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We present a detailed analysis of a reflecting intensity perturbation in a large coronal loop that appeared as sloshing oscillation and lasted for at least one and a half periods. The perturbation is initiated by a microflare at one…

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Understanding the relationship among different emission components plays an essential role in the study of particle acceleration and energy conversion in solar flares. In flares where gradual and impulsive emission components can be readily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Siming Liu , Youping Li , Lyndsay Fletcher

Polar corona is often explored to find the energy source for the acceleration of the fast solar wind. Earlier observations show omni-presence of quasi-periodic disturbances, travelling outward, which is believed to be caused by the…

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Standing long-period (with the periods longer than several minutes) oscillations in large hot (with the temperature higher than 3 MK) coronal loops have been observed as the quasi-periodic modulation of the EUV and microwave intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Sanjay Kumar , V. M. Nakariakov , Y. -J. Moon

I report on observations of a set of magnetic loops above a region with late-phase flux emergence taken by IRIS, Hinode and SDO. The loop system consists of many transition region loop threads with size of 5--12\arcsec\ in length and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Zhenghua Huang

MHD waves permeate the solar atmosphere and constitute potential coronal heating agents. Yet, the waves detected so far may be but a small subset of the true existing wave power. Detection is limited by instrumental constraints, but also by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-03 Patrick Antolin , Ineke De Moortel , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Takaaki Yokoyama

Data from recent numerical simulations of the solar corona and transition region are analysed and the magnetic field connection between the low corona and the photosphere is found to be close to that of a potential field. The fieldline to…

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In this Letter we establish clear evidence for the resonant absorption damping mechanism by analyzing observational data from the novel Coronal Multi-Channel Polarimeter (CoMP). This instrument has established that in the solar corona there…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Verth , M. Goossens , J. Terradas

Multiwavelength observations of the propagating disturbances (PDs), discovered by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), are analyzed to determine its driving mechanism and physical nature. Two magnetic…

We analyze and model a C5.7 two-ribbon solar flare observed by SDO, Hinode and GOES on 2011 December 26. The flare is made of many loops formed and heated successively over one and half hours, and their footpoints are brightened in the UV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Chunming Zhu , Jiong Qiu , Dana W. Longcope

We analyze the evolution of shock waves in high-resolution 3D radiative MHD simulations of the quiet Sun and their synthetic emission characteristics. The simulations model the dynamics of a 12.8x12.8x15.2 Mm quiet-Sun region (including a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 Viacheslav M. Sadykov , Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Alan A. Wray

Quasi-periodic, fast-mode, propagating wave trains (QFPs) are a new observational phenomenon recently discovered in the solar corona by the Solar Dynamics Observatory with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imaging observations. They originate from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Wei Liu , Leon Ofman , Brittany Broder , Marian Karlicky , Cooper Downs

The eruption of the filament/flux rope generates the coronal perturbations, which further form EUV waves. There are two types of EUV waves, including fast-mode magnetosonic waves and slow waves. In this paper, we first report an event…

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High-frequency wave phenomena present a great deal of interest as one of the possible candidates to contribute to the energy input required to heat the corona as a part of the AC heating theory. However, the resolution of imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Elena Petrova , Norbert Magyar , Tom Van Doorsselaere , David Berghmans

Loop-aligned hydrodynamic modelings help better understand the thermodynamic evolution of flaring plasma confined in solar flare loops. Conventional loop modelings typically assume a uniform loop cross section. With a variation of the cross…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Yu Dai , Shihan Li , Wenlong Tang , Zhen Li , Mingde Ding

We report for the first time the detection of thermal free-free emission from post-flare loops at 34GHz in images from the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH). We studied 8 loops, 7 of which were from regions with extremely strong coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 Costas E. Alissandrakis , Gregory D. Fleishman , Viktor V. Fedenev , Stephen M. White , Alexander T. Altyntsev

Quasi-periodic fast-propagating (QFP) wave trains are a distinctive form of magnetohydrodynamic disturbance frequently observed in the solar corona. Yet their excitation mechanism and propagation characteristics are not well understood. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Tongjiang Wang , Wei Liu , Leon Ofman , Xudong Sun , Meng Jin

Coronal loops in active regions are the subjects of intensive investigation, but the important diffuse 'unresolved' emission in which they are embedded has received relatively little attention. Here we measure the densities and emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 David H. Brooks

Waves are thought to play a significant role in the heating of the solar atmosphere and the acceleration of the wind. Among the many types of waves observed in the Sun, the so-called p-modes with a 3 mHz frequency peak dominate the lower…