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In this paper we seek to understand the timescale on which the photospheric motions on the Sun braid coronal magnetic field lines. This is a crucial ingredient for determining the viability of the braiding mechanism for explaining the high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Simon Candelaresi , David Pontin , Anthony Yeates , Paul Bushby , Gunnar Hornig

Direct solar coronal magnetic field measurements have become possible since recent development of high-sensitivity infrared detection technology. The SOLARC instrument installed on Mt. Haleakala is such a polarimetric coronagraph that was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-05 Y. Liu , H. Lin

The magnetic field vector of the solar corona is not regularly and comprehensively being measured, because of the complexity and degeneracy inherently present in the types of observations currently available. To address some of the current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Momchil Molnar , Roberto Casini

In solar physics, it is a big challenge to measure the magnetic fields directly from observations in the upper solar atmosphere, including the chromosphere and corona. Radio observations are regarded as the most feasible approach to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Baolin Tan

We investigated the applicability of the weak-field approximation (WFA) for retrieving the depth-dependent line-of-sight (LOS) magnetic field from the spectral region containing the Mg I $b_2$ spectral line and two photospheric Ti I and Fe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Dušan Vukadinović , Ivan Milić , Olga Atanacković

The magnetic field in the Sun's corona stores energy that can be released to heat the coronal plasma and drive solar eruptions. Measurements of the global coronal magnetic field have been limited to a few snapshots. We present observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Zihao Yang , Hui Tian , Steven Tomczyk , Xianyu Liu , Sarah Gibson , Richard J. Morton , Cooper Downs

Adopting the thermal free-free emission mechanism, the coronal and chromospheric magnetic fields are derived from the polarization and spectral observations with the Nobeyama Radioheliograph at 1.76 cm. The solar active regions (AR) located…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. Mouner , Abdelrazek M. K. Shaltout , M. M. Beheary , K. A. K. Gadallah , K. A. Edris

We use the first publically available data from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) to track magnetic connections from the solar photosphere into the corona. We scrutinize relationships between chromospheric magnetism and bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Philip Judge , Lucia Kleint , Roberto Casini , Alfred de Wijn , Tom Schad , Alexandra Tritschler

The Type-II solar radio burst recorded on 13 June 2010 by the radio spectrograph of the Hiraiso Solar Observatory was employed to estimate the magnetic-field strength in the solar corona. The burst was characterized by a well pronounced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 V. Vasanth , S. Umapathy , B. Vršnak , T. Žic , O. Prakash

Regular remote sensing of the magnetic field embedded within the million-degree solar corona is severely lacking. This reality impedes fundamental investigations of the nature of coronal heating, the generation of solar and stellar winds,…

With the development of new instrumentation providing measurements of solar photospheric vector magnetic fields, we need to develop our understanding of the effects of current density on coronal magnetic field configurations. The object is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Regnier , E. R. Priest

We estimated the accuracy of coronal magnetic fields derived from radio observations by comparing them to potential field calculations and the DEM measurements using EUV observations. We derived line of sight component of the coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Shun Miyawaki , Kazumasa Iwai , Kiyoto Shibasaki , Daikou Shiota , Satoshi Nozawa

We derived the coronal magnetic field, plasma density, and temperature from the observation of polarization and intensity of radio thermal free-free emission using the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

Context. A proper estimate of the chromospheric magnetic fields is believed to improve modelling of both active region and coronal mass ejection evolution. Aims. We investigate the similarity between the chromospheric magnetic field…

The motion of faint propagating disturbances (PD) in the solar corona reveals an intricate structure which must be defined by the magnetic field. Applied to quiet Sun observations by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA)/Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Huw Morgan , Marianna Korsos

We determine magnetic fields from the photosphere to the upper chromosphere combining data from the Hinode satellite and the CLASP2.1 sounding rocket experiment. CLASP2.1 provided polarization profiles of the Mg~{|sc ii} $h$ and $k$ lines,…

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

We investigate the fine structure of magnetic fields in the atmosphere of the quiet Sun. We use photospheric magnetic field measurements from {\sc Sunrise}/IMaX with unprecedented spatial resolution to extrapolate the photospheric magnetic…

Estimating Alfven speeds is of interest in modelling the solar corona, studying the coronal heating problem and understanding the initiation and propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We assume here that the corona is in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Regnier , E. R. Priest , A. W. Hood