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Standing slow-mode waves have been recently observed in flaring loops by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). By means of the coronal seismology technique transport coefficients in hot ($\sim$10…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Xudong Sun , Sami K Solanki , Joseph M Davila

Solar flares are explosive releases of magnetic energy stored in the solar corona, driven by magnetic reconnection. These events accelerate electrons, generating hard X-ray emissions and often display Quasi Periodic Pulsations (QPPs) across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Luiz A. C. A. Schiavo , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Gert J. J. Botha , James A. McLaughlin

At the site of their origin, solar meterwave radio bursts contain pristine information about the local coronal magnetic field and plasma parameters. On its way through the turbulent corona, this radiation gets substantially modified due to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Atul Mohan , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi , Colin Lonsdale

We investigate quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) of high-energy nonthermal emissions from an X9.3 flare (SOL2017-Sep-06T11:53), the most powerful flare since the beginning of solar cycle 24. The QPPs are identified as a series of regular and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 D. Li , D. Y. Kolotkov , V. M. Nakariakov , L. Lu , Z. J. Ning

Quasi-periodic propagating intensity disturbances have been observed in large coronal loops in EUV images over a decade, and are widely accepted to be slow magnetosonic waves. However, spectroscopic observations from Hinode/EIS revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 X. Fang , D. Yuan , T. Van Doorsselaere , R. Keppens , C. Xia

Polar corona is often explored to find the energy source for the acceleration of the fast solar wind. Earlier observations show omni-presence of quasi-periodic disturbances, travelling outward, which is believed to be caused by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-16 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , G. R. Gupta

Fast magnetoacoustic waves guided along the magnetic field by plasma non-uniformities, in particular coronal loops, fibrils and plumes, are known to be highly dispersive, which leads to the formation of quasi-periodic wave trains excited by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 S. Shestov , V. M. Nakariakov , S. Kuzin

A set of co-aligned high resolution images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is used to investigate propagating disturbances (PDs) in warm fan loops at the periphery of a non-flaring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vadim M. Uritsky , Joseph M. Davila , Nicholeen M. Viall , Leon Ofman

Propagating disturbances are often observed in active region fan-like coronal loops. They were thought to be due to slow mode MHD waves based on some of the observed properties. But the recent studies involving spectroscopy indicate that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 S. Mandal , T. Samanta , D. Banerjee , S. Krishna Prasad , L. Teriaca

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are a common feature of solar flares, but previously there has been a lack of observational evidence to support any of the theoretical models that might explain the origin of QPPs. We aimed to determine if…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 C. E. Pugh , A. -M. Broomhall , V. M. Nakariakov

Twisted coronal loops in the solar atmosphere may become kink-unstable when their magnetic field lines are sufficiently twisted. This instability can trigger magnetic reconnection, leading to the emission of electromagnetic radiation, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 James Stewart , Philippa K. Browning , Mykola Gordovskyy

We explored the quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) at multiple periods during an X4.0 flare on 2024 May 10 (SOL2024-05-10T06:27), which occurred in the complex active region of NOAA 13664. The flare radiation reveals five prominent periods in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Dong Li , Ding Yuan , Jingye Yan , Xinhua Zhao , Zhao Wu , Jincheng Wang , Zhenyong Hou , Chuan Li , Haisheng Zhao , Libo Fu , Lin Wu , Li Deng

We investigated the quasi-periodic pulsation (QPP) in Lyman-alpha, X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) emissions during two solar flares, i.e., an X-class (SOL2012-01-27T) and a C-class (SOL2016-02-08T). The full-disk Lyman-alpha and X-Ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Dong Li , Lei Lu , Zongjun Ning , Li Feng , Weiqun Gan , Hui Li

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are oscillatory signatures commonly detected in the light curves of solar and stellar flares, offering valuable diagnostics of the underlying magnetic and plasma processes. This review compares the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Fabio Reale

Recurrent, arc-shaped intensity disturbances were detected by EUV channels in an active region. The fronts were observed to propagate along a coronal loop bundle rooted in a small area within a sunspot umbra. Previous works have linked…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 M. V. Sieyra , S. Krishna Prasad , G. Stenborg , E. Khomenko , T. Van Doorsselaere , A. Costa , A. Esquivel , J. M. Riedl

Quasi-periodic propagating disturbances are frequently observed in coronal intensity image sequences. These disturbances have historically been interpreted as being the signature of slow-mode magnetoacoustic waves propagating into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-12 Hui Tian , Scott W. McIntosh , Bart De Pontieu

In the last four decades it has been observed that solar flares show quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) from the lowest, i.e. radio, to the highest, i.e. gamma-ray, part of the electromagnetic spectrum. To this day, it is still unclear which…

Context. Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are time variations in the energy emission during a flare that are observed on both the Sun and other stars and thus have the potential to link the physics of solar and stellar flares. Aims. To…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. -M. Broomhall , A. E. L. Thomas , C. E. Pugh , J. P. Pye , S. R. Rosen

We investigate the properties of a set of solar flares originating from a single active region (AR) that exhibit QPPs, and look for signs of the QPP periods relating to AR properties. The AR studied, best known as NOAA 12192, was unusually…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 C. E. Pugh , V. M. Nakariakov , A. -M. Broomhall , A. V. Bogomolov , I. N. Myagkova

Rapidly propagating fast magnetoacoustic wave trains guided by field-aligned plasma non-uniformities are confidently observed in the Sun's corona. Observations at large heights suggest that fast wave trains can travel long distances from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Guy Moss , Paul Shellard