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Context. Extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) observations have revealed small-scale transient brightenings that may share common physical mechanisms with larger-scale solar flares. A notable feature of solar and stellar flares is the presence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Daye Lim , Tom Van Doorsselaere , David Berghmans , Laura A. Hayes , Cis Verbeeck , Nancy Narang , Marie Dominique , Andrew R. Inglis

Globally-propagating coronal bright fronts (CBFs) in the solar corona are among the most dramatic manifestations of solar activity, but are not well understood despite strong links with both solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-21 David M. Long

We have investigated properties of photospheric Bright Points (BPs) observed in an Active Region during its decay phase and in a quiet Sun region. We have analyzed two sets of photospheric observations taken with IBIS (Interferometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 S. Criscuoli , D. Del Moro , F. Giorgi , P. Romano , F. Berrilli , I. Ermolli , B. Viticchié , F. Zuccarello

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 present a detailed X-ray analysis and imaging of stellar coronae of five coronally connected eclipsing binaries, namely, 44 Boo, DV Psc, ER Vul, XY UMa, and TX Cnc. Both components of these binaries are found to be active. The X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Gurpreet Singh , J. C. Pandey

One of the many outcomes of the Solar Orbiter mission is the evidence for the solar atmosphere being filled by highly impulsive bursts, down to about 200 km scale: the limit of the EUV instruments' spatial resolution. Small-scale events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Susanna Parenti

To explain the high temperature of the corona, much attention has been paid to the distribution of energy in dissipation events. Indeed, if the event energy distribution is steep enough, the smallest, unobservable events could be the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Vincent Joulin , Éric Buchlin , Jacques Solomon , Chloé Guennou

The quiescent or dynamic nature of fine scale ray-like features in the sun corona, observed in visible light, is still an open question. Here, we show that most of daily and hourly periodic variations in visible light brightness of the high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Nathalia Alzate , Simone Di Matteo

The term "ultraviolet (UV) burst" is introduced to describe small, intense, transient brightenings in ultraviolet images of solar active regions. We inventorize their properties and provide a definition based on image sequences in…

In this paper, with a set of high-resolution He I 10830 \AA\ filtergrams, we select an area in a plage, very likely an EUV moss area, as an interface layer to follow the clues of coronal heating channels down to the photosphere. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Parida Hashim , Fangyu Xu , Ya Wang , Weijie Men , Jinhua Shen , Yingna Su , Jianping Li , Zhenyu Jin , Haisheng Ji

High resolution G-band images of the interior of a supergranulation cell show ubiquitous Bright Points (some 0.3 BPs per Mm^2). They are located in intergranular lanes and often form chains of elongated blobs whose smallest dimension is at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Sanchez Almeida , I. Marquez , J. A. Bonet , I. Dominguez Cerdena , R. Muller

We present the construction of a new white-light coronal brightness index (CBI) from the entire archive of observations recorded by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C2 camera between 1996 and 2017, comprising two full solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Karl Battams , Russell A. Howard , Hillary A. Dennison , Robert S. Weigel , Judith L. Lean

Small-scale ephemeral coronal holes may be a recurring feature on the solar disk, but have received comparatively little attention. These events are characterized by compact structure and short total lifetimes, substantially less than a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Andrew R. Inglis , Rachel E. O'Connor , W. Dean Pesnell , Michael S. Kirk , Nishu Karna

Coronal rain is the most dramatic cooling phenomenon of the solar corona and an essential diagnostic tool for the coronal heating properties. A puzzling feature of the solar corona, besides the heating, is its EUV filamentary structure and…

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

We summarize the unique capabilities of UV coronagraphic spectroscopy for determining the detailed plasma properties (e.g., density, temperature, outflow speed, composition) of the source regions of both transient phenomena such as CMEs,…

Solar five-minute oscillations have been detected in the power spectra of two six-day time intervals from soft X-ray measurements of the Sun observed as a star using the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer (ESP) onboard the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Leonid Didkovsky , Alexander Kosovichev , Darrell Judge , Seth Wieman , Tom Woods

Coronal waves, significant solar phenomena, act as diagnostic tools for scientists studying solar atmosphere properties. Here, we present a novel observation detailing how a coronal wave event, associated with an X5.0 class flare,…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are thought to drive collisionless shocks in the solar corona, which in turn have been shown capable of accelerating solar energetic particles (SEPs) in minutes. It has been notoriously difficult to extract…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kamen A. Kozarev , John C. Raymond , Vasili V. Lobzin , Michael Hammer

We discuss the appearance of EUV brightpoints (BPs) in the analysis of long-duration observations in the He II 304 Angstrom passband of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT). The signature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Scott W. McIntosh