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We propose a method for diagnosing the physical conditions in the solar atmosphere using an increase in oscillation amplitudes resulting from minuscule solar flares. As an example, we consider a B2 flare, which caused a sharp short-lived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Andrei Chelpanov , Nikolai Kobanov

We explored the quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) at multiple periods during an X4.0 flare on 2024 May 10 (SOL2024-05-10T06:27), which occurred in the complex active region of NOAA 13664. The flare radiation reveals five prominent periods in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Dong Li , Ding Yuan , Jingye Yan , Xinhua Zhao , Zhao Wu , Jincheng Wang , Zhenyong Hou , Chuan Li , Haisheng Zhao , Libo Fu , Lin Wu , Li Deng

Flares that are orders of magnitude larger than the most energetic solar flares are routinely observed on Sun-like stars, raising the question of whether the same physical processes are responsible for both solar and stellar flares. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Chloe E. Pugh , Valery M. Nakariakov , Anne-Marie Broomhall

We study the relationship between implosive motions in a solar flare, and the energy redistribution in the form of oscillatory structures and particle acceleration. The flare SOL2012-03-09T03:53 (M6.4) shows clear evidence for an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. J. A. Simões , L. Fletcher , H. S. Hudson , A. J. B. Russell

Drifting pulsation structures (DPSs) are considered to be radio signatures of the plasmoids formed during magnetic reconnection in the impulsive phase of solar flares. In the present paper we analyze oscillations and waves in seven examples…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 M. Karlicky , J. Rybak , M. Barta

Magnetic reconnection is understood to be the main physical process that facilitates the transformation of magnetic energy into heat, motion, and particle acceleration during solar eruptions. Yet, observational constraints on reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Marcel F. Corchado Albelo , Maria D. Kazachenko , Benjamin J. Lynch

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

We study a model of particle acceleration coupled with an MHD model of magnetic reconnection in unstable twisted coronal loops. The kink instability leads to the formation of helical currents with strong parallel electric fields resulting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , E. P. Kontar , N. H. Bian

Quasi-periodic, fast-mode, propagating wave trains (QFPs) are a new observational phenomenon recently discovered in the solar corona by the Solar Dynamics Observatory with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imaging observations. They originate from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Wei Liu , Leon Ofman , Brittany Broder , Marian Karlicky , Cooper Downs

In this Letter we establish clear evidence for the resonant absorption damping mechanism by analyzing observational data from the novel Coronal Multi-Channel Polarimeter (CoMP). This instrument has established that in the solar corona there…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Verth , M. Goossens , J. Terradas

Standing sausage modes in flare loops are important for interpreting quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flare lightcurves. We propose an inversion scheme that consistently uses their periods $P$ and damping times $\tau$ to diagnose…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Shao-Xia Chen , Bo Li , Ming Xiong , Hui Yu , Ming-Zhe Guo

We studied the characteristic physical properties and behavior of broadband microwave sub-second pulsations observed in an expanding coronal loop during the GOES C2.4 solar flare on 2011 August 10. We found sub-second pulsations and other…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Hana Meszarosova , Jan Rybak , Larisa Kashapova , Peter Gomory , Susanna Tokhchukova , Ivan Myshyakov

We present simultaneous X-ray and spectral ultraviolet (UV) observations of strikingly-coherent oscillations in emission from a coronal looptop and fan structure, during the impulsive phase of a long-duration M-class solar flare. The 50 s…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Ryan J. French , Laura A. Hayes , Maria D. Kazachenko , Katharine K. Reeves , Chengcai Shen , Juraj Lörinčík

We investigate the decayless regime of coronal kink oscillations recently discovered in the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)/AIA data. In contrast to decaying kink oscillations that are excited by impulsive dynamical processes, this type of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 S. A. Anfinogentov , V. M. Nakariakov , G. Nisticò

The energy balance in the corona of the Sun is the key to the long-standing coronal heating dilemma, which could be potentially revealed by observational studies of decayless kink oscillations of coronal plasma loops. A bundle of very long…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 Sihui Zhong , Valery M. Nakariakov , Yuhu Miao , Libo Fu , Ding Yuan

To investigate the excitation of kink oscillations in coronal loops and filaments, a C3.4 circular-ribbon flare (CRF) associated with a blowout jet in active region 12434 on 2015 October 16 is analyzed. The flare excited small-amplitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Q. M. Zhang

Oscillatory reconnection (a relaxation mechanism with periodic changes in connectivity) has been proposed as a potential physical mechanism underpinning several periodic phenomena in the solar atmosphere including, but not limited to,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Konstantinos Karampelas , James A. McLaughlin , Gert J. J. Botha , Stéphane Régnier

Being directly observed in the Doppler shift and imaging data and indirectly as quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares, slow magnetoacoustic waves offer an important seismological tool for probing many vital parameters of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov

Observational detection of quasi-periodic drifting fine structures in a type III radio burst associated with a solar flare SOL2015-04-16T11:22, with Low Frequency Array, is presented. Although similar modulations of the type III emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Eduard P. Kontar

We present an observational study of a quasi-periodic fast propagating (QFP) magnetosonic wave on 2012, April 23. The multiple wave trains were observed along an active region open loop system which has a divergence geometry. The wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Y. D. Shen , Y. Liu , J. T. Su , H. Li , X. F. Zhang , Z. J. Tian , R. J. Zhao , A. Elmhamdi