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Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) coronal dimmings are often observed in response to solar eruptive events. These phenomena can be generated via several different physical processes. For space weather, the most important of these is the temporary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 James Paul Mason , Thomas N. Woods , David F. Webb , Barbara J. Thompson , Robin C. Colaninno , Angelos Vourlidas

On May 8, 2024, solar active region 13664 produced an X-class flare, several M-class flares, and multiple Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). The initial CME caused coronal dimmings, characterized by localized reductions in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-25 Shantanu Jain , Tatiana Podladchikova , Astrid M. Veronig , Galina Chikunova , Karin Dissauer , Mateja Dumbovic , Amaia Razquin

Aims: Emission line profiles from solar coronal loops exhibit properties that are unexplained by current models. We investigate the non-thermal broadening associated with plasma heating in coronal loops that is induced by magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-28 D. I. Pontin , H. Peter , L. P. Chitta

Coronal dimming of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emission has the potential to be a useful forecaster of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). As emitting material leaves the corona, a temporary void is left behind which can be observed in spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 J. P. Mason , T. N. Woods , A. Caspi , B. J. Thompson , R. A. Hock

Coronal dimmings are distinct phenomena associated to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The study of coronal dimmings and the extraction of their characteristic parameters helps us to obtain additional information of CMEs, especially on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Karin Dissauer , Astrid M. Veronig , Manuela Temmer , Tatiana Podladchikova , Kamalam Vanninathan

Observations of the off-limb corona with the SWAP wide-field telescope in the 174\,\AA\ passband onboard the PROBA2 mission provide an opportunity to study post-eruptive processes in the dimming regions. We investigate morphology, temporal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-26 F. Goryaev , V. Slemzin , D. Rodkin

We have measured the widths of spectral lines from a polar coronal hole using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer onboard Hinode. Polar coronal holes are regions of open magnetic field and the source of the fast solar wind. We find…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Michael Hahn , Enrico Landi , Daniel Wolf Savin

We report observations of a two-stage coronal dimming in an eruptive event of a two-ribbon flare and a fast coronal mass ejection (CME). Weak gradual dimming persists for more than half an hour before the onset of the two-ribbon flare and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-11 Jiong Qiu , Jianxia Cheng

The magnetic processes associated with the non-thermal broadening of optically thin emission lines appear to carry enough energy to heat the corona and accelerate the solar wind. We investigate whether non-thermal motions in cool stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 S. Boro Saikia , T. Lueftinger , V. S. Airapetian , T. Ayres , M. Bartel , M. Guedel , M. Jin , K. G. Kislyakova , P. Testa

We study a coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with an X-class flare, whose initiation is clearly observed in low corona with high-cadence, high-resolution EUV images, providing us a rare opportunity to witness the early evolution of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-26 Rui Liu , Yuming Wang , Chenglong Shen

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are often associated with coronal dimmings, i.e. transient dark regions that are most distinctly observed in Extreme Ultra-violet (EUV) wavelengths. Using Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) data, we apply…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Kamalam Vanninathan , Astrid M. Veronig , Karin Dissauer , Manuela Temmer

Coronal holes are the darkest and least active regions of the Sun, as observed both on the solar disk and above the solar limb. Coronal holes are associated with rapidly expanding open magnetic fields and the acceleration of the high-speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Steven R. Cranmer

Explosive energy release in the solar atmosphere is driven magnetically, but mechanisms triggering the onset of the eruption remain in debate. In the case of flares and CMEs, ideal or non-ideal instabilities usually occur in the corona, but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Jiong Qiu

We present a statistical analysis of 43 coronal dimming events, associated with Earth-directed CMEs that occurred during the period of quasi-quadrature of the SDO and STEREO satellites. We studied coronal dimmings that were observed above…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Galina Chikunova , Karin Dissauer , Tatiana Podladchikova , Astrid M. Veronig

The study of fast, eruptive events in the low solar corona is one of the science objectives of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) imagers on the recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which take full disk images in ten…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , G. Stenborg

We present the results from analyzing the physical and morphological properties of 154 dimmings (transient coronal holes) and the associated flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Each dimming in our 2013 catalog was processed with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Larisza D. Krista , Alysha A. Reinard

In this paper, we focus on the pre-flare coronal dimmings. We report our multiwavelength observations of the GOES X1.6 solar flare and the accompanying halo CME produced by the eruption of a sigmoidal magnetic flux rope (MFR) in NOAA active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Q. M. Zhang , Y. N. Su , H. S. Ji

Interest in stealth coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is increasing due to their relatively high occurrence rate and space weather impact. However, typical CME signatures such as extreme-ultraviolet dimmings and post-eruptive arcades are hard…

We present observations and modeling of the magnetic field configuration, morphology, and dynamics of a large-scale, high-latitude filament eruption observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. We analyze the 2015 July 9-10 filament eruption…

We present simulations modeling closed regions of the solar corona threaded by a strong magnetic field where localized photospheric vortical motions twist the coronal field lines. The linear and nonlinear dynamics are investigated in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-20 A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli , G. Einaudi