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We discuss spectropolarimetric measurements of photospheric (Fe I 630.25 nm) and chromospheric (Ca II 854.21 nm) spectral lines. Our long-term goal is to diagnose properties of the magnetic field near the base of the corona. We compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. G. Judge , A. Tritschler , H. Uitenbroek , G. Cauzzi , K. Reardon , A. de Wijn

Presently, many models of the coronal magnetic field rely on photospheric vector magnetograms but these data have been shown to be problematic as the sole boundary information for nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) extrapolations. Magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 A. Malanushenko , C. J. Schrijver , M. L. DeRosa , M. S. Wheatland , S. A. Gilchrist

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) modeling has been extensively used to infer the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field in the solar corona. One of the assumptions in the NLFFF extrapolation is that the plasma beta is low, but this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Yusuke Kawabata , Andrés Asensio Ramos , Satoshi Inoue , Toshifumi Shimizu

Context. A proper estimate of the chromospheric magnetic fields is believed to improve modelling of both active region and coronal mass ejection evolution. Aims. We investigate the similarity between the chromospheric magnetic field…

3D picture of the coronal magnetic field remains an outstanding problem in solar physics, particularly, in active regions. Nonlinear force-free field reconstructions that employ routinely available full-disk photospheric vector magnetograms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Gregory Fleishman , Ivan Mysh'yakov , Alexey Stupishin , Maria Loukitcheva , Sergey Anfinogentov

The magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere structure the plasma, store free magnetic energy and produce a wide variety of active solar phenomena, like flare and coronal mass ejections(CMEs). The distribution and strength of magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , K. Olson , P. J. MacNeice

The O I 135.6 nm spectral line is formed in the chromosphere at the same heights as the Mg II h&k line cores are formed. As the O I line is optically thin, it represents a possibility for measuring the non-thermal velocities in this region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Viggo Hansteen , Mats Carlsson , Bart De Pontieu , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio

Magnetic fields in the solar corona are responsible for a wide range of phenomena. However, any direct measurements of the coronal magnetic fields are very difficult due to lack of suitable spectral lines, weak magnetic fields, and high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-28 P. Vemareddy , A. Ambastha , T. Wiegelmann

The O I 1355{\AA} spectral line is one of the only optically thin lines that are both routinely observed and thought to be formed in the chromosphere. We present analysis of a variety of observations of this line with the Interface Region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Mats Carlsson , Bart De Pontieu

Active regions often host large-scale gas flows in the chromosphere presumably directed along curved magnetic field lines. Spectropolarimetric observations of these flows are critical to understanding the nature and evolution of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-05 Tom Schad , Sarah Jaeggli , Haosheng Lin , Matthew Penn

Aims. We analyze observational data from 4 instruments to study the correlations between chromospheric emission, spanning the heights from the temperature minimum region to the middle chromosphere, and photospheric magnetic field. Methods:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Maria A. Loukitcheva , Sami K. Solanki , Stephen M. White

Adopting the thermal free-free emission mechanism, the coronal and chromospheric magnetic fields are derived from the polarization and spectral observations with the Nobeyama Radioheliograph at 1.76 cm. The solar active regions (AR) located…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. Mouner , Abdelrazek M. K. Shaltout , M. M. Beheary , K. A. K. Gadallah , K. A. Edris

Magnetic field extrapolation is an important tool to study the three-dimensional (3D) solar coronal magnetic field which is difficult to directly measure. Various analytic models and numerical codes exist but their results often drastically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Aiying Duan , Chaowei Jiang , Qiang Hu , Huai Zhang , G. Allen Gary , S. T. Wu , Jinbin Cao

We developed a {\sl coronal non-linear force-free field (COR-NLFFF)} forward-fitting code that fits an approximate {\sl non-linear force-free field (NLFFF)} solution to the observed geometry of automatically traced coronal loops. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Markus J. Aschwanden , Xudong Sun , Yang Liu

We investigate the oscillatory properties of the quiet solar chromosphere in relation to the underlying photosphere, with particular regard to the effects of the magnetic topology. We perform a Fourier analysis on a sequence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Vecchio , G. Cauzzi , K. P. Reardon , K. Janssen , T. Rimmele

We developed an automated pattern recognition code that is particularly well suited to extract one-dimensional curvi-linear features from two-dimensional digital images. A former version of this {\sl Oriented Coronal CUrved Loop Tracing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-05 Markus J. Aschwanden , Bart De Pontieu , Eugene A. Katrukha

We use state-of-the-art, three-dimensional non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the quiet solar atmosphere to carry out detailed tests of chromospheric magnetic field diagnostics from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Maria Loukitcheva , Stephen M. White , Sami K. Solanki , Gregory D. Fleishman , Mats Carlsson

Previous work utilising NASA's High-resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C 2.1) 17.2 nm observations revealed that, even at the increased spatial scales available in the data-set, there may be evidence for coronal structures that are still not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Thomas Williams , Robert W. Walsh , Hardi Peter , Amy R. Winebarger

A novel method of using hard X-rays as a diagnostic for chromospheric density and magnetic structures is developed to infer sub-arcsecond vertical variation of magnetic flux tube size and neutral gas density.Using Reuven Ramaty High Energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. P. Kontar , I. G. Hannah , A. L. MacKinnon

We explore the diagnostic potential of the H$\alpha$ line for probing the chromospheric magnetic field using a realistic 3D radiative magnetohydrodynamic (rMHD) model. The Stokes profiles of the H$\alpha$ line are synthesized through full…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Harsh Mathur , Jayant Joshi , Thore Espedal Moe , Tiago M. D. Pereira , K. Nagaraju
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