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A coronal loop of 290~Mm length, observed at 171~\AA\ with SDO/AIA on February 6th 2024 near AR 13571, is found to oscillate with two significantly different oscillation periods, $48.8 \pm 6.1$~min and $4.8\pm 0.3$~min. The oscillations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Sihui Zhong , Valery M. Nakariakov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov

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

The solar atmosphere is filled with clusters of hot small-scale loops commonly known as Coronal Bright Points (CBPs). These ubiquitous structures stand out in the Sun by their strong X-ray and/or extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) emission for hours…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-14 D. Nóbrega-Siverio , F. Moreno-Insertis , K Galsgaard , K. Krikova , L. Rouppe van der Voort , R. Joshi , M. S. Madjarska

The target of this work is to investigate the physical nature of polar jets in the solar corona and their possible contribution to coronal heating and solar wind flow based on the analysis of X-ray images acquired by the Hinode XRT…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-31 A. R. Paraschiv , A. Bemporad , A. C. Sterling

In a recent work Grappin et al. [1] have shown that low- frequency movements can be transmitted from one footpoint to the other along a magnetic loop, thus mimicking a friction effect of the corona on the photosphere, and invalidating the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Verdini , R. Grappin , M. Velli

In contrast with the fast solar wind, that originates in coronal holes, the source of the slow solar wind is still debated. Often intermittent and enriched with low FIP elements -- akin to what is observed in closed coronal loops -- the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Victor Réville , Marco Velli , Alexis Rouillard , Benoit Lavraud , Anna Tenerani , Chen Shi , Antoine Strugarek

The maximum measured electric fields in thunderclouds are an order of magnitude less than the fields required for electric breakdown of the air. One explanation for lightning initiation in these low fields is that electric breakdown first…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Vicki Schroeder , M. B. Baker , John Latham

We study the magnetic field and current structure associated with a coronal loop. Through this we investigate to what extent the assumptions of a force-free magnetic field break down and where they might be justified. We analyse a 3D MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-05 Jörn Warnecke , Feng Chen , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

We investigate the effect of hydrostatic scale heights ${\lambda}(T)$ in coronal loops on the determination of the vertical temperature structure $T(h)$ of the solar corona. Every method that determines an average temperature at a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Markus J. Aschwanden , Nariaki Nitta

Solar atmospheric elemental abundances are now known to vary both in space and time. Dynamic modeling of these changes is therefore necessary to improve the accuracy of radiative hydrodynamic simulations. Recent studies have shown that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 David H. Brooks , Jeffrey W. Reep , Andy S. H. To , Luke Fushimi Benavitz , Lucas A. Tarr

We examine the hypothesis that ``cool loops'' dominate emission from solar transition region plasma below temperatures of $2\times10^5$K. We compare published VAULT images of H L$\alpha$, a lower transition region line, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Philip G. Judge , Rebecca Centeno

Prominences in the solar corona are hundredfold cooler and denser than their surroundings, with a total mass of 1.e13 up to 1.e15 g. Here we report on the first comprehensive simulations of three-dimensional, thermally and gravitationally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Patrick Antolin , Oliver Porth

The fan-spine magnetic topology is believed to be responsible for many curious features in solar explosive events. A spine field line links distinct flux domains, but direct observation of such feature has been rare. Here we report a unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Guillaume Aulanier , Yingna Su , Iain G. Hannah , Rachel A. Hock

Coronal rain (CR) is a crucial part of the mass cycle between the corona and chromosphere. It includes the flare-driven CR and two types of quiescent CR separately along the non-flaring active region closed loops and along the open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Fangfang Qiao , Leping Li , Hui Tian , Zhenyong Hou , Hongqiang Song , Kaifan Ji , Zheng Sun

The formation of the MFRs in the pre-flare stage, and how this leads to coronal rain in a post-eruption magnetic loop is not fully understood. We explore the formation, and eruption of MFRs, followed by the appearance of coronal rain in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Samrat Sen , Avijeet Prasad , Valeriia Liakh , Rony Keppens

A large part of the hot corona consists of magnetically confined, bright plasma loops. These observed loops are in turn structured into bright strands. We investigate the relationship between magnetic field geometry, plasma properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 C. A. Breu , D. I. Pontin , E. Priest , I. De Moortel

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

It is largely agreed that many coronal loops---those observed at a temperature of about 1 MK--- are bundles of unresolved strands that are heated by storms of impulsive nanoflares. The nature of coronal heating in hotter loops and in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nicholeen M. Viall , James A. Klimchuk

We use the first publically available data from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) to track magnetic connections from the solar photosphere into the corona. We scrutinize relationships between chromospheric magnetism and bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Philip Judge , Lucia Kleint , Roberto Casini , Alfred de Wijn , Tom Schad , Alexandra Tritschler

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