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The EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on the Hinode satellite is capable of measuring emission line center positions for Gaussian line profiles to a fraction of a spectral pixel, resulting in relative solar Doppler-shift measurements with an…

Studying the Doppler shifts and the temperature dependence of Doppler shifts in moss regions can help us understand the heating processes in the core of the active regions. In this paper we have used an active region observation recorded by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Durgesh Tripathi , Helen E. Mason , James A. Klimchuk

Our knowledge of the diffuse emission that encompasses active regions is very limited. In the present paper we investigate two off-limb active regions, namely AR10939 and AR10961, to probe the underlying heating mechanisms. For this purpose…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Srividya Subramanian , Durgesh Tripathi , James A. Klimchuk , Helen E. Mason

Flare kernels are compact features located in the solar chromosphere that are the sites of rapid heating and plasma upflow during the rise phase of flares. An example is presented from a M1.1 class flare observed on 2011 February 16 07:44…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Young , George Doschek , Harry Warren , Hiro Hara

We have previously found a temperature-dependent upflow in the dimming region following a coronal mass ejection (CME) observed by the {\it Hinode} EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS). In this paper, we reanalyzed the observations along with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Imada , H. Hara , T. Watanabe , I. Murakami , L. K. Harra , T. Shimizu , E. G. Zweibel

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

Active region (AR) outflows have been studied in detail since the launch of \textit{Hinode}/EIS and are believed to provide a possible source of mass and energy to the slow solar wind. In this work, we investigate the lower atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Vanessa Polito , Bart De Pontieu , Paola Testa , David H. Brooks , Viggo Hansteen

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

Plasma upflows with a Doppler shift exceeding -10 km/s at active region (AR) boundaries are considered potential sources of the nascent slow solar wind. We investigate the driving mechanisms of a pair of coronal upflow regions on the…

The high spatial and spectral resolution offered by the new generation of infrared spectrometers at ESO is optimally suited for the observational study of outflows from young stellar objects. Models of interstellar shock waves would benefit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Liseau

Persistent outflows have recently been detected at boundaries of some active regions. Although these outflows are suggested to be possible sources of the slow solar wind, the nature of these outflows is poorly understood. Through an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 L. -J. Guo , H. Tian , J. -S. He

Outflows of plasma at the edges of active regions surrounded by quiet Sun are now a common observation with the Hinode satellite. While there is observational evidence to suggest that the outflows are originating in the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. J. Murray , D. Baker , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , J. Sun

This paper presents a detailed study of chromospheric evaporation using the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) onboard Hinode in conjunction with HXR observations from RHESSI. The advanced capabilities of EIS were used to measure Doppler shifts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ryan O. Milligan , Brian R. Dennis

The origin of the slow solar wind is still an open issue. One possibility that has been suggested is that upflows at the edge of an active region can contribute to the slow solar wind. We aim to explain how the plasma upflows are generated,…

Observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) reveal ubiquitous episodic outflows (jets) with an average speed around 120 km s-1 at temperatures often exceeding a million degree in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-27 Hui Tian , Scott W. McIntosh , Shadia Rifal Habbal , Jiansen He

We analyze the evolution of Fe XII coronal plasma upflows from the edges of ten active regions (ARs) as they cross the solar disk using the Hinode Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS). Confirming the results of Demoulin et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Deborah Baker , Miho Janvier , Pascal Demoulin , Cristina Mandrini

The Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board Hinode is the first solar telescope to obtain wide slit spectral images that can be used for detecting Doppler flows in transition region and coronal lines on the Sun and to relate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. E. Innes , R. Attie , H. Hara , M. S. Madjarska

We present observations of high temperature emission in the core of a solar active region using instruments on Hinode and SDO. These multi-instrument observations allow us to determine the distribution of plasma temperatures and follow the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Harry P. Warren , David H. Brooks , Amy R. Winebarger

We present a study of spectral line width measurements from the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on {\it Hinode}. We used spectral line profiles of Fe {\sc xvi} 262.984 {\AA}, Fe {\sc xiv} 264.787 {\AA}, Fe {\sc xiv} 270.519…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 M. Asgari-Targhi , D. H. Brooks , M. Hahn , S. Imada , E. Tajfirouze , D. W. Savin

A complete understanding of Doppler shift in active region loops can help probe the basic physical mechanism involved into the heating of those loops. Here we present observations of upflows in coronal loops detected in a range of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Durgesh Tripathi , Helen Mason , Giulio Del Zanna , Steven Bradshaw