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It has been found that the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) induced by both transverse and torsional oscillations in coronal loops can reinforce the effects of wave heating. In this study, we model a coronal loop as a system of individual…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Mingzhe Guo , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Konstantinos Karampelas , Bo Li

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

Coronal Bright Points (CBPs) are ubiquitous structures in the solar atmosphere composed of hot small-scale loops observed in EUV or X-Rays in the quiet Sun and coronal holes. They are key elements to understand the heating of the corona;…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 D. Nóbrega-Siverio , F. Moreno-Insertis

Coronal bright points (BPs) are numerous, bright, small-scale dynamical features found in the solar corona. Bright points have been observed to exhibit intensity oscillations across a wide range of periodicities and are likely an important…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Brad Ramsey , Erwin Verwichte , Huw Morgan

Understanding how energy is released in flares is one of the central problems of solar and stellar astrophysics. Observations of high temperature flare plasma hold many potential clues as to the nature of this energy release. It is clear,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Jeffrey W. Reep , Harry P. Warren , Christopher S. Moore , Crisel Suarez , Laura A. Hayes

Coronal loops on the east limb of the Sun were observed by SUMER on SOHO for several days. Small flare-like brightenings are detected very frequently in the hot flare line Fe~{\small XIX}. We find that the relatively intense events are in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-02 T. J. Wang , D. E. Innes , S. K. Solanki , W. Curdt

Magneto photoluminescence and excitation spectroscopy are used to probe the excited state spectrum of negatively charged trions in a InGaAs quantum dot. A single dot optical charging device allows us to selectively prepare specific few (1e,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 Vase Jovanov , Stephan Kapfinger , Gerhard Abstreiter , Jonathan J. Finley

Context. The solar corona is heated to high temperatures of the order of 10^{6} K. The coronal energy budget and specifically possible mechanisms of coronal heating (wave, DC-electric fields, ..) are poorly understood. This is particularly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Javadi , J. Buechner , A. Otto , J. C. Santos

Transient microwave brightenings (TMBs) are small-scale energy releases from the periphery of sunspot umbrae, with a flux density two orders of magnitude smaller than that from a typical flare. Gopalswamy et al (1994) first reported the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. Gopalswamy , J. Zhang , M. R. Kundu , E. J. Schmahl , J. R. Lemen

The characteristic electron densities, temperatures, and thermal distributions of 1MK active region loops are now fairly well established, but their coronal magnetic field strengths remain undetermined. Here we present measurements from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Enrico Landi

The heating of solar coronal loops is at the center of the problem of coronal heating. Given that the origin of the fast solar wind has been tracked down to atmospheric layers with transition region or even chromospheric temperatures, it is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-05 Bo Li , Haixia Xie , Xing Li , Li-Dong Xia

Rapid Blue- and Red-shifted Excursions (RBEs and RREs) are likely to be the on-disk counterparts of Type II spicules. Recently, heating signatures from RBEs/RREs have been detected in IRIS slit-jaw images dominated by transition-region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 V. M. J. Henriques , D. Kuridze , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

Context: On 2020 May 30, small and short-lived EUV brightenings were observed in the Quiet Sun (QS) during a four minutes sequence by EUI/HRIEUV on board Solar Orbiter. Their physical origin and possible impact on coronal or Transition…

We present the application of the data-driven branch of the MURaM code, which follows the evolution of the active region 11640 over 4 days starting from 2012 December 30 at 12:00 UT and reproduces many key coronal extreme-ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Feng Chen

Recent observations of reflected propagating and standing slow-mode waves in hot flaring coronal loops have spurred our investigation into their underlying excitation and damping mechanisms. To understand these processes, we conduct 2.5D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Stephen J. Bradshaw

We present a study of the frequency of transient brightenings in the core of solar active regions as observed in the Fe XVIII line component of AIA/SDO 94 A filter images. The Fe XVIII emission is isolated using an empirical correction to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Harry P. Warren

X-ray timing of neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) with RXTE has since 1996 revealed several distinct high-frequency phenomena. Among these are oscillations during thermonuclear (type-I) bursts, which (in addition to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Duncan Galloway

Electromagnetic stimulation of energetic materials provides a noninvasive and nondestructive tool for detecting and identifying explosives. We combine structural information based on X-ray computed tomography, experimental dielectric data,…

The Enthalpy Based Thermal Evolution of Loops (EBTEL) approximate model for static and dynamic coronal loops is developed to include the effect of a loop cross-sectional area which increases from the base of the transition region (TR) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 P. J. Cargill , S. J. Bradshaw , J. A. Klimchuk , W. T. Barnes

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