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The solar transition region (TR) is a narrow interface between the chromosphere and corona, where emitted radiation contains critical information pertinent to coronal heating processes. We conducted 2-dimensional radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Takuma Matsumoto

Modelling the solar Transition Region with the use of an Adaptive Conduction (TRAC) method permits fast and accurate numerical solutions of the field-aligned hydrodynamic equations, capturing the enthalpy exchange between the corona and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 C. D. Johnston , P. J. Cargill , A. W. Hood , I. De Moortel , S. J. Bradshaw , A. C. Vaseekar

The study examines the heating profile of hot solar transition region loops, particularly focusing on transient brightenings observed in IRIS 1400{\AA} slit-jaw images. The findings challenge the adequacy of simplistic, singular heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Shah Mohammad Bahauddin , Stephen J Bradshaw

The extreme ultraviolet portion of the solar spectrum contains a wealth of diagnostic tools for probing the lower solar atmosphere in response to an injection of energy, particularly during the impulsive phase of solar flares. These include…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Ryan O. Milligan

The initiation phase of CMEs is a very important aspect of solar physics, as these phenomena ultimately drive space weather in the heliosphere. This phase is known to occur between the photosphere and low corona, where many models introduce…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jason P. Byrne , Huw Morgan , Dan B. Seaton , Hazel M. Bain , Shadia R. Habbal

The existence of density-bounded HII regions in spiral galaxies is supported by means of a spectral indicator based on the intensity of the [OI]6300A forbidden line. A grid of photoionization models providing spectral information of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Iglesias-Paramo , C. Munoz-Tunon

Waves are important for the heating of the solar corona and the acceleration of the solar wind. We have examined a long spectral time series of a northern coronal hole observed on the 20th October 1996, with the SUMER spectrometer onboard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-17 G. R. Gupta , E. O'Shea , D. Banerjee , M. Popescu , J. G. Doyle

We analyzed a coronal loop observed with the Normal Incidence Spectrometer (NIS), which is part of the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The measured Doppler shifts and proper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Gontikakis , G. J. D. Petrie , H. C. Dara , K. Tsinganos

Recently observed oscillations in the solar atmosphere have been interpreted and modeled as magnetohydrodynamic wave modes. This has allowed the estimation of parameters that are otherwise hard to derive, such as the coronal magnetic-field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-07 Jack Ireland , Michael S. Marsh , Therese A. Kucera , Christopher A. Young

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has been obtaining near- and far-ultraviolet images and spectra of the solar atmosphere since July 2013. The unique combination of near and far-ultraviolet spectra and images at subarcsecond…

In this paper, we analyze the high-resolution UV spectra for a C1.7 solar flare (SOL2017-09-09T06:51) observed by the \textit{Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph} (\textit{IRIS}). {We focus on the spectroscopic observations at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Yi-An Zhou , Y. Li , M. D. Ding , Jie Hong , Ke Yu

We present joint Hinode/EIS and IRIS observations of Fe XII lines in active regions, both on-disk and off-limb. We use an improved calibration for the EIS data, and find that the 192.4 A / 1349 A observed ratio is consistent with the values…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-15 G. Del Zanna , V. Polito , J. Dudík , P. Testa , H. E. Mason , E. Dzifčáková

We report on the plasma properties of small-scale transient events identified in the quiet Sun, coronal holes and their boundaries. We use spectroscopic co-observations from SUMER/SoHO and EIS/Hinode combined with high cadence imaging data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. S. Madjarska , Z. Huang , J. G. Doyle , S. Subramanian

Using a full spectral scan of an active region from the Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) we have obtained Emission Measure EM$(T)$ distributions in two different moss regions within the same active region. We have compared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Durgesh Tripathi , Helen E. Mason , James A. Klimchuk

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) reveals small-scale rapid brightenings in the form of bright grains all over coronal holes and the quiet sun. These bright grains are seen with the IRIS 1330 \AA, 1400 \AA\ and 2796 \AA\…

Aims: To understand the contribution of active region and flare plasmas to the $\lambda$195 channels of SOHO/EIT (Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) and TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer). Methods: We have analysed an M8…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 D. Tripathi , G. Del Zanna , H. E. Mason , C. Chifor

The aim of this work is to identify the true nature of the transient EUV brightenings, called blinkers. Co-spatial and co-temporal multi-instrument data, including imaging (EUVI/STEREO, XRT and SOT/Hinode), spectroscopic (CDS/SoHO and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Subramanian , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , D. Bewsher

We analyze the evolution of shock waves in high-resolution 3D radiative MHD simulations of the quiet Sun and their synthetic emission characteristics. The simulations model the dynamics of a 12.8x12.8x15.2 Mm quiet-Sun region (including a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 Viacheslav M. Sadykov , Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Alan A. Wray

Multi-wavelength solar images in the EUV are routinely used for analysing solar features such as coronal holes, filaments, and flares. However, images taken in different bands often look remarkably similar as each band receives…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Dudok de Wit , S. Moussaoui , C. Guennou , F. Auchère , G. Cessateur , M. Kretzschmar , L. A. Vieira , F. F. Goryaev

The composition of the solar corona differs from that of the photosphere, with the plasma thought to fractionate in the solar chromosphere according to the First Ionisation Potential (FIP) of the different elements. This produces a FIP…