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Magnetic flux ropes are characterized by coherently twisted magnetic field lines, which are ubiquitous in magnetized plasmas. As the core structure of various eruptive phenomena in the solar atmosphere, flux ropes hold the key to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-10 Rui Liu

The solar magnetic fields emerging from the photosphere into the chromosphere and corona are comprised of a combination of "closed" and "open" fields. The closed magnetic field lines are defined as those having both ends rooted in the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 C. Nick Arge , Andrew Leisner , Samantha Wallace , Carl J. Henney

As the observational signature of the footprints of solar magnetic field lines open into the heliosphere, coronal holes provide a critical measure of the structure and evolution of these lines. Using a combination of Solar and Heliospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-23 Chris Lowder , Jiong Qiu , Robert Leamon

The distribution of magnetic flux across the solar photosphere results in a complex web of coronal magnetic field structures. To understand this complexity, the magnetic skeleton of the coronal field can be calculated. The skeleton…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-23 Sarah J. Platten , Clare E. Parnell , Andrew L. Haynes , Eric R. Priest , Duncan H. Mackay

The present study provides statistical information on the coronal magnetic field and intensity properties of small-scale bright and faint loops in the quiet Sun. We aim to quantitatively investigate the morphological and topological…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Maria S. Madjarska , Thomas Wiegelmann , Pascal Démoulin , Klaus Galsgaard

We will use new data from the High-resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) with unprecedented spatial resolution of the solar corona to investigate the structure of coronal loops down to 0.2 arcsec. During a rocket flight Hi-C provided images of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Peter , S. Bingert , J. A. Klimchuk , C. de Forest , J. W. Cirtain , L. Golub , A. R. Winebarger , K. Kobayashi , K. E. Korreck

Twisted coronal loops should be ubiquitous in the solar corona. Twisted magnetic fields contain excess magnetic energy, which can be released during magnetic reconnection, causing solar flares. The aim of this work is to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 Mykola Gordovskyy , Philippa Browning , Eduard Kontar , Nicolas Bian

New and advanced space-based observing facilities continue to lower the resolution limit and detect solar coronal loops in greater detail. We continue to discover even finer sub-structures within coronal loop cross sections, in order to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Eamon Scullion , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Sven Wedemeyer , Patrick Antolin

Coronal loops generally trace magnetic lines of force in the upper solar atmosphere. Understanding the loop morphology and its temporal evolution has implications for coronal heating models that rely on plasma heating due to reconnection at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 B. Ram , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal , H. Peter , F. Plaschke

Coronal loops are the building blocks of the X-ray bright solar corona. They owe their brightness to the dense confined plasma, and this review focuses on loops mostly as structures confining plasma. After a brief historical overview, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fabio Reale

In-situ measurements by several spacecraft have revealed that the solar wind is frequently perturbed by transient structures (magnetic folds, jets, waves, flux-ropes) that propagate rapidly away from the Sun over large distances. Parker…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 R. F. Pinto , N. Poirier , A. P. Rouillard , A. Kouloumvakos , L. Griton , N. Fargette , R. Kieokaew , B. Lavraud , A. S. Brun

Context. The Sun's complex corona is the source of the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field. While the large scale morphology is well understood, the impact of variations in coronal properties on the scale of a few degrees on…

We study the magnetic properties of small-scale transients in coronal hole. We found all brightening events are associated with bipolar regions and caused by magnetic flux emergence followed by cancellation with the pre-existing and newly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-16 Z. Huang , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , D. A. Lamb

The Sun is replete with magnetic fields, with sunspots, pores and plage regions being their most prominent representatives on the solar surface. But even far away from these active regions, magnetic fields are ubiquitous. To a large extent,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-05 Andreas Lagg , Bruce Lites , Jack Harvey , Sanjay Gosain , Rebecca Centeno

Extreme UV (EUV) and X-ray loops in the solar corona connect regions of enhanced magnetic activity, but they are not usually rooted in the dark umbrae of sunspots because the strong magnetic field found there suppresses convection. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , P. R. Young

Magnetic-field reconnection is believed to play a fundamental role in magnetized plasma systems throughout the Universe1, including planetary magnetospheres, magnetars and accretion disks around black holes. This letter present extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-06 Yang Su , Astrid M. Veronig , Gordon D. Holman , Brian R. Dennis , Tongjiang Wang , Manuela Temmer , Weiqun Gan

The magnetic field in the Sun's corona stores energy that can be released to heat the coronal plasma and drive solar eruptions. Measurements of the global coronal magnetic field have been limited to a few snapshots. We present observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Zihao Yang , Hui Tian , Steven Tomczyk , Xianyu Liu , Sarah Gibson , Richard J. Morton , Cooper Downs

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

In recent work, Antiochos and coworkers argued that the boundary between the open and closed field regions on the Sun can be extremely complex with narrow corridors of open flux connecting seemingly disconnected coronal holes from the main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. S. Titov , Z. Mikic , J. A. Linker , R. Lionello , S. K. Antiochos

Coronal loops are the basic structures of the solar transition region and corona. The understanding of physical mechanism behind the loop heating, plasma flows, and filling are still considered a major challenge in the solar physics. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 G. R. Gupta , Durgesh Tripathi , Helen E. Mason