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The heating of the outer solar atmospheric layers, i.e., the transition region and corona, to high temperatures is a long standing problem in solar (and stellar) physics. Solutions have been hampered by an incomplete understanding of the…

To study motions and oscillations in the solar chromosphere and at the transition region (TR) level we analyze some extreme Doppler shifts observed off-limb with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Raster scans and slit-jaw…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy

Coronal upflows at the edges of active regions (AR), which are a possible source of slow solar wind, have been found to connect with dynamics in the transition region. To infer at what scale transition region dynamics connect to AR upflows,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Hui Fu , Zhenyong Hou , Ziyuan Wang

We study the dynamics of low-lying cool loop systems for three datasets as observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Radiances, Doppler shifts and line widths are investigated in and around observed cool loop systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Yamini K. Rao , Abhishek K. Srivastava , Pradeep Kayshap , Klaus Wilhelm , Bhola N. Dwivedi

Solar jets are impulsive, collimated plasma ejections that are triggered by magnetic reconnection. They are observed for many decades in various temperatures and wavelengths, therefore their kinematic characteristics, such as velocity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Brigitte Schmieder , Reetika Joshi , Ramesh Chandra

Studying the Doppler shifts and the temperature dependence of Doppler shifts in moss regions can help us understand the heating processes in the core of the active regions. In this paper we have used an active region observation recorded by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Durgesh Tripathi , Helen E. Mason , James A. Klimchuk

We present the first Hinode/EIS observations of 5 min quasi-periodic oscillations detected in a transition-region line (He II) and five coronal lines (Fe X, Fe XII, Fe XIII, Fe XIV, and Fe XV) at the footpoint of a coronal loop. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 T. J. Wang , L. Ofman , J. M. Davila

During solar flares, a considerable portion of the flare atmosphere becomes heated; however, the energy deposition process is still unclear, especially in the lower solar atmosphere. Here, we present spectroscopic and imaging observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Girjesh Gupta , Ananya Rawat , Helen Mason , Robertus Erdélyi

In this study, we investigate motions in the hot plasma above the flare loops during the 2017 September 10 X8.2 flare event. We examine the region to the south of the main flare arcade, where there is data from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Katharine K. Reeves , Vanessa Polito , Bin Chen , Giselle Galan , Sijie Yu , Wei Liu , Gang Li

We investigate various dynamic processes including magnetic reconnection, chromospheric evaporation, and coronal rain draining in two limb solar flares through imaging and spectroscopic observations from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Ke Yu , Y. Li , Jie Hong , De-Chao Song , M. D. Ding

Previous solar observations have shown that coronal loops near 1 MK are difficult to reconcile with simple heating models. These loops have lifetimes that are long relative to a radiative cooling time, suggesting quasi-steady heating. The…

We report the observations of a flux rope at transition region temperatures with the \emph{Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph} (IRIS) on 30 August 2014. Initially, magnetic flux cancellation constantly took place and a filament was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Ting Li , Jun Zhang

The first spectroscopic observations of cool Mg II loops above the solar limb observed by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph ({\it IRIS}; \cite{IRIS}) are presented. During the observation period IRIS is pointed off-limb allowing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-02 L. K. Harra , S. A. Matthews , D. M. Long , G. A. Doschek , B. De Pontieu

In this study we report detailed observations of magnetic environment at four footpoints of two warm coronal loops observed on 5 May 2016 in NOAA AR 12542 (Loop I) and 17 Dec 2015 in NOAA AR 12470 (Loop II). These loops were connecting a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 Seray Şahin , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Pankaj Kumar , Ali Kilcik , Kwangsu Ahn , Xu Yang

We present observations of transient active region heating events observed with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) and X-ray Telescope (XRT) on Hinode. This initial investigation focuses on NOAA active region 10940 as…

Transition-region loops are a type of critical magnetic structure in the solar atmosphere, yet their physical properties and evolutionary characteristics remain statistically poorly constrained. We aim to statistically characterize the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiuhui Zuo , Zhenghua Huang , Maria S. Madjarska , Hui Fu , Hengyuan Wei , Xinzheng Shi , Lidong Xia

The evolution of a coronal loop is studied by means of numerical simulations of the fully compressible three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations using the HYPERION code. The footpoints of the loop magnetic field are advected by random…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , B. D. Taylor , I. Ugarte-Urra , H. P. Warren , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli

Coronal loops are building blocks of solar active regions. However, their formation mechanism is still not well understood. Here we present direct observational evidence for the formation of coronal loops through magnetic reconnection as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Zhenyong Hou , Hui Tian , Hechao Chen , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Zhenghua Huang , Xianyong Bai , Jiansen He , Yongliang Song , Lidong Xia

In the present paper, we use Si IV 1393.755 \AA\ spectral line observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) in the quiet-Sun to determine physical nature of the solar transition region (TR) oscillations. We analyze the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Kartika Sangal , A. K. Srivastava , P. Kayshap , T. J Wang , J. J. González-Avilés , Abhinav Prasad

We investigate intensity variations and energy deposition in five coronal loops in active region cores. These were selected for their strong variability in the AIA/SDO 94 {\AA} intensity channel. We isolate the hot Fe XVIII and Fe XXI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. C. Cadavid , J. K. Lawrence , D. J. Christian , D. B. Jess , G. Nigro