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This paper examines long-term temporal and spatial fluctuations in the solar rotation (more than four solar cycles) by investigating radio emission escapes from various layers of the solar atmosphere during the years 1967-2010. The flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 Vivek Kumar Singh , Satish Chandra , Sanish Thomas , Som Kumar Sharma , Hari Om Vats

Using the Solar Optical Observing Network (SOON) sunspot-group data for the period 1985-2010, the variations in the annual mean equatorial-rotation rates of the sunspot groups are determined and compared with the known variations in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-29 J. Javaraiah

We present a novel experiment with the capacity to independently measure both the electron density and the magnetic field of the solar corona. We achieve this through measurement of the excess Faraday rotation due to propagation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Ord , S. Johnston , J. Sarkissian

On 2008 January 10, the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) A and B spacecraft conducted a high time cadence study of the solar corona with the Extreme UltraViolet Imager (EUVI) instruments with the aim of investigating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 M. S. Marsh , R. W. Walsh , S. Plunkett

We investigate the structure of the solar chromosphere and transition region using full Sun images obtained with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. The limb seen…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Zhang , S. M. White , M. R. Kundu

Coronal holes are regions on the Sun's surface that map the foot-prints of open magnetic field lines. We have developed an automated routine to detect and track boundaries of long-lived coronal holes using full-disk EUV images obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Chris Lowder , Jiong Qiu , Robert Leamon , Yang Liu

This paper reviews our growing understanding of the physics behind coronal heating (in open-field regions) and the acceleration of the solar wind. Many new insights have come from the last solar cycle's worth of observations and theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-02 Steven R. Cranmer , John L. Kohl , Mari Paz Miralles , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen

Although the differential rotation rate on the solar surface has long been studied using optical and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) observations, associating these measurements to specific atmospheric heights remains challenging due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-04 Srinjana Routh , Anshu Kumari , Vaibhav Pant , Jaydeep Kandekar , Dipankar Banerjee , Mohd. Saleem Khan , Dibya Kirti Mishra

We present here the kinematics of the EUV wave associated with a GOES M1.0-class solar flare, which originates in NOAA AR 12740. The event is thoroughly observed with Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Ramesh Chandra , P. F. Chen , Pooja Devi , Reetika Joshi , Y. W. Ni

Bright EUV sunspot plumes have been observed in eight out of eleven different sunspot regions with the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer -- CDS on SOHO. From wavelength shifts we derive the line-of-sight velocity, relative to the average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. Brynildsen , P. Maltby , P. Brekke , T. Fredvik , S. V. H. Haugan , O. Kjeldseth-Moe , O. Wikstol

Solar Orbiter EUV observations reveal ubiquitous small-scale brightenings in the quiet-Sun low corona. We analyze the spatial and temporal dissipation scales of these events with a focus on the formation, evolution, and dissipation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Olena Podladchikova

The kinematical evolution of four EUV waves, well observed by the Extreme UltraViolet Imager (EUVI) onboard the Solar-Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), is studied by visually tracking the wave fronts as well as by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-07 N. Muhr , A. M. Veronig , I. W. Kienreich , M. Temmer , B. Vrsnak

The SUNRISE balloon-borne solar observatory, consisting of a 1~m aperture telescope that provided a stabilized image to a UV filter imager and an imaging vector polarimeter, carried out its second science flight in June 2013. It provided…

We study the evolution of the observed photospheric magnetic field and the modeled global coronal magnetic field during the past 3 1/2 solar activity cycles observed since the mid-1970s. We use synoptic magnetograms and extrapolated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. J. D. Petrie

One of the many outcomes of the Solar Orbiter mission is the evidence for the solar atmosphere being filled by highly impulsive bursts, down to about 200 km scale: the limit of the EUV instruments' spatial resolution. Small-scale events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Susanna Parenti

Understanding how the solar corona is structured is of fundamental importance to determining how the Sun's upper atmosphere is heated to high temperatures. Recent spectroscopic studies have suggested that an instrument with a spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-18 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Amy R. Winebarger

Loop-aligned hydrodynamic modelings help better understand the thermodynamic evolution of flaring plasma confined in solar flare loops. Conventional loop modelings typically assume a uniform loop cross section. With a variation of the cross…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Yu Dai , Shihan Li , Wenlong Tang , Zhen Li , Mingde Ding

Measurements of the temperature and density structure of the solar corona provide critical constraints on theories of coronal heating. Unfortunately, the complexity of the solar atmosphere, observational uncertainties, and the limitations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Harry P. Warren , David H. Brooks

The spectroscopic observations presented here were acquired during the 2017 August 21 total solar eclipse with a three-channel partially multiplexed imaging spectrometer (3PAMIS) operating at extremely high orders ($>$ 50). The 4 $R_\odot$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yingjie Zhu , Shadia R. Habbal , Adalbert Ding , Bryan Yamashiro , Enrico Landi , Benjamin Boe , Sage Constantinou , Michael Nassir

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…