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Twisted coronal loops in the solar atmosphere may become kink-unstable when their magnetic field lines are sufficiently twisted. This instability can trigger magnetic reconnection, leading to the emission of electromagnetic radiation, which…

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An peculiar microwave quasi-periodic pulsation (QPP) accompanying with a hard X-ray (HXR) QPP of about 20 s duration occurred just before the maximum of an X6.9 solar flare on 2011 August 9. The most interesting is that the microwave QPP is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Baolin Tan , Chengming Tan

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

Decaying pulsations have been simultaneously detected in the low-energy X-rays of solar/stellar flares, which are supposed to be associated with standing slow magnetoacoustic or kink-mode waves. The physical mechanism behind rapidly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Dong Li , Jianping Li , Haisheng Ji

We analyse quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) detected in the microwave and decimeter radio emission of the SOL2017-09-05T07:04 solar flare, using simultaneous observations by the Siberian Radioheliograph 48 (SRH-48, 4-8 GHz) and Mingantu…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Larisa Kashapova , Dmitrii Kolotkov , Elena Kupriyanova , Anastasiia Kudriavtseva , Chengming Tan , Hamish Reid

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 report the simultaneous observations of quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in wavelengths of hard X-ray (HXR), microwave, Ly{\alpha}, and ultraviolet (UV) emissions during the impulsive phase of an X6.4 flare on 2024 February 22…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Dong Li , Zhenxiang Hong , Zhenyong Hou , Yang Su

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

Recent irradiance measurements from numerous heliophysics and astrophysics missions including SDO, GOES, Kepler, TESS, Chandra, XMM-Newton, and NICER have provided critical input in understanding the physics of the most powerful transient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Jeffrey W. Reep , Vladimir S. Airapetian

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

Solar flares are the most powerful explosions occurring in the solar system, which may lead to disastrous space weather events and impact various aspects of our Earth. So far, it is still a big challenge in modern astrophysics to understand…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Baolin Tan , Zhiqiang Yu , Jing Huang , Chengming Tan , Yin Zhang

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

Context. The Sun and solar-like stars undergo activity cycles for which the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. The oscillations of the Sun are known to vary with its activity cycle and these changes provide diagnostics on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 René Kiefer , Ariane Schad , Guy Davies , Markus Roth

Most studies of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares have identified characteristic periods in the 5 - 300s range. Due to observational limitations there have been few attempts to probe the < 5s period regime and understand the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Andrew R. Inglis , Laura A. Hayes

Magnetic storms on stars manifest as remarkable, randomly occurring changes of the luminosity over durations that are tiny in comparison to the normal evolution of stars. These stellar flares are bursts of electromagnetic radiation from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Adam F. Kowalski

Using RHESSI and some auxiliary observations we examine possible connections between spatial and temporal morphology of the sources of non-thermal hard X-ray (HXR) emission which revealed minute quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) during the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. V. Zimovets , A. B. Struminsky

We report a quasi-periodic pulsation (QPP) event simultaneously detected from the spatial displacements of coronal loop at both EUV images and microwave emission during the preflare phase of a C1.1 flare on 2016 March 23. Using the motion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Dong Li , Ying Li , Lei Lu , Qingmin Zhang , Zongjun Ning , Sergey Anfinogentov

We report observations of quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) during the X2.2 flare of 2011 February 15, observed simultaneously in several wavebands. We focus on fluctuations on time scale 1-30 s and find different time lags between different…

We analyze the correlation between starspots and superflares on solar-type stars using observations from the Kepler mission. The analysis shows that the observed fraction of stars with superflares decreases as the rotation period increases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Hiroyuki Maehara , Yuta Notsu , Shota Notsu , Kosuke Namekata , Satoshi Honda , Takako T. Ishii , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

We present multi-wavelength analysis of a quasi-periodic pulsation (QPP) observed in the hard X-ray, radio, and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) channels during an M1.9 flare occurred on 23-24 September 2011. The non-thermal hard X-ray emission in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Pankaj Kumar , Valery M. Nakariakov , Kyung-Suk Cho