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We investigate the characteristics of the solar flares complex network. The limited predictability, non-linearity, and self-organized criticality of the flares allow us to study systems of flares in the field of the complex systems. Both…

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Sun-as-a-star analyses, in which observational data is spatially integrated, are useful for interpreting stellar data. For future applications to stellar observations, we performed Sun-as-a-star analyses of H$\alpha$ spectra for various…

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We present the results of a search of the XMM-Newton public data archive for stellar X-ray flares. We find eight flaring sources for which we identify 7 optical counterparts. Three of these sources have distance estimates which allow us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Duncan Trenholme , Gavin Ramsay , Carl Foley

Solar flares strongly affect the Sun's atmosphere as well as the Earth's environment. Quantifying the maximum possible energy of solar flares of the present-day Sun, if any, is thus a key question in heliophysics. The largest solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Aulanier , P. Demoulin , C. J. Schrijver , M. Janvier , E. Pariat , B. Schmieder

Context: Solar flares release a large fraction of their energy into non-thermal electrons, but it is not clear where and how. Bremsstrahlung X-rays are observed from the corona and chromosphere. Aims: We aim to characterize the acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marina Battaglia , Arnold O. Benz

The physics of solar flares occurring on the Sun is highly complex and far from fully understood. However, observations show that solar eruptions are associated with the intense kilogauss fields of active regions, where free energies are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Bach Viet Do , Yang Chen , XuanLong Nguyen , Ward Manchester

The data of sunspot numbers, sunspot areas and solar flare index during cycle 23 are analyzed to investigate the intermediate-term periodicities. Power spectral analysis has been performed separately for the data of the whole disk, northern…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 Bhuwan Joshi , P. Pant , P. K. Manoharan

The waiting time statistics of solar flares provides clues for the underlying physical mechanisms. However, flares occurring on the far-side have been missing in the statistics. In the 2024 May and June, the Solar Orbiter (SolO) spacecraft…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Yue Zhang , Rui Liu , Junyan Liu , Dong Wang

Plasma with a temperature close to the chromospheric one is ejected in solar eruptions. Such plasma can occult some part of emission of compact sources in active regions as well as quiet solar areas. Absorption phenomena can be observed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. V. Grechnev , I. V. Kuzmenko , I. M. Chertok , A. M. Uralov

Solar flare is one of the severest solar activities on the sun, and it has many important impacts on the near-earth space. It has been found that flight arrival delays will increase during solar flare. However, the detailed intrinsic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 X. H. Xu , Y. Wang , F. S. Wei , X. S. Feng , M. H. Bo , H. W. Tang , D. S. Wang , L. Bian , B. Y. Wang , W. Y. Zhang , Y. S. Huang , Z. Li , J. P. Guo , P. B. Zuo , C. W. Jiang , X. J. Xu , Z. L. Zhou , P. Zou

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the transient seis- mic emission, i.e., sunquakes, from some solar flares. Some theories associate high-energy electrons and/or white-light emission with sunquakes. High-energy charged…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 J. C. Buitrago-Casas , J. C. Martinez Oliveros , C. Lindsey , B. Calvo-Mozo , S. Krucker , L. Glesener , S. Zharkov

Spectroscopic observations of solar flares provide critical diagnostics of the physical conditions in the flaring atmosphere. Some key features in observed spectra have not yet been accounted for in existing flare models. Here we report a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Fatima Rubio da Costa , Lucia Kleint , Vahé Petrosian , Wei Liu , Joel C. Allred

Solar flares are events of intense scientific interest. Although certain solar conditions are known to be associated with flare activity, the exact location and timing of an individual flare on the Sun cannot as yet be predicted with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Andrew R. Inglis , Jack Ireland , Albert Y. Shih , Steven D. Christe

Solar flares stem from the reconnection of twisted magnetic field lines in the solar photosphere. The energy and waiting time distributions of these events follow complex patterns that have been carefully considered in the past and that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-17 M. Mendoza , A. Kaydul , L. de Arcangelis , J. S. Andrade , H. J. Herrmann

Solar and stellar flares are powerful events which produce intense radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. Multiwavelength observations are highly important for understanding the nature of flares, because different flare-related…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov

The nature of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares is poorly constrained, and critically the general prevalence of such signals in solar flares is unknown. Therefore, we perform a large-scale search for evidence of signals consistent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 A. R. Inglis , J. Ireland , B. R. Dennis , L. A. Hayes , P. T. Gallagher

The triggering mechanism(s) and critical condition(s) of solar flares are still not completely clarified, although various studies have attempted to elucidate them. We have also proposed a theoretical flare-trigger model based on MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Yumi Bamba , Kanya Kusano

On the basis of the 30-year ago ground-based photometry and the recent Kepler space experiment there have been considered frequencies of occurrence and energetics of the solar-type stellar flares. It was concluded that frequencies of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-04 R. E. Gershberg

Observational evidence for gentle chromospheric evaporation during the impulsive phase of a C9.1 solar flare is presented using data from the Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager and the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer on…

There are still debates whether particle acceleration in solar flares may occur due to interruption of electric currents flowing along magnetic loops. To contribute to this problem, we performed the first statistical study of relationships…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 I. V. Zimovets , I. N. Sharykin , W. Q. Gan