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This letter explores the relevance of nanoflare based models for heating the quiet sun corona. Using metrewave data from the Murchison Widefield Array, we present the first successful detection of impulsive emissions down to flux densities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi , Atul Mohan

In this paper, we report our multiwavelength observations of the C4.2 circular-ribbon flare in active region (AR) 12434 on 2015 October 16. The short-lived flare was associated with positive magnetic polarities and a negative polarity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Q. M. Zhang , D. Li , Z. J. Ning , Y. N. Su , H. S. Ji , Y. Guo

We study the relationship between implosive motions in a solar flare, and the energy redistribution in the form of oscillatory structures and particle acceleration. The flare SOL2012-03-09T03:53 (M6.4) shows clear evidence for an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. J. A. Simões , L. Fletcher , H. S. Hudson , A. J. B. Russell

The steep power-law dependence of element abundance enhancements on the mass-to-charge ratios [A/Q] of the ions in impulsive solar energetic-particle (SEP) events causes these enhancements to reflect the temperature-dependent pattern of Q…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Donald V. Reames , Edward W. Cliver , Stephen W. Kahler

How the solar corona is heated to high temperatures remains an unsolved mystery in solar physics. In the present study we analyse observations of 50 whole active-region loops taken with the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Haixia Xie , Maria S. Madjarska , Bo Li , Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Thomas Wiegelmann , Hui Fu , Chaozhou Mou

Minimal observational evidence exists for fast transition region (TR) upflows in the presence of cool loops. Observations of such occurrences challenge notions of standard solar atmospheric heating models, as well as their description of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 N. B. Orange , D. L. Chesny , H. M. Oluseyi , K. Hesterly , M. Patel , P. R. Champey

Impulsive solar energetic particle (SEP) events originate from the energy dissipation process in small solar flares. Anomalous abundances in impulsive SEP events provide an evidence on unique, yet unclear, acceleration mechanism. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 N. -H. Chen , R. Bučík , R. -S. Kim

Using multiwavelength imaging observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on 03 May 2012, we present a novel physical scenario for the formation of a temporary X-point in the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. K. Srivastava , Sudheer K. Mishra , P. Jelínek , Tanmoy Samanta , Hui Tian , Vaibhav Pant , P. Kayshap , D. Banerjee , J. G. Doyle , B. N. Dwivedi

We study the high frequency dynamics in the braided magnetic structure of an active region (AR 11520) moss as observed by High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C). We detect quasi periodic flows and waves in these structures. We search for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 V Pant , A Datta , Dipankar Banerjee

We investigate the chromospheric evaporation in the flare of 2007 January 16 using line profiles observed by the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) onboard Hinode. Three points at flare ribbons of different magnetic polarities are analyzed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-18 Y. Li , M. D. Ding

We analyse the coronal elemental abundances during a small flare using Hinode/EIS observations. Compared to the pre-flare elemental abundances, we observed a strong increase in coronal abundance of Ca XIV 193.84 {\AA}, an emission line with…

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

Solar flare electron acceleration is an efficient process, but its properties (mechanism, location) are not well constrained. Via hard X-ray (HXR) emission, we routinely observe energetic electrons at the Sun, and sometimes we detect…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-09 Ross Pallister , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey

We investigate the acceleration source of the impulsive solar energetic particle (SEP) events on 2007 January 24. Combining the in situ electron measurements and remote-sensing solar observations, as well as the calculated magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-27 C. Li , S. A. Matthews , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , J. Sun , C. J. Owen

A blowout jet occurred within the south coronal hole on 9 February 2011 at 09:00 UT and was observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Peter Young , Karin Muglach

The solar corona consists of a million-degree Kelvin plasma. A complete understanding of this phenomenon demands the study of Quiet Sun (QS) regions. In this work, we study QS regions in the 171 {\AA}, 193 {\AA} and 211 {\AA} passbands of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-02 Vishal Upendran , Durgesh Tripathi

Recent studies undoubtedly demonstrate that the magnetic field in the photosphere and corona is an intermittent structure, which offers new views on the underlying physics. In particular, such problems as the existence in the corona of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Valentyna Abramenko , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Haimin Wang

Context. The relative importance of AC and DC heating in maintaining the temperature of the corona is not well constrained. Aims. Investigate the effects of the characteristic time scales of photospheric driving on the injection and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Lianne Fyfe

Reported observations in H-alpha, Ca II H and K or or other chromospheric lines of coronal rain trace back to the days of the Skylab mission. Offering a high contrast in intensity with respect to the background (either bright in emission if…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 P. Antolin , K. Shibata

On 2014 March 29, an intense solar flare classified as X1.0 occurred in the active region 12017. Several associated phenomena accompanied this event, among them a fast-filament eruption, large-scale propagating disturbances in the corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Denis P. Cabezas , Ayumi Asai , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Takahito Sakaue , Satoru UeNo , Jose K. Ishitsuka , Kazunari Shibata