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Plasma in the Sun's hot corona expands into the heliosphere as a supersonic and highly magnetized solar wind. This paper provides an overview of our current understanding of how the corona is heated and how the solar wind is accelerated.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 S. R. Cranmer , M. Asgari-Targhi , M. P. Miralles , J. C. Raymond , L. Strachan , H. Tian , L. N. Woolsey

The origin of the slow solar wind is still an open issue. It has been suggested that upflows at the edge of active regions (AR) can contribute to the slow solar wind. Here, we compared the upflow region and the AR core and studied how the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Krzysztof Barczynski , Louise Harra , Lucia Kleint , Brandon Panos , David H. Brooks

The distribution of temperature and emission measure in the stationary heated solar atmosphere was obtained for the limiting cases of slow and fast heating, when either the gas pressure or the concentration are constant throughout the layer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-16 O. Ptitsyna , B. Somov

We investigate a possibility of heating of the loops and other closed magnetic structures in active regions of the solar corona by the flow of solar wind (plus other flows that may be present) across the magnetic field lines (that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tsiklauri

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

In this paper we have extended our previous modeling of energy balance in the chromosphere-corona transition region to cases with particle and mass flows. The cases considered here are quasi-steady, and satisfy the momentum and energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Fontenla , E. H. Avrett , R. Loeser

We present an updated global model of the solar corona, including the transition region. We simulate the realistic tree-dimensional (3D) magnetic field using the data from the photospheric magnetic field measurements and assume the…

The large temperature gradients in the solar transition region present a significant challenge to large scale numerical modelling of the Sun's atmosphere. In response, a variety of techniques have been developed which modify the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Thomas Howson , Cosima Breu

The outer atmosphere of the Sun is composed of plasma heated to temperatures well in excess of the visible surface. We investigate short cool and warm (<1 MK) loops seen in the core of an active region to address the role of field-line…

The solar atmosphere was traditionally represented with a simple one-dimensional model. Over the past few decades, this paradigm shifted for the chromosphere and corona that constitute the outer atmosphere, which is now considered a dynamic…

Remote and in-situ observations strongly imply that the slow solar wind consists of plasma from the hot, closed-field corona that is released onto open magnetic field lines. The Separatrix Web (S-Web) theory for the slow wind proposes that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 A. K. Higginson , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore , P. F. Wyper , T. H. Zurbuchen

In this work, we analyse coordinated observations spanning chromospheric, TR and coronal temperatures at very high resolution which reveal essential characteristics of thermally unstable plasmas. Coronal rain is found to be a highly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Antolin , G. Vissers , T. M. D. Pereira , L. Rouppe van der Voort , E. Scullion

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

Solar atmosphere is a single system unified by the presence of large-scale magnetic fields. Topological changes in magnetic fields that occur in one place may have consequences for coronal heating and eruptions for other, even remote…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-05 Alexei A. Pevtsov

The Sun is a highly dynamic environment that exhibits dynamic behavior on many different timescales. In particular, coronal holes exhibit temporal and spatial variability. Signatures of these coronal dynamics are inherited by the coronal…

The solar radiation in the Lyman-alpha spectral line of hydrogen plays a significant role in the illumination of chromospheric and coronal structures, such as prominences, spicules, chromospheric fibrils, cores of coronal mass ejections,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 S. Gunar , P. Schwartz , J. Koza , P. Heinzel

Recent observations from Parker Solar Probe have revealed that the solar wind has a highly variable structure. How this complex behaviour is formed in the solar corona is not yet known, since it requires omnipresent fluctuations, which…

The plasma $\beta$ is important to investigate the interchanging roles of plasma and magnetic pressure in the solar atmosphere. It can help to describe features over the photosphere and their changes at different heights. The goal is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Jenny Marcela Rodríguez Gómez , Judith Palacios , Luis E. A. Vieira , Alisson Dal Lago

All but the most massive main-sequence stars are expected to have a rarefied and hot (million-Kelvin) corona like the Sun. How such a hot corona is formed and supported has not been completely understood yet, even in the case of the Sun.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Luca Barbieri , Lapo Casetti , Andrea Verdini , Simone Landi

A recent analysis has suggested that the heating of plasma loops in the solar corona depends not just on the Poynting flux but also on processes yet to be identified. This discovery reflects and refines earlier questions such as, why and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 P. G. Judge , N. P. M. Kuin