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Context. Transverse oscillations of coronal structures are currently intensively studied to explore the associated magnetohydrodynamic wave physics and perform seismology of the local medium. Aims. We make a first attempt to measure the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 C. R. Goddard , G. Nisticò

The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) telescope on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) provides coronal EUV imaging over a broader temperature sensitivity range than the previous generations of instruments (EUVI, EIT, and TRACE).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Federico A. Nuevo , Alberto M. Vásquez , Enrico Landi , Richard Frazin

It is typically assumed that emission in the passbands of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is dominated by single or several strong lines from ions that under equilibrium conditions are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-23 Juan Martinez-Sykora , Bart De Pontieu , Paola Testa , Viggo Hansteen

We present an assessment of the accuracy of the calibration measurements and atomic physics models that go into calculating the SDO/AIA response as a function of wavelength and temperature. The wavelength response is tested by convolving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Boerner , P. Testa , H. Warren , M. A. Weber , C. J. Schrijver

Longitudinal intensity oscillations along coronal loops that are interpreted as signatures of magneto-acoustic waves are observed frequently in different coronal structures. The aim of this paper is to estimate the physical parameters of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 A. Abedini

Analysis of a longitudinal wave event observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is presented. A time sequence of 131 A images reveals that a C-class flare occurred at one footpoint of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Xudong Sun , Elena Provornikova , Joseph M. Davila

The Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the Near Infra-Red (NIR) wavelength range. It has been flown at two total solar eclipses, in 2017 and 2019. The wavelength range of the much…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 G. Del Zanna , J. Samra , A. Monaghan , C. Madsen , P. Bryans , E. DeLuca , H. Mason , B. Berkey , A. de Wijn , Y. Rivera

Loop-aligned hydrodynamic modelings help better understand the thermodynamic evolution of flaring plasma confined in solar flare loops. Conventional loop modelings typically assume a uniform loop cross section. With a variation of the cross…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Yu Dai , Shihan Li , Wenlong Tang , Zhen Li , Mingde Ding

We study a series of relations between physical parameters in coronal loops of the quiet Sun reconstructed by combining tomographic techniques and modeling of the coronal magnetic field. We use differential emission measure tomography…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 C. Mac Cormack , M. López Fuentes , C. H. Mandrini , D. G. Lloveras , M. Poisson , A. M. Vásquez

Coronal loops are plasma structures in the solar atmosphere with temperatures reaching millions of Kelvin, shaped and sustained by the magnetic field. However, their morphology and fundamental nature remain subjects of debate. By studying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 N. Vasantharaju , H. Peter , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal

The relationships among coronal loop structures at different temperatures is not settled. Previous studies have suggested that coronal loops in the core of an active region are not seen cooling through lower temperatures and therefore are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Harry P. Warren , David H. Brooks

Context. Coronal loops are the basic building blocks of the solar corona, which are related to the mass supply and heating of solar plasmas in the corona. However, their fundamental magnetic structures are still not well understood. Most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Dong Li , Ding Yuan , Marcel Goossens , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Wei Su , Ya Wang , Yang Su , Zongjun Ning

Coronal loops are fundamental building blocks of the solar active regions and the corona. Therefore, a clear understanding of the physics of coronal loops will help us understand the physics of active region heating in particular and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 D. Tripathi , H. E. Mason , B. N. Dwivedi , G. Del Zanna , P. R. Young

The recent analysis of observations taken with the EIS instrument on Hinode suggests that well constrained measurements of the temperature distribution in solar active regions can finally be made. Such measurements are critical for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Harry P. Warren , Amy R. Winebarger , David H. Brooks

Previous solar observations have shown that coronal loops near 1 MK are difficult to reconcile with simple heating models. These loops have lifetimes that are long relative to a radiative cooling time, suggesting quasi-steady heating. The…

Context: One of the most prominent processes suggested to heat the corona to well above 10^6 K builds on nanoflares, short bursts of energy dissipation. Aims: We compare observations to model predictions to test the validity of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Feng Chen , Jun Zhang

In previous studies a very hot plasma component has been diagnosed in solar active regions through the images in three different narrow-band channels of SDO/AIA. This diagnostic from EUV imaging data has also been supported by the matching…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Petralia , F. Reale , P. Testa , G. Del Zanna

We derived the coronal magnetic field, plasma density, and temperature from the observation of polarization and intensity of radio thermal free-free emission using the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

X-ray and EUV observations are an important diagnostic of various plasma parameters of the solar atmosphere during solar flares. Soft X-ray and EUV observations often show coronal sources near the top of flaring loops, while hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar

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