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Standing slow mode waves in hot flaring loops are exclusively observed in spectrometers and are used to diagnose the magnetic field strength and temperature of the loop structure. Due to the lack of spatial information, the longitudinal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 D. Yuan , T. Van Doorsselaere , D. Banerjee , P. Antolin

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

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

We present observations of a B7.9-class flare that occurred on the 24th January, 2015, using the Atmopsheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) and the X-Ray Telescope of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Giuseppe Nisticò , Vanessa Polito , Valery M. Nakariakov , Giulio del Zanna

The effect of the numerical spatial resolution in models of the solar corona and corona / chromosphere interface is examined for impulsive heating over a range of magnitudes using one dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. It is demonstrated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Stephen J. Bradshaw , Peter J. Cargill

Evidence of flare induced, large-amplitude, decay-less transverse oscillations is presented. A system of multi-thermal coronal loops as observed with the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), exhibit decay-less transverse oscillations after a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Sudip Mandal , Hui Tian , Hardi Peter

The solar-stellar connection provides a unique framework for understanding magnetic activity and atmospheric heating across a broad spectrum of stars. Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) of NASA, equipped with the Helioseismic and Magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Shin Toriumi

The formation and dynamics of coronal rain are currently not fully understood. Coronal rain is the fall of cool and dense blobs formed by thermal instability in the solar corona towards the solar surface with acceleration smaller than…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Z. Vashalomidze , V. Kukhianidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Oliver , B. Shergelashvili , G. Ramishvili , S. Poedts , P. De Causmaecker

Here, we study the temperature structure of flaring and non-flaring coronal loops, using extracted loops from images taken in six extreme ultraviolet (EUV) channels recorded by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA)/ Solar Dynamic Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Narges Fathalian , Seyedeh Somayeh Hosseini Rad , Nasibeh Alipour , Hossein Safari

Previous work utilising NASA's High-resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C 2.1) 17.2 nm observations revealed that, even at the increased spatial scales available in the data-set, there may be evidence for coronal structures that are still not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Thomas Williams , Robert W. Walsh , Hardi Peter , Amy R. Winebarger

Strongly damped Doppler shift oscillations are observed frequently associated with flarelike events in hot coronal loops. In this paper, a review of the observed properties and the theoretical modeling is presented. Statistical measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 Tongjiang Wang

The EUI instrument on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the most stable, high-resolution images of the solar corona from its orbit with a perihelion near 0.4 AU. A sequence of 360 images obtained at 17.1 nm, between 25-Oct-2022…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Philip G. Judge

Recent observations of fast and bursty ``nanojets'' suggest novel diagnostics of nanoflare heating in the solar corona. The aim of this work is to investigate the presence and properties of reconnection outflows, similar to observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Gabriele Cozzo , Paola Testa , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Paolo Pagano , Fabio Reale , Franco Rappazzo , Viggo Hansteen , Bart De Pontieu

We investigate the decayless regime of coronal kink oscillations recently discovered in the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)/AIA data. In contrast to decaying kink oscillations that are excited by impulsive dynamical processes, this type of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 S. A. Anfinogentov , V. M. Nakariakov , G. Nisticò

Quasi-periodic disturbances have been observed in the outer solar atmosphere for many years now. Although first interpreted as upflows (Schrijver et al. (1999)), they have been widely regarded as slow magnetoacoustic waves, due to observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Kiddie , I. De Moortel , G. Del Zanna , S. W. McIntosh , I. Whittaker

We used data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), and Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the \textit{Solar Dynamics Observatory} (SDO) to study coronal loops at small scales, emerging in the quiet Sun. With HMI line-of-sight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-15 LP. Chitta , R. Kariyappa , A. A. van Ballegooijen , E. E. DeLuca , S. S. Hasan , A. Hanslmeier

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

Nanoflares, the basic unit of impulsive energy release may produce much of the solar background emission. Extrapolation of the energy frequency distribution of observed microflares, which follows a power law to lower energies can give an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-22 E. Tajfirouze , H. Safari

Coronal active regions are observed to get fuzzier and fuzzier (i.e. more and more confused and uniform) in harder and harder energy bands or lines. We explain this evidence as due to the fine multi-temperature structure of coronal loops.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Massimiliano Guarrasi , Fabio Reale , Giovanni Peres

The solar corona consists of a million-degree Kelvin plasma. A complete understanding of this phenomenon demands the study of Quiet Sun (QS) regions. In this work, we study QS regions in the 171 {\AA}, 193 {\AA} and 211 {\AA} passbands of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-02 Vishal Upendran , Durgesh Tripathi