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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

Within the coronae of stars, abundances of those elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) often differ from their photospheric values. The coronae of the Sun and solar-type stars mostly show enhancements of low- FIP elements (the…

Context: The comparison of coronal and photospheric abundances in cool stars is an essential question to resolve. In the Sun an enhancement of the elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) is observed in the corona with respect to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-12 J. Sanz-Forcada , L. Affer , G. Micela

(abridged) We investigate the long-term evolution of X-ray coronae of solar analogs based on high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy and photometry with XMM-Newton. Six nearby main-sequence G stars with ages between ~0.1 Gyr and \~1.6 Gyr and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Telleschi , M. Guedel , K. Briggs , M. Audard , J. -U. Ness , S. L. Skinner

Plasma composition in the solar atmosphere differs between the photosphere and corona, producing an observable difference in elemental abundance known as the FIP effect. The FIP effect is characterised by the ratio of low to high FIP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Kristena D. Spruksta , David M. Long , Andy S. H. To

Sixty years ago the first observation was published showing solar energetic particles (SEPs) with a sampling of chemical elements. Thus began study of the direct products of dynamic physics in the solar corona. As we have progressed from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-19 Donald V. Reames

The plasma composition of the solar corona is different from that of the solar photosphere. Elements that have a low first ionisation potential (FIP) are preferentially transported to the corona and, therefore, show enhanced abundances in…

Why the tenuous solar outer atmosphere, or corona, is much hotter than the underlying layers remains one of the greatest challenge for solar modeling. Detailed diagnostics of the coronal thermal structure come from extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Gregory Fleishman , Sophie Musset , Véronique Bommier , Lindsay Glesener

A survey of 28 stars using EUV spectra has been conducted to establish the structure of stellar coronae in active binary systems from the EMD, electron densities, and scale sizes. Observations obtained by the EUVE during 9 years of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Sanz-Forcada , N. S. Brickhouse , A. K. Dupree

One puzzling question in solar physics is the difference between elemental abundances in the photosphere and the corona. Elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) can be overabundant in the corona compared to the photosphere under…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Bálint Seli , Levente Kriskovics , Krisztián Vida

Since the advent of X-ray and EUV spectroscopy, the discovery of the First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect--where coronal elemental compositions diverge from their photospheric values based on the element's FIP--has remained a key puzzle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Biswajit Mondal , Amy R. Winebarger

Understanding elemental abundance variations in the solar corona provides an insight into how matter and energy flow from the chromosphere into the heliosphere. Observed variations depend on the first ionization potential (FIP) of the main…

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

We present evidences that anomalies in abundance of the chemical minor elements with the low first ionization potential (FIP) in the low corona of the late-type stars can be related with topology of the large-scale magnetic field. The solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 V. V. Pipin , V. M. Tomozov

Solar flares exhibit complex variations in elemental abundances compared to photospheric values. We examine the spatial and temporal evolution of coronal abundances in the X8.2 flare on 2017 September 10, aiming to interpret the often…

The composition of the solar corona differs from that of the photosphere, with the plasma thought to fractionate in the solar chromosphere according to the First Ionisation Potential (FIP) of the different elements. This produces a FIP…

We find that the element abundances in solar energetic particles (SEPs) and in the slow solar wind (SSW), relative to those in the photosphere, show different patterns as a function of the first ionization potential (FIP) of the elements.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-13 Donald V. Reames

We present an X-ray spectral analysis of four solar analogs with different ages and magnetic activity levels. We find largely different coronal compositions. The most active stars tend to show an ``Inverse First Ionization Potential''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Guedel , M. Audard , A. Sres , R. Wehrli , E. Behar , R. Mewe , A. J. J. Raassen , H. Magee

Main sequence stars of spectral types F, G, and K with low to moderate activity levels exhibit a recognizable pattern known as the first ionization potential effect (FIP effect), where elements with lower first ionization potentials are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 J. J. Chebly , K. Poppenhäger , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , B. E. Wood

Elemental abundances provide a powerful diagnostic of the physical mechanisms and processes that heat the solar atmosphere and drive the solar wind. The First Ionisation Potential (FIP) effect and its inverse (IFIP) are observed both on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Stephanie L. Yardley