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One of the mechanisms proposed for heating the corona above solar active regions is the damping of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Continuing on previous work, we provide observational evidence for the existence of high-frequency MHD waves…

We study the propagation properties of slow magneto-acoustic waves in a multi-thermal coronal loop using a 3D MHD model, for the first time. A bundle of 33 vertical cylinders, each of 100{\,}km radius, randomly distributed over a circular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 S. Krishna Prasad , T. Van Doorsselaere

Decades of astrophysical observations have convincingly shown that soft X-ray (SXR; ~0.1--10 keV) emission provides unique diagnostics for the high temperature plasmas observed in solar flares and active regions. SXR observations critical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Amir Caspi , Albert Y. Shih , Harry P. Warren , Marek Stęślicki , Janusz Sylwester

Solar transients and eruptive phenomena which are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere, can shed new light to the understanding of the outstanding problems like coronal heating and the solar wind acceleration. Observations in the entire…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-05 Abhishek K. Srivastava , V. M. Nakariakov , B. N. Dwivedi , Pankaj Kumar

We study the formation of transient loops in the core of the AR 11890. For this purpose, we have used the observations recorded by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). For photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Durgesh Tripathi

We search for EUV brightenings in TRACE 171 {\AA} images and HXR bursts observed during failed eruptions. We expect that if an eruption is confined due to interaction with overlying magnetic structures then we should observe effects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Netzel , T. Mrozek , S. Kolomanski , S. Gburek

Strong solar magnetic fields are the energy source of intense flares and energetic coronal mass ejections of space weather importance. The key issue is the difficulty in predicting the occurrence time and location of strong solar eruptions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 P. K. Manoharan , C. J. Salter , S. M. White , P. Perillat , F. Fernandez , B. Perera , A. Venkataraman , C. Brum

Twisted coronal loops should be ubiquitous in the solar corona. Twisted magnetic fields contain excess magnetic energy, which can be released during magnetic reconnection, causing solar flares. The aim of this work is to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 Mykola Gordovskyy , Philippa Browning , Eduard Kontar , Nicolas Bian

Transient X-ray absorption techniques can measure ultrafast dynamics of the elemental edges in a material or multiple layer junction, giving them immense potential for deconvoluting concurrent processes. However, the interpretation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-10 Hanzhe Liu , Isabel M. Klein , Jonathan M. Michelsen , Scott K. Cushing

Observational measurements of active region emission measures contain clues to the time-dependence of the underlying heating mechanism. A strongly non-linear scaling of the emission measure with temperature indicates a large amount of hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Stephen J. Bradshaw , James A. Klimchuk , Jeffrey W. Reep

The nanoflare paradigm of coronal heating has proven extremely promising for explaining the presence of hot, multi-million degree loops in the solar corona. In this paradigm, localized heating events supply enough energy to heat the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Kalman J. Knizhnik , Will T. Barnes , Jeffrey W. Reep , Vadim M. Uritsky

Observations of coronal loops have identified several common loop characteristics, including that loops appear to cool and have higher than expected densities. Two potential heating scenarios have been suggested to explain these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Amy R. Winebarger , Roberto Lionello , Cooper Downs , Zoran Mikic , Jon Linker

To simulate the energy balance of coronal plasmas on macroscopic scales, we often require the specification of the coronal heating mechanism in some functional form. To go beyond empirical formulations and to build a more physically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Cooper Downs , Roberto Lionello , Zoran Mikić , Jon A. Linker , Marco Velli

Transition-region explosive events (EEs) are characterized by non-Gaussian line profiles with enhanced wings at Doppler velocities of 50-150 km/s. They are believed to be the signature of solar phenomena that are one of the main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Z. Huang , M. S. Madjarska , E. M. Scullion , L. -D. Xia , J. G. Doyle , T. Ray

We study the thermal structure and energetics of the point-like EUV brightenings within a system of fan loops observed in the active region \textsl{AR~11520}. These brightenings were simultaneously observed on 2012 July 11 by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Srividya Subramanian , Vinay L. Kashyap , Durgesh Tripathi , Maria S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle

Propagating disturbances are often observed in active region fan-like coronal loops. They were thought to be due to slow mode MHD waves based on some of the observed properties. But the recent studies involving spectroscopy indicate that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 S. Mandal , T. Samanta , D. Banerjee , S. Krishna Prasad , L. Teriaca

The brightness of the emission from coronal loops in the solar atmosphere is strongly dependent on the temperature and density of the confined plasma. After a release of energy, these loops undergo a heating and upflow phase, followed by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 C. D. Johnston , S. J. Bradshaw

We aim to investigate the temperature enhancements and formation heights of impulsive heating phenomena in solar active-regions such as Ellerman bombs (EBs), ultraviolet bursts (UVBs), and flaring active-region fibrils (FAFs) using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 J. M. da Silva Santos , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , S. M. White , J. Leenaarts , G. J. M. Vissers , V. H. Hansteen

Observed spectral profiles of emission lines from the corona are found to have widths exceeding the thermal line width. To investigate the physical mechanism, we run a 3D MHD model of a single, straightened loop in which we partially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 C. A. Breu , H. Peter , S. K. Solanki , R. Cameron , I. De Moortel

Coronal loops generally trace magnetic lines of force in the upper solar atmosphere. Understanding the loop morphology and its temporal evolution has implications for coronal heating models that rely on plasma heating due to reconnection at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 B. Ram , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal , H. Peter , F. Plaschke