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The quiet solar corona consists of myriads of loop-like features, with magnetic fields originating from network and internetwork regions on the solar surface. The continuous interaction between these different magnetic patches leads to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , P. R. Young

Context. Recent observations by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board Solar Orbiter have characterized prevalent small-scale transient brightenings in the corona above the quiet Sun termed campfires. Aims. In this study we search…

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Explosive events are small transition region phenomena characterised by broad non-Gaussian wings in their line profiles. Images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) give a first view of the plasma dynamics at the sites of explosive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Davina Innes , Luca Teriaca

Universal small-scale solar activity in quiet region are suggested to be a potential source of solar wind and the upper solar atmosphere. Here, with the high-resoltion 174 \AA~imaging observations from the Solar Orbiter/Extreme Ultraviolet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 Yadan Duan , Hechao Chen , Zhenyong Hou , Zheng Sun , Yuandeng Shen

One of the many outcomes of the Solar Orbiter mission is the evidence for the solar atmosphere being filled by highly impulsive bursts, down to about 200 km scale: the limit of the EUV instruments' spatial resolution. Small-scale events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Susanna Parenti

We study the association of solar flares with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) during the deep, extended solar minimum of 2007-2009, using extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and white-light (coronagraph) images from the {\it Solar Terrestrial Relations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 N. V. Nitta , M. J. Aschwanden , S. L. Freeland , J. R. Lemen , J. -P. Wülser , D. M. Zarro

Solar coronal jets are frequently occurring collimated ejections of solar plasma, originating from magnetically mixed polarity locations on the Sun of size scale comparable to that of a supergranule. Many, if not most, coronal jets are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-28 Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Navdeep K. Panesar , Tanmoy Samanta , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Sabrina L. Savage

Stealth coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are eruptions from the Sun that have no obvious low coronal signature. These CMEs are characteristically slower events, but can still be geoeffective and affect space weather at Earth. Therefore,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Jennifer O'kane , Lucie Green , David M. Long , Hamish Reid

Context: Photospheric flows create a network of often mixed-polarity magnetic field in the quiet Sun, where small-scale eruptions and network flares are commonly seen. Aims: The aim of this paper is (1) to describe the characteristics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 R. Attie , D. E. Innes , S. K. Solanki , K. H. Glassmeier

Brightenings observed in the solar extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) images are generally interpreted as signatures of micro- or nanoflares occurring at the transition region or coronal temperatures. Recent observations with the Extreme Ultraviolet…

A recent study carried out on high sensitivity SUNRISE/IMAX data has reported about the existence of areas of limited flux emergence in the quiet Sun. By exploiting an independent and longer (4 hours) data set acquired by HINODE/SOT, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Stangalini

Recent discoveries have revealed exoplanets orbiting young Sun-like stars, offering a window into the early solar system. These young stars frequently produce extreme magnetic explosions known as superflares, roughly once a day, potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Kosuke Namekata

The content of hot material in the corona is not constant. Soft X-ray and high-temperature EUV line observations show that new material, apparently heated and evaporated from the chromosphere, is frequently injected into the corona both in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Arnold O. Benz , Paolo C. Grigis

Twisting motions of different nature are observed in several layers of the solar atmosphere. Chromospheric sunspot whorls and rotation of sunspots or even higher up in the lower corona sigmoids are examples of the large scale twisted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Attie , D. E. Innes , H. E. Potts

Microflares are small dynamic signatures observed in X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet channels. Because of their impulsive emission enhancements and wide distribution, they are thought to be closely related to coronal heating. By using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-01 Fayu Jiang , Jun Zhang , Shuhong Yang

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 investigate the morphology and temporal variability of a quiet Sun network region in different solar layers. The emission in several EUV spectral lines through both raster and slot time series, recorded by EIS/Hinode is studied along…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-26 Ioannis Kontogiannis , Costis Gontikakis , Georgia Tsiropoula , Kostas Tziotziou

Solar mini-dimmings can be detect in the Extreme Ultra-Violet coro- nal eruptions. Here, sequences of 171 A images taken by Solar Dynamic Observa- tory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembaly on 13 June 2010 are used. In this special day, both of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-11 Nasibe Alipour , Hossein Safari

We investigated mini-filament (MF) eruptions near coronal hole (CH) boundaries to explore their role in coronal dynamics and their potential contributions to the solar wind. Using high-resolution H$\alpha$ images from the 1.6m Goode Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Nengyi Huang , Haimin Wang

Small-scale eruptions could play an important role in coronal heating, generation of solar energetic particles (SEPs), and mass source of the solar wind. However, they are poorly observed, and their characteristics, distributions, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , Xiaowei Zhao , Huidong Hu
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