On the Nature of Candle-Flame-Shaped Solar Flares and Sub-Alfvénic Supra-Arcade Plasma Downflows

Ivan Oparin, Sabastian Fernandes, Bin Chen +4

Certain solar flares exhibit a distinctive candle-flame or cusp-shaped feature above the bright flare arcade visible in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray channels sensitive to hi…