Tag Archives: flares

202. Optimization of Solar White-Light Flare Identification Methods and Its Application

Contributed by Yijun Hou. Posted on September 24, 2024

A new method was developed to identify white-light flares (WLFs) observed in SDO/HMI continuum intensity. The new method is able to identify around 30% of C-class flares (and more percentage in stronger flares) having white light brightening associated with them, greatly expanding the total number of WLFs observed by HMI. The increased number of detections would help a statistical study of the properties of WLFs.

198. Spectro-Polarimetric Properties of Sunquake Sources and the Origin of Sunquakes

Contributed by A. G. Kosovichev. Posted on February 13, 2024

A spectro-polarimetric analysis of the sunquake sources observed during an X1.5 flare revealed transient emission in the FeI 6173Å line core, indicating intense, impulsive heating in the lower photosphere at the beginning of the flare impulsive phase.

192. Magnetic helicity and free magnetic energy as tools for probing eruptions in two differently evolving solar active regions

Contributed by Evangelia Liokati. Posted on July 29, 2023

An analysis of two active regions shows that differently evolving ARs may produce major eruptive flares even when, in addition to the accumulation of significant free magnetic energy budgets, they accumulate large amounts of both left- and right-handed helicity without a strong dominance of one handedness over the other.

187. Precursor Identification for Strong Flares Based on Anomaly Detection Algorithm

Contributed by Jingjing Wang. Posted on October 21, 2022

Some magnetic features in active regions, related to strong solar flares, are considered as “anomaly” features in a machine learning algorithm. An unsupervised auto-encoder network has been trained to identify such anomalies and is used to predict occurrence of strong flares.

174. Toward Improved Understanding of Magnetic Fields Participating in Solar Flares: Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Fields within Flare Ribbons

Contributed by Maria Kazachenko. Posted on February 24, 2022

Through analyzing a number of active regions, this analysis finds that while flares are guided by the physical properties that scale with AR size, CMEs are guided by mean properties, with little dependence on the amount of shear at the polarity inversion line or the net current.

173. Buildup of the Magnetic Flux Ropes in Homologous Solar Eruptions

Contributed by Rui Wang. Posted on February 17, 2022

This analysis shows that a new bipolar emergence, whose positive polarity collided with the pre-existing negative polarity, in AR11283 led to energy and helicity buildup in the form of magnetic flux ropes. Recurrent energy releases caused a few homologous CMEs from this region.

171. Flare-induced Sunquake Signatures in the Ultraviolet as Observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly

Contributed by Sean Quinn. Posted on November 23, 2021

Sunquakes are helioseismic waves excited by solar flares, usually observed in the photosphere. However, some of these events are found to have their counterparts in the chromosphere, as observed in the SDO/AIA UV channels.