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Using extreme-ultraviolet images, we recently proposed a new and alternative formation mechanism for coronal rain along magnetically open field lines due to interchange magnetic reconnection. In this paper we report coronal rain at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Hongqiang Song

Chromospheric evaporation (CE) and coronal rain (CR) represent two crucial phenomena encompassing the circulation of mass and energy during solar flares. While CE marks the start of the hot inflow into the flaring loop, CR marks the end,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Seray Sahin , Patrick Antolin

Coronal rain, observed in 3D spine-fan magnetic configurations, results from thermal instability in the solar corona, where runaway in-situ cooling causes plasma to condense and drain along the magnetic lines. The reconnection of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Beatrice Popescu Braileanu , Rony Keppens

Adopting the MPI-AMRVAC code, we present a 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation, which includes thermal conduction and radiative cooling, to investigate the formation and evolution of the coronal rain phenomenon. We perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Xiaohong Li , Rony Keppens , Yuhao Zhou

We intend to investigate the underlying physics for the coronal rain phenomenon in a representative bipolar magnetic field, including the formation and the dynamics of coronal rain blobs. With the MPI-AMRVAC code, we performed three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Xia Fang

The periodic coronal rain and in-phase radiative intensity pulsations have been observed in multiple wavelengths in recent years. However, due to the lack of three-dimensional coronal magnetic fields and thermodynamic data in observations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Zekun Lu , Feng Chen , J. H. Guo , M. D. Ding , Can Wang , Haocheng Yu , Y. W. Ni , Chun Xia

Most solar flares demonstrate a prolonged, hourlong post-flare (or gradual) phase, characterized by arcade-like, post-flare loops (PFLs) visible in many extreme ultraviolet (EUV) passbands. These coronal loops are filled with hot -- $\sim…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Wenzhi Ruan , Yuhao Zhou , Rony Keppens

We performed the temperature diagnostics using inversions of data from nine spectroscopic observations obtained with the IRIS spectrograph in the MgII h & k lines. The sensitivity to the temperature of the emission peaks of these lines was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 M. Kriginsky , R. Oliver

Context: Thermal non-equilibrium (TNE) produces several observables that can be used to constrain the spatial and temporal distribution of solar coronal heating. Its manifestations include prominence formation, coronal rain, and long-period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Gabriel Pelouze , Frédéric Auchère , Karine Bocchialini , Clara Froment , Zoran Mikić , Elie Soubrié , Alfred Voyeux

We present the first multidimensional, magnetohydrodynamic simulations which capture the initial formation and the long-term sustainment of the enigmatic coronal rain phenomenon. We demonstrate how thermal instability can induce a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 X. Fang , C. Xia , R. Keppens

Coronal rain consists of cool plasma condensations formed in coronal loops as a result of thermal instability. The standard models of coronal rain formation assume that the heating is quasi-steady and localised at the coronal loop…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 P. Kohutova , E. Verwichte , C. Froment

Context. Photospheric motions shuffle the footpoints of the strong axial magnetic field that threads coronal loops giving rise to turbulent nonlinear dynamics characterized by the continuous formation and dissipation of field-aligned…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli

Observations and simulations of coronal rain show that as cold and dense plasma falls through the corona it initially undergoes acceleration by gravity before the downward velocity saturates. Simulations have shown the emergence of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Andrew Hillier , Ramon Oliver , David Martínez-Gómez

We present numerical simulations in 3D settings where coronal rain phenomena take place in a magnetic configuration of a quadrupolar arcade system. Our simulation is a magnetohydrodynamic simulation including anisotropic thermal conduction,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 S. P. Moschou , R. Keppens , C. Xia , X. Fang

A differential emission measure (DEM) method is used to evaluate the relationship of the electron density and temperature before and after a coronal rain event during an active sun over the period from 20:10 UT on October 6 to 02:10 on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Z. M. Vashalomidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. D. Kukhianidze

Fine-scale structure in the corona appears not to be well resolved by current imaging instruments. Assuming this to be true offers a simple geometric explanation for several current puzzles in coronal physics, including: the apparent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 C. E. DeForest

The formation and dynamics of coronal rain are currently not fully understood. Coronal rain is the fall of cool and dense blobs formed by thermal instability in the solar corona towards the solar surface with acceleration smaller than…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Z. Vashalomidze , V. Kukhianidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Oliver , B. Shergelashvili , G. Ramishvili , S. Poedts , P. De Causmaecker

Coronal loops are plasma structures in the solar atmosphere with temperatures reaching millions of Kelvin, shaped and sustained by the magnetic field. However, their morphology and fundamental nature remain subjects of debate. By studying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 N. Vasantharaju , H. Peter , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal

Thermal non-equilibrium (TNE) is a phenomenon that can occur in solar coronal loops when the heating is quasi-constant and highly-stratified. Under such heating conditions, coronal loops undergo cycles of evaporation and condensation. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 C. Froment , P. Antolin , V. M. J. Henriques , P. Kohutova , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

Coronal loops, seen in solar coronal images, are believed to represent emission from magnetic flux tubes with compact cross-sections. We examine the 3D structure of plasma above an active region in a radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 A. Malanushenko , M. C. M. Cheung , C. E. DeForest , J. A. Klimchuk , M. Rempel