric phenomena. In this study, we analyze ARs during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zahra Tajik , Hasan Rezaei , Mehdi Simiari , Hossien Safari

Emerging flux regions (EFRs) are known to exhibit various sporadic local heating events in the lower atmosphere. To investigate the characteristics of these events, especially to link the photospheric magnetic fields and atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Mark C. M. Cheung

We present results from N-body + magnetohydrodynamical simulations of merging clusters of galaxies. We find that cluster mergers cause various characteristic magnetic field structures because of the strong bulk flows in the intracluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Motokazu Takizawa

Some massive stars possess strong magnetic fields that confine plasma in the circumstellar environment. These \textit{magnetospheres} have been studied spectroscopically, photometrically and, more recently, interferometrically. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Alex C. Carciofi , Daniel M. Faes , Richard H. D. Townsend , Jon E Bjorkman

By using a new method of forced-field extrapolation, we study the emerging flux region AR 11850 observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and Solar Dynamical Observatory (SDO). Our results suggest that the bright points…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Jie Zhao , Brigitte Schmieder , Hui Li , Etienne Pariat , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Li Feng , Michalina Grubecka

We present and interpret observations of two morphologically homologous flares that occurred in active region (AR) NOAA 10501 on 20 November 2003. Both flares displayed four homologous H-alpha ribbons and were both accompanied by coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Chandra , B. Schmieder , C. H. Mandrini , P. Démoulin , E. Pariat , T. Torok , W. Uddin

Aims. We aim to characterise the magnetism of a large fraction of the north polar region close to a maximum of activity, when the polar regions are reversing their dominant polarity. Methods. We make use of full spectropolarimetric data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 A. Pastor Yabar , M. J. Martínez González , M. Collados

Active region EUV loops are believed to trace a subset of magnetic field lines through the corona. Malanushenko et al. (2009) proposed a method, using loop images and line-of-sight photospheric magnetograms, to infer the three-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-27 Marika I. McCarthy , Dana W. Longcope , Anna Malanushenko

At low coronal temperatures around or below 1 MK distinct areas in the surroundings of active regions (AR) show emission at a level significantly below the emission coming from the quiet Sun (QS). These areas are referred to as dark halos,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 J. D. Nölke , S. K. Solanki , J. Hirzberger , H. Peter , L. P. Chitta , K. H. Glassmeier , D. Calchetti , G. Valori

The motion of faint propagating disturbances (PD) in the solar corona reveals an intricate structure which must be defined by the magnetic field. Applied to quiet Sun observations by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA)/Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Huw Morgan , Marianna Korsos

Using the observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we investigate six X-class and twenty-nine M-class flares occurring in solar active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Huadong Chen , Jun Zhang , Suli Ma , Shuhong Yang , Leping Li , Xin Huang , Junmin Xiao

SDO/AIA images the full solar disk in several EUV bands that are each sensitive to coronal plasma emissions of one or more specific temperatures. We observe that when isolated active regions (ARs) are on the disk, full-disk images in some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Talwinder Singh , Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore

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

Context: Solar active regions (ARs) are key manifestations of the Sun's magnetic activity, displaying diverse spatial and temporal characteristics. Their formation and evolution play a crucial role in understanding the solar dynamo and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 M. Švanda , J. Jurčák , M. Schmassmann