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Solar coronal shocks are very common phenomena in the solar atmosphere and are believed to be the drivers of solar type II radio bursts. However, the microphysical nature of these emissions is still an open problem. This paper proposes that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 G. Q. Zhao , L. Chen , D. J. Wu

Cool stars like our Sun are surrounded by a million degree hot outer atmosphere, the corona. Since more than 60 years the physical nature of the processes heating the corona to temperatures well in excess of those on the stellar surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Peter , B. V. Gudiksen , A. Nordlund

The solar corona is a template to understand stellar activity. The Sun is a moderately active star, and its corona differs from active stars: active stellar coronae have a double-peaked EM(T) with the hot peak at 8-20 MK, while the non…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Argiroffi , G. Peres , S. Orlando , F. Reale

The most popular models for the complex phase and time lags in the rapid aperiodic variability of Galactic X-ray binaries are based Comptonization of soft seed photons in a hot corona, where small-scale flares are induced by flares of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Boettcher

The question why the solar corona is much hotter than the visible solar surface still puzzles solar researchers. Most theories of the coronal heating involve a tight coupling between the coronal magnetic field and the associated thermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Gregory D. Fleishman , Sergey A. Anfinogentov , Alexey G. Stupishin , Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita

Solar magnetized "tornadoes", a phenomenon discovered in the solar atmosphere, appear as tornado-like structures in the corona but root in the photosphere. Like other solar phenomena, solar tornadoes are a feature of magnetized plasma and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yang Su , Tongjiang Wang , Astrid Veronig , Manuela Temmer , Weiqun Gan

The underlying origin of solar eruptive events (SEEs), ranging from giant coronal mass ejections to small coronal-hole jets, is that the lowest-lying magnetic flux in the Sun's corona undergoes the continual buildup of stress and free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Kalman J. Knizhnik , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore , Peter F. Wyper

It has been established that cold plasma condensations can form in a magnetic loop subject to localized heating of the footpoints. In this paper, we use grid-adaptive numerical simulations of the radiative hydrodynamic equations to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Xia , P. F. Chen , R. Keppens , A. J. van Marle

The physical conditions that determine whether or not solar active regions (ARs) produce strong flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are not yet well understood. Here we investigate the association between electric-current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Yang Liu , Xudong Sun , Tibor Török , Viacheslav S. Titov , James E. Leake

Observations of flare-heated electrons in the corona typically suggest confinement of electrons. The confinement mechanism, however, remains unclear. The transport of coronal hot electrons into ambient plasma was recently investigated by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-29 T. C. Li , J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak

Erupting flux ropes play crucial role in powering a wide range of solar transients, including flares, jets, and coronal mass ejections. These events are driven by the release of stored magnetic energy, facilitated by the shear in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Samrat Sen , Sushree S Nayak , Patrick Antolin

Magnetic energy released in the corona by solar flares reaches the chromosphere where it drives characteristic upflows and downflows known as evaporation and condensation. These flows are studied here for the case where energy is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 D. W. Longcope

Solar flares result from the rapid conversion of stored magnetic energy within the Sun's corona. These energy releases are associated with coronal magnetic loops, which are rooted in dense photospheric plasma and are passively transported…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 M. Berretti , S. Mestici , L. Giovannelli , D. Del Moro , M. Stangalini , F. Giannattasio , F. Berrilli

We present high spatial resolution observations of chromospheric evaporation in the flare SOL2014-03-29T17:48. Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) observations of the FeXXI 1354.1 A line indicate evaporating plasma at a temperature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Marina Battaglia , Lucia Kleint , Säm Krucker , David Graham

Solar flares (SFs) are sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface which is associated with a large energy release. Flares with burst of Xray emission are normally followed by a mass ejection of electrons and ions from the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-03 Kamsali Nagaraja , Praveen Kumar Basuvaraj , S. C. Chakravarty

Solar filaments can undergo eruptions and result in the formation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which could significantly impact planetary space environments. Observations of eruptions involving polar crown filaments, situated in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-29 Zheng Sun , Hui Tian , Ting Li , Rui Liu , Yadan Duan

In the classical flare picture, hard X-ray emission from the chromosphere is succeeded by soft-X-ray emission from hot plasma in the flare loop, the soft X-ray emission being a direct consequence of the impact of the non-thermal particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Battaglia , L. Fletcher , A. O. Benz

The additional pumping of energy into arc plasma flow by the self-consistently formed radially directed beam of high-energy electrons for evaporation of micro-droplets is considered. The radial beam appears near the inner cylindrical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 A. A. Goncharov , V. I. Maslov , L. V. Naiko

Strong solar flares and coronal mass ejections, here defined not only as the bursts of electromagnetic radiation but as the entire process in which magnetic energy is released through magnetic reconnection and plasma instability, emanate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Shin Toriumi , Haimin Wang

A differential emission measure (DEM) method is used to evaluate the relationship of the electron density and temperature before and after a coronal rain event during an active sun over the period from 20:10 UT on October 6 to 02:10 on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Z. M. Vashalomidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. D. Kukhianidze