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The study examines the heating profile of hot solar transition region loops, particularly focusing on transient brightenings observed in IRIS 1400{\AA} slit-jaw images. The findings challenge the adequacy of simplistic, singular heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Shah Mohammad Bahauddin , Stephen J Bradshaw

Recent observations show cool, oscillating prominence threads fading when observed in cool spectral lines and appearing in warm spectral lines. A proposed mechanism to explain this evolution is that the threads were heated by turbulence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrew Hillier , Inigo Arregui

Strongly damped Doppler shift oscillations are observed frequently associated with flarelike events in hot coronal loops. In this paper, a review of the observed properties and the theoretical modeling is presented. Statistical measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 Tongjiang Wang

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

We investigate the impact of turbulent suppression of parallel heat conduction on the cooling of post-flare coronal loops. Depending on the value of the mean free path $\lambda_T$ associated with the turbulent scattering process, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Nicolas H. Bian , Jonathan M. Watters , Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie

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

A significant impediment to solving the coronal heating problem is that we currently only observe active region (AR) loops in their cooling phase. Previous studies showed that the evolution of cooling loop densities and apex temperatures…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 David H. Brooks , Jeffrey W. Reep , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , John E. Unverferth , Harry P. Warren

We model a coronal loop as a bundle of seven separate strands or filaments. Each of the loop strands used in this model can independently be heated (near their left footpoints) by Alfv\'en/ion-cyclotron waves via wave-particle interactions.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Bourouaine , E. Marsch

The expansion of coronal loops in the transition region may considerably influence the diagnostics of the plasma emission measure. The cross sectional area of the loops is expected to depend on the temperature and pressure, and might be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Guarrasi , F. Reale , S. Orlando , A. Mignone , J. A. Klimchuk

Condensations in the more than 10^6 K hot corona of the Sun are commonly observed in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV). While their contribution to the total solar EUV radiation is still a matter of debate, these condensations certainly provide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-06 H. Peter , S. Bingert , S. Kamio

The thermal stability of rotating, stratified, unmagnetized atmospheres is studied by means of linear-perturbation analysis, finding stability, overstability or instability, depending on the properties of the gas distribution, but also on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Carlo Nipoti

Radiative losses play a critical role in the cooling of plasmas. When chromospheric plasma is sufficiently heated, it can flow into coronal loops which subsequently cool down due to radiation. From observations, we infer that this cooling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Luke Fushimi Benavitz , Jeffrey W. Reep , Lucas A. Tarr , Andy S. H. To

Parker (1972) first proposed that coronal heating was the necessary outcome of an energy flux caused by the tangling of coronal magnetic field lines by photospheric flows. In this paper we discuss how this model has been modified by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 G. Einaudi , R. B. Dahlburg , I. Ugarte-Urra , J. W. Reep , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli

A large part of the hot corona consists of magnetically confined, bright plasma loops. These observed loops are in turn structured into bright strands. We investigate the relationship between magnetic field geometry, plasma properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 C. A. Breu , D. I. Pontin , E. Priest , I. De Moortel

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

Observed spectral profiles of emission lines from the corona are found to have widths exceeding the thermal line width. To investigate the physical mechanism, we run a 3D MHD model of a single, straightened loop in which we partially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 C. A. Breu , H. Peter , S. K. Solanki , R. Cameron , I. De Moortel

Increasingly realistic simulations of the corona are used to predict synthetic observables for instruments onboard both existing and upcoming heliophysics space missions. Synthetic observables play an important role in constraining coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Cosima Alexandra Breu , Ineke De Moortel , Hardi Peter , Sami Khan Solanki

We present simulations of a model for the formation of a prominence condensation in a coronal loop. The key idea behind the model is that the spatial localization of loop heating near the chromosphere leads to a catastrophic cooling in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Spiro K. Antiochos , Peter J. MacNeice , Daniel S. Spicer , James , A. Klimchuk

Long-time high-resolution simulations of the dynamics of a coronal loop in cartesian geometry are carried out, within the framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD), to understand coronal heating driven by motion of field lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli , G. Einaudi , R. B. Dahlburg

We present a series of numerical simulations aimed at understanding the nature and origin of turbulence in coronal loops in the framework of the Parker model for coronal heating. A coronal loop is studied via reduced magnetohydrodynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli , G. Einaudi