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The Sun's corona is millions of degrees hotter than its 5,000 K photosphere. This heating enigma is typically addressed by invoking the deposition at coronal heights of non-thermal energy generated by the interplay between convection and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Bart De Pontieu , Scott W. McIntosh , Viggo H. Hansteen , Carolus J. Schrijver

Any successful model of coronal loops must explain a number of observed properties. For warm (~ 1 MK) loops, these include: 1. excess density, 2. flat temperature profile, 3. super-hydrostatic scale height, 4. unstructured intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. A. Klimchuk , J. T. Karpen , S. K. Antiochos

Decayless kink oscillations are ubiquitously observed in active region coronal loops with an almost constant amplitude for several cycles. Decayless kink oscillations of coronal loops triggered by coronal rain have been analysed, but the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Arpit Kumar Shrivastav , Vaibhav Pant , Patrick Antolin

Using the observations recorded by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on-board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) and X-Ray Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 G. R. Gupta , Aveek Sarkar , Durgesh Tripathi

We show that the coronal heating and the fast solar wind acceleration in the coronal holes are natural consequence of the footpoint fluctuations of the magnetic fields at the photosphere, by performing one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Alfv\'enic waves have been proposed as an important energy transport mechanism in coronal loops, capable of delivering energy to both the corona and chromosphere and giving rise to many observed features, of flaring and quiescent regions.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Jeffrey W. Reep , Alexander J. B. Russell , Lucas A. Tarr , James E. Leake

One scenario proposed to explain the million degrees solar corona is a finely-stranded corona where each strand is heated by a rapid pulse. However, such fine structure has neither been resolved through direct imaging observations nor…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Fabio Reale , Massimiliano Guarrasi , Paola Testa , Edward E. DeLuca , Giovanni Peres , Leon Golub

We present numerical simulations in 3D settings where coronal rain phenomena take place in a magnetic configuration of a quadrupolar arcade system. Our simulation is a magnetohydrodynamic simulation including anisotropic thermal conduction,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 S. P. Moschou , R. Keppens , C. Xia , X. Fang

Kink oscillations of a coronal loop are observed and studied in detail because they provide a unique probe into the structure of coronal loops through MHD seismology and a potential test of coronal heating through the phase-mixing of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 P. Pagano , D. J. Pascoe , I. De Moortel

There are ubiquitous flows observed in the solar atmosphere of sub-Alfv\'{e}nic speeds, however after flaring and coronal mass ejection events flows can become Alfv\'{e}nic. In this Letter, we derive an expression for the standing kink mode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Terradas , I. Arregui , G. Verth , M. Goossens

We observed quiescent coronal loops using multi-wavelength observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on 2016 April 13. The flows at the footpoints of such loop systems are studied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Yamini K. Rao , Abhishek K. Srivastava , Pradeep Kayshap , Bhola N. Dwivedi

Coronal loops are the basic structures of the solar transition region and corona. The understanding of physical mechanism behind the loop heating, plasma flows, and filling are still considered a major challenge in the solar physics. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 G. R. Gupta , Durgesh Tripathi , Helen E. Mason

Observations and simulations of coronal rain show that as cold and dense plasma falls through the corona it initially undergoes acceleration by gravity before the downward velocity saturates. Simulations have shown the emergence of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Andrew Hillier , Ramon Oliver , David Martínez-Gómez

Flare-driven coronal rain can manifest from rapidly cooled plasma condensations near coronal loop-tops in thermally unstable post-flare arcades. We detect 5 phases that characterise the post-flare decay: heating, evaporation, conductive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 E. Scullion , L. Rouppe Van Der Voort , P. Antolin , S. Wedemeyer , G. Vissers , E. P. Kontar , P. Gallagher

Employing Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) multi-wavelength images, we report the coronal condensation during the magnetic reconnection (MR) between a system of open and closed coronal loops. Higher-lying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Leping Li , Jun Zhang , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Jiangtao Su , Chun Xia , Hongqiang Song , Yijun Hou

Coronal loops are the basic building block of the upper solar atmosphere. Comprehending how these are energized, structured, and evolve is key to understanding stellar coronae. Here we investigate how the energy to heat the loop is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 C. Breu , H. Peter , R. Cameron , S. K. Solanki , D. Przybylski , M. Rempel , L. P. Chitta

Recent observations have shown that besides the characteristic multi-million degree component the corona also contains a large amount of cool material called coronal rain, whose clumps are 10 - 100 times cooler and denser than the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Seray Sahin , Patrick Antolin

The heating of the Sun's corona has been explained by several different mechanisms including wave dissipation and magnetic reconnection. While both have been shown capable of supplying the requisite power, neither has been used in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-20 Kai E. Yang , Dana W. Longcope , M. D. Ding , Yang Guo

The quiet solar coronal heating problem and the observed center-to-limb wavelength variations of the solar lines (limb effect) can be explained. In this paper the quantitative calculations for these two phenomena are presented.

General Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Yi-Jia Zheng

Cool ($\approx 10^4$K), dense material permeates the hot ($\approx 10^6$K), tenuous solar corona in form of coronal condensations, for example prominences and coronal rain. As the solar atmosphere evolves, turbulence can drive mixing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Ben Snow , Chris Osborne , Andrew Hillier