SADCat: A Catalog of Supra-Arcade Downflow Events in Solar Flares
arXiv:2607.03697 · doi:10.1007/s11207-026-02708-z
Abstract
Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are sunward-traveling features routinely observed in hot fan structures above magnetic loop arcades during eruptive solar flares. We manually compiled a catalog (SADCat) of 178 SAD-productive flares imaged by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) during solar cycle 24 as a resource for the wider solar flare community. We conducted a preliminary analysis of the SADCat, comparing the flare X-ray and CME properties between eruptive solar flares with and without SADs. We found that peak GOES X-ray flux, flare duration, CME speed, and CME mass have a strong influence on whether a flare produces visible SADs, whereas flare impulsivity and CME acceleration have little effect.
20 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in Solar Physics
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