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It is not fully understood why some solar filaments erupt while others do not. Those that do typically undergo a slow rise followed by an acceleration phase, though this transition requires further investigation. Erupting prominences have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Dion Donné , Yuhao Zhou , Hebe Cremades , Rony Keppens

Active Regions (ARs) that exhibit compact Polarity Inversion Lines (PILs) are known to be very flare-productive. However, the physical mechanisms behind this statistical inference have not been demonstrated conclusively. We show that such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Georgios Chintzoglou , Jie Zhang , Mark C. M. Cheung , Maria Kazachenko

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are explosive plasma phenomena prevalently occurring on the Sun and probably on other magnetically active stars. However, how their pre-eruptive configuration evolves toward the main explosion remains elusive.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 X. Cheng , C. Xing , G. Aulanier , S. K. Solanki , H. Peter , M. D. Ding

In this study we synthesize the results of four previous studies on the global energetics of solar flares and associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which include magnetic, thermal, nonthermal, and CME energies in 399 solar M and X-class…

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are thought to be the most powerful events on the Sun. They can release energy as high as 10^32 erg in tens of minutes,and could produce solar energetic particles (SEPs) in the interplanetary…

To better understand the dynamical process of active-region filament eruptions and associated flares and CMEs, we carried out a statistical study of 120 events observed by BBSO, TRACE, and t(SOHO/EIT) from 1998 to 2007 and combined filament…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 X. L. Yan , Z. Q. Qu , D. F. Kong

Stellar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) may play an important role in mass- and angular momentum loss of young Sun-like stars. If occurring frequently, they may also have a strong effect on planetary evolution by increasing atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-21 P. Odert , M. Leitzinger , A. Hanslmeier , H. Lammer

How eruption can recur from a confined magnetic structure is discussed based on the {\it Solar Dynamics Observatory} (SDO) observations of the NOAA active region 11444, which produced three eruptions within 1.5 hours on March 27, 2012. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-15 Jeongwoo Lee , Chang Liu , Ju Jing , Jongchul Chae

Flare productivity varies among solar active regions (ARs). This study analyzed 20 ARs of contrasting sunspot areas and flare productivities to understand the super flare productivity of certain ARs. We used the flare index (FI) as an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Suman K. Dhakal , Jie Zhang

Interest in stealth coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is increasing due to their relatively high occurrence rate and space weather impact. However, typical CME signatures such as extreme-ultraviolet dimmings and post-eruptive arcades are hard…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), often associated with flares, are the most powerful magnetic phenomena occurring on the Sun. Stars show magnetic activity levels up to 10^4 times higher, and CME effects on stellar physics and circumstellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 C. Argiroffi , F. Reale , J. J. Drake , A. Ciaravella , P. Testa , R. Bonito , M. Miceli , S. Orlando , G. Peres

We present a numerical investigation of the coronal evolution of a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2005 August 22 using a 3-D thermodynamics magnetohydrodynamic model, the SWMF. The source region of the eruption was anemone active region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-12 N. Lugaz , C. Downs , K. Shibata , I. I. Roussev , A. Asai , T. Gombosi

Using the H$\alpha$ data from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) at the Fuxian Solar Observatory together with multi-wavelength images and magnetograms obtained by Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we study the detailed process of three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Guorong Chen , Xiaoli Yan

In this article, we study the origin of precursor flare activity and investigate its role towards triggering the eruption of a flux rope which resulted into a dual-peak M-class flare (SOL2015-06-21T02:36) in the active region NOAA 12371.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Prabir K. Mitra , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are one of the primary manifestations of solar activity and can drive severe space weather effects. Therefore, it is vital to work towards being able to predict their occurrence. However, many aspects of CME…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 A. W. James , L. M. Green , E. Palmerio , G. Valori , H. A. S. Reid , D. Baker , D. H. Brooks , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , E. K. J. Kilpua

Solar flares fall into two types with eruptive ones associated with coronal mass ejection (CME) and confined ones without CME. To explore whether there are pre-flare conditions in terms of magnetic energy and helicity that can effectively…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

Using observations from Solar Dynamics Observatory, we studied an interesting example of a sigmoid formation and eruption from small-scale flux canceling regions of active region (AR) 11942. Analysis of HMI and AIA observations infer that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 N. Vasantharaju , P. Vemareddy , B. Ravindra , V. H. Doddamani

When several solar flares with comparable classes occur successively at the same location and exhibit similar morphological features, they are called homologous flares. During 2012 May 8-10, five M-class homologous circular-ribbon flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Shuhong Yang , Ruisheng Zheng , Yijun Hou , Yuandeng Shen , Yin Li , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Ting Li , Guiping Zhou

In the first half of May 2024, the solar active region (AR)13664 was responsible for generating the strongest geomagnetic storm in over 20 years, through an enhanced production of X-class flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). A key…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 David MacTaggart , Tom Williams , OPM Aslam

In order to understand whether major flares or coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can be related to changes in the longitudinal photospheric magnetic field, we study 4 young active regions during seven days of their disc passage. This time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. M. Green , P. Demoulin , C. H. Mandrini , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi