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The analysis of quickly damped transverse oscillations of solar coronal loops using magneto-hydrodynamic seismology allow us to infer physical parameters that are difficult to measure otherwise. Under the assumption that such damped…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Asensio Ramos , I. Arregui

Coronal loops trace out bipolar, arch-like magnetic fields above the Sun's surface. Recent measurements that combine rotational tomography, extreme ultraviolet imaging, and potential-field extrapolation have shown the existence of large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Avery J. Schiff , Steven R. Cranmer

Magnetic loops are building blocks of the closed-field corona. While active region loops are readily seen in images taken at EUV and X-ray wavelengths, quiet Sun loops are seldom identifiable and therefore difficult to study on an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhenguang Huang , Richard A. Frazin , Enrico Landi , Ward B. Manchester , Alberto M. Vásquez , Tamas I. Gombosi

Coronal seismology is extensively used to estimate properties of the corona, e.g. the coronal magnetic field strength are derived from oscillations observed in coronal loops. We present a three-dimensional coronal simulation including a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Feng Chen , Hardi Peter

Coronal loops are building blocks of solar active regions. However, their formation mechanism is still not well understood. Here we present direct observational evidence for the formation of coronal loops through magnetic reconnection as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Zhenyong Hou , Hui Tian , Hechao Chen , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Zhenghua Huang , Xianyong Bai , Jiansen He , Yongliang Song , Lidong Xia

The solar corona is host to a continuous flow of propagating disturbances (PD). These are continuous and ubiquitous across broad regions of the corona, including the quiet Sun. The aim of this paper is to present an improved, efficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Huw Morgan , Marianna Korsos

Current coronal holes segmentation methods typically rely on image thresholding and require non-trivial image pre- and post-processing. We have trained a neural network that accurately isolates CHs from SDO/AIA 193 Angstrom solar disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 E. Illarionov , A. Tlatov

The characteristic electron densities, temperatures, and thermal distributions of 1MK active region loops are now fairly well established, but their coronal magnetic field strengths remain undetermined. Here we present measurements from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Enrico Landi

Recent instrumentation has demonstrated that the solar atmosphere supports omnipresent transverse waves, which could play a key role in energizing the solar corona. Large-scale studies are required in order to build up an understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 Micah J. Weberg , Richard J. Morton , James A. McLaughlin

Involved in mitotic condensation, interaction of transcriptional regulatory elements or isolation of structural domains, understanding loop formation is becoming a paradigm in the deciphering of chromatin architecture and its functional…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-17 Michaël Liefsoens , Timothy Földes , Maria Barbi

With the rapid development of telescopes, both temporal cadence and the spatial resolution of observations are increasing. This in turn generates vast amount of data, which can be efficiently searched only with automated detections in order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Q. Hao , P. F. Chen , C. Fang

We test the feasibility of 3D coronal-loop tracing in stereoscopic EUV image pairs, with the ultimate goal of enabling efficient 3D reconstruction of the coronal magnetic field that drives flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Markus J. Aschwanden , Carolus J. Schrijver , Anna Malanushenko

Data from recent numerical simulations of the solar corona and transition region are analysed and the magnetic field connection between the low corona and the photosphere is found to be close to that of a potential field. The fieldline to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 B. V. Gudiksen , Å. Nordlund

Solar "magnetic tornadoes" are produced by rotating magnetic field structures that extend from the upper convection zone and the photosphere to the corona of the Sun. Recent studies show that such rotating features are an integral part of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Yoshiaki Kato , Sven Wedemeyer

Optical observations of solar corona provide key information on its magnetic geometry. The large-scale open field of the corona plays an important role in shaping the ambient solar wind and constraining the propagation dynamics of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-19 Vadim M. Uritsky , Christopher E. Rura , Cooper Downs , Shaela I. Jones , Charles Nickolos Arge , Nathalia Alzate

Solar coronal loops are commonly subject to oscillations. Observations of coronal oscillations are used to infer physical properties of the coronal plasma using coronal seismology. Excitation and evolution of oscillations in coronal loops…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 P. Kohutova , A. Popovas

The multifractal nature of solar photospheric magnetic structures are studied using the 2D wavelet transform modulus maxima (WTMM) method. This relies on computing partition functions from the wavelet transform skeleton defined by the WTMM…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-30 Pierre Kestener , Paul A. Conlon , Andre Khalil , Linda Fennell , R. T. James McAteer , Peter T. Gallagher , Alain Arneodo

In this study we analyze {\sl Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA)} and Hi-C images in order to investigate absolute limits for the finest loop strands. We develop a model of the occurrence-size distribution function of coronal loop widths,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-26 Markus J. Aschwanden , Hard Peter

We investigate numerically the time evolution of velocity and magnetic field fluctuations in a coronal loop, focusing on the dynamics due to both phase mixing and turbulent cascade. The intensity, doppler velocity and non-thermal broadening…

Magnetic fields in the sun's outer atmosphere -- the corona -- control both solar-wind acceleration and the dynamics of solar eruptions. We present the first clear observational evidence of coronal magnetic nulls in off-limb linearly…