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The nature of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares remains debated. Recent work has shown that power-law-like Fourier power spectra, also referred to as 'red' noise processes, are an intrinsic property of solar and stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. R. Inglis , J. Ireland , M. Dominique

We have performed a search for flares and Quasi-Periodic Pulsations (QPPs) from low mass M dwarf stars using TESS 2 min cadence data. We find seven stars which show evidence of QPPs. Using Fourier and Empirical Mode Decomposition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Gavin Ramsay , Dmitrii Kolotkov , J. Gerry Doyle , Lauren Doyle

The cause of quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) in solar flares remains the subject of debate. Recently, Nakariakov & Zimovets (2011) proposed a new model suggesting that, in two-ribbon flares, such pulsations could be explained by propagating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-27 A. R. Inglis , B. R. Dennis

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are oscillatory signatures commonly detected in the light curves of solar and stellar flares, offering valuable diagnostics of the underlying magnetic and plasma processes. This review compares the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Fabio Reale

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are often invoked to interpret quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flares. We study the response of a straight flare loop to a kink-like velocity perturbation using three-dimensional MHD simulations and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Mijie Shi , Bo Li , Shao-Xia Chen , Mingzhe Guo , Shengju Yuan

We report the detection of multiple quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) observed during the flaring activity of KIC 8414845, a young, active solar-type star observed by the Kepler mission launched by NASA. We analyzed the QQP signal using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 S. Mancuso , D. Barghini , D. Telloni

The soft X-ray emissions of solar flares come mainly from the bright coronal loops at the highest temperatures normally achieved in the flare process. Their ubiquity has led to their use as a standard measure of flare occurrence and energy,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paulo J. A. Simões , Hugh S. Hudson , Lyndsay Fletcher

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

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are a common feature of solar flares, but previously there has been a lack of observational evidence to support any of the theoretical models that might explain the origin of QPPs. We aimed to determine if…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 C. E. Pugh , A. -M. Broomhall , V. M. Nakariakov

Plasmoids (or magnetic islands) are believed to play an important role in the onset of fast magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration during solar flares and eruptions. Direct imaging of flare current sheets and formation/ejection of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Pankaj Kumar , Judith T. Karpen , Joel T. Dahlin

We present the analysis of three kinds of oscillating behavior using multi-wavelength observations of the 10 November 2013 (SOL2013-11-10T05:14) circular-ribbon flare. This event is a typical circular-ribbon flare with an outer spine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Zongjun Ning , Ya Wang , Zhenxiang Hong , Dong Li

A 20 second cadence TESS monitoring campaign of 226 low-mass flare stars during Cycle 3 recorded 3792 stellar flares of >10^32 erg. We explore the time-resolved emission and substructure in 440 of the largest flares observed at high S/N,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Ward S. Howard , Meredith A. MacGregor

Very long-periodic pulsations during preflare phases (preflare-VLPs) have been detected in the full-disk solar soft X-Ray (SXR) flux (see Tan et al. 2016). They may be regarded as precursors to solar flares and may help us better understand…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Dong Li , Song Feng , Wei Su , Yu Huang

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) are often detected in solar and stellar flare lightcurves. These events may contain valuable information about the underlying fundamental plasma dynamics as they are not described by the standard flare model.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-12 Sergey A. Belov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Anne-Marie Broomhal

Quasi-periodic fast-propagating (QFP) wave trains are a distinctive form of magnetohydrodynamic disturbance frequently observed in the solar corona. Yet their excitation mechanism and propagation characteristics are not well understood. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Tongjiang Wang , Wei Liu , Leon Ofman , Xudong Sun , Meng Jin

The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray radiation emitted during solar flares has been shown to significantly increase the electron density of the Earth's ionosphere. During flares, quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in X-ray flux originating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Aisling N. O'Hare , Susanna Bekker , Laura A. Hayes , Ryan O. Milligan

We report the discovery of milli-hertz (mHz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and QPO-modulated pulsations during large X-ray flares from the high-mass X-ray binary pulsar LMC X-4 using data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dae-Sik Moon , Stephen. S. Eikenberry

Small scale extreme ultraviolet (EUV) transient brightenings are observationally abundant and critically important to investigate. Determining whether they share the same physical mechanisms as larger scale flares would have significant…

We report the discovery of complex flaring activity from the galactic nucleus hosting the five-year-old tidal disruption event eRASSt J234402.9-352640 (J2344). With Einstein Probe and XMM-Newton observations, we detected highly structured…

The excitation mechanism of coronal quasi-period fast-propagating (QFP) wave trains remains unresolved. Using Atmospheric Imaging Assembly onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory observations, we study a narrow and a broad QFP wave train…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-15 Xinping Zhou , Yuandeng Shen , Chengrui Zhou , Zehao Tang , Ahmed Ahmed Ibrahim