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An Impulsive Heating Multiple Strand (IHMS) Model is able to reproduce the observational characteristics of EUV (~ 1 MK) active region loops. This model implies that some of the loops must reach temperatures where X-ray filters are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Amy R. Winebarger , Harry P. Warren

It is extremely difficult to simulate the details of coronal heating and also make meaningful predictions of the emitted radiation. Thus, testing realistic models with observations is a major challenge. Observational signatures of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 James A. Klimchuk , Kalman J. Knizhnik , Vadim M. Uritsky

We analyze and model an M1.0 flare observed by SDO/AIA and Hinode/EIS to investigate how flare loops are heated and evolve subsequently. The flare is composed of two distinctive loop systems observed in EUV images. The UV 1600 \AA emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Y. Li , J. Qiu , M. D. Ding

A well known behavior of EUV light curves of discrete coronal loops is that the peak intensities of cooler channels or spectral lines are reached at progressively later times than hotter channels. This time lag is understood to be the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Nicholeen M. Viall , James A. Klimchuk , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

The High Resolution Imager (HRI_EUV) telescope of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter has observed EUV brightenings, so-called campfires, as fine-scale structures at coronal temperatures. The goal of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-18 Krzysztof Barczynski , Karen A. Meyer , Louise K. Harra , Duncan H. Mackay , Frederic Auchere , David Berghmans

The Soft X-ray intensity of loops in active region cores and corresponding footpoint, or moss, intensity observed in the EUV remain steady for several hours of observation. The steadiness of the emission has prompted many to suggest that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. R Winebarger , H. P. Warren , D. A. Falconer

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

Recent observations in extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths reveal an EUV late phase in some solar flares that is characterized by a second peak in warm coronal emissions ($\sim3$~MK) several tens of minutes to a few hours after the soft…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Yu Dai , Mingde Ding

Understanding the relationship between the magnetic field and coronal heating is one of the central problems of solar physics. However, studies of the magnetic properties of impulsively heated loops have been rare. We present results from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Nicholas A. Crump , Harry P. Warren , Thomas Wiegelmann

The evolution of a coronal loop is studied by means of numerical simulations of the fully compressible three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations using the HYPERION code. The footpoints of the loop magnetic field are advected by random…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , B. D. Taylor , I. Ugarte-Urra , H. P. Warren , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli

A survey of 28 stars using EUV spectra has been conducted to establish the structure of stellar coronae in active binary systems from the EMD, electron densities, and scale sizes. Observations obtained by the EUVE during 9 years of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Sanz-Forcada , N. S. Brickhouse , A. K. Dupree

The nanoflare model of coronal heating is one of the most successful scenarios to explain, within a single framework, the diverse set of coronal observations available with the present instrument resolutions. The model is based on the idea…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-06 Marcelo López Fuentes , James A. Klimchuk

We perform MHD modeling of a single bright coronal loop to include the interaction with a non-uniform magnetic field. The field is stressed by random footpoint rotation in the central region and its energy is dissipated into heating by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 F. Reale , S. Orlando , M. Guarrasi , A. Mignone , G. Peres , A. W. Hood , E. R. Priest

Many studies of the solar corona have shown that the observed X-ray luminosity is well correlated with the total unsigned magnetic flux. In this paper we present results from the extensive numerical modeling of active regions observed with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Harry P. Warren , Amy R. Winebarger

X-ray and EUV observations are an important diagnostic of various plasma parameters of the solar atmosphere during solar flares. Soft X-ray and EUV observations often show coronal sources near the top of flaring loops, while hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar

Context. The structure and heating of coronal loops are investigated since decades. Established scaling laws relate fundamental quantities like the loop apex temperature, pressure, length, and the coronal heating. Aims. We test such scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

We present observations of high temperature emission in the core of a solar active region using instruments on Hinode and SDO. These multi-instrument observations allow us to determine the distribution of plasma temperatures and follow the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Harry P. Warren , David H. Brooks , Amy R. Winebarger

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

We study the thermal structure and energetics of the point-like EUV brightenings within a system of fan loops observed in the active region \textsl{AR~11520}. These brightenings were simultaneously observed on 2012 July 11 by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Srividya Subramanian , Vinay L. Kashyap , Durgesh Tripathi , Maria S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle

Coronal loops in active regions are the subjects of intensive investigation, but the important diffuse 'unresolved' emission in which they are embedded has received relatively little attention. Here we measure the densities and emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 David H. Brooks