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Solar flares are rapid energy release phenomena that appear as bright ribbons in the chromosphere and high-temperature loops in the corona, respectively. Supra-arcade Downflows (SADs) are plasma voids that first come out above the flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Z. F. Li , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , Katharine K. Reeves , DeOndre Kittrell , Mark Weber , David E. McKenzie

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

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark structures descending towards post-reconnection flare loops observed in extreme ultraviolet or X-ray observations and are closely related to magnetic reconnection during solar flares. Due to the lack…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Guangyu Tan , Yijun Hou , Hui Tian

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark, teardrop-shaped features descending upon flare arcades. They are thought to be the results of magnetic reconnection, but the detailed formation mechanism of SADs and their relationship to flare energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Jianchao Xue , Yang Su , Hui Li , Xiaozhou Zhao

We perform Differential Emission Measure (DEM) analysis of an M7.7 flare that occurred on 2012 July 19 and was well observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamic Observatory. Using the observational data with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Q. Sun , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

Despite their somewhat-frequent appearance in EUV imaging of off-limb flares, the origins of Supra-Arcade Downflows (SADs) remain a mystery. Appearing as dark, tendril-like downflows above growing flare loop arcades, SADs themselves are yet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Ryan J. French , Maria D. Kazachenko , Teodora Mihailescu , Katharine K. Reeves

In the standard model, magnetic reconnection at a vertical current sheet above the flare arcade is key to explaining many aspects of solar eruptions. The supra-arcade region is where the vertical current sheet is supposedly located, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Hanya Pan , Astrid M. Veronig , Rui Liu

We perform a detailed analysis of the thermal structure of the region above the post-eruption arcade for a flare that occurred on 2011 October 22. During this event, a sheet of hot plasma is visible above the flare loops in the 131 \AA\…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Katharine K. Reeves , Michael S. Freed , David E. McKenzie , Sabrina L. Savage

In strong stellar and solar flares flare loops typically appear during the decay phase, providing an additional contribution to the flare emission and, possibly, obscuring the flare emission. Super-flares, common in active, cool stars,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 Kamil Bicz , Robert Falewicz , Petr Heinzel , Małgorzata Pietras , Paweł Preś

Context: One of the most prominent processes suggested to heat the corona to well above 10^6 K builds on nanoflares, short bursts of energy dissipation. Aims: We compare observations to model predictions to test the validity of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Feng Chen , Jun Zhang

Loop-aligned hydrodynamic modelings help better understand the thermodynamic evolution of flaring plasma confined in solar flare loops. Conventional loop modelings typically assume a uniform loop cross section. With a variation of the cross…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Yu Dai , Shihan Li , Wenlong Tang , Zhen Li , Mingde Ding

Following the eruption of a filament from a flaring active region, sunward-flowing voids are often seen above developing post-eruption arcades. First discovered using the soft X-ray telescope aboard Yohkoh, these supra-arcade downflows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sabrina L. Savage , David E. McKenzie , Katharine K. Reeves

Here, we study the temperature structure of flaring and non-flaring coronal loops, using extracted loops from images taken in six extreme ultraviolet (EUV) channels recorded by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA)/ Solar Dynamic Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Narges Fathalian , Seyedeh Somayeh Hosseini Rad , Nasibeh Alipour , Hossein Safari

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark voids descending through plasma above the post-flare arcade. Although they are generally viewed as byproducts of flare reconnections in the corona, the nature of SADs is under debate. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Arun Kumar Awasthi , Rui Liu , Tingyu Gou

As one of the most spectacular energy release events in the solar system, solar flares are generally powered by magnetic reconnection in the solar corona. As a result of the re-arrangement of magnetic field topology after the reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-29 Tanmoy Samanta , Hui Tian , Bin Chen , Katharine K. Reeves , Mark C. M. Cheung , Angelos Vourlidas , Dipankar Banerjee

Solar flares are 3D phenomenon but modelling a flare in 3D, including many of the important processes in the chromosphere, is a computational challenge. Accurately modelling the chromosphere is important, even if the transition region and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Graham S. Kerr , Joel C. Allred , Vanessa Polito

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark voids descending towards the post-reconnection flare loops and exhibit obvious variation in properties like width. However, due to the lack of further statistical studies, the mechanism behind such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Guangyu Tan , Yijun Hou , Hui Tian

Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves

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

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark, sunward-moving structures above the arcade of flare loops. Naturally they are considered to be associated with outflows resulting from magnetic reconnection at the vertical current sheet beneath the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Zichao Yang , Rui Liu
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