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A comprehensive study of the physical parameters of active region fan loops is presented using the observations recorded with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS), the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on-board Hinode and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Avyarthana Ghosh , Durgesh Tripathi , G. R. Gupta , Vanessa Polito , Helen E. Mason , Sami K. Solanki

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

We compare observations of the non-flaring solar corona made simultaneously with Hinode/XRT and with RHESSI. The analyzed corona is dominated by a single active region on 12 November 2006. The comparison is made on emission measures. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 F. Reale , J. M. McTiernan , P. Testa

The EUI instrument on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the most stable, high-resolution images of the solar corona from its orbit with a perihelion near 0.4 AU. A sequence of 360 images obtained at 17.1 nm, between 25-Oct-2022…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Philip G. Judge

We present new measurements of the time variability of intensity, Doppler and non-thermal velocities in moss in an active region core observed by the EUV Imaging Spectrometer on Hinode in 2007, June. The measurements are derived from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren

Context: Long-period intensity pulsations were recently detected in the EUV emission of coronal loops, and have been attributed to cycles of plasma evaporation and condensation driven by thermal non-equilibrium (TNE). Numerical simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Gabriel Pelouze , Frédéric Auchère , Karine Bocchialini , Clara Froment , Susanna Parenti , Elie Soubrié

The Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on the Hinode spacecraft observed flare footpoint regions coincident with a surge for a M3.7 flare observed on 25 September 2011 at N12 E33 in active region 11302. The flare was observed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-30 George A. Doschek , Harry P. Warren , Brian R. Dennis , Jeffrey W. Reep , Amir Caspi

In this work we report on a cold, bright portion of an active region observed by Hinode/EIS. The emitting plasma was very bright at transition region temperatures, and the intensities of lines of ions formed between 10^5-10^6 K were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Landi , P. R. Young

We study the formation of transient loops in the core of the AR 11890. For this purpose, we have used the observations recorded by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). For photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Durgesh Tripathi

Using Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) spectra recorded daily at Sun center from the end of 2006 to early 2011, we studied the long-term evolution of the quiet corona. The light curves of the higher temperature emission lines exhibit…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-17 S. Kamio , J. T. Mariska

We report on the first Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) study of cool transition region loops. This class of loops has received little attention in the literature. A cluster of such loops was observed on the solar disk in active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Maria S. Madjarska

Active region fan loops in AR 11076 were studied, in search of oscillations, using high cadence spectroscopic observations from EIS on board Hinode combined with imaging sequences from the AIA on board SDO. Spectra from EIS were analyzed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-08 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , Jagdev Singh

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has observed bright spots at the transition region footpoints associated with heating in the overlying loops, as observed by coronal imagers. Some of these brightenings show significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Fabio Reale , Paola Testa , Antonino Petralia , David R. Graham

High resolution spectral observations of the lower solar atmosphere (chromosphere and transition region) during coronal heating events, in combination with predictions from models of impulsively heated loops, provide powerful diagnostics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Paola Testa , Helle Bakke , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Bart De Pontieu

On June 17, 2012, we observed the evolution of a C-class flare associated with the eruption of a filament near a large sunspot in the active region NOAA 11504. We obtained high spatial resolution filtergrams using the 1.6 m New Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhicheng Zeng , Jiong Qiu , Wenda Cao , Philip G. Judge

In this study, we investigate motions in the hot plasma above the flare loops during the 2017 September 10 X8.2 flare event. We examine the region to the south of the main flare arcade, where there is data from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Katharine K. Reeves , Vanessa Polito , Bin Chen , Giselle Galan , Sijie Yu , Wei Liu , Gang Li

Based on observations from the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board Hinode, the existence of a broad distribution of blue and red Dopplershift in active region loops has been revealed; the distribution of Dopplershifts depends on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 S. Regnier , R. W. Walsh

A well known behavior of EUV light curves of discrete coronal loops is that the peak intensities of cooler channels or spectral lines are reached at progressively later times than hotter channels. This time lag is understood to be the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Nicholeen M. Viall , James A. Klimchuk , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Evidence for small amounts of very hot plasma has been found in active regions and might be the indication of an impulsive heating, released at spatial scales smaller than the cross section of a single loop. We investigate the heating and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 E. Tajfirouze , F. Reale , A. Petralia , P. Testa

Solar transients and eruptive phenomena which are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere, can shed new light to the understanding of the outstanding problems like coronal heating and the solar wind acceleration. Observations in the entire…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-05 Abhishek K. Srivastava , V. M. Nakariakov , B. N. Dwivedi , Pankaj Kumar