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Understanding the density structure of the solar corona is important for modeling both coronal heating and the solar wind. Direct measurements are difficult because of line-of-sight integration and possible unresolved structures. We present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Michael Hahn , Daniel Wolf Savin

Recent progress in obtaining high spatial resolution images of the solar corona in the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) with Hinode, TRACE, SDO and recent Hi-C missions and soft X-ray (SXR) bands opened a new avenue in understanding the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 V. S. Airapetian , J. Allred

We present coordinated coronal observations of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse with the Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) and the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS). These instruments provide an unprecedented…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Chad A. Madsen , Jenna E. Samra , Giulio Del Zanna , Edward E. DeLuca

The aim of this work is to determine the multi-thermal characteristics and plasma energetics of an eruptive plasmoid and occulted flare observed by Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (SDO/AIA). We study an event from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 I. G. Hannah , E. P. Kontar

Wide-field EUV telescopes imaging in spectral bands sensitive to 1 MK plasma on the Sun often observe extended ray-like coronal structures stretching radially from active regions to distances of 1.5-2Rsun, which represent the EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-24 F. Goryaev , V. Slemzin , L. Vainshtein , D. R. Williams

Context: A large number of the small and the short-lived EUV brightenings have been detected in the quiet Sun (QS) over the past three years, by the High Resolution Imager of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (HRIEUV) on board Solar Orbiter.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 A. Dolliou , S. Parenti , K. Bocchialini

Comparison of appropriate theoretical derived line ratios with observational data can yield estimates of a plasma's physical parameters, such as electron density or temperature. The usual practice in the calculation of the line ratio is the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. G. Doyle , S. Chapman , P. Bryans , D. Perez-Suarez , A. Singh , H. Summers , D. W. Savin

We report on observations of a solar prominence obtained on 26 April 2007 using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer on Hinode. Several regions within the prominence are identified for further analysis. Selected profiles for lines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Nicolas Labrosse , Brigitte Schmieder , Petr Heinzel , Tetsuya Watanabe

We use coronal imaging observations with SDO/AIA, and Hinode/EIS spectral data, to explore the potential of narrow band EUV imaging data for diagnosing the presence of hot (T >~5MK) coronal plasma in active regions. We analyze observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Paola Testa , Fabio Reale

The observations from 1998 April 20 taken with the Coronal Diagnostics Spectrometer CDS on SOHO of a coronal loop on the limb have shown that the plasma was multi-thermal along each line of sight investigated, both before and after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. T. Schmelz , P. C. H. Martens

How the solar corona is heated to high temperatures remains an unsolved mystery in solar physics. In the present study we analyse observations of 50 whole active-region loops taken with the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Haixia Xie , Maria S. Madjarska , Bo Li , Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Thomas Wiegelmann , Hui Fu , Chaozhou Mou

The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) telescope on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) provides coronal EUV imaging over a broader temperature sensitivity range than the previous generations of instruments (EUVI, EIT, and TRACE).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Federico A. Nuevo , Alberto M. Vásquez , Enrico Landi , Richard Frazin

In this paper, with a set of high-resolution He I 10830 \AA\ filtergrams, we select an area in a plage, very likely an EUV moss area, as an interface layer to follow the clues of coronal heating channels down to the photosphere. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Parida Hashim , Fangyu Xu , Ya Wang , Weijie Men , Jinhua Shen , Yingna Su , Jianping Li , Zhenyu Jin , Haisheng Ji

Extracting the temperature of coronal loops is effective in the analysis of solar active region's loops and helps in better understanding of coronal events. To this end, various methods have already been developed like the method developed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-30 Narges Fathalian

High resolution spectra from the Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) have revealed that coronal spectral line profiles are sometimes asymmetric, with a faint enhancement in the blue wing on the order of 100 km/s. These asymmetries could…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren

This thesis strives to improve our understanding of solar activity, specifically the behaviour of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. An investigation into the hydrodynamic evolution of a confined solar flare was carried out using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 Claire L. Raftery

Global extreme ultraviolet (EUV) waves are spectacular traveling disturbances in the solar corona associated with energetic eruptions such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares. Over the past 15 years, observations from three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 Wei Liu , Leon Ofman

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

Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) images of the optically-thin solar corona in multiple spectral channels give information on the emission as a function of temperature through differential emission measure (DEM) inversions. The aim of this paper is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Huw Morgan , James Pickering

The X-ray and EUV emission of stars plays a key role in the loss and evolution of the atmospheres of their planets. The coronae of dwarf stars later than M6 appear to behave differently to those of earlier spectral types and are more X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jeremy J. Drake , Vinay L. Kashyap , Bradford J. Wargelin , Scott J. Wolk