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Identification of the mechanisms responsible for heating the solar chromosphere and corona remains an outstanding problem, one of great relevance to late-type stars as well. There has been tremendous progress in the past decade, largely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Tim Bastian , Bin Chen , Dale Gary , Gregory Fleishman , Lindsay Glesener , Colin Lonsdale , Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Stephen White

We present a Differential Emission Measure (DEM) analysis of the quiet solar corona on disk using data obtained by the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on {\it Hinode}. We show that the expected quiet Sun DEM distribution can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-09 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , David R. Williams , Tetsuya Watanabe

Determining the mechanisms responsible for the heating of the coronal plasma and maintaining and accelerating the solar wind are long standing goals in solar physics. There is a clear need to constrain the energy, mass and momentum flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-21 R. J. Morton , E. Scullion , D. S. Bloomfield , J. A. McLaughlin , S. Regnier , S. W. McIntosh , S. Tomczyk , P. Young

The distribution of the coronal electron density at different distances from the Sun strongly influences the physical processes in the solar corona and is therefore a very important topic in solar physics. Most methods, including radio…

We developed a new technique for registration of the far solar corona from ground-based observations at distances comparable to those obtained from space coronagraphs. It makes possible visualization of fine details of studied objects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Y. Shopov , D. A. Stoykova , K. Stoitchkova , L. T. Tsankov , A. Tanev , Kl. Burin , St. Belchev , V. Rusanov , D. Ivanov , A. Stoev , P. Muglova , I. Iliev

Structures in the solar corona are the main drivers of space weather processes that might directly or indirectly affect the Earth. Thanks to the most recent space-based solar observatories, with capabilities to acquire high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-23 Šimon Mackovjak , Martin Harman , Viera Maslej-Krešňáková , Peter Butka

We present a fast method for reconstructing Differential Emission Measures (DEMs) using solar coronal data. On average, the method computes over 1000 DEMs per second for a sample active region observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joseph Plowman , Charles Kankelborg , Petrus Martens

The coming decade will see the routine use of solar data of unprecedented spatial and spectral resolution, time cadence, and completeness. To capitalize on the new (or soon to be available) facilities such as SDO, ATST and FASR, and the…

The interface between the bright solar surface and the million-degree corona continues to hold the key to many unsolved problems in solar physics. Advances in instrumentation now allow us to observe the dynamic structures of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Tiago M. D. Pereira

X-Ray and Ultraviolet (UV) observations of the outer solar atmosphere have been used for many decades to measure the fundamental parameters of the solar plasma. This review focuses on the optically thin emission from the solar atmosphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Giulio Del Zanna , Helen E. Mason

We report observations of type III radio bursts at decimeter wavelengths (type IIIdm bursts) -- signatures of suprathermal electron beams propagating in the low corona -- using the new technique of radio dynamic imaging spectroscopy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Bin Chen , Timothy S. Bastian , Stephen M. White , Dale E. Gary , Richard A. Perley , Michael P. Rupen , Brent R. Carlson

In this work, we introduce a novel generative denoising diffusion model for synthesizing the Sun's three-dimensional coronal magnetic field, a complex and dynamic region characterized by evolving magnetic structures. Despite daily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel E. da Silva , Michael Kirk , Nat Mathews , Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo

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

Understanding and monitoring the complex and dynamic processes of the Sun is important for a number of human activities on Earth and in space. For this reason, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been continuously monitoring the…

Recently, several new solar radio telescopes have been put into operation and provided spectral-imaging observations with much higher resolutions in decimeter (dm) and centimeter (cm) wavelengths. These telescopes include the Mingantu…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Baolin Tan , Yihua Yan , Jing Huang , Yin Zhang , Chengming Tan , Xiaoshuai Zhu

The coming years will see routine use of solar data of unprecedented spatial and spectral resolution, time cadence, and completeness in the wavelength domain. To capitalize on the soon to be available radio facilities such as the expanded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary

We investigate the spatial and temporal evolution of the heating of the corona of a cool star such as our Sun in a three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (3D MHD) model. We solve the 3D MHD problem numerically in a box representing part of…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

Solar corona is much hotter than lower layers of the solar atmosphere-photosphere and chromosphere. The coronal temperature is up to 1MK in quiet sun areas, while up to several MK in active regions, which implies a key role of magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Gregory D. Fleishman , Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) influence the interplanetary environment over vast distances in the solar system by injecting huge clouds of fast solar plasma and energetic particles (SEPs). A number of fundamental questions remain about how…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Oleg Stepanyuk , Kamen Kozarev , Mohamed Nedal

Helmet streamers are a prominent manifestation of magnetic structures with current sheets in the solar corona. These large-scale structures are regions with high plasma density, overlying active regions and filament channels. We investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-04 Bieke Decraemer , Andrei N. Zhukov , Tom Van Doorsselaere