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Recent observations from Parker Solar Probe have revealed that the solar wind has a highly variable structure. How this complex behaviour is formed in the solar corona is not yet known, since it requires omnipresent fluctuations, which…

One of the major discoveries of Hinode's Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) is the presence of upflows at the edges of active regions. As active regions are magnetically connected to the large-scale field of the corona, these…

Loops are one of the fundamental structures that trace the geometry of the magnetic field in the solar atmosphere. Their evolution and dynamics provide a crucial proxy for studying how the magnetized structures are formed and heated in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Zhenghua Huang , Bo Li , Lidong Xia , Mijie Shi , Hui Fu , Zhenyong Hou

Some of local sources of the slow solar wind can be associated with spectroscopically detected plasma outflows at edges of active regions accompanied with specific signatures in the inner corona. The EUV telescopes (e.g. SPIRIT/CORONAS-F,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-03 V. Slemzin , L. Harra , A. Urnov , S. Kuzin , F. Goryaev , D. Berghmans

Studying Doppler shifts provides deeper insights into the flow of mass and energy in the solar atmosphere. We perform a comprehensive measurement of Doppler shifts in the transition region and its center-to-limb variation (CLV) in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Abhishek Rajhans , Durgesh Tripathi , Vinay L. Kashyap , James A. Klimchuk , Avyarthana Ghosh

The high temporal, spatial and spectral resolution of Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has provided new insights into the understanding of different small-scale processes occurring at the chromospheric and transition region (TR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-03 Nancy Narang , Vaibhav Pant , Dipankar Banerjee , Tom Van Doorsselaere

The element abundances in the solar corona and solar wind are often different from those of the solar photosphere, typically with a relative enrichment of elements with low first ionization potential (FIP effect). Here we study the spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Paola Testa , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Bart De Pontieu

We present a study of the temporal evolution of coronal loops in active regions and its implications for the dynamics in coronal loops. We analyzed images of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-09 S. Kamio , H. Peter , W. Curdt , S. K. Solanki

We report on the first Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) study of cool transition region loops. This class of loops has received little attention in the literature. A cluster of such loops was observed on the solar disk in active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Maria S. Madjarska

To study motions and oscillations in the solar chromosphere and at the transition region (TR) level we analyze some extreme Doppler shifts observed off-limb with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Raster scans and slit-jaw…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy

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…

We present observations of persistent oscillations of some bright features in the upper-chromosphere/transition-region above sunspots taken by IRIS SJ 1400 {\AA} and upward propagating quasi-periodic disturbances along coronal loops rooted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Zhenyong Hou , Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Hui Fu

We investigate various dynamic processes including magnetic reconnection, chromospheric evaporation, and coronal rain draining in two limb solar flares through imaging and spectroscopic observations from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Ke Yu , Y. Li , Jie Hong , De-Chao Song , M. D. Ding

Perhaps the most compelling evidence for the role of magnetic reconnection in solar flares comes from the supra-arcade downflows that have been observed above many post-flare loop arcades. These downflows are thought to be related to highly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Harry P. Warren , Casey M. O'Brien , Neil R. Sheeley

Persistent plasma upflows were observed with Hinode's EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) at the edges of active region (AR) 10978 as it crossed the solar disk. We analyze the evolution of the photospheric magnetic and velocity fields of the AR,…

A comprehensive understanding of the structure of Doppler motions in transition region including the center-to-limb variation and its relationship with the magnetic field structure is vital for the understanding of mass and energy transfer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Avyarthana Ghosh , James A. Klimchuk , Durgesh Tripathi

Coronal bright points (BPs) are small-scale luminous features seen in the solar corona. Quasi-periodic brightenings are frequently observed in the BPs and are generally linked with underneath magnetic flux changes. We study the dynamics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Tanmoy Samanta , Dipankar Banerjee , Hui Tian

Transition-region explosive events (EEs) are characterized by non-Gaussian line profiles with enhanced wings at Doppler velocities of 50-150 km/s. They are believed to be the signature of solar phenomena that are one of the main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Z. Huang , M. S. Madjarska , E. M. Scullion , L. -D. Xia , J. G. Doyle , T. Ray

The origin of solar transition region redshifts is not completely understood. Current research is addressing this issue by investigating three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic models that extend from the photosphere to the corona. By…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pia Zacharias , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) provides spectroscopy and narrow band slit-jaw (SJI) imaging of the solar chromosphere and transition region at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. Combined with high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 H. Skogsrud , L. Rouppe van der Voort , B. De Pontieu