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Due to their characteristic temperature and density, loop structures in active regions (ARs) can be seen bright in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft X-ray images. The semiempirical determination of the three-dimensional (3D) distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 F. A. Nuevo , C. Mac Cormack , M. López Fuentes , A. M. Vásquez , C. H. Mandrini

We investigate the decayless regime of coronal kink oscillations recently discovered in the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)/AIA data. In contrast to decaying kink oscillations that are excited by impulsive dynamical processes, this type of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 S. A. Anfinogentov , V. M. Nakariakov , G. Nisticò

Ever since their detection two decades ago, standing kink oscillations in coronal loops have been extensively studied both observationally and theoretically. Almost all driven coronal loop oscillations (e.g., by flares) are observed to damp…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 C. J. Nelson , A. A. Shukhobodskiy , R. Erdélyi , M. Mathioudakis

Two recent works have analyzed a solar large and steady coronal loop observed with Yohkoh/SXT in two filter passbands to infer the distribution of the heating along it. Priest et al. (2000) modelled the distribution of the temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Reale

We observed quiescent coronal loops using multi-wavelength observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on 2016 April 13. The flows at the footpoints of such loop systems are studied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Yamini K. Rao , Abhishek K. Srivastava , Pradeep Kayshap , Bhola N. Dwivedi

We examined the structure near the solar limb in TRACE images of the continuum and in the 1600 and 171 A bands as well as in SDO images in the continuum (from HMI) and all AIA bands. The images in different wavelength bands were carefully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 C. E. Alissandrakis , A. Valentino

We present a fast method for reconstructing Differential Emission Measures (DEMs) using solar coronal data. On average, the method computes over 1000 DEMs per second for a sample active region observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joseph Plowman , Charles Kankelborg , Petrus Martens

In the present work we use a deep-exposure spectrum taken by the SUMER spectrometer in a polar coronal hole in 1996 to measure the ion temperatures of a large number of ions at many different heights above the limb between 0.03 and 0.17…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Enrico Landi , Steven R. Cranmer

The bulk of solar coronal radiative loss consists of soft X-ray emission from quasi-static loops at the cores of Active Regions. In order to develop diagnostics for determining the heating mechanism of these loops from observations by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 P. C. H. Martens

We investigate the thermal properties of a solar flare by the observations of soft X-ray Telescope (XRT) on board Hinode and the Atmospheric Image Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/AIA). Our analysis reveals a tenuous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Xiaoyan Xie , Anna Chen , Crisel Suarez , Katharine K. Reeves , Soumya Roy , Christopher S. Moore , Nishu Karna , Joy Velasquez

The heating of solar coronal loops is at the center of the problem of coronal heating. Given that the origin of the fast solar wind has been tracked down to atmospheric layers with transition region or even chromospheric temperatures, it is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-05 Bo Li , Haixia Xie , Xing Li , Li-Dong Xia

Using multi-wavelength observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we investigated the six-month decay process of the solar active region NOAA AR 12738 from April to October 2019. We systematically analyzed the region's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Jiasheng Wang , Yu Xu , Zhengyong Hou

The Differential Emission Measure (DEM) analysis is one of the most used diagnostic tools for solar and stellar coronae. Being an inverse problem, it has limitations due to the presence of random and systematic errors. We present in theses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-17 Chloé Guennou , Frédéric Auchère , Elie Soubrié , Karine Bocchialini , Susanna Parenti

In this paper, we study the temperature and density properties of multiple structural components of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using differential emission measure (DEM) analysis. The DEM analysis is based on the six-passband EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , S. H. Saar , M. D. Ding

Coronal holes are large-scale structures in the solar atmosphere that feature a reduced temperature and density in comparison to the surrounding quiet Sun and are usually associated with open magnetic fields. We perform a differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-01 Stephan G. Heinemann , Jonas Saqri , Astrid M. Veronig , Stefan J. Hofmeister , Manuela Temmer

We model a coronal loop as a bundle of seven separate strands or filaments. Each of the loop strands used in this model can independently be heated (near their left footpoints) by Alfv\'en/ion-cyclotron waves via wave-particle interactions.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Bourouaine , E. Marsch

Understanding how the solar corona is structured is of fundamental importance to determining how the Sun's upper atmosphere is heated to high temperatures. Recent spectroscopic studies have suggested that an instrument with a spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-18 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Amy R. Winebarger

Employing Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) multi-wavelength images, we report the coronal condensation during the magnetic reconnection (MR) between a system of open and closed coronal loops. Higher-lying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Leping Li , Jun Zhang , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Jiangtao Su , Chun Xia , Hongqiang Song , Yijun Hou

The observations from 1998 April 20 taken with the Coronal Diagnostics Spectrometer CDS on SOHO of a coronal loop on the limb have shown that the plasma was multi-thermal along each line of sight investigated, both before and after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. T. Schmelz , P. C. H. Martens

We report on the SDO/AIA and Hinode/EIS observations of a transient coronal loop. The loop brightens up in the same location after the disappearance of an arcade formed during a B8.9-class microflare three hours earlier. EIS captures this…