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The existence of the million-degree corona above the cooler photosphere is an unsolved problem in astrophysics. Detailed study of quiescent corona that exists regardless of the phase of the solar cycle may provide fruitful hints towards…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Vishal Upendran , Durgesh Tripathi , N. P. S. Mithun , Santosh Vadawale , Anil Bhardwaj

We present an ab initio approach to the solar coronal heating problem by modelling a small part of the solar corona in a computational box using a 3D MHD code including realistic physics. The observed solar granular velocity pattern and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. V. Gudiksen , Å. Nordlund

The Sun's corona, heated to temperatures exceeding one million Kelvin despite lying above the cooler photosphere, has puzzled astrophysicists since its discovery in the 1940s. Prevailing theories, based on acoustic and magnetohydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Anil Narayan Raghav

I present a novel view on the problem of solar coronal heating. In my picture, coronal heating should be viewed as a self-regulating process that works to keep the coronal plasma marginally collisionless. The self-regulating mechanism is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-09 Dmitri A. Uzdensky

I propose a new paradigm for solar coronal heating viewed as a self-regulating process keeping the plasma marginally collisionless. The mechanism is based on the coupling between two effects. First, coronal density controls the plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Solar photospheric convection drives myriads of dissipative Alfven solitons (hereinafter called alfvenons) capable of accelerating electrons and ions to energies of hundreds of keV and producing the X-ray corona. Alfvenons are exact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 K. Stasiewicz

Gravity Induced Resonant Emission (gire) has been proposed as the mechanism of coronal heating; here we are comparing this with Multi photon Ionisation (mpi) in Laser. We find both are same, except electron damping as a pre-phase mechanism…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Antony Soosaleon

The corona is a layer of hot plasma that surrounds the Sun, traces out its complex magnetic field, and ultimately expands into interplanetary space as the supersonic solar wind. Although much has been learned in recent decades from advances…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Steven R. Cranmer , Amy R. Winebarger

The solar atmosphere shows anomalous variation in temperature, starting from the 5500 K photosphere to the million-degree Kelvin corona. The corona itself expands into the interstellar medium as the free streaming solar wind, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Vishal Upendran

Coronal heating through the explosive release of magnetic energy remains an open problem in solar physics. Recent hydrodynamical models attempt an investigation by placing swarms of 'nanoflares' at random sites and times in modeled…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 K. Moraitis , A. Toutountzi , H. Isliker , M. Georgoulis , L. Vlahos , G. Chintzoglou

The content of coronal material in the quiet Sun is not constant as soft X-ray and high-temperature EUV line observations have shown. New material, probably heated and evaporated from the chromosphere is occasionally injected even in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnold O. Benz , Sam Krucker

Heating mechanism in the solar atmosphere (from chromosphere to corona) is one of the top-challenges in modern astronomy. The classic mechanisms can be divided into two categories: wave heating (W) and magnetic reconnection heating (X).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Baolin Tan , Jing Huang , Yin Zhang

It is clear that the solar corona is being heated and that coronal magnetic fields undergo reconnection all the time. Here we attempt to show that these two facts are in fact related - i.e. coronal reconnection generates heat. This attempt…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Dana W. Longcope , Lucas A. Tarr

Even in the absence of resolved flares, the corona is heated to several million degrees. However, despite its importance for the structure, dynamics, and evolution of the solar atmosphere, the origin of this heating remains poorly…

In this paper we advocate for the idea that two seemingly unrelated mysteries with almost 90 year history -- the nature of dark matter and the million-degree solar corona -- may be but two sides of the same coin -- the axions of dark matter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 V. D. Rusov , I. V. Sharph , V. P. Smolyar , M. V. Eingorn , M. E. Beglaryan

The heating of the Sun's corona has been explained by several different mechanisms including wave dissipation and magnetic reconnection. While both have been shown capable of supplying the requisite power, neither has been used in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-20 Kai E. Yang , Dana W. Longcope , M. D. Ding , Yang Guo

During solar flares fast electron beams generated in the solar corona are non-thermal radio sources in terms of type III bursts. Sometimes they can enter into the interplanetary space, where they can be observed by in-situ measurements as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-23 H. Önel , G. Mann , E. Sedlmayr

Decayless kink oscillations of plasma loops in the solar corona may contain an answer to the enigmatic problem of solar and stellar coronal heating. The polarisation of the oscillations gives us a unique information about their excitation…

The heating of the solar chromosphere and corona to the observed high temperatures, imply the presence of ongoing heating that balances the strong radiative and thermal conduction losses expected in the solar atmosphere. It has been…

Increasing evidence for coronal heating contributions from cooler solar atmospheric layers, notably quiet Sun (QS) conditions, challenges standard solar atmospheric descriptions of bright transition region (TR) emission. As such, questions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 N. Brice Orange , David L. Chesny , Hakeem M. Oluseyi