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Measurement of the coronal magnetic field is a crucial ingredient in understanding the nature of solar coronal phenomena at all scales. We employed STEREO/COR1 data obtained during a deep minimum of solar activity in February 2008…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-06 M. Kramar , V. Airapetian , Z. Mikić , J. Davila

Context. A proper estimate of the chromospheric magnetic fields is believed to improve modelling of both active region and coronal mass ejection evolution. Aims. We investigate the similarity between the chromospheric magnetic field…

Coronal loops reveal crucial information about the nature of both coronal magnetic fields and coronal heating. The shape of the corresponding flux tube cross section and how it varies with position are especially important properties. They…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 James A. Klimchuk , Craig E. DeForest

Context: Solar flare hard X-rays (HXRs) are thought to be produced by nonthermal coronal electrons stopping in the chromosphere, or remaining trapped in the corona. The collisional thick target model (CTTM) predicts that sources produced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. O'Flannagain , P. Gallagher , J. Brown , R. Milligan , G. Holman

We have studied the large scale distribution of matter in the Chandra Deep Field South on the basis of photometric redshifts and we have identifed several over-densities between redshift 0.6 and 2.3. We analyse two of these structures using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dario Trevese , Fabrizio Fiore , Enrico Piconcelli , Marco Castellano , Laura Pentericci , Piero Ranalli , Andrea Comastri

We perform MHD modeling of a single bright coronal loop to include the interaction with a non-uniform magnetic field. The field is stressed by random footpoint rotation in the central region and its energy is dissipated into heating by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 F. Reale , S. Orlando , M. Guarrasi , A. Mignone , G. Peres , A. W. Hood , E. R. Priest

Context. High resolution magnetic field measurements are routinely done only in the solar photosphere. Higher layers like the chromosphere and corona can be modeled by extrapolating the photospheric magnetic field upward. In the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann , Sami Solanki

Polarisation measurements of solar flares at millimetre-waves were used to investigate the magnetic field configuration of the emitting sources. We analyse two solar flares (SOL2013-02-17 and SOL2013-11-05) observed by the POlarisation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Douglas F. da Silva , Paulo J. A. Simões , R. F. Hidalgo Ramírez , Adriana Válio

We studied the physical parameters of the penumbra in a large and fully-developed sunspot, one of the largest over the last two solar cycles, by using full-Stokes measurements taken at the photospheric Fe I 617.3 nm and chromospheric Ca II…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Mariarita Murabito , I. Ermolli , F. Giorgi , M. Stangalini , S. L. Guglielmino , S. Jafarzadeh , H. Socas-Navarro , P. Romano , F. Zuccarello

With the development of new instrumentation providing measurements of solar photospheric vector magnetic fields, we need to develop our understanding of the effects of current density on coronal magnetic field configurations. The object is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Regnier , E. R. Priest

We estimated the accuracy of coronal magnetic fields derived from radio observations by comparing them to potential field calculations and the DEM measurements using EUV observations. We derived line of sight component of the coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Shun Miyawaki , Kazumasa Iwai , Kiyoto Shibasaki , Daikou Shiota , Satoshi Nozawa

Aims. We use advanced 3D NLTE radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the solar atmosphere to carry out detailed tests of chromospheric diagnostics at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. Methods. We focused on the diagnostics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Maria Loukitcheva , Sami Solanki , Mats Carlsson , Stephen White

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Stasyszyn , S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , R. Beck , J. Donnert

This paper identifies spectral lines from X-ray to infrared wavelengths which are optimally suited to measuring vector magnetic fields as high as possible in the solar atmosphere. Instrumental and Earth's atmospheric properties, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 P. Judge , P. Bryans , R. Casini , L. Kleint , D. Lacatus , A. Paraschiv , D. Schmit

At hard X-ray energies, the bright footpoint emission from solar flare loops often prevents a detailed analysis of the weaker loop-top source morphology due to the limited dynamic range available for X-ray imaging. Here, we study the X1.3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Frederic Effenberger , Fatima Rubio da Costa , Vahe Petrosian

We study the height variations of the sizes of chromospheric and transition-region features in a small coronal hole and the adjacent quiet Sun, considering images of the intensity, Doppler shift, and non-thermal motion of ultraviolet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 H. Tian , E. Marsch , C. -Y. Tu , L. -D. Xia , J. -S. He

The dynamical state of star-forming molecular clouds cannot be understood without determining the structure and strength of their magnetic fields. Measurements of polarized far-infrared radiation from thermally aligned dust grains are used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Heitsch , E. G. Zweibel , M. -M. Mac Low , P. S. Li , M. L. Norman

Recent measurements of vertical extents and positions of the chromospheric hard X-ray (HXR) flare sources based on Ramaty High-Energy Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) observations show a significant inconsistency with the theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Z. Moravec , M. Varady , J. Kasparova , D. Kramolis

We propose a new method for retrieving the atmospheric number density profile in the lower thermosphere, based on the X-ray Earth occultation of the Crab Nebula with the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (\emph{Insight}-HXMT) Satellite. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-08 Daochun Yu , Haitao Li , Baoquan Li , Mingyu Ge , Youli Tuo , Xiaobo Li , Wangchen Xue , Yaning Liu

Red-shifted components of chromospheric emission lines in the hard X-ray impulsive phase of solar flares have recently been studied through their 30 s evolution with the high resolution of IRIS. Radiative-hydrodynamic flare models show that…