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We analyze coordinated Hinode XRT and EIS observations of a non-flaring active region to investigate the thermal properties of coronal plasma taking advantage of the complementary diagnostics provided by the two instruments. In particular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Paola Testa , Fabio Reale , Enrico Landi , Ed DeLuca , Vinay Kashyap

The study of the localized plasma conditions before the impulsive phase of a solar flare can help us understand the physical processes that occur leading up to the main flare energy release. Here, we present evidence of a hot X-ray onset…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Hugh S. Hudson , Paulo J. A. Simoes , Lyndsay Fletcher , Laura A. Hayes , Iain G. Hannah

We perform a time-dependent ionization analysis to constrain plasma heating requirements during a fast partial halo coronal mass ejection (CME) observed on 2000 June 28 by the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) aboard the Solar and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-21 N. A. Murphy , J. C. Raymond , K. E. Korreck

We present a new implicit numerical algorithm for the calculation of the time dependent non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium of a gas in an external radiation field that is accurate, fast and unconditionally stable for all spatial and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Wehrse , D. T. Wickramasinghe , Romeel Davé

Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves

Ion fractional charge states, measured in situ in the heliosphere, depend on the properties of the plasma in the inner corona. As the ions travel outward in the solar wind and the electron density drops, the charge states remain essentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-18 Roberto Lionello , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Zoran Mikić , John Raymond , Chengcai Shen , Marco Velli

The study examines the heating profile of hot solar transition region loops, particularly focusing on transient brightenings observed in IRIS 1400{\AA} slit-jaw images. The findings challenge the adequacy of simplistic, singular heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Shah Mohammad Bahauddin , Stephen J Bradshaw

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma turbulence is believed to play a vital role in the production of energetic electrons during solar flares and the non-thermal broadening of spectral lines is a key sign of this turbulence. Here, we determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Morgan Stores , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Eduard P. Kontar

This paper presents a detailed study of excess line broadening in EUV emission lines during the impulsive phase of a C-class solar flare. In this work, which utilizes data from the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) onboard Hinode, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-09 Ryan O. Milligan

To properly describe heating in weakly collisional turbulent plasmas such as the solar wind, inter-particle collisions should be taken into account. Collisions can convert ordered energy into heat by means of irreversible relaxation towards…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 O. Pezzi

The kinetic Boltzmann equation is used to model the non-equilibrium ionization phase that initiates the evolution of atomic clusters irradiated with single pulses of intense vacuum ultraviolet radiation. The duration of the pulses is < 50…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Ziaja , H. Wabnitz , E. Weckert , T. Moeller

This study focuses on energy conversion related to tearing-driven magnetic reconnection in the context of weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas. We present results from a two-dimensional hybrid particle-in-cell simulation employing novel…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Etienne Berriot , Petr Hellinger , Olga Alexandrova , Alexandra Alexandrova , Pascal Démoulin

In this paper, we discuss the temperature distribution and evolution of a microflare, simultaneously observed by Hinode XRT, EIS, and SDO AIA. We find using EIS lines that during peak emission the distribution is nearly isothermal and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Urmila Mitra-Kraev , Giulio Del Zanna

Magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas plays a crucial role in a wide range of solar, astrophysical, and laboratory environments. While reconnection in such plasmas is commonly characterized by the ion-neutral coupling strength…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Liang Wang , Chuanfei Dong , Yi-Min Huang , Yue Yuan , Xinmin Li , Yang Zhang

We initiate the study of equilibration rates of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasmas in the absence of conformal symmetry. We primarily consider a supersymmetric mass deformation within ${\cal N}=2^{*}$ gauge theory and use holography to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-24 Alex Buchel , Michal P. Heller , Robert C. Myers

The disparate nature of thermal-nonthermal energy partition during flares, particularly during weak flares, is still an open issue. Following the Neupert effect, quantifying the relative yield of X-ray emission in different energy bands can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Arun Kumar Awasthi , Tomasz Mrozek , Sylwester Kołomański , Michalina Litwicka , Marek Stęślicki , Karol Kułaga

Temporally-resolved electron density measurements of solar flare plasmas are presented using data from the EUV Variability Experiment (EVE) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The EVE spectral range contains emission lines formed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ryan O. Milligan , Michael B. Kennedy , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Francis P. Keenan

Electron bulk heating during magnetic reconnection with symmetric inflow conditions is examined using kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The degree of electron heating is well correlated with the inflowing Alfv\'en speed $c_{Ar}$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. A. Shay , C. C. Haggerty , T. D. Phan , J. F. Drake , P. A. Cassak , P. Wu , M. Oieroset , M. Swisdak , K. Malakit

Magnetic flux emergence has been shown to be a key mechanism for unleashing a wide variety of solar phenomena. However, there are still open questions concerning the rise of the magnetized plasma through the atmosphere, mainly in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 D. Nóbrega-Siverio , F. Moreno-Insertis , J. Martínez-Sykora , M. Carlsson , M. Szydlarski

This paper investigates the temporal evolution of temperature, emission measure, energy loss and velocity in a C-class solar flare from both an observational and theoretical perspective. The properties of the flare were derived by following…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Claire L. Raftery , Peter T. Gallagher , Ryan O. Milligan , James A. Klimchuk