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Global extreme ultraviolet (EUV) waves are spectacular traveling disturbances in the solar corona associated with energetic eruptions such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares. Over the past 15 years, observations from three…

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Network loops are a common feature in the quiet Sun. The physical processes sustaining their energy budget is still under discussion. We rely on a multi-instrumental (Solar Orbiter/EUI, Solar Orbiter/PHI, IRIS) observation of a six hours…

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We present the initial results of an observational study into the variation of the dominant length-scale of quiet solar emission: supergranulation. This length-scale reflects the radiative energy in the plasma of the upper solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Scott W. McIntosh , Robert J. Leamon , Rachel A. Hock , Mark P. Rast , Roger K. Ulrich

We present an assessment of the accuracy of the calibration measurements and atomic physics models that go into calculating the SDO/AIA response as a function of wavelength and temperature. The wavelength response is tested by convolving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Boerner , P. Testa , H. Warren , M. A. Weber , C. J. Schrijver

Since its launch on 22 September 2006, the EUV Imaging Spectrometer onboard the Hinode satellite has exhibited a gradual decay in sensitivity. Using spectroheliograms taken in the Fe VIII 185.21 Angstrom and Si VII 275.35 Angstrom emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. T. Mariska

Three independent sets of data: i). series of filtergrams obtained in line CaII K (393.416 nm) with the ground-based telescope Precision Solar Photometric Telescope (PSPT) of Mauna Loa Solar Observatory; ii). series of filtergrams of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-05 V. I. Efremov , L. D. Parfinenko , A. A. Solovev

The present solar cycle is particular in many aspects: it had a delayed rising phase, it is the weakest of the last 100 years, and it presents two peaks separated by more than one year. To understand the impact of these characteristics on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 A. J. Oliveira e Silva , C. L. Selhorst , P. J. A. Simões , C. G. Giménes de Castro

Data from the Multiple EUV Grating Spectrograph (MEGS-A) component of the Extreme Ultraviolet Experiment (EVE) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) were used to quantify the contribution of continuum emission to each of the EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ryan O. Milligan , Sarah A. McElroy

Aims. To determine the solar transition region and coronal radius at EUV wavelengths and its time evolution during Solar Cycle XXIII. Methods. We use daily 30.4 and 17.1 nm images obtained by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EIT) aboard the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. G. Giménez de Castro , A. C. V. Saraiva , J. E. R. Costa , C. L. Selhorst

We present the observations of an extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wave, which originated from the active region (AR) NOAA 12887 on 28 October 2021 and its impact on neighbouring loops. The event was observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Pooja Devi , Ramesh Chandra , Arun Kumar Awasthi , Brigitte Schmieder , Reetika Joshi

Since its launch in 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has provided continuous, high-cadence, multi-wavelength observations of the Sun, capturing thousands of solar flares and offering new insights into coronal dynamics. Among the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Harry J. Greatorex , Aisling N. O'Hare , Susanna Bekker , Ryan J. Campbell , Daniel C. Keane , Ryan O. Milligan

A major, albeit serendipitous, discovery of the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory mission was the observation by the Extreme Ultraviolet Telescope (EIT) of large-scale Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) intensity fronts propagating over a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Spiros Patsourakos , Angelos Vourlidas

The solar EUV irradiance is of key importance for space weather. Most of the time, however, surrogate quantities such as EUV indices have to be used by lack of continuous and spectrally resolved measurements of the irradiance. The ability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Dudok de Wit , M. Kretzschmar , J. Aboudarham , P. -O. Amblard , F. Auchere , J. Lilensten

Solar extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) waves generally refer to large-scale disturbances propagating outward from sites of solar eruptions in EUV imaging observations. Using the recent observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Zheng Sun , Hui Tian , P. F. Chen , Shuo Yao , Zhenyong Hou , Hechao Chen , Linjie Chen

Motivated by the various examples of spatial variability in the power of the acoustic spectrum, we attempted to look for spatial variability in the peak frequency of the spectrum. However, the determination of this peak frequency on a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Venkatakrishnan , Brajesh Kumar , S. C. Tripathy

The Ly-alpha line of He II at 304 \AA\ is one of the spectral lines of choice for EUV channels of narrow-band imagers on board space telescopes, which provide spectacular intensity images of the outer solar atmosphere. Since the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Javier Trujillo Bueno , Jiri Stepan , Luca Belluzzi

Strong EUV lineshifts in solar spectra are generally indicative of highly dynamic and explosive events that are easily detected in comparable-wavelength EUV images, with the strongest such line shifts (several 100 km/s) occurring in solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Alphonse C. Sterling , Louise K. Harra , Navdeep K. Panesar , Ronald L. Moore

The Sun Watcher with Active Pixels and Image Processing (SWAP) EUV solar telescope on board the Project for On-Board Autonomy 2 (PROBA2) spacecraft has been regularly observing the solar corona in a bandpass near 17.4 nm since February…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Daniel B. Seaton , Anik De Groof , Paul Shearer , David Berghmans , Bogdan Nicula

We present spectral synthesis calculations of the solar extreme UV (EUV) in spherical symmetry carried out with the 'Solar Modeling in 3D' code. The calculations are based on one-dimensional atmospheric structures that represent a temporal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Margit Haberreiter

Spectral analysis of the spatial structure of solar subphotospheric convection is carried out for subsurface flow maps constructed using the time--distance helioseismological technique. The source data are obtained from the Helioseismic and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Alexander V. Getling , Alexander G. Kosovichev