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Visible and near-infrared (V+NIR) emission lines were the first to be discovered in the corona, during total solar eclipses, and they continue to offer unique opportunities to study the physical properties of the corona. The most commonly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Benjamin Boe , Shadia Habbal , Adalbert Ding

We present narrowband observations of the Fe XIV (530.3 nm), Fe X (637.4 nm), and Fe XI (789.2 nm) coronal emission lines from the 2023 April 20 Total Solar Eclipse in Australia. We deployed pairs of telescopes for each emission line that…

The spectra of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the low corona play a crucial role in understanding their origins and physical mechanism, and enhancing space weather forecasting. However, capturing these spectra faces significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Lami Chan , Xianyong Bai , Hui Tian , Yufei Feng , Yu Xu , Tibor Török , Yuhang Gao , Tanmoy Samanta , Zheng Sun

Full-disk spectroscopic observations of the solar corona are highly desired to forecast solar eruptions and their impact on planets and to uncover the origin of solar wind. In this paper, we introduce a new multi-slit design (5 slits) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Lami Chan , Hui Tian , Xianyu Liu , Tibor Török , Xianyong Bai , Yufei Feng , Dipankar Banerjee

There has been an unfortunate gap in coronal emission line observations from space in the visible and near IR (V+NIR). Their distinct scientific advantage stems from the dominance of radiative excitation in their formation, whereby their…

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The profiles of emission lines formed in the corona contain information on the dynamics and the heating of the hot plasma. Only recently has data with sufficiently high spectral resolution become available for investigating the details of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 H. Peter

Solar corona, the last main layer of the atmosphere of the Sun, is detectable in the EUV and X-ray. The corona is expanding into space up to millions of kilometers and is observable during the eclipse. The temperature is increasing about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Najmeh Ahmadi , Shervin Parsi

We report the results of polarimetric observations of the total solar eclipse of 21 August 2017 from Rexburg, Idaho (USA). We use three synchronized DSLR cameras with polarization filters oriented at 0{\deg}, 60{\deg}, and 120{\deg} to…

This article reports the analysis of a set of Fabry-Perot interferograms that were studied to probe the physical parameters of the inner solar corona. The observations were carried out in the coronal green line, Fe XIV 5302.86 {\AA}, during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Maya Prabhakar , K. P. Raju , T. Chandrasekhar

Most observations of the solar corona beyond 2 Rs consist of broadband visible light imagery from coronagraphs. The associated diagnostics mainly consist of kinematics and derivations of the electron number density. While the measurement of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Auchère , F. , Berghmans , D. , Dumesnil , C. , Halain , J. -P. , Mercier , R. , Rochus , P. , Delmotte , F. , François , S. , Hermans , A. , Hervier , V. , Kraaikamp , E. , Meltchakov , E. , Morinaud , G. , Philippon , A. , Smith , P. J. , Stegen , K. , Verbeeck , C. , Zhang , X. Y. , Andretta , V. , Abbo , L. , Buchlin , E. , Frassati , F. , Gissot , S. , Gyo , M. , Harra , L. , Jerse , G. , Landini , F. , Mierla , M. , Nicula , B. , Parenti , S. , Renotte , E. , Romoli , M. , Russano , G. , Sasso , C. , Schühle , U. , Schmutz , W. , Soubrié , E. , Susino , R. , Teriaca , L. , West , M. , Zhukov , A. N

Continuing our series of observations of the motion and dynamics of the solar corona over the solar-activity cycle, we observed the corona from sites in Queensland, Australia, during the 13 (UT)/14 (local time) November 2012 total solar…

We discuss results stemming from observations of the white-light and [Fe XIV] emission corona during the total eclipse of the Sun of 2008 August 1, in Mongolia (Altaj region) and in Russia (Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Siberia).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 Jay M. Pasachoff , Vojtech Rusin , Miloslav Druckmuller , Peter Aniol , Metod Saniga , Milan Minarovjech

We observed the coronally active eclipsing binary, AR Lac, with the High Energy Transmission Grating on Chandra for a total of 97 ks, spaced over five orbits, at quadratures and conjunctions. Contemporaneous and simultaneous EUV spectra and…

We present an investigation of a coronal cavity observed above the western limb in the coronal red line Fe X 6374 {\AA} using a telescope of Peking University and in the green line Fe XIV 5303 {\AA} using a telescope of Yunnan…

Total solar eclipse (TSE) coronal large and small scale events were reported in the historical literature but a definite synoptic coverage was missing for studying a relationship with the more general magnetic context of the solar-disk. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Boris Filippov , Serge Koutchmy , Nicolas Lefaudeux

The coronal magnetic field, despite its overwhelming importance to the physics and dynamics of the corona, has only rarely been measured. Here, the electron density maps derived from images acquired during the total solar eclipse of August…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Alessandro Bemporad

A new instrument was designed to take visible-light (VL) polarized brightness ($pB$) observations of the solar corona during the 14 December 2020 total solar eclipse. The instrument, called the Coronal Imaging Polarizer (CIP), consisted of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-16 Liam T. Edwards , Kaine A. Bunting , Brad Ramsey , Matthew Gunn , Tomos Fearn , Thomas Knight , Gabriel Domingo Muro , Huw Morgan

The solar corona is orders of magnitude hotter than the underlying photosphere, but how the corona attains such high temperatures is still not understood. Soft X-ray (SXR) emission provides important diagnostics for thermal processes in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-15 Amir Caspi , Thomas N. Woods , Harry P. Warren

The forbidden lines of [Fe XIII] at 10,747 Angstrom and 10,798 Angsrtom are among the most prominent lines in the near-infrared spectrum of the solar corona. They have been used routinely, both outside and during eclipses, as sensitive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 D. P. K. Banerjee , C. E. Woodward , A. Evans , T. R. Geballe , V. Joshi , S. Starrfield

Daily differential emission measure (DEM) distributions of the solar corona are derived from spectra obtained by the Extreme-ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) over a 4-year period starting in 2010 near solar minimum and continuing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Samuel J. Schonfeld , Stephen M. White , Rachel A. Hock-Mysliwiec , R. T. James McAteer