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We present SDO/AIA observations of an eruptive X-class flare of July 12, 2012, and compare its evolution with the predictions of a 3D numerical simulation. We focus on the dynamics of flare loops that are seen to undergo slipping…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jaroslav Dudík , Miho Janvier , Guillaume Aulanier , Giulio Del Zanna , Marian Karlický , Helen Mason , Brigitte Schmieder

We present simultaneous observations of three recurring jets in EUV and soft X-ray (SXR), which occurred in an active region on 2007 June 5. By comparing their morphological and kinematic characteristics in these two different wavelengths,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Liheng Yang , Yunchun Jiang , Jiayan Yang , Yi Bi , Ruisheng Zheng , Junchao Hong

Decaying active region 10942 is investigated from 4:00-16:00 UT on February 24, 2007 using a suite of EUV observing instruments. Results from Hinode/EIS, STEREO and TRACE show that although the active region has decayed and no sunspot is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jason Scott , P. C. H. Martens , David McKenzie

Active region fan loops in AR 11076 were studied, in search of oscillations, using high cadence spectroscopic observations from EIS on board Hinode combined with imaging sequences from the AIA on board SDO. Spectra from EIS were analyzed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-08 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , Jagdev Singh

We study plasma flows along selected coronal loops in NOAA Active Region 10926, observed on 3 December 2006 with Hinode's EUV Imaging Spectrograph (EIS). From the shape of the loops traced on intensity images and the Doppler shifts measured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Syntelis , C. Gontikakis , M. K. Georgoulis , C. E. Alissandrakis , K. Tsinganos

This work presents a detailed spectroscopic case study of four long-duration transition-region (TR) explosive events (EEs) observed in NOAA Active Region 13213 on 2023 February 10 using the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph. The dynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Yi'an Zhou , Xiaoli Yan , Zhike Xue , Liheng Yang , Jincheng Wang , Zhe Xu

On the 29 March 2014 NOAA active region (AR) 12017 produced an X1 flare which was simultaneously observed by an unprecedented number of observatories. We have investigated the pre-flare period of this flare from 14:00 UT until 19:00 UT…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 M. M. Woods , L. K. Harra , S. A. Matthews , D. H. Mackay , S. Dacie , D. M. Long

AA Tau was observed for about 5h per XMM orbit (2 days) over 8 successive orbits, which covers two optical eclipse periods (8.2 days). The XMM optical/UV monitor simultaneously provided UV photometry with a ~15 min sampling rate. Some…

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

We investigate heating and evolution of flare loops in a C4.7 two-ribbon flare on 2011 February 13. From SDO/AIA imaging observations, we can identify two sets of loops. Hinode/EIS spectroscopic observations reveal blueshifts at the feet of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. Li , J. Qiu , M. D. Ding

We investigate the relative contributions from the transition region and corona of coronal loops observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Using EBTEL (Enthalpy-Based Thermal Evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Samuel J. Schonfeld , James A. Klimchuk

We present the observations of an extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wave, which originated from the active region (AR) NOAA 12887 on 28 October 2021 and its impact on neighbouring loops. The event was observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Pooja Devi , Ramesh Chandra , Arun Kumar Awasthi , Brigitte Schmieder , Reetika Joshi

We present detailed analysis of an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wave and its interaction with active region (AR) loops observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly and the Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS). This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Liheng Yang , Jun Zhang , Wei Liu , Ting Li , Yuandeng Shen

We present the first Hinode/EIS observations of 5 min quasi-periodic oscillations detected in a transition-region line (He II) and five coronal lines (Fe X, Fe XII, Fe XIII, Fe XIV, and Fe XV) at the footpoint of a coronal loop. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 T. J. Wang , L. Ofman , J. M. Davila

Studying the Doppler shifts and the temperature dependence of Doppler shifts in moss regions can help us understand the heating processes in the core of the active regions. In this paper we have used an active region observation recorded by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Durgesh Tripathi , Helen E. Mason , James A. Klimchuk

We investigate the evolution of coronal loop emission in the context of the coronal magnetic field topology. New modeling techniques allow us to investigate the magnetic field structure and energy release in active regions. Using these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. -Y. Lee , Graham Barnes , K. D. Leka , Katharine K. Reeves , K. E. Korreck , L. Golub , E. E. DeLuca

A detailed study of emission lines from Fe VII, Fe VIII and Fe IX observed by the EUV Imaging Spectrometer on board the Hinode satellite is presented. Spectra in the ranges 170-212 A and 246-292 A show strongly enhanced lines from the upper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. R. Young , E. Landi

We studied waves seen during the class C1.9 flare that occurred in Active Region NOAA 11272 on SOL2011-08-17. We found standing waves with periods in the 9- and 19-minute band in six extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths of the SDO/AIA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-29 S. M. Conde Cuellar , J. E. R. Costa , C. E. Cedeño Montaña

Models of the solar transition region made from lines other than those of helium cannot account for the strength of the helium lines. However, the collisional excitation rates of the helium resonance lines are unusually sensitive to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. R. Smith , C. Jordan

I report on observations of a set of magnetic loops above a region with late-phase flux emergence taken by IRIS, Hinode and SDO. The loop system consists of many transition region loop threads with size of 5--12\arcsec\ in length and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Zhenghua Huang