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A set of co-aligned high resolution images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is used to investigate propagating disturbances (PDs) in warm fan loops at the periphery of a non-flaring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vadim M. Uritsky , Joseph M. Davila , Nicholeen M. Viall , Leon Ofman

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has observed bright spots at the transition region footpoints associated with heating in the overlying loops, as observed by coronal imagers. Some of these brightenings show significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Fabio Reale , Paola Testa , Antonino Petralia , David R. Graham

We analyzed AIA/SDO high-cadence images in all bands, HMI/SDO data, soft X-ray images from SXI/GOES-15, and Halpha images from the GONG network. We detected umbral brightenings that were visible in all AIA bands as well as in Halpha.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 C. E. Alissandrakis , S. Patsourakos

Coronal loop observations have existed for many decades yet the precise shape of these fundamental coronal structures is still widely debated since the discovery that they appear to undergo negligible expansion between their footpoints and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Thomas Williams , Robert W. Walsh , Huw Morgan

The relationships among coronal loop structures at different temperatures is not settled. Previous studies have suggested that coronal loops in the core of an active region are not seen cooling through lower temperatures and therefore are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Harry P. Warren , David H. Brooks

How the solar corona is heated to high temperatures remains an unsolved mystery in solar physics. In the present study we analyse observations of 50 whole active-region loops taken with the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Haixia Xie , Maria S. Madjarska , Bo Li , Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Thomas Wiegelmann , Hui Fu , Chaozhou Mou

The 1998 April 20 spectral line data from the Coronal Diagnostics Spectrometer (CDS) on the {\it Solar and Heliospheric Observatory} (\SOHO) shows a coronal loop on the solar limb. Our original analysis of these data showed that the plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. T. Schmelz , K. Nasraoui , V. L. Richardson , P. J. Hubbard , C. R. Nevels , J. E. Beene

In previous studies a very hot plasma component has been diagnosed in solar active regions through the images in three different narrow-band channels of SDO/AIA. This diagnostic from EUV imaging data has also been supported by the matching…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Petralia , F. Reale , P. Testa , G. Del Zanna

The transition region between the Sun's corona and chromosphere is important to the mass and energy transfer from the lower atmosphere to the corona; consequently, this region has been studied intensely with ultraviolet (UV) and extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 C. Gontikakis , S. K. Antiochos , P. R. Young

Coronal loops are plasma structures in the solar atmosphere with temperatures reaching millions of Kelvin, shaped and sustained by the magnetic field. However, their morphology and fundamental nature remain subjects of debate. By studying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 N. Vasantharaju , H. Peter , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal

We derived the coronal magnetic field, plasma density, and temperature from the observation of polarization and intensity of radio thermal free-free emission using the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

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

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

In a recent letter (ApJ 517, L155) Lenz et al. have shown the evidence of uniform temperature along steady long coronal loops observed by TRACE in two different passbands (171 A and 195 A filters). We propose that such an evidence can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Reale , G. Peres

We report on the first Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) study of cool transition region loops. This class of loops has received little attention in the literature. A cluster of such loops was observed on the solar disk in active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Maria S. Madjarska

Two recent works have analyzed a solar large and steady coronal loop observed with Yohkoh/SXT in two filter passbands to infer the distribution of the heating along it. Priest et al. (2000) modelled the distribution of the temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Reale

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

Extracting the temperature of coronal loops is effective in the analysis of solar active region's loops and helps in better understanding of coronal events. To this end, various methods have already been developed like the method developed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-30 Narges Fathalian

We have measured line widths in active region coronal loops in order to determine whether the non-thermal broadening is anisotropic with respect to the magnetic field direction. These non-thermal velocities are caused by unresolved fluid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Michael Hahn , Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi , Daniel Wolf Savin

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