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Active regions (ARs) appear in the solar atmosphere as a consequence of the emergence of magnetic flux-ropes (FR). In this study, we use Bayesian methods to analyze line-of-sight magnetograms of emerging ARs. We employ a FR model consisting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Mariano Poisson , Marcelo López Fuentes , Cristina H. Mandrini , Pascal Démoulin , Francisco Grings

Context. Active regions (ARs) appear in the solar atmosphere as a consequence of the emergence of magnetic flux tubes. The presence of elongated magnetic polarities in line-of-sight (LOS) magnetograms indicates the existence of twist in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 M. Poisson , F. Grings , C. H. Mandrini , M. López-Fuentes , P. Démoulin

The photospheric spatial distribution of the main magnetic polarities of bipolar active regions (ARs) presents during their emergence deformations are known as magnetic tongues. They are attributed to the presence of twist in the toroidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 M. Poisson , P. Démoulin , M. López Fuentes , C. H. Mandrini

The magnetic polarities of bipolar active regions (ARs) exhibit elongations in line-of-sight magnetograms during their emergence. These elongations are referred to as magnetic tongues and attributed to the presence of twist in the emerging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 M. Poisson , M. C. López Fuentes , C. H. Mandrini , P. Démoulin , C. MacCormack

Elongated magnetic polarities are observed during the emergence phase of bipolar active regions (ARs). These extended features, called magnetic tongues, are interpreted as a consequence of the azimuthal component of the magnetic flux in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-08 Mariano Poisson , Cristina H. Mandrini , Pascal Démoulin , Marcelo López Fuentes

The presence of elongations in active region (AR) polarities, called magnetic tongues, are mostly visible during their emergence phase. AR tilts have been measured thoroughly using long-term white-light (WL) databases, sometimes combined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 M. Poisson , P. Démoulin , C. H. Mandrini , M. C. López Fuentes

The tilt of solar active regions described by Joy's law is essential for converting a toroidal field to a poloidal field in Babcock-Leighton dynamo models. In thin flux tube models the Coriolis force causes Joy's law, acting on east-west…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Hannah Schunker , Christian Baumgartner , Aaron C. Birch , Robert H. Cameron , Douglas C. Braun , Laurent Gizon

Data from the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) are analyzed from 1996 to 2023 to investigate tilt angles ($\gamma$) of bipolar magnetic regions and Joy's Law for Cycles 23, 24, and a portion of 25.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Lucy W. Will , Aimee A. Norton , Jon Todd Hoeksema

The emergence and magnetic evolution of solar active regions (ARs) of beta-gamma-delta type, which are known to be highly flare-productive, were studied with the SOHO/MDI data in Cycle 23. We selected 31 ARs that can be observed from their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Kan Takizawa , Reizaburo Kitai

Bipolar sunspots, or more generally, Bipolar Magnetic Regions, BMRs, are the dynamic magnetic regions that appear on the solar surface and are central to solar activity. One striking feature of these regions is that they are often tilted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Anu Sreedevi , Bidya Binay Karak , Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Rambahadur Gupta , Dipankar Banerjee

We present an augmentation to longstanding evidence from observations and MHD modeling that (1) every solar emerging bipolar magnetic region (BMR) is made by an emerging omega-loop flux rope, and (2) twist in the flux-rope field makes the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Ronald L. Moore , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , V. Aparna , Navdeep K. Panesar , Alphonse C. Sterling , Talwinder Singh

Magnetic active regions on the Sun are harbingers of space weather events. Understanding the physics of how they form and evolve will improve space weather forecasting. Our aim is to characterise the surface magnetic field and flows for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Camron S. Alley , Hannah Schunker

We study the long term evolution of a set of 22 bipolar active regions (ARs) in which the main photospheric polarities are seen to rotate one around the other during several solar rotations. We first show that differential rotation is not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. López Fuentes , P. Démoulin , C. H. Mandrini , A. A. Pevtsov , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi

Magnetic flux ropes (FRs) are twisted structures appearing on the sun, predominantly in the magnetically concentrated regions. These structures appear as coronal features known as filaments or prominences in H$\alpha$ observations, and as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 P. Vemareddy

Active regions (ARs) are the main sources of variety in solar dynamic events. Automated detection and identification tools need to be developed for solar features for a deeper understanding of the solar cycle. Of particular interest here…

Solar active regions (ARs) are the places hosting the majority of solar eruptions. Studying the evolution and morphological features of ARs is not only of great significance to the understanding of the physical mechanisms of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Ruishuo Chen , Wutong Lu , Qi Hao , Yifan Meng , Pengfei Chen , Chenxi Shi

We analyze the magnetic evolution of solar active region (AR) NOAA 11476 that, between 9 and 10 May 2012, produced a series of surge-type eruptions accompanied by GOES X-ray class M flares. Using force-free models of the AR coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Marcelo López Fuentes , Mariano Poisson , Cristina H. Mandrini

Using the data on magnetic field maps and continuum intensity for Solar Cycles 23 and 24, we explored 100 active regions (ARs) that produced M5.0 or stronger flares. We focus on the presence/absence of the emergence of magnetic flux in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Alexander S. Kutsenko , Valentina I. Abramenko , Andrei A. Plotnikov

Using time-sequence vector magnetic field and coronal observations from \textit{Solar Dynamics Observatory}, we report the observations of the magnetic field evolution and coronal activity in four emerging active regions (ARs). The ARs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 P. Vemareddy

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
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