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Context. Waves are ubiquitous in the solar corona and there are indications that they are excited by photospheric p-modes. However, it is unclear how p-modes in coronal loops are converted to sausage modes and transverse (kink) modes, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Julia M. Riedl , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Irantzu Calvo Santamaria

Four decades have gone by since the discovery that the solar wind at 1 AU seems to exist in two relatively distinct states: slow and fast. There is still no universal agreement concerning the primary physical cause of this apparently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven R. Cranmer

The mechanism behind coronal heating still elude direct observation and modelling of viable theoretical processes and the subsequent effect on coronal structures is one of the key tools available to assess possible heating mechanisms.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 P. Pagano , I. De Moortel , R. J. Morton

We examine the temperature structure of static coronal active region loops in regimes where thermal conductive transport is driven by Coulomb collisions, by turbulent scattering, or by a combination of the two. (In the last case collisional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 A. Gordon Emslie , Stephen J. Bradshaw

We investigate off-limb active region and quiet Sun corona using spectroscopic data. Active region is clearly visible in several spectral lines formed in the temperature range of 1.1--2.8 MK. We derive electron number density using line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-07 G. R. Gupta

Any successful model of coronal loops must explain a number of observed properties. For warm (~ 1 MK) loops, these include: 1. excess density, 2. flat temperature profile, 3. super-hydrostatic scale height, 4. unstructured intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. A. Klimchuk , J. T. Karpen , S. K. Antiochos

The back-reaction of the perturbed thermal equilibrium in the solar corona on compressive perturbations, also known as the effect of wave-induced thermal misbalance, is known to result in thermal instabilities chiefly responsible for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Joseph B. Fihosy

We investigate the evolution of coronal loop emission in the context of the coronal magnetic field topology. New modeling techniques allow us to investigate the magnetic field structure and energy release in active regions. Using these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. -Y. Lee , Graham Barnes , K. D. Leka , Katharine K. Reeves , K. E. Korreck , L. Golub , E. E. DeLuca

Identifying the underlying mechanisms behind the excitation of transverse oscillations in coronal loops is essential for their role as diagnostic tools in coronal seismology and their potential use as wave heating mechanisms of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Konstantinos Karampelas , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Aims. We investigate the transfer of energy between a standing kink mode and azimuthal Alfven waves within an expanding flux tube. We consider the process of resonant absorption in a loop with a non-uniform Alfven frequency profile but in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Patrick Antolin , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Andrew Wright

We conducted a high-resolution numerical simulation of the solar corona above a stable active region. The aim is to test the field-line braiding mechanism for a sufficient coronal energy input. We also check the applicability of scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

The solar atmosphere shows anomalous variation in temperature, starting from the 5500 K photosphere to the million-degree Kelvin corona. The corona itself expands into the interstellar medium as the free streaming solar wind, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Vishal Upendran

Slow MHD waves are important tools for understanding the coronal structures and dynamics. In this paper, we report a number of observations, from X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on board HINODE and SDO/AIA of reflecting longitudinal waves in hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Sudip Mandal , Ding Yuan , Xia Fang , Dipankar Banerjee , Vaibhav Pant , Tom Van Doorsselaere

We aim to study the influence of radiative cooling on the standing kink oscillations of a coronal loop. Using the FLASH code, we solved the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations. Our model consists of a straight, density enhanced and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-30 N. Magyar , T. Van Doorsselaere , A. Marcu

Alfv\'en waves are widely believed to play an important role in the transport of energy from the solar photosphere to the corona through the partially ionized chromosphere. In previous work, the properties of torsional Alfv\'en waves were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Roberto Soler

Solar corona is much hotter than lower layers of the solar atmosphere-photosphere and chromosphere. The coronal temperature is up to 1MK in quiet sun areas, while up to several MK in active regions, which implies a key role of magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Gregory D. Fleishman , Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita

Magnetic loops are building blocks of the closed-field corona. While active region loops are readily seen in images taken at EUV and X-ray wavelengths, quiet Sun loops are seldom identifiable and therefore difficult to study on an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhenguang Huang , Richard A. Frazin , Enrico Landi , Ward B. Manchester , Alberto M. Vásquez , Tamas I. Gombosi

Sunspots host various oscillations and wave phenomena like umbral flashes, umbral oscillations, running penumbral waves, and coronal waves. All fan loops rooted in sunspot umbra constantly show a 3-min period propagating slow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Ananya Rawat , Girjesh R. Gupta

Twisted magnetic fields should be ubiquitous in flare-producing active regions where the magnetic fields are strongly non-potential. It has been shown that reconnection in helical magnetic coronal loops results in plasma heating and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 R. F. Pinto , M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , N. Vilmer

The subject of this study is oscillations in the lower atmosphere in coronal-hole regions, where the conditions are favorable for propagation between the atmospheric layers. Based on spectroscopic observations in photospheric and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Andrei Chelpanov , Nikolai Kobanov , Maksim Chelpanov , Aleksandr Kiselev
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