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Despite decades of studying the Sun, the coronal heating problem remains unsolved. One fundamental issue is that we do not know the spatial scale of the coronal heating mechanism. At a spatial resolution of 1000 km or more it is likely that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-07 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra

We present an ab initio approach to the solar coronal heating problem by modelling a small part of the solar corona in a computational box using a 3D MHD code including realistic physics. The observed solar granular velocity pattern and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. V. Gudiksen , Å. Nordlund

Determining the temperature distribution of coronal plasmas can provide stringent constraints on coronal heating. Current observations with the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph onboard Hinode and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Paola Testa , Bart De Pontieu , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Viggo Hansteen , Mats Carlsson

We report further results from our imaging survey at 15GHz (lambda=2 cm) with the Very Long Baseline Array. This paper presents single epoch images for 39 sources, bringing the total number of objects in the sample to 171. Our sample is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Zensus , E. Ros , K. I. Kellermann , M. H. Cohen , R. C. Vermeulen , M. Kadler

We present the SWAP Filter: an azimuthally varying, radial normalizing filter specifically developed for EUV images of the solar corona, named for the Sun Watcher with Active Pixels and Image Processing (SWAP) instrument on the Project for…

X-Ray and Ultraviolet (UV) observations of the outer solar atmosphere have been used for many decades to measure the fundamental parameters of the solar plasma. This review focuses on the optically thin emission from the solar atmosphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Giulio Del Zanna , Helen E. Mason

Analysis of spatial multivariate data, i.e., measurements at irregularly-spaced locations, is a challenging topic in visualization and statistics alike. Such data are integral to many domains, e.g., indicators of valuable minerals are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Nikolaus Piccolotto , Markus Bögl , Christoph Muehlmann , Klaus Nordhausen , Peter Filzmoser , Silvia Miksch

Context: A large number of the small and the short-lived EUV brightenings have been detected in the quiet Sun (QS) over the past three years, by the High Resolution Imager of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (HRIEUV) on board Solar Orbiter.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 A. Dolliou , S. Parenti , K. Bocchialini

Radiation in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft X-ray holds clues to the location of the missing baryons, the energetics in stellar feedback processes, and the cosmic enrichment history. Additionally, EUV and soft X-ray photons help…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck , Matthew McQuinn , Anson D'Aloisio , Jessica K. Werk

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

Inverse problems are of great importance in astrophysics for deriving information about the physical characteristics of hot optically thin plasma sources from their EUV and X-ray spectra. We describe and test an iterative method developed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-24 F. F. Goryaev , S. Parenti , A. M. Urnov , S. N. Oparin , J. -F. Hochedez , F. Reale

In this study, we apply the Analytical method of Blind Separation (ABS) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from foregrounds to estimate the CMB temperature power spectrum from multi-frequency microwave maps. We test the robustness of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-21 Jian Yao , Le Zhang , Yuxi Zhao , Pengjie Zhang , Larissa Santos , Jun Zhang

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

The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) returns high-resolution images of the solar atmosphere in seven extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength channels. The images are processed on the ground to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Peter R. Young , Nicholeen M. Viall , Michael S. Kirk , Emily I. Mason , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta

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

We present a new method for performing differential emission measure (DEM) inversions on narrow-band EUV images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The method yields positive definite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Mark C. M. Cheung , P. Boerner , C. J. Schrijver , P. Testa , F. Chen , H. Peter , A. Malanushenko

Data from the VSX, SDSS DR12, and Gaia DR2 catalogs were combined in order to explore the observed temperature distribution of known contact binaries. Color-temperature relations were applied to calculate the effective temperatures of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-28 Alexander Kurtenkov , Mirela Napetova

Context: Solar flares release a large fraction of their energy into non-thermal electrons, but it is not clear where and how. Bremsstrahlung X-rays are observed from the corona and chromosphere. Aims: We aim to characterize the acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marina Battaglia , Arnold O. Benz

This paper reports the first full-Sun vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) emission line profile originating from the transition region from the chromosphere to the corona. It is based on a raster scan of the whole solar disk using SUMER/SOHO. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hardi Peter

In this paper, we report the observed temporal correlation between extreme-violet (EUV) emission and magneto-acoustic oscillations in a EUV moss region, which is the footpoint region only connected by magnetic loops with million-degree…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Parida Hashim , Zhenxiang Hong , Haisheng Ji , Jinhua Shen , Kaifan Ji , Wenda Cao