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On 21 August 2017 a total solar eclipse swept across the contiguous United States providing excellent opportunities for diagnostics of the Sun's corona. The Sun's coronal structure is notoriously difficult to observe except during solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-03 Dibyendu Nandy , Prantika Bhowmik , Anthony R. Yeates , Suman Panda , Rajashik Tarafder , Soumyaranjan Dash

The structure of the solar corona is dominated by the magnetic field because the magnetic pressure is about four orders of magnitude higher than the plasma pressure. Due to the high conductivity the emitting coronal plasma (visible e.g. in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester , A. Lagg , S. K. Solanki

We present a newly developed approach to solar coronal magnetic field extrapolation from vector magnetograms, based on the Principle of Minimum Dissipation Rate (MDR). The MDR system was derived from a variational problem that is more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. Hu , B. Dasgupta , D. P. Choudhary , J. Büchner

Diagnosing solar flare conditions is essential for understanding coronal energy release. Using combined microwave and X-ray data, we reconstruct three-dimensional maps of the magnetic field and plasma parameters in the SOL2021-05-07 flare.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Tatyana Kaltman , Sijie Yu , Gregory D. Fleishman , Daniel F. Ryan

We conducted a high-resolution numerical simulation of the solar corona above a stable active region. The aim is to test the field-line braiding mechanism for a sufficient coronal energy input. We also check the applicability of scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

We use state-of-the-art, three-dimensional non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the quiet solar atmosphere to carry out detailed tests of chromospheric magnetic field diagnostics from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Maria Loukitcheva , Stephen M. White , Sami K. Solanki , Gregory D. Fleishman , Mats Carlsson

In this work we describe our implementation of a thermodynamic energy equation into the global corona model of the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF), and its development into the new Lower Corona (LC) model. This work includes the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Cooper Downs , Ilia I. Roussev , Bart van der Holst , Noé Lugaz , Igor V. Sokolov , Tamas I. Gombosi

Strong coronal magnetic field, when present, manifests itself as bright microwave sources at high frequencies produced by gyroresonant (GR) emission mechanism in thermal coronal plasma. The highest frequency at which this emission is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 V. V. Fedenev , S. A. Anfinogentov , G. D. Fleishman

Large coronal loops around one solar radius in altitude are an important connection between the solar wind and the low solar corona. However, their plasma properties are ill-defined as standard X-ray and UV techniques are not suited to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Jinge Zhang , Hamish A. S. Reid , Vratislav Krupar , Pietro Zucca , Bartosz Dabrowski , Andrzej Krankowski

Using data collected by the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission in October 2021, we investigated coronal regions of the Sun by analyzing the Doppler spectral width of radio signals to estimate solar wind velocity. A simplified equation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Keshav Aggarwal , R. K. Choudhary , Abhirup Datta , Roopa M. V. , Bijoy K. Dai

Fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can drive shock waves capable of accelerating electrons to high energies. These shock-accelerated electrons act as sources of electromagnetic radiation, often in the form of solar radio bursts. Recent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 S. Normo , D. E. Morosan , E. K. J. Kilpua , J. Pomoell

Coronal seismology is a diagnostic tool used in solar physics for measuring parameters that are otherwise hard to measure; of these parameters, magnetic field values are arguably the most important. The parameters are inferred by combining…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-17 N. Magyar , T. Van Doorsselaere

We will use new data from the High-resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) with unprecedented spatial resolution of the solar corona to investigate the structure of coronal loops down to 0.2 arcsec. During a rocket flight Hi-C provided images of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Peter , S. Bingert , J. A. Klimchuk , C. de Forest , J. W. Cirtain , L. Golub , A. R. Winebarger , K. Kobayashi , K. E. Korreck

We present a method to include stereoscopic information about the three dimensional structure of flux tubes into the reconstruction of the coronal magnetic field. Due to the low plasma beta in the corona we can assume a force free magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Wiegelmann , T. Neukirch

We present a multiwavelength study of AB Doradus, combining modelling that incorporates a spectropolarimetric magnetic field map with 8.4 GHz radio interferometry to measure the coronal extent and density of this young star. We use the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-10 C. E. Brasseur , M. M. Jardine , G. A. J. Hussain

Coronal holes are usually defined as dark structures as seen in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray spectrum which are generally associated with open magnetic field. Deriving reliably the coronal hole boundary is of high interest, as its…

The photospheric magnetic field vector is continuously derived from measurements, while reconstruction of the three-dimensional (3D) coronal magnetic field requires modelling with photospheric measurements as a boundary condition. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 I. Chifu , B. Inhester , T. Wiegelmann

We investigate the statistics of 288 low-latitude coronal holes extracted from SDO/AIA-193 filtergrams over the time range 2011/01/01 to 2013/12/31. We analyse the distribution of characteristic coronal hole properties, such as the areas,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 S. J. Hofmeister , A. Veronig , M. A. Reiss , M. Temmer , S. Vennerstrom , B. Vršnak , B. Heber

Total solar eclipses (TSEs) provide a unique opportunity to observe the large-scale solar corona. The solar wind plays an important role in forming the large-scale coronal structure and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are used to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Yihua Li , Guoyin Chen , Jinhan Guo , Yang Guo , Hao Wu , Yuhao Huang , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding , Rony Keppens

We re-analyse spectropolarimetric data of AB Dor taken in 1996 December using a surface imaging code that can model the magnetic field of the star as a non-potential current-carrying magnetic field. We find that a non-potential field needs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. A. J. Hussain , A. A. van Ballegooijen , M. Jardine , A. Col lier Cameron