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We present a clear case study on the occurrence of two successive X-class flares including a decade-class flare (X9.3) and two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) triggered by shearing motion and sunspot rotation in active region NOAA 12673 on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 X. L. Yan , J. C. Wang , G. M. Pan , D. F. Kong , Z. K. Xue , L. H. Yang , Q. L. Li , X. S. Feng

The high-resolution pictures of the solar photosphere from space based 50 cm Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on-board Hinode spacecraft, are now routinely observed. Such images of a delta-sunspot in NOAA 10930 were obtained by Hinode during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 S. Gosain , P. Venkatakrishnan , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari

Circular-ribbon flares (CFs) are a special type of solar flares owing to their particular magnetic topology. In this paper, we conducted a comprehensive statistical analysis of 134 CFs from 2011 September to 2017 June, including four…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Yanjie Zhang , Qingmin Zhang , Dechao Song , Shuting Li , Jun Dai , Zhe Xu , Haisheng Ji

Solar flares are one of the main forces behind space weather events. However the mechanism that drives such energetic phenomena is not fully understood. The standard eruptive flare model predicts that magnetic reconnection occurs high in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Imada , K. Aoki , H. Hara , T. Watanabe , L. K. Harra , T. Shimizu

Solar filament eruptions are often characterized by stepwise evolution due to the involvement of multiple mechanisms, such as magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and magnetic reconnection. In this article, we investigated a confined filament…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Zhe Xu , Xiaoli Yan , Liheng Yang , Zhike Xue , Jincheng Wang , Yian Zhou

This paper is an attempt to understand the physical processes occurring in different layers of solar atmosphere during a solar flare. For a complete understanding of the flare we must analyze multi-wavelength datasets, as emission at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Shirsh Lata Soni , Radhe Shyam Gupta , Adya Prasad Mishra

Combining the high-quality observations from the {\it Solar Dynamics Observatory} (SDO), the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG), and the Chinese H$\alpha$ Solar Explorer (CHASE), we report a solar coronal jet triggered by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Jiayan Yang , Leping Li , Huadong Chen , Yi Bi , Bo Yang , Junchao Hong , Yan Dong

We present multi-wavelength observations of an M-class flare (M3.9) that occurred on 2014 June 11. Our observations were conducted with the Dunn Solar Telescope (DST), adaptive optics, the multi-camera system ROSA (Rapid Oscillations in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Damian J. Christian , David Kuridze , David B. Jess , Menoa Yousefi , Mihalis Mathioudakis

Using the H$\alpha$ observations from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope at Fuxian Solar Observatory, we focus on the fine structures of three confined flares and the issue why all the three flares are confined instead of eruptive. All the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Yongyuan Xiang

The eruption of solar filaments, also known as prominences appearing off-limb, is a common phenomenon in the solar atmosphere. It ejects massive plasma and high-energy particles into interplanetary space, disturbing the solar-terrestrial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-31 Ye Qiu , Chuan Li , Yang Guo , Zhen Li , Mingde Ding , Linggao Kong

Mass drainage is frequently observed in solar filaments. During filament eruptions, falling material most likely flows along magnetic field lines, which may provide important clues for the magnetic structures of filaments. Here we study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Yidian Wu , Rui Liu , Runbin Luo , Wensi Wang

We report observations of an eruptive X2.8 flare on 2013 May 13, which shows two distinct episodes of energy release in the impulsive phase. The first episode is characterized by the eruption of a magnetic flux rope, similar to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-07 Tingyu Gou , Astrid M. Veronig , Ewan Dickson , Aaron Hernandez-Perez , Rui Liu

We report on four large filament eruptions (FEs) from solar cycles 23 and 24 that were associated with large solar energetic particle (SEP) events and interplanetary type II radio bursts. The post-eruption arcades corresponded to mostly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Gopalswamy , P. Makela , S. Akiyama , S. Yashiro , H. Xie , N. Thakur , S. W. Kahler

The nature of various plausible causal links between sympathetic events is still a controversial issue. In this work, we present multi-wavelength observations of sympathetic eruptions, associated flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Navin Chandra Joshi , Brigitte Schmieder , Tetsuya Magara , Yang Guo , Guillaume Aulanier

Triggering mechanisms of solar eruptions have long been a challenge. A few previous case studies have indicated that preceding gentle filament merging via magnetic reconnection may launch following intense eruption, according with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Huadong Chen , Jun Zhang , Leping Li , Suli Ma

Filament eruptions often result in flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Most studies attribute the filament eruptions to their instabilities or magnetic reconnection. In this study, we report a unique observation of a filament eruption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yongliang Song , Jiangtao Su , Qingmin Zhang , Mei Zhang , Yuanyong Deng , Xianyong Bai , Suo Liu , Xiao Yang , Jie Chen , Haiqing Xu , Kaifan Ji , Ziyao Hu

We report a solar jet phenomenon associated with successive flares on November 10th 2014. These explosive events were involved with the satellite spots' emergence around a delta-type sunspot in the decaying active region NOAA 12205. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Takahito Sakaue , Akiko Tei , Ayumi Asai , Satoru Ueno , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Kazunari Shibata

The white-light continuum emissions in solar flares (i.e., white-light flares) are usually observed on the solar disk but, in a few cases, off the limb. Here we present on-disk as well as off-limb continuum emissions at 3600 {\AA} (in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Ying Li , Zhichen Jing , De-Chao Song , Qiao Li , Jun Tian , Xiaofeng Liu , Ya Wang , M. D. Ding , Andrea Francesco Battaglia , Li Feng , Hui Li , Weiqun Gan

This Letter reports two rarely observed three-ribbon flares (M1.9 and C9.2) on 2012 July 6 in NOAA AR 11515, which we found with Halpha observations of 0.1" resolution from the New Solar Telescope and CaII H images from Hinode. The flaring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Haimin Wang , Chang Liu , Na Deng , Zhicheng Zeng , Yan Xu , Ju Jing , Wenda Cao

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