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Most solar flares demonstrate a prolonged, hourlong post-flare (or gradual) phase, characterized by arcade-like, post-flare loops (PFLs) visible in many extreme ultraviolet (EUV) passbands. These coronal loops are filled with hot -- $\sim…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Wenzhi Ruan , Yuhao Zhou , Rony Keppens

In the quest to solve the long-standing coronal heating problem, it has been suggested half a century ago that coronal loops could be heated by waves. Despite the accumulating observational evidence of the possible importance of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Mijie Shi , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Mingzhe Guo , Konstantinos Karampelas , Bo Li , Patrick Antolin

In a magnetised plasma on scales well above ion kinetic scales, any constant-magnitude magnetic field, accompanied by parallel Alfv\'enic flows, forms a nonlinear solution in an isobaric, constant-density background. These structures, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Jonathan Squire , Alfred Mallet

The profiles of emission lines formed in the corona contain information on the dynamics and the heating of the hot plasma. Only recently has data with sufficiently high spectral resolution become available for investigating the details of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 H. Peter

The origin of the solar wind is one of the most important unresolved prob- lems in space and solar physics. We report here the first spectroscopic signatures of the nascent fast solar wind on the basis of observations made by the EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-12 H. Tian , C. -Y. Tu , E. Marsch , J. -S. He , S. Kamio

Observations have shown a clear association of filament/prominence eruptions with the emergence of magnetic flux in or near filament channels. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been employed to systematically study the conditions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 T. Török , M. G. Linton , J. E. Leake , Z. Mikić , R. Lionello , V. S. Titov , C. Downs

We study a self-similar circulation model for protostellar bipolar outflows. The model is axisymmetric and stationary, and now includes Poynting flux. Compared to an earlier version of the model, this addition produces faster and more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thibaut Lery , Richard N. Henriksen , Jason D. Fiege

We present an observational study of the plasma dynamics at the base of a solar coronal jet, using high resolution extreme ultraviolet imaging data taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on board Solar Orbiter, and by the Atmospheric…

2d hydrodynamical simulations are performed to examine the evaporation and condensation processes of giant molecular clouds in the hot phase of the interstellar medium. The evolution of cold and dense clouds is calculated in the subsonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wolfgang Vieser , Gerhard Hensler

Observations of solar prominences reveal a complex, dynamic flow field within them. The flow field within quiescent prominences is characterized by long ``threads'' and dark ``bubbles'' that fall and rise (respectively) in a thin sheet. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-23 Neal Hurlburt , Thomas Berger

Alfven waves created by sub-photospheric motions or by magnetic reconnection in the low solar atmosphere seem good candidates for coronal heating. However, the corona is also likely to be heated more directly by magnetic reconnection, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Antolin , K. Shibata , T. Kudoh , D. Shiota , D. Brooks

Although it is widely accepted that photospheric motions provide the energy source and that the magnetic field must play a key role in the process, the detailed mechanisms responsible for heating the Sun's corona and accelerating the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Roberto Lionello , Marco Velli , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Zoran Mikić

Plumes have been proposed to channel MHD waves and the solar wind into the heliosphere. High-speed propagating disturbances (PDs), though well detected in plumes, cannot yet be clearly assigned to MHD waves or to mass flows. Additionally,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Ziwen Huang , L. P. Chitta , L. Teriaca , R. Aznar Cuadrado , H. Peter , S. K. Solanki , T. Wiegelmann , F. Plaschke

Observations show that winds can be driven from the innermost region (inside a 50 Schwarschild radius) of a thin disk. It is interesting to study the winds launched from the innermost region. A hot corona above the black hole (BH) thin disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 Xiao-Hong Yang , De-Fu Bu , Qi-Xiu Li

Although the solar wind flows primarily outward from the Sun to interplanetary space, there are times when small-scale plasma inflows are observed. Inward-propagating density fluctuations in polar coronal holes were detected by the COR2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Steven R. Cranmer , Craig E. DeForest , Sarah E. Gibson

We use local stratified shearing-box simulations to elucidate the impact of two-temperature thermodynamics on the thermal structure of coronae in radiatively efficient accretion flows. Rather than treating the coronal plasma as an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 Christopher J. Bambic , Eliot Quataert , Matthew W. Kunz

Polar corona is often explored to find the energy source for the acceleration of the fast solar wind. Earlier observations show omni-presence of quasi-periodic disturbances, travelling outward, which is believed to be caused by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-16 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , G. R. Gupta

Decayless kink oscillations are frequently observed in solar coronal loops and are considered potential contributors to coronal heating. Despite the ubiquity of this wave phenomenon, its driving mechanism remains unclear. Studies to derive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sudip Mandal , Cosima Breu , Hardi Peter

We conducted a high-resolution numerical simulation of the solar corona above a stable active region. The aim is to test the field-line braiding mechanism for a sufficient coronal energy input. We also check the applicability of scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

Plasma loops or plumes rooted in sunspot umbrae often harbor downflows with speeds of 100 km/s. These downflows are supersonic at transition region temperatures of 0.1 MK. The source of these flows is not well understood. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 Hechao Chen , Hui Tian , Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Zhenyong Hou