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To explain the high temperature of the corona, much attention has been paid to the distribution of energy in dissipation events. Indeed, if the event energy distribution is steep enough, the smallest, unobservable events could be the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Vincent Joulin , Éric Buchlin , Jacques Solomon , Chloé Guennou

The effect of temperature inhomogeneity on the periods, their ratios (fundamental vs. first overtone), and the damping times of the standing slow modes in gravitationally stratified solar coronal loops are studied. The effects of optically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Abedini , H. Safari , S. Nasiri

Cool ($\approx 10^4$K), dense material permeates the hot ($\approx 10^6$K), tenuous solar corona in form of coronal condensations, for example prominences and coronal rain. As the solar atmosphere evolves, turbulence can drive mixing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Ben Snow , Chris Osborne , Andrew Hillier

We propose a novel one-dimensional model that includes both shock and turbulence heating and qualify how these processes contribute to heating the corona and driving the solar wind. Compressible MHD simulations allow us to automatically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Munehito Shoda , Takaaki Yokoyama , Takeru K. Suzuki

The Sun's magnetic field is a key driver in coronal heating and consequently solar wind acceleration. Remote measurement of the photosphere provides the magnetic surface boundary condition necessary for data-constrained 3D global coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Caroline L. Evans , Cooper Downs , Donald Schmit

Although the mechanisms responsible for heating the Sun's corona and accelerating the solar wind are still being actively investigated, it is largely accepted that photospheric motions provide the energy source and that the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Roberto Lionello , Marco Velli , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Zoran Mikić , Andrea Verdini

Static distributions of temperature and wind velocity at the transition region are calculated within the framework of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) of completely ionized hydrogen plasma. The numerical solution of the derived equations gives…

Some of local sources of the slow solar wind can be associated with spectroscopically detected plasma outflows at edges of active regions accompanied with specific signatures in the inner corona. The EUV telescopes (e.g. SPIRIT/CORONAS-F,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-03 V. Slemzin , L. Harra , A. Urnov , S. Kuzin , F. Goryaev , D. Berghmans

In many astrophysical systems, mixing between cool and hot temperature gas/plasma through Kelvin-Helmholtz-instability-driven turbulence leads to the formation of an intermediate temperature phase with increased radiative losses that drive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-16 Andrew Hillier , Ben Snow , Inigo Arregui

The physical processes causing energy exchange between the Sun's hot corona and its cool lower atmosphere remain poorly understood. The chromosphere and transition region (TR) form an interface region between the surface and the corona that…

Aims: To study the presence of superoscillations in coronal magnetoacoustic waves and its possible role in heating coronal loops through the strong and localized gradients they generate on the wave. Methods: An analytic model is built for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 A. López Ariste , M. Facchin

Recent observations at high spatial resolution have shown that magnetic flux cancellation occurs on the solar surface much more frequently than previously thought, and so this led Priest et al 2018 to propose magnetic reconnection driven by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 P. Syntelis , E. R. Priest , L. P. Chitta

Condensations in the more than 10^6 K hot corona of the Sun are commonly observed in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV). While their contribution to the total solar EUV radiation is still a matter of debate, these condensations certainly provide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-06 H. Peter , S. Bingert , S. Kamio

Vortex flows have been found in the photosphere, chromosphere and low corona in observations and simulations. It has been suggested that vortices play an important role for channeling energy and plasma into the corona, but the impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 C. Breu , H. Peter , R. Cameron , S. K. Solanki

We show that the coronal heating and the fast solar wind acceleration in the coronal holes are natural consequence of the footpoint fluctuations of the magnetic fields at the photosphere, by performing one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

What physical mechanisms heat the outer solar or stellar atmosphere to million-Kelvin temperatures is a fundamental but long-standing open question. In particular, the solar corona in active region cores contains an even hotter component…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Zekun Lu , Feng Chen , M. D. Ding , Can Wang , Yu Dai , Xin Cheng

Extreme-ultraviolet images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory often show looplike fine structure to be present where no minority-polarity flux is visible in magnetograms, suggesting that the rate of ephemeral region (ER) emergence inside…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Y. -M. Wang

Constraining the frequency of energy deposition in magnetically-closed active region cores requires sophisticated hydrodynamic simulations of the coronal plasma and detailed forward modeling of the optically-thin line-of-sight integrated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 W. T. Barnes , S. J. Bradshaw , N. M. Viall

With the development of new instrumentation providing measurements of solar photospheric vector magnetic fields, we need to develop our understanding of the effects of current density on coronal magnetic field configurations. The object is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Regnier , E. R. Priest

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have been considered as energy sources for heating the solar chromosphere and the corona. Although MHD waves have been observed in the solar atmosphere, there are a lack of quantitative estimates on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-01 Ryuichi Kanoh , Toshifumi Shimizu , Shinsuke Imada