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Context. Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) have been frequently observed during the gradual phase of solar flares near the limb. In coronal emission lines sensitive to flaring plasmas, they appear as tadpole-like dark voids against the diffuse…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Xin Chen , Rui Liu , Na Deng , Haimin Wang

Coronal jets are the captivating eruptions which are often found in the solar atmosphere, and primarily formed due to magnetic reconnection. Despite their short-lived nature and lower energy compared to many other eruptive events, e.g.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Sushree S Nayak , Samrat Sen , Arpit Kumar Shrivastav , R. Bhattacharyya , P. S. Athiray

As a fundamental magnetic structure in the solar corona, electric current sheets (CSs) can form either prior to or during solar flare, and they are essential for magnetic energy dissipation in the solar corona by enabling magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Chaowei Jiang , Xiaoli Yan , Xueshang Feng , Aiying Duan , Qiang Hu , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Certain solar flares exhibit a distinctive candle-flame or cusp-shaped feature above the bright flare arcade visible in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray channels sensitive to high-temperature plasma. The presence of a cusp-like structure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Ivan Oparin , Sabastian Fernandes , Bin Chen , Chengcai Shen , Xiaocan Li , Fan Guo , Sijie Yu

One candidate-model for heating the solar corona is magnetic reconnection that embodies Ohmic dissipation of current sheets. When numerous small-scaled magnetic reconnection occur, then it is possible to heat the corona. Due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Charalambos Kanella , Boris V. Gudiksen

A subclass of early impulsive solar flares, cold flares, was proposed to represent a clean case, where the release of the free magnetic energy (almost) entirely goes to acceleration of the nonthermal electrons, while the observed thermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Gregory D. Fleishman , Galina G. Motorina , Sijie Yu , Gelu M. Nita

Recent detections of high-energy $\gamma$-rays from behind-the-limb (BTL) solar flares by the \emph{Fermi $\gamma$-ray Space Telescope} pose a puzzle and challenge on the particle acceleration and transport mechanisms. In such events, the…

The dynamics of magnetic reconnection in the solar current sheet (CS) is studied by high-resolution 2.5-dimensional MHD simulation. With the commence of magnetic reconnection, a number of magnetic islands are formed intermittently and move…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yulei Wang , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding , Quanming Lu

Twisted magnetic flux ropes are reservoirs of free magnetic energy. In a highly-conducting plasma such as the solar corona, energy release through multiple magnetic reconnections can be modelled as a helicity-conserving relaxation to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Philippa Browning , Mykola Gordovskyy , Alan Hood

The transport of the energy contained in electrons, both thermal and suprathermal, in solar flares plays a key role in our understanding of many aspects of the flare phenomenon, from the spatial distribution of hard X-ray emission to global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Nicolas H. Bian , Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie

Coronal flare emission is commonly observed to decay on timescales longer than those predicted by impulsively-driven, one-dimensional flare loop models. This discrepancy is most apparent during the gradual phase, where emission from these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 William Ashfield , Dana Longcope

A solar flare releases magnetic energy by reconnecting field lines across a current sheet, thereby allowing their relaxation to a lower energy state. The maximum possible energy is released if all field lines relax to a current-free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Drake Osaben , Jiong Qiu , Dana W. Longcope

Context. The observation of >100 MeV {\gamma}-rays in the minutes to hours following solar flares suggests that high-energy particles interacting in the solar atmosphere can be stored and/or accelerated for long time periods. The occasions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 I. Plotnikov , A. P. Rouillard , G. H. Share

Magnetic energy released in the corona by solar flares reaches the chromosphere where it drives characteristic upflows and downflows known as evaporation and condensation. These flows are studied here for the case where energy is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 D. W. Longcope

With the adaptation of the FLASH code we simulate magnetohydrodynamic-gravity waves and vortices as well as their response in the magnetized three-dimensional (3D) solar atmosphere at different heights to understand the localized energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Murawski , I. Ballai , A. K. Srivastava , D. Lee

We simulate the buoyant rise of a magnetic flux rope from the solar convection zone into the corona to better understand the energetic coupling of the solar interior to the corona. The magnetohydrodynamic model addresses the physics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

An integrated Magneto-Fluid model, that accords full treatment to the Velocity fields associated with the directed plasma motion, is developed to investigate the dynamics of coronal structures. It is suggested that the interaction of the…

In this multi-instrument paper, we search for evidence of sustained magnetic reconnection far beyond the impulsive phase of the X8.2-class solar flare on 2017 September 10. Using Hinode/EIS, CoMP, SDO/AIA, K-Cor, Hinode/XRT, RHESSI, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-01 Ryan J. French , Sarah A. Matthews , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , David M. Long , Philip G. Judge

Without any doubt solar flaring loops possess a multi-thread internal structure that is poorly resolved and there are no means to observe heating episodes and thermodynamic evolution of the individual threads. These limitations cause…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 R. Falewicz , P. Rudawy , K. Murawski , A. K. Srivastava

In the near future, Parker Solar Probe will put theories about the dynamics and nature of the transition between the solar corona and the solar wind to stringent tests. The most popular mechanism aimed to explain the dynamics of the nascent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 N. Magyar , V. M. Nakariakov
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