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Polar corona is often explored to find the energy source for the acceleration of the fast solar wind. Earlier observations show omni-presence of quasi-periodic disturbances, travelling outward, which is believed to be caused by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-16 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , G. R. Gupta

Propagating slow magneto-acoustic waves are commonly observed in different coronal structures but are most prominent in active region fan loops. Their rapid damping with damping lengths of the order of a wavelength has been investigated in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Suraj K. Tripathy , S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee

Slow magnetoacoustic waves represent an important tool for probing the solar coronal plasma. We quantitatively assess the applicability of the weak thermal conduction theory to coronal seismology by slow waves. We numerically model the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov

Being directly observed in the Doppler shift and imaging data and indirectly as quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares, slow magnetoacoustic waves offer an important seismological tool for probing many vital parameters of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov

Observations of slow magneto-acoustic waves have been demonstrated to possess a number of applications in coronal seismology. Determination of the polytropic index ($\gamma$) is one such important application. Analysing the amplitudes of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 S. Krishna Prasad , J. O. Raes , T. Van Doorsselaere , N. Magyar , D. B. Jess

We investigate the relative contributions from the transition region and corona of coronal loops observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Using EBTEL (Enthalpy-Based Thermal Evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Samuel J. Schonfeld , James A. Klimchuk

Context: One of the most prominent processes suggested to heat the corona to well above 10^6 K builds on nanoflares, short bursts of energy dissipation. Aims: We compare observations to model predictions to test the validity of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Feng Chen , Jun Zhang

Quasi-periodic propagating intensity disturbances have been observed in large coronal loops in EUV images over a decade, and are widely accepted to be slow magnetosonic waves. However, spectroscopic observations from Hinode/EIS revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 X. Fang , D. Yuan , T. Van Doorsselaere , R. Keppens , C. Xia

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

Waves have long been thought to contribute to the heating of the solar corona and the generation of the solar wind. Recent observations have demonstrated evidence of quasi-periodic longitudinal disturbances and ubiquitous transverse wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Threlfall , I. De Moortel , S. W. McIntosh , C. Bethge

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

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

The evolution of a coronal loop is studied by means of numerical simulations of the fully compressible three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations using the HYPERION code. The footpoints of the loop magnetic field are advected by random…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , B. D. Taylor , I. Ugarte-Urra , H. P. Warren , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli

Spicules have been proposed as significant contributors to the mass and energy balance of the corona. While previous observations have provided a glimpse of short-lived transient brightenings in the corona that are associated with spicules,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-19 Bart De Pontieu , Ineke De Moortel , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Scott McIntosh

The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Sergey A. Anfinogentov

Rapidly decaying slow magnetoacoustic waves are regularly observed in the solar coronal structures, offering a promising tool for a seismological diagnostics of the coronal plasma, including its thermodynamical properties. The effect of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 D. Y. Kolotkov , V. M. Nakariakov , D. I. Zavershinskii

Context: Long-period intensity pulsations were recently detected in the EUV emission of coronal loops, and have been attributed to cycles of plasma evaporation and condensation driven by thermal non-equilibrium (TNE). Numerical simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Gabriel Pelouze , Frédéric Auchère , Karine Bocchialini , Clara Froment , Susanna Parenti , Elie Soubrié

We perform multiwavelength time-distance analysis of a fan loop system anchored in an isolated sunspot region AR 12553. The active region was observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory. We measure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Aishawnnya Sharma , Durgesh Tripathi , Robertus Erdelyi , G. R. Gupta , G. A. Ahmed

Small-scale propagating disturbances (PD) are ubiquitous in the solar corona. Time-Normalised Optical Flow (TNOF) is a method developed for mapping PD velocity fields in time series of Extreme-Ultraviolet (EUV) images. We show PD velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Nina Stankovic , Huw Morgan , Marilena Mierla , Nancy Narang , Luciano Rodriguez , David Berghmans

We investigate the scaling properties of the long-range temporal evolution and intermittency of SDO/AIA intensity observations in four solar environments: an active region core, a weak emission region, and two core loops. We use two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Ana Cristina Cadavid , Yeimy J. Rivera , John K. Lawrence , Damian J. Christian , Peter J. Jennings , A. Franco Rappazzo