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We study the relationship between implosive motions in a solar flare, and the energy redistribution in the form of oscillatory structures and particle acceleration. The flare SOL2012-03-09T03:53 (M6.4) shows clear evidence for an…

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The sudden release of magnetic energy on the Sun drives powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The key issue is the difficulty in predicting the occurrence time and location of strong solar eruptions, i.e., those leading to the…

Elemental abundances in solar flares are observed to vary both spatially and temporally, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. There is an interplay between advection and the preferential acceleration of low first…

Solar flares are the most powerful explosions occurring in the solar system, which may lead to disastrous space weather events and impact various aspects of our Earth. So far, it is still a big challenge in modern astrophysics to understand…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Baolin Tan , Zhiqiang Yu , Jing Huang , Chengming Tan , Yin Zhang

It is widely accepted that solar flares involve release of magnetic energy stored in the solar corona above an active region, but existing models do not include the explicitly time-dependent electrodynamics needed to describe such energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 D. B. Melrose

The 'standard solar' flare model collects all physical ingredients identified by multi-wavelength observations of our Sun: magnetic reconnection, fast particle acceleration and the resulting emission at various wavelengths, especially in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Wenzhi Ruan , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were discovered in the early 1970s when space-borne coronagraphs revealed that eruptions of plasma are ejected from the Sun. Today, it is known that the Sun produces eruptive flares, filament eruptions, coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Lucie Green , Tibor Torok , Bojan Vrsnak , Ward Manchester , Astrid Veronig

The extreme space weather conditions resulting from high energetic events likes solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) demand for reliable space weather forecasting. The magnetic flux tubes while rising through the convection zone…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 B Lekshmi , Kiran Jain , Rudolf W. Komm , Dibyendu Nandy

Solar flares are complicated physical phenomena that are observable in a broad range of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radiowaves to $\gamma$-rays. For a more comprehensive understanding of flares, it is necessary to perform a combined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Viacheslav M Sadykov , Alexander G Kosovichev , Vincent Oria , Gelu M Nita

We investigate the thermal properties of a solar flare by the observations of soft X-ray Telescope (XRT) on board Hinode and the Atmospheric Image Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/AIA). Our analysis reveals a tenuous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Xiaoyan Xie , Anna Chen , Crisel Suarez , Katharine K. Reeves , Soumya Roy , Christopher S. Moore , Nishu Karna , Joy Velasquez

A significant impediment to solving the coronal heating problem is that we currently only observe active region (AR) loops in their cooling phase. Previous studies showed that the evolution of cooling loop densities and apex temperatures…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 David H. Brooks , Jeffrey W. Reep , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , John E. Unverferth , Harry P. Warren

Flares are powerful energy releases occurring in stellar atmospheres. Solar flares, the most intense energy bursts in the solar system, are however hardly noticeable in the total solar luminosity. Consequently, the total amount of energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Matthieu Kretzschmar , Thierry Dudok de Wit , Werner Schmutz , Sabri Mekaoui , Jean-François Hochedez , Steven Dewitte

Sunquakes observed in the form of expanding wave ripples on the surface of the Sun during solar flares represent packets of acoustic waves excited by flare impacts and traveling through the solar interior. The excitation impacts strongly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Alexander G. Kosovichev

There is evidence that coronal heating is highly intermittent, and flares are the high energy extreme. The properties of the heat pulses are difficult to constrain. Here hydrodynamic loop modeling shows that several large amplitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 F. Reale

Particles are accelerated to very high, non-thermal energies during explosive energy-release phenomena in space, solar, and astrophysical plasma environments. In the case of solar flares, it has been established that magnetic reconnection…

Filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections are physical phenomena related to magnetic flux ropes carrying electric current. A magnetic flux rope is a key structure for solar eruptions, and when it carries a southward magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Brigitte Schmieder , Jinhan Guo , Stefaan Poedts

Observations of the Sun in the visible spectral range belong to standard measurements obtained by instruments both on the ground and in the space. Nowadays, both nearly continuous full-disc observations with medium resolution and dedicated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-30 Michal Švanda , Jan Jurčák , David Korda , Jana Kašparová

Magnetic reconnection is believed to be the dominant energy release mechanism in solar flares. The standard flare model predicts both downward and upward outflow plasmas with speeds close to the coronal Alfv\'{e}n speed. Yet, spectroscopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-02 Hui Tian , Gang Li , Katharine K. Reeves , John C. Raymond , Fan Guo , Wei Liu , Bin Chen , Nicholas A. Murphy

This thesis can be framed in a more general concept designated as "High resolution in solar physics". The first part of the thesis is dedicated to the topic of high-resolution observations and image restoration. It begins with a theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-02 S. Vargas Dominguez

Solar flares create adverse space weather impacting space and Earth-based technologies. However, the difficulty of forecasting flares, and by extension severe space weather, is accentuated by the lack of any unique flare trigger or a single…