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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…

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Several items on the diagnostics and interpretation of coronal loop observations are under debate. In this work, we analyze a well-defined loop system detected in a time-resolved observation in several spectral bands. The dataset includes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fabio Reale , Angela Ciaravella

This paper presents a study of a large sample of global disturbances in the solar corona with characteristic propagating fronts as intensity enhancement, similar to the phenomena that have often been referred to as EIT waves or EUV waves.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nariaki V. Nitta , Carolus J. Schrijver , Alan M. Title , Wei Liu

We estimated the accuracy of coronal magnetic fields derived from radio observations by comparing them to potential field calculations and the DEM measurements using EUV observations. We derived line of sight component of the coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Shun Miyawaki , Kazumasa Iwai , Kiyoto Shibasaki , Daikou Shiota , Satoshi Nozawa

We report SDO/AIA observations of an extraordinary global extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wave triggered by the X8.2+ flare-CME eruption on 2017 September 10. This was one of the best EUV waves ever observed with modern instruments, yet it was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Wei Liu , Meng Jin , Cooper Downs , Leon Ofman , Mark C. M. Cheung , Nariaki V. Nitta

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) has been developing a next-generation coronagraph (NGC) in cooperation with NASA to measure the coronal electron density, temperature, and speed simultaneously using four different filters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 K. -S. Cho , H. Yang , J. -O. Lee , S. -C. Bong , J. Kim , S. Choi , J. -Y. Park , K. -H. Cho , J. -H. Baek , Y. -H. Kim , Y. -D. Park

We present results of a dual eclipse expedition to observe the solar corona from two sites during the annular solar eclipse of 2023 October 14, using a novel coronagraph designed to be accessible for amateurs and students to build and…

We review our state of knowledge of coronal element abundance anomalies in the Sun and stars. We concentrate on the first ionization potential (FIP) effect observed in the solar corona and slow-speed wind, and in the coronae of solar-like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 J. Martin Laming

We investigate off-limb active region and quiet Sun corona using spectroscopic data. Active region is clearly visible in several spectral lines formed in the temperature range of 1.1--2.8 MK. We derive electron number density using line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-07 G. R. Gupta

The temperatures of the heavy ions ($T_i$) in the solar corona provide critical information about the heating mechanism of the million-degree corona. However, the measurement of $T_i$ is usually challenging due to the nonthermal motion,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Yingjie Zhu , Judit Szente , Enrico Landi

The Alfv\'en wave energy flux in the corona can be explored using the electron density and velocity amplitude of the waves. The velocity amplitude of Alfv\'en waves can be obtained from the non-thermal velocity of the spectral line…

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We report our analysis of X-ray spectra of the Seyfert galaxy IRAS 18325-5926 (=Fairall 49) obtained from various X-ray observatories prior to XMM-Newton, including new results from two RXTE and one BeppoSAX observations. A relatively steep…

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The centaur (2060) Chiron has exhibited outgassing behaviour and possibly hosts a ring system. On 2011 November 29, Chiron occulted a fairly bright star (R approximately 15 mag) as observed from the 3-m NASA Infrared Telescope Facility…

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We developed a new technique for registration of the far solar corona from ground-based observations at distances comparable to those obtained from space coronagraphs. It makes possible visualization of fine details of studied objects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Y. Shopov , D. A. Stoykova , K. Stoitchkova , L. T. Tsankov , A. Tanev , Kl. Burin , St. Belchev , V. Rusanov , D. Ivanov , A. Stoev , P. Muglova , I. Iliev

Using a Monte Carlo ray-tracing code in full general relativity, we calculate the transport of photons from a geodesic hot spot emitter through a corona of hot electrons surrounding a black hole. Each photon is followed until it is either…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeremy D. Schnittman

We carried out white-light observations of the total solar eclipse on 13 November 2012 at two sites, where the totality occurred 35 minutes apart. We caught an ongoing coronal mass ejection (CME) and a pre-CME loop structure just before the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yoichiro Hanaoka , Jun Nakazawa , Osamu Ohgoe , Yoshiaki Sakai , Kazuo Shiota

Coronal holes are the source regions of the fast solar wind, which fills most of the solar system volume near the cycle minimum. Removing stray light from extreme ultraviolet (EUV) images of the Sun's corona is of high astrophysical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-05 Paul Shearer , Richard A. Frazin , Alfred O. Hero , Anna C. Gilbert

Non-thermal particle acceleration in the solar corona is evident from both remote hard X-ray (HXR) sources in the chromosphere and direct in-situ detection in the heliosphere. Correlation of spectral indices between remote and in-situ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Ross Pallister , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Morgan Stores

We report a solar coronal split-band type II radio burst that was observed on 2016 March 16 with the Gauribidanur Radio Spectro-Polarimeter (GRASP) in the frequency range $\approx$\,90\,-\,50 MHz, and the Gauribidanur RadioheliograPH…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Anshu Kumari , R. Ramesh , C. Kathiravan , T. J. Wang , N. Gopalswamy