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Extreme UltraViolet images of the corona contain information over a large range of spatial scales, and different structures such as active regions, quiet Sun and filament channels contain information at very different brightness regimes.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Huw Morgan , Miloslav Druckmuller

A set of co-aligned high resolution images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is used to investigate propagating disturbances (PDs) in warm fan loops at the periphery of a non-flaring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vadim M. Uritsky , Joseph M. Davila , Nicholeen M. Viall , Leon Ofman

The solar surface and atmosphere are highly dynamic plasma environments, which evolve over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Large-scale eruptions, such as coronal mass ejections, can be accelerated to millions of kilometres per…

The solar corona is host to a continuous flow of propagating disturbances (PD). These are continuous and ubiquitous across broad regions of the corona, including the quiet Sun. The aim of this paper is to present an improved, efficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Huw Morgan , Marianna Korsos

We present a new method of DEEM, the direct energy encircling method, for characterising the performance of fibres in most astronomical spectroscopic applications. It's a versatile platform to measure focal ratio degradation (FRD),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Yunxiang Yan , Qi Yan , Gang Wang , Weimin Sun , A-Li Luo , Zhenyu Ma , Qiong Zhang , Jian Li , Shuqing Wang

Context. Elemental abundances in some coronal structures differ significantly from photospheric abundances, with a dependence on the first ionization potential (FIP) of the element. Measuring these FIP-dependent abundance biases is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Natalia Zambrana Prado , Éric Buchlin

Nanoflares in quiet-Sun regions during solar cycle 24 are studied with the best available plasma diagnostics to derive their energy distribution and contribution to coronal heating during different levels of solar activity. Extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Stefan Purkhart , Astrid M. Veronig

A method for the full three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of the trajectories of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) data is presented. Four CMEs that were simultaneously observed by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-14 Shane A. Maloney , Peter T. Gallagher , R. T. James McAteer

The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory is a state-of-the-art imager with the potential to do unprecedented time-dependent multi-thermal analysis at every pixel on scales short compared to the radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-10 Joan T. Schmelz , Benjamin S. Jenkins , Jason A. Kimble

We perform plasma diagnostics, including that of the non-Maxwellian $\kappa$-distributions, in several structures observed in the solar corona by the Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) onboard the Hinode spacecraft. To prevent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Juraj Lörinčík , Jaroslav Dudík , Giulio del Zanna , Elena Dzifčáková , Helen E. Mason

On 2008 January 10, the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) A and B spacecraft conducted a high time cadence study of the solar corona with the Extreme UltraViolet Imager (EUVI) instruments with the aim of investigating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 M. S. Marsh , R. W. Walsh , S. Plunkett

Image saturation has been an issue for several instruments in solar astronomy, mainly at EUV wavelengths. However, with the launch of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) as part of the payload of the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) image…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Sabrina Guastavino , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone , Richard Schwartz , Federico Benvenuto

Extracting the temperature of coronal loops is effective in the analysis of solar active region's loops and helps in better understanding of coronal events. To this end, various methods have already been developed like the method developed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-30 Narges Fathalian

We developed a method to compute the temperature and density structure along the line of sight by inversion of the differential emission measure (DEM), under the assumptions of stratification and hydrostatic equilibrium. We applied this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 C. E. Alissandrakis , V. M. Bogod , T. I. Kaltman , S. Patsourakos , N. G. Peterova

We perform Differential Emission Measure (DEM) analysis of an M7.7 flare that occurred on 2012 July 19 and was well observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamic Observatory. Using the observational data with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Q. Sun , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

We have reanalyzed SUMER observations of a parcel of coronal gas using new collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE) calculations. These improved CIE fractional abundances were calculated using state-of-the-art electron-ion recombination…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Bryans , E. Landi , D. W. Savin

We report on the variability of rotation periods of solar coronal layers with respect to temperature (or, height). For this purpose, we have used the observations from Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) telescope on board Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Jaidev Sharma , Brajesh Kumar , Anil K. Malik , Hari Om Vats

X-ray and EUV observations are an important diagnostic of various plasma parameters of the solar atmosphere during solar flares. Soft X-ray and EUV observations often show coronal sources near the top of flaring loops, while hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar

Measurements of the temperature and density structure of the solar corona provide critical constraints on theories of coronal heating. Unfortunately, the complexity of the solar atmosphere, observational uncertainties, and the limitations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Harry P. Warren , David H. Brooks

Coronal dimming of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emission has the potential to be a useful forecaster of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). As emitting material leaves the corona, a temporary void is left behind which can be observed in spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 J. P. Mason , T. N. Woods , A. Caspi , B. J. Thompson , R. A. Hock