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Moving structures have been detected in coronal bright points and in a solar flare in active regions, which were bi-directional, symmetrical, simultaneous, and quasi-periodic (Ning & Guo 2014; Ning 2016; Li et al. 2016a). They could be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Dong Li

A model is presented for generation of fast solar wind in coronal holes, relying on heating that is dominated by turbulent dissipation of MHD fluctuations transported upwards in the solar atmosphere. Scale-separated transport equations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Verdini , M. Velli , W. H. Matthaeus , S. Oughton , P. Dmitruk

X-ray observations of the Sun led Eugene Parker to propose nanoflares as the basic energy-release units that heat the solar corona. Decades later, Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (HRIEUV), operating halfway between Earth and the…

The corona is a structure possessed by stars, including the sun. The abnormal heating of the solar corona and chromosphere is one of the greatest mysteries in modern astronomy. While state-of-the-art observations have identified some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-08 K. J. Li , J. C. Xu , W. F eng , J. L. Xie , X. J. Shi , L. H. Deng

We present a series of numerical simulations of the quiet Sun plasma threaded by magnetic fields that extend from the upper convection zone into the low corona. We discuss an efficient, simplified approximation to the physics of optically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 William P. Abbett , George H. Fisher

From 2022 March 18-21, active region (AR) 12967 was tracked simultaneously by Solar Orbiter (SO) at 0.35 au and Hinode/EIS at Earth. During this period, strong blue-shifted plasma upflows were observed along a thin, dark corridor of open…

Sunspots are the most spectacular manifestation of solar magnetism, yet, 99% of the solar surface remains 'quiet' at any time of the solar cycle. The quiet sun is not void of magnetic fields, though; they are organized at smaller spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , R. Manso Sainz , A. Asensio Ramos , L. R. Bellot Rubio

Coronal jets represent important manifestations of ubiquitous solar transients, which may be the source of significant mass and energy input to the upper solar atmosphere and the solar wind. While the energy involved in a jet-like event is…

The measured average velocities in solar and stellar spectral lines formed at transition region temperatures have been difficult to interpret. However, realistic three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamics (3D rMHD) models of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 P. Zacharias , V. H. Hansteen , J. Leenaarts , M. Carlsson , B. V. Gudiksen

The aim of this paper is to extend our previous study of the solar-cycle variations of the meridional flows and to investigate their latitudinal and longitudinal structure in the subphotospheric layer, especially their variations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michal Svanda , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao

The processes occurring in the solar atmosphere are diverse and depend on many important factors. For example, from magnetic fields, their sudden changes, from emissions of substance from the depths of the Sun, distribution of shock waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-11 A. T. Sarsembaeva , N. Zh. Takibayev , K. Kato

The solar wind consists of continuous streams of charged particles that escape into the heliosphere from the Sun, and is split into fast and slow components, with the fast wind emerging from the interiors of coronal holes. Near the ecliptic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-28 L. P. Chitta , D. B. Seaton , C. Downs , C. E. DeForest , A. K. Higginson

Over the last two decades the uninterrupted, high-resolution observations of the Sun, from the excellent range of telescopes aboard many spacecraft complemented with observations from sophisticated ground-based telescopes have opened up a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Tsiropoula , K. Tziotziou , I. Kontogiannis , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , Y. Suematsu

The physical processes, which drive powerful solar eruptions, play an important role in our understanding of the Sun-Earth connection. In this Special Issue, we firstly discuss how magnetic fields emerge from the solar interior to the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Vasilis Archontis , Loukas Vlahos

Turbulent convection efficiently transports energy up to the solar photosphere, but its multi-scale nature and dynamic properties are still not fully understood. Several works in the literature have investigated the emergence of patterns of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 F. Giannattasio , F. Berrilli , G. Consolini , D. Del Moro , M. Gosic , L. Bellot Rubio

The elemental composition of the Sun's hot atmosphere, the corona, shows a distinctive pattern that is different than the underlying surface, or photosphere (Pottasch 1963). Elements that are easy to ionize in the chromosphere are enhanced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 David H. Brooks , Deborah Baker , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Harry P. Warren , Stephanie L. Yardley

The last solar minimum is characterized by several peculiar aspects and by the presence of a complex magnetic topology with two different kinds of coronal streamers: pseudo-streamers and bipolar streamers. Pseudo-streamers or unipolar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Lucia Abbo , Roberto Lionello , Pete Riley , Yi-Ming Wang

The solar corona is full of dynamic phenomena, e.g., solar flares, micro flares in active regions, jets in coronal holes and in the polar regions, X-ray bright points in quiet regions, etc. They are accompanied by interesting physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Shin-nosuke Ishikawa , Tomoko Kawate , Shinsuke Imada , Taro Sakao

Spectroscopic observations with the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on Hinode have revealed large areas of high speed outflows at the periphery of many solar active regions. These outflows are of interest because they may connect to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Harry P. Warren , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Peter R. Young , Guillermo Stenborg

Solar jets, characterized by small-scale plasma ejections along open magnetic field lines or the legs of large-scale coronal loops, play a crucial role in the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Although spectral and EUV images have been…