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Elemental abundances in the solar corona differ from those in the photosphere, with low first ionization potential (FIP) elements being enhanced, a phenomenon known as the FIP effect. This enhancement is attributed to ponderomotive forces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Kyoung-Sun Lee , Jongchul Chae , Hannah Kwak , Kyuhyoun Cho , Kyeore Lee , Juhyung Kang , Eun-Kyung Lim , Donguk Song

Magnetic flux ropes are bundles of twisted magnetic field enveloping a central axis. They harbor free magnetic energy and can be progenitors of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), but identifying flux ropes on the Sun can be challenging. One of…

The composition of plasma in the solar corona is characterised by the First Ionisation Potential (FIP) bias, and is thought to be the result of a ponderomotive force acting in the chromosphere to separate ionised from neutral plasma.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Éabha Power , David M. Long , Teodora Mihailescu , Laura A. Hayes

Using spectra obtained by the EIS instrument onboard Hinode, we present a detailed spatially resolved abundance map of an active region (AR)-coronal hole (CH) complex that covers an area of 359 arcsec x 485 arcsec. The abundance map…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Baker , D. H. Brooks , P. Demoulin , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , L. M. Green , K. Steed , J. Carlyle

The elemental composition of the solar wind differs from the solar photospheric composition. Elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) appear enhanced compared to O in the solar wind relative to the respective photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Verena Heidrich-Meisner , Lars Berger , Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

One puzzling question in solar physics is the difference between elemental abundances in the photosphere and the corona. Elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) can be overabundant in the corona compared to the photosphere under…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Bálint Seli , Levente Kriskovics , Krisztián Vida

The First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect is the by now well known enhancement in abundance over photospheric values of Fe and other elements with first ionization potential below about 10 eV observed in the solar corona and slow speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Cara E. Rakowski , J. Martin Laming

Radiative losses play a critical role in the cooling of plasmas. When chromospheric plasma is sufficiently heated, it can flow into coronal loops which subsequently cool down due to radiation. From observations, we infer that this cooling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Luke Fushimi Benavitz , Jeffrey W. Reep , Lucas A. Tarr , Andy S. H. To

Context. Elemental abundances in some coronal structures differ significantly from photospheric abundances, with a dependence on the first ionization potential (FIP) of the element. Measuring these FIP-dependent abundance biases is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Natalia Zambrana Prado , Éric Buchlin

Combining the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Vacuum Solar Telescope observations, we study a confined flare triggered by a rising flux rope within the trailing sunspots of active region 12733. The flux rope lying above the sheared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Qiao Song , Yi Bi , Ting Li

We revisit in more detail a model for element abundance fractionation in the solar chromosphere, that gives rise to the "FIP Effect" in the solar corona and wind. Elements with first ionization potential below about 10 eV, i.e. those that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 J. Martin Laming

We present measurements of elemental abundances in solar flares with the EUV Variability Experiment (EVE) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). EVE observes both high temperature Fe emission lines (Fe XV-Fe XXIV) and continuum emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Harry P. Warren

Elemental abundances provide a powerful diagnostic of the physical mechanisms and processes that heat the solar atmosphere and drive the solar wind. The First Ionisation Potential (FIP) effect and its inverse (IFIP) are observed both on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Stephanie L. Yardley

The origin of the slow solar wind is not well understood, unlike the fast solar wind which originates from coronal holes. In-situ elemental abundances of the slow solar wind suggest that it originates from initially closed field lines that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-28 Alexandros Koukras , Daniel W. Savin , Michael Hahn

Plasma loops are the elementary structures of solar flaring active regions which dominate the whole processes of flaring eruptions. The standard flare models are well explained the evolution and eruption after magnetic reconnection around…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Baolin Tan

Solar filaments/prominences are one of the most common features in the corona, which may lead to energetic coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares when they erupt. Filaments are about one hundred times cooler and denser than the coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Hongqiang Song , Yao Chen , Bo Li , Leping Li , Liang Zhao , Jiansen He , Die Duan , Xin Cheng , Jie Zhang

Coronal elemental abundances are known to deviate from the photospheric values of their parent star, with the degree of deviation depending on the First Ionization Potential (FIP). This study focuses on the coronal composition of stars with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Uria Peretz , Ehud Behar , Stephen A. Drake

The studies on the origination and generation mechanisms of ICME materials are crucial for understanding the connection between CMEs and flares. The materials inside ICMEs can be classified into three types, coming from corona directly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Hui Fu , Xinzheng Shi , Zhenghua Huang , Youqian Qi , Lidong Xia

From a turbulent history, the study of abundances of elements in solar energetic particles (SEPs) has grown into an extensive field that probes the solar corona and the physical processes of SEP acceleration and transport. Underlying SEPs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Donald V Reames

The exploration of the inner heliosphere by Parker Solar Probe has revealed a highly structured solar wind with ubiquitous deflections from the Parker spiral, known as switchbacks. Interchange reconnection (IR) may play an important role in…