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A comprehensive study of the physical parameters of active region fan loops is presented using the observations recorded with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS), the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on-board Hinode and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Avyarthana Ghosh , Durgesh Tripathi , G. R. Gupta , Vanessa Polito , Helen E. Mason , Sami K. Solanki

SDO/AIA images the full solar disk in several EUV bands that are each sensitive to coronal plasma emissions of one or more specific temperatures. We observe that when isolated active regions (ARs) are on the disk, full-disk images in some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Talwinder Singh , Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore

The term `solar tornadoes' has been used to describe apparently rotating magnetic structures above the solar limb, as seen in high resolution images and movies from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Peter Levens , Nicolas Labrosse , Lyndsay Fletcher , Brigitte Schmieder

Nanoflares are impulsive energy releases by magnetic reconnection in the braided coronal magnetic field, which is a potential mechanism for heating the corona. However, there are still sporadic observations of the interchange of braiding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Y. Bi , J. J. Yang , Y. Qin , Z. P. Qiang , J. C. Hong , B. Yang , Z. Xu , H. Liu , K. F. Ji

Understanding the relationship between the magnetic field and coronal heating is one of the central problems of solar physics. However, studies of the magnetic properties of impulsively heated loops have been rare. We present results from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Nicholas A. Crump , Harry P. Warren , Thomas Wiegelmann

We extend a previous statistical solar flare study of 155 GOES M- and X-class flares observed with AIA/SDO (Aschwanden 2012) to all 7 coronal wavelengths (94, 131, 171, 193, 211, 304, 335 \ang) to test the wavelength-dependence of scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Markus J. Aschwanden , Jie Zhang , Kai Liu

The brightness of the emission from coronal loops in the solar atmosphere is strongly dependent on the temperature and density of the confined plasma. After a release of energy, these loops undergo a heating and upflow phase, followed by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 C. D. Johnston , S. J. Bradshaw

We provide a large image parameter dataset extracted from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission's AIA instrument, for the period of January 2011 through the current date, with the cadence of six minutes, for nine wavelength channels.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Azim Ahmadzadeh , Dustin J. Kempton , Rafal A. Angryk

The heating of the outer solar atmospheric layers, i.e., the transition region and corona, to high temperatures is a long standing problem in solar (and stellar) physics. Solutions have been hampered by an incomplete understanding of the…

How structures, e.g., magnetic loops, in the upper atmosphere, i.e., the transition region and corona, are heated and sustained is one of the major unresolved issues in solar and stellar physics. Various theoretical and observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Leping Li , Hui Tian , Huadong Chen , Hongqiang Song , Zhenyong Hou , Xianyong Bai , Kaifan Ji , Yuanyong Deng

We report commissioning observations of the Si X 1430 nm solar coronal line observed coronagraphically with the Cryogenic Near-Infrared Spectropolarimeter (Cryo-NIRSP) at the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 T. A. Schad , A. Fehlmann , G. I. Dima , J. R. Kuhn , I. F. Scholl , D. Harrington , T. Rimmele , A. Tritschler , A. R. Paraschiv

Coronal loops serve as the fundamental building blocks of the solar corona. Therefore, comprehending their properties is essential in unraveling the dynamics of the Sun's upper atmosphere. In this study, we conduct a comparative analysis of…

We present the first Hinode/EIS observations of 5 min quasi-periodic oscillations detected in a transition-region line (He II) and five coronal lines (Fe X, Fe XII, Fe XIII, Fe XIV, and Fe XV) at the footpoint of a coronal loop. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 T. J. Wang , L. Ofman , J. M. Davila

High-frequency wave phenomena present a great deal of interest as one of the possible candidates to contribute to the energy input required to heat the corona as a part of the AC heating theory. However, the resolution of imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Elena Petrova , Norbert Magyar , Tom Van Doorsselaere , David Berghmans

We examine the temperature structure of static coronal active region loops in regimes where thermal conductive transport is driven by Coulomb collisions, by turbulent scattering, or by a combination of the two. (In the last case collisional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 A. Gordon Emslie , Stephen J. Bradshaw

Slow MHD waves are important tools for understanding the coronal structures and dynamics. In this paper, we report a number of observations, from X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on board HINODE and SDO/AIA of reflecting longitudinal waves in hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Sudip Mandal , Ding Yuan , Xia Fang , Dipankar Banerjee , Vaibhav Pant , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Spicules have been proposed as significant contributors to the mass and energy balance of the corona. While previous observations have provided a glimpse of short-lived transient brightenings in the corona that are associated with spicules,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-19 Bart De Pontieu , Ineke De Moortel , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Scott McIntosh

We present first results of a novel technique that provides, for the first time, constraints on the energy input flux at the coronal base ($r\sim\,1.025\,{\rm R}_\odot$) of the quiet-Sun at a global scale. By combining differential emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 C. Mac Cormack , A. M. Vásquez , M. López Fuentes , F. A. Nuevo , E. Landi , R. A. Frazin

In the last 30 years, the existence of small and cool magnetic loops (height < 8 Mm, T < 10^5 K) has been proposed and debated to explain the increase of the DEM (differential emission measure) towards the chromosphere. We present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Sasso , V. Andretta , D. Spadaro , R. Susino

A three dimensional (3D) tomographic reconstruction of the local differential emission measure (LDEM) of the global solar corona during the whole heliosphere interval (WHI, Carrington rotation CR-2068) is presented, based on STEREO/EUVI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alberto M. Vásquez , Zhenguang Huang , Ward B. Manchester , Richard A. Frazin