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We present the analysis of an unusual failed eruption captured in high cadence and in many wavelengths during the observing campaign in support of the VAULT2.0 sounding rocket launch. The refurbished Very high Angular resolution Ultraviolet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Georgios Chintzoglou , Angelos Vourlidas , Antonia Savcheva , Svetlin Tassev , Samuel Tun Beltran , Guillermo Stenborg

Solar flare simulations are commonly initialised using non-linear force free field (NLFF) extrapolations derived from photospheric vector magnetograms. However, the force free assumption neglects plasma forces and may limit the available…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 W. Bate , M. Gordovskyy , A. Prasad , A. S. Brun , A. Strugarek , M. V. Sieyra , P. Browning , S. Inoue , K. Matsumoto , A. Roddanavar

Unstable states of the solar coronal magnetic field structure result in various flare behaviors. In this study, we compared the confined and eruptive flares that occurred under similar magnetic circumstances in the active region 12673, on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Kouhei Teraoka , Daiki Yamasaki , Yusuke Kawabata , Shinsuke Imada , Toshifumi Shimizu

This work is a continuation of Paper I [Sharykin et al., 2018] devoted to analysis of nonthermal electron dynamics and plasma heating in the confined M1.2 class solar flare SOL2015-03-15T22:43 revealing energy release in the highly sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 I. N. Sharykin , I. V. Zimovets , I. I. Myshyakov

Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) originate from the eruption of complex magnetic structures occurring in our star's atmosphere. Determining the general properties of ICMEs and the physical processes at the heart of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 F. Regnault , A. Strugarek , M. Janvier , F. Auchère , N. Lugaz , N. Al-Haddad

In this letter, we present a spectacular eruptive flare (X8.2) associated with a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2017 September 10 at the west limb of the Sun. A flux rope eruption is followed by the inflow, the formation of a current sheet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 X. L. Yan , L. H. Yang , Z. K. Xue , Z. X. Mei , D. F. Kong , J. C. Wang , Q. L. Li

We study the formation of coronal jets through numerical simulation of the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux rope into a pre-existing open magnetic field. Reconnection inside the emerging flux rope in addition to that between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Fang Fang , Yuhong Fan , Scott W. McIntosh

There is a heated debate regarding the specific roles played by ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instability and magnetic reconnection in the causes of solar eruptions. In the context with a pre-existing magnetic flux rope (MFR) before an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Qingjun Liu , Chaowei Jiang , Xinkai Bian , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Magnetic flux emergence from the solar interior to the atmosphere is believed to be a key process of formation of solar active regions and driving solar eruptions. Due to the limited capability of observation, the flux emergence process is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Zhipeng Liu , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

We report multi-wavelength and multi-viewpoint observations of a solar eruptive event which involves loop-loop interactions. During a C2.0 flare, motions associated with inflowing and outflowing plasma provide evidence for ongoing magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Chunming Zhu , Rui Liu , David Alexander , R. T. James McAteer

We present the quasi-periodic slipping motion of flux rope structures prior to the onset of an eruptive X-class flare on 2015 March 11, obtained by the \emph{Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph} (\emph{IRIS}) and the \emph{Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Ting Li , Kai Yang , Yijun Hou , Jun Zhang

We search for signatures of magnetic flux cancellation in a 3D resistive MHD flux-emergence simulation of coronal jets and eruptions in a coronal-hole-like environment. To do this, we analysed the output from a 3D MHD simulation of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Spiros Patsourakos , Vasilis Archontis

One "strong" magnetic cloud (MC) with the magnetic field magnitude reaching $\sim$ 40 nT at 1 au during 2012 June 16-17 is examined in association with a pre-existing magnetic flux rope (MFR) identified on the Sun. The MC is characterized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Qiang Hu , Chunming Zhu , Wen He , Jiong Qiu , Lan K. Jian , Avijeet Prasad

With the global view and high-cadence observations from SDO/AIA and STEREO, many spatially separated solar eruptive events appear to be coupled. However, the mechanisms for "sympathetic" events are still largely unknown. In this study, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-17 M. Jin , C. J. Schrijver , M. C. M. Cheung , M. L. DeRosa , N. V. Nitta , A. M. Title

During eruptive flares, vector magnetograms show increasing horizontal magnetic field and downward Lorentz force in the Sun's photosphere around the polarity-inversion line. Such behavior has often been associated with the implosion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Krzysztof Barczynski , Guillaume Aulanier , Sophie Masson , Michael S. Wheatland

An eruption event launched from solar active region (AR) NOAA 11719 is investigated based on coronal EUV observations and photospheric magnetic field measurements obtained from Solar Dynamic Observatory. The AR consists of a filament…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Vemareddy , J. Zhang

This work analyzes the Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulations of a flaring solar active region as a testbed while idealizing the coronal Alfv\'en speed to be of two orders of magnitude lesser.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Kamlesh Bora , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Avijeet Prasad , Bhuwan Joshi , Qiang Hu

We study flare processes in the solar atmosphere using observational data for a M1-class flare of June 12, 2014, obtained by New Solar Telescope (NST/BBSO) and Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI/SDO). The main goal is to understand triggers…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 I. N. Sharykin , V. M. Sadykov , A. G. Kosovichev , S. Vargas-Dominguez , I. V. Zimovets

Total solar eclipses (TSEs) provide a unique opportunity to observe the large-scale solar corona. The solar wind plays an important role in forming the large-scale coronal structure and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are used to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Yihua Li , Guoyin Chen , Jinhan Guo , Yang Guo , Hao Wu , Yuhao Huang , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding , Rony Keppens

We present an analysis of the formation of atmospheric flux ropes in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) solar flux emergence simulation. The simulation domain ranges from the top of the solar interior to the low corona. A twisted magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 David MacTaggart , Andrew Haynes