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Loops are fundamental structures in the magnetized atmosphere of the sun. Their physical properties are crucial for understanding the nature of the solar atmosphere. Transition region loops are relatively dynamic and their physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-16 Shiyu Liang , Ziyuan Wang , Zhenghua Huang , Hengyuan Wei , Hui Fu , Ming Xiong , Lidong Xia

Context. Transverse oscillations of coronal structures are currently intensively studied to explore the associated magnetohydrodynamic wave physics and perform seismology of the local medium. Aims. We make a first attempt to measure the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 C. R. Goddard , G. Nisticò

The frequency of heating events in the corona is an important constraint on the coronal heating mechanisms. Observations indicate that the intensities and velocities measured in active region cores are effectively steady, suggesting that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Amy Winebarger , Joan Schmelz , Harry Warren , Steve Saar , Vinay Kashyap

We study the correlation heights, which indicate the formation height of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lines in an active region using observations from the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) and Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Y. Guo , M. D. Ding , M. Jin , T. Wiegelmann

Observed spectral profiles of emission lines from the corona are found to have widths exceeding the thermal line width. To investigate the physical mechanism, we run a 3D MHD model of a single, straightened loop in which we partially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 C. A. Breu , H. Peter , S. K. Solanki , R. Cameron , I. De Moortel

We investigate the scaling properties of the long-range temporal evolution and intermittency of SDO/AIA intensity observations in four solar environments: an active region core, a weak emission region, and two core loops. We use two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Ana Cristina Cadavid , Yeimy J. Rivera , John K. Lawrence , Damian J. Christian , Peter J. Jennings , A. Franco Rappazzo

Coronal loops trace out bipolar, arch-like magnetic fields above the Sun's surface. Recent measurements that combine rotational tomography, extreme ultraviolet imaging, and potential-field extrapolation have shown the existence of large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Avery J. Schiff , Steven R. Cranmer

Magnetic energy is required to heat the corona, the outer atmosphere of the Sun, to millions of degrees. We study the nature of the magnetic energy source that is probably responsible for the brightening of coronal loops driven by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , S. K. Solanki

Transition region explosive events are characterized by non-Gaussian profiles of the emission lines formed at transition region temperatures, and they are believed to be manifestations of small-scale reconnection events in the transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Yajie Chen , Hardi Peter , Damien Przybylski

Transition-region loops are a type of critical magnetic structure in the solar atmosphere, yet their physical properties and evolutionary characteristics remain statistically poorly constrained. We aim to statistically characterize the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiuhui Zuo , Zhenghua Huang , Maria S. Madjarska , Hui Fu , Hengyuan Wei , Xinzheng Shi , Lidong Xia

A model interpreting variations of EUV brightness upward propagating in solar coronal loops as slow magnetoacoustic waves is developed. A loop is considered to have a non-zero plane inclination angle and offset of circular loop centre from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Tsiklauri , V. M. Nakariakov

MHD kink instability can trigger the fragmentation of a twisted magnetic flux tube into small-scale current sheets that dissipate as aperiodic impulsive heating events. This instability propagates as an avalanche to nearby flux tubes and…

The extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) late phase of solar flares is a second peak of warm coronal emissions (e.g., Fe XVI) for many minutes to a few hours after the GOES soft X-ray peak. It was first observed by the EUV Variability Experiment (EVE)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Y. Li , M. D. Ding , Y. Guo , Y. Dai

Coronal loops generally trace magnetic lines of force in the upper solar atmosphere. Understanding the loop morphology and its temporal evolution has implications for coronal heating models that rely on plasma heating due to reconnection at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 B. Ram , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal , H. Peter , F. Plaschke

Solar extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) waves generally refer to large-scale disturbances propagating outward from sites of solar eruptions in EUV imaging observations. Using the recent observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Zheng Sun , Hui Tian , P. F. Chen , Shuo Yao , Zhenyong Hou , Hechao Chen , Linjie Chen

We study the temporal evolution of coronal loops using data from the Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) on board of GOES-12. This instrument allows us to follow in detail the full lifetime of coronal loops. The observed light curves suggest three…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. C. Lopez Fuentes , J. A. Klimchuk , C. H. Mandrini

Many models for coronal loops have difficulty explaining the observed EUV brightness of the transition region, which is often significantly less than theoretical models predict. This discrepancy has been addressed by a variety of approaches…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-24 Bart De Pontieu , Viggo H. Hansteen , Scott W. McIntosh , Spiros Patsourakos

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 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

How structures, e.g., magnetic loops, in the upper atmosphere, i.e., the transition region and corona, are heated and sustained is one of the major unresolved issues in solar and stellar physics. Various theoretical and observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Leping Li , Hui Tian , Huadong Chen , Hongqiang Song , Zhenyong Hou , Xianyong Bai , Kaifan Ji , Yuanyong Deng
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