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We study the evolution of electric currents during the emergence of magnetic flux in the solar photosphere and the differences exhibited between solar active regions of different Hale complexity classes. A sample of 59 active regions was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 I. Kontogiannis , M. K. Georgoulis

We present results derived from the analysis of spectropolarimetric measurements of active region AR12546, which represents one of the largest sunspots to have emerged onto the solar surface over the last $20$ years. The region was observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 M. Stangalini , S. Jafarzadeh , I. Ermolli , R. Erdélyi , D. B. Jess , P. H. Keys , F. Giorgi , M. Murabito , F. Berrilli , D. Del Moro

In this dataset we provide a comprehensive collection of magnetograms (images quantifying the strength of the magnetic field) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The dataset…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Laura E. Boucheron , Ty Vincent , Jeremy A. Grajeda , Ellery Wuest

This paper is an overview of studying the solar features in a complex network approach. First, we introduce the structural features of complex networks and important network parameters. Applying the detrended fluctuation and rescaled range…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Somayeh Taran

The evolution of magnetic helicity has a close relationship with solar eruptions and is of interest as a predictive diagnostic. In this case study, we analyse the evolution of the normalised emergence, shearing and total magnetic helicity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 M. B. Korsos , P. Romano , H. Morgan , Y. Ye , R. Erdelyi , F. Zuccarello

Statistical properties of the Sun's photospheric turbulent magnetic field, especially those of the Active Regions (ARs), have been studied using the line-of-sight data from magnetograms taken by SOHO and several other instruments (see e.g.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-17 Shiva Kumar. Malapaka , Wolf-Christian Mueller

Line-of-sight magnetograms for 217 active regions (ARs) of different flare rate observed at the solar disk center from January 1997 until December 2006 are utilized to study the turbulence regime and its relationship to the flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Valentyna Abramenko , Vasyl Yurchyshyn

Accurate forecasting of space weather requires knowledge of the source regions where solar energetic particles (SEP) and eruptive events originate. Recent work has linked several major SEP events in 2014, January, to specific features in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 David H. Brooks , Stephanie L. Yardley

The study of solar active regions (ARs) is of central importance to a range of fundamental science, as well as the practical applications of space weather. Active region emergence and life cycles are two areas of particular interest, yet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Emily I. Mason , Kara L. Kniezewski

With SDO observations and a data-constrained MHD model, we identify a confined multi-ribbon flare occurred on 2010 October 25 in solar active region 11117 as a magnetic bald patch (BP) flare with strong evidences. From the photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , S. T. Wu , Qiang Hu

A proxy for horizontal electric currents in the solar photosphere was suggested. For a set of evolving active regions (ARs) observed with {\it Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)} Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) in the high resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-11 Valentyna Abramenko

Sequences of line-of-sight (LOS) magnetograms recorded by the Michelson-Doppler Imager are used to quantitatively characterize photospheric magnetic structure and evolution in three active regions that rotated across the Sun's disk during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. T. Welsch , S. Christe , J. M. McTiernan

Magnetic flux emergence and decay in the Sun span from days to months. However, their tracking is typically limited to about half a solar rotation when relying on single-vantage-point observations. Combining observations from both the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 I. Kontogiannis , Y. Zhu , K. Barczynski , M. Z. Stiefel , H. Collier , J. McKevitt , J. S. Castellanos Durán , S. Berdyugina , L. K. Harra

We analyse the spatial distribution of current helicity in solar active regions. A comparison of current helicity maps derived from three different instruments (Helioseismic and Magnetc Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. S. Kutsenko , V. I. Abramenko , K. M. Kuzanyan , Haiqing Xu , Hongqi Zhang

Magnetic Bright Points (MBPs) are among the smallest observable objects on the solar photosphere. A combination of G-band observations and numerical simulations is used to determine their area distribution. An automatic detection algorithm,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. J. Crockett , M. Mathioudakis , D. B. Jess , S. Shelyag , F. P. Keenan , D. J. Christian

Using a recently suggested magneto-morphological classification (MMC, Abramenko, 2021, MNRAS Vol 507) of solar active regions (ARs), we explored 3048 ARs, observed from12 May 1996 to 27 December 2021. Magnetograms were acquired with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Anastasiya Zhukova , Valentina Abramenko

Solar magnetic synoptic charts obtained by NSO/Kitt Peak and SOHO/MDI are analyzed for studying the appearance of bipolar magnetic regions (BMRs) during solar minima. As a result, we find the emergence of long-lived BMRs has three typical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wenbin Song , Xueshang Feng

The dynamics of active region (AR) 12673 is qualitatively studied using observational data obtained with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager of the Solar Dynamics Observatory on August 31--September 8, 2017. This AR was remarkable for its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-27 A. V. Getling

Using the data on magnetic field maps and continuum intensity for Solar Cycles 23 and 24, we explored 100 active regions (ARs) that produced M5.0 or stronger flares. We focus on the presence/absence of the emergence of magnetic flux in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Alexander S. Kutsenko , Valentina I. Abramenko , Andrei A. Plotnikov

The purpose of this letter is to address a blind-spot in our knowledge of solar active region statistics. To the best of our knowledge there are no published results showing the variation of the Mount Wilson magnetic classifications as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Sarah A. Jaeggli , Aimee A. Norton