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To study the dynamics of coronal holes and the role of waves in the acceleration of the solar wind, spectral observations were performed over polar coronal hole regions with the SUMER spectrometer on SoHO and the EIS spectrometer on Hinode.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-08 D. Banerjee , L. Teriaca , G. R. Gupta , S. Imada , G. Stenborg , S. K. Solanki

Solar spicules have eluded modelers and observers for decades. Since the discovery of the more energetic type II, spicules have become a heated topic but their contribution to the energy balance of the low solar atmosphere remains unknown.…

The type II spicule has been speculated to provide enough hot plasma to play an important role in the mass loading and heating of the corona. We analyse the disc counterpart to type II spicules, RBEs, in three high quality datasets from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. H. Sekse , L. Rouppe van der Voort , B. De Pontieu

Jets, whatever small (e.g. spicules) or large (e.g. macrospicules) their size, may play a key role in momentum and energy transport from photosphere to chromosphere and at least to the low corona. Here, we investigate the properties of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-02 T. S. Kiss , N. Gyenge , R. Erdelyi

Spicules are long, thin, highly dynamic features that jut out ubiquitously from the solar limb. They dominate the interface between the chromosphere and corona and may provide significant mass and energy to the corona. We use high-quality…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 B. De Pontieu , M. Carlsson , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , R. J. Rutten , V. H. Hansteen , H. Watanabe

In the lower solar atmosphere, the chromosphere is permeated by jets known as spicules, in which plasma is propelled at speeds of 50 to 150 kilometers per second into the corona. The origin of the spicules is poorly understood, although…

Context. For investigating spicules from the photosphere to coronal heights, the new Hinode/SOT long series of high resolution observations from Space taken in CaII H line emission offers an improved way to look at their remarkable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy , A. Ajabshirizadeh , A. R. Ahangarzadeh Maralani , S. Zeighami

Coronal cavities, often associated with prominences, are crucial structures in understanding coronal heating and the eruption mechanism of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Previous studies have identified their lower density, higher…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Chenxi Huangfu , Hui Fu , Bo Li , ZhengHua Huang , MingZhe Sun , WeiXin Liu , XiaoYu Yu , LiDong Xia

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

We study molecular emission in a massive condensation at the border of the HII region RCW 120, paying particular attention to the Core 1 and Core 2 objects, the most massive fragments of the condensation found previously by ALMA. The latter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 M. S. Kirsanova , S. V. Salii , S. V. Kalenskii , D. S. Wiebe , A. M. Sobolev , P. A. Boley

Coronal loops are basic building blocks of solar atmosphere and are observed on various length scales. However, their formation mechanism is still unclear. In this paper, we present the spectroscopic and imaging observations of small-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Girjesh R. Gupta , Sushree S. Nayak

Quasi-periodic propagating disturbances (PDs) are ubiquitous in polar coronal holes on the Sun. It remains unclear as to what generates PDs. In this work, we investigate how the PDs are generated in the solar atmosphere by analyzing a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Fangran Jiao , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Zhenghua Huang , Xing Li , Kalugodu Chandrashekhar , Chaozhou Mou , Hui Fu

Chandra has detected optically thin, thermal X-ray emission with a size of ~1 arcsec and luminosity ~10^33 erg/s from the direction of the Galactic supermassive black hole (SMBH), Sgr A*. We suggest that a significant or even dominant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Sazonov , R. Sunyaev , M. Revnivtsev

We aim at studying the small-scale evolution at the boundaries of an equatorial coronal hole connected with a channel of open magnetic flux with the polar region and an `isolated' one in the extreme-ultraviolet spectral range. We intend to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. S. Madjarska , T. Wiegelmann

The profiles of emission lines formed in the corona contain information on the dynamics and the heating of the hot plasma. Only recently has data with sufficiently high spectral resolution become available for investigating the details of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 H. Peter

In addition to a component of the emission that originates from clearly distinguishable coronal loops, the solar corona also exhibits extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray ambient emission that is rather diffuse and is often considered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-24 Nikolina Milanović , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Hardi Peter

Spicule oscillations involve high-frequency components with a typical period approximately corresponding to $40-50$ s. The typical time scale of the photospheric oscillation is a few minutes, and thus, the origin of this high-frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Munehito Shoda , Takaaki Yokoyama

The EUI instrument on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the most stable, high-resolution images of the solar corona from its orbit with a perihelion near 0.4 AU. A sequence of 360 images obtained at 17.1 nm, between 25-Oct-2022…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Philip G. Judge

For the period of 1997-2006, coronal holes detected in the SOHO/EIT 195 $\AA$ full disk calibrated images are used to compute the rotation rates of high latitude and near polar coronal holes and, their latitudinal variation is investigated.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 K. M. Hiremath , Manjunath Hegde , K. R. Varsha

The perplexing mystery of what maintains the solar coronal temperature at about a million K, while the visible disc of the Sun is only at 5800 K, has been a long standing problem in solar physics. A recent study by Mondal(2020) has provided…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Shabbir Bawaji , Ujjaini Alam , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi