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The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Sergey A. Anfinogentov

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

Polarized magnetic dipole (M1) emission lines provide important diagnostics for the magnetic field dominating the evolution of the solar corona. This paper advances a multi-line technique using specific combinations of M1 lines to infer the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Gabriel I. Dima , Thomas A. Schad

The spectroscopic observations presented here were acquired during the 2017 August 21 total solar eclipse with a three-channel partially multiplexed imaging spectrometer (3PAMIS) operating at extremely high orders ($>$ 50). The 4 $R_\odot$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yingjie Zhu , Shadia R. Habbal , Adalbert Ding , Bryan Yamashiro , Enrico Landi , Benjamin Boe , Sage Constantinou , Michael Nassir

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

We carry out a study of the global three-dimensional (3D) structure of the electron density and temperature of the quiescent inner solar corona ($r<1.25 R_\odot$) by means of tomographic reconstructions and magnetohydrodynamic simulations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 D. G. Lloveras , A. M. Vásquez , F. A. Nuevo , C. Mac Cormack , N. Sachdeva , W. Manchester , B. Van der Holst , R. A. Frazin

Understanding the relationship between the magnetic field and coronal heating is one of the central problems of solar physics. However, studies of the magnetic properties of impulsively heated loops have been rare. We present results from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Nicholas A. Crump , Harry P. Warren , Thomas Wiegelmann

We investigate the recently quantified misalignment of $\alpha_{mis} \approx 20^\circ-40^\circ$ between the 3-D geometry of stereoscopically triangulated coronal loops observed with STEREO/EUVI (in four active regions) and theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Markus J. Aschwanden , Anne W. Sandman

Oscillation properties in two sunspots and two facular regions are studied using Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) data and ground-based observations in the SiI 10827 and HeI 10830 lines. The aim is to study different-frequency spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 N. I. Kobanov , D. Y. Kolobov , A. A. Chelpanov

Solar radio U-bursts are generated by electron beams traveling along closed magnetic loops in the solar corona. Low-frequency ($<$ 100 MHz) U-bursts serve as powerful diagnostic tools for studying large-sized coronal loops that extend into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-08 Jinge Zhang , Hamish A. S. Reid , Eoin Carley , Laurent Lamy , Pietro Zucca , Peijin Zhang , Baptiste Cecconi

Coronal loops are basic building blocks of solar atmosphere and are observed on various length scales. However, their formation mechanism is still unclear. In this paper, we present the spectroscopic and imaging observations of small-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Girjesh R. Gupta , Sushree S. Nayak

Spectral inversion codes are powerful tools to analyze spectropolarimetric observations, and they provide important diagnostics of solar magnetic fields. Inversion codes differ by numerical procedures, approximations of the atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Balthasar , M. L. Demidov

We study the magnetic field and current structure associated with a coronal loop. Through this we investigate to what extent the assumptions of a force-free magnetic field break down and where they might be justified. We analyse a 3D MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-05 Jörn Warnecke , Feng Chen , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

We have studied the angular distribution of the magnetic field vector in the solar internetwork employing high-quality data (noise level $\sigma \approx 3\times 10^{-4}$ in units of the quiet-Sun intensity) at different latitudes recorded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. M. Borrero , P. Kobel

Context: In this paper we present a validation scheme to investigate the quality of coronal magnetic field models, which is based upon comparisons with observational data from multiple sources. Aims: Many of these coronal models may use a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 A. Wagner , E. Asvestari , M. Temmer , S. G. Heinemann , J. Pomoell

Two of the most attractive spectral windows for spectropolarimetric investigations of the physical properties of the plasma structures in the solar chromosphere and corona are the ones provided by the spectral lines of the He I 10830 A and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Centeno , J. Trujillo Bueno , H. Uitenbroek , M. Collados

The solar coronal magnetic field produces solar activity, including extremely energetic solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Knowledge of the structure and evolution of the magnetic field of the solar corona is important for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Tilaye Tadesse , Thomas Wiegelmann , Peter MacNeice

This article presents the first direct "observation" of the global-scale, 3D coronal magnetic fields of Carrington Rotation (CR) Cycle 2112 using vector tomographic inversion techniques. The Vector tomographic inversion uses observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-18 M. Kramar , H. Lin , S. Tomczyk

Recent progress in obtaining high spatial resolution images of the solar corona in the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) with Hinode, TRACE, SDO and recent Hi-C missions and soft X-ray (SXR) bands opened a new avenue in understanding the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 V. S. Airapetian , J. Allred

This paper identifies spectral lines from X-ray to infrared wavelengths which are optimally suited to measuring vector magnetic fields as high as possible in the solar atmosphere. Instrumental and Earth's atmospheric properties, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 P. Judge , P. Bryans , R. Casini , L. Kleint , D. Lacatus , A. Paraschiv , D. Schmit