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We present an analysis of the first connection mosaic made by the SPICE instrument on board of the ESA / NASA Solar Orbiter mission on March 2nd, 2022. The data will be used to map coronal composition that will be compared with in-situ…

{The \ion{Na}{x} X-ray lines between 10.9 and 11.2~\AA\ have attracted little attention but are of interest since they enable an estimate of the coronal abundance of Na to be made. This is of great interest in the continuing debate on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 K. J. H. Phillips , K. M. Aggarwal , E. Landi , F. P. Keenan

Elemental abundances in solar flares are observed to vary both spatially and temporally, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. There is an interplay between advection and the preferential acceleration of low first…

Solar prominences (or filaments) are cooler and denser plasma suspended in the much hotter and rarefied solar corona. When viewed on the solar disc filament barbs or feet protrude laterally from filament spine. When observed at the limb of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Huadong Chen , Chun Xia , Suli Ma , Yingna Su , Guiping Zhou , Eric Priest , Lyndsay Fletcher , Yuandeng Shen , Weining Tu , Wei Wang , Jun Zhang

One of the most striking structures in the solar atmosphere are prominences, predominantly coronal structures, with thermodynamic conditions that vary from chromospheric internally to the corona that surrounds them. These structures play an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 V. Jerčić , B. Popescu Braileanu , R. Keppens

The enrichment of coronal loops and the slow solar wind with elements that have low First Ionisation Potential, known as the FIP effect, has often been interpreted as the tracer of a common origin. A current explanation for this FIP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Victor Réville , Alexis P. Rouillard , Marco Velli , Andrea Verdini , Éric Buchlin , Michaël Lavarra , Nicolas Poirier

We present an examination of the First Ionization Potential (FIP) fractionation scenario invoking the ponderomotive force in the chromosphere, and its implications for the source(s) of slow speed solar winds by using observations from The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Natsuha Kuroda , J. Martin Laming

Context: The comparison of coronal and photospheric abundances in cool stars is an essential question to resolve. In the Sun an enhancement of the elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) is observed in the corona with respect to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-12 J. Sanz-Forcada , L. Affer , G. Micela

The formation and evolution process and magnetic configuration of solar prominences remain unclear. In order to study the formation process of prominences, we examine continuous observations of a prominence in NOAA AR 10953 with the Solar…

Solar prominences, or solar filaments, are cool and dense plasma structures in the hot solar corona, whose formation mechanisms have remained a fundamental challenge in solar physics. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Yuhao Zhou

Solar prominences are very spectacular structures embedded in the tenuous and hot solar corona. The counterstreaming flows, a common feature in solar quiescent prominences, have been discovered for more than twenty years. However, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 X. L. Yan , Z. K. Xue , J. C. Wang , P. F. Chen , K. F. Ji , C. Xia , L. H. Yang , D. F. Kong , Z. Xu , Y. A. Zhou , Q. L. Li

The paper analyzes the structure and dynamics of a quiescent prominence that occurred on October 22, 2013. We aim to determine the physical characteristics of the observed prominence using MgII k and h, CII (1334 and 1336 A), and SiIV (1394…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 S. Jejčič , P. Schwartz , P. Heinzel , M. Zapiór , S. Gunár

In this paper we focus on the analysis of the multiwavelength spectroscopic observations of a quiescent prominence. The spectral and geometrical parameters in the prominence were derived and used to constrain the NLTE radiative transfer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jianchao Xue , Ping Zhang , Jean-Claude Vial , Li Feng , Maciej Zapiór , Werner Curdt , Hui Li , Weiqun Gan

Plasma composition in the solar corona commonly differs from that of the photosphere, with the enhancement of low--first-ionization-potential (FIP) elements referred to as the FIP effect. This phenomenon provides important diagnostics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Man-Hei Ng , Xiaoping Zhang , P. F. Chen

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

We present evidences that anomalies in abundance of the chemical minor elements with the low first ionization potential (FIP) in the low corona of the late-type stars can be related with topology of the large-scale magnetic field. The solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 V. V. Pipin , V. M. Tomozov

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

Plasma composition measurements are a vital tool for the success of current and future solar missions, but density and temperature insensitive spectroscopic diagnostic ratios are sparse, and their underlying accuracy in determining the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Deborah Baker , Sarah A. Matthews , Stephanie L. Yardley

Many jets are detected at X-ray wavelengths in the Sun's polar regions, and the ejected plasma along the jets has been suggested to contribute mass to the fast solar wind. From in-situ measurements in the magnetosphere, it has been found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Kyoung-Sun Lee , David H. Brooks , Shinsuke Imada

Aims. In the low-collisional, partially ionized plasma (PIP) of solar prominences, uncharged emitters might show different signatures of magnetic line broadening than charged emitters. We investigate if the widths of weak metall emissions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 E. Wiehr , H. Balthasar , G. Stellmacher , M. Bianda