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Context. Recent observations by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board Solar Orbiter have characterized prevalent small-scale transient brightenings in the corona above the quiet Sun termed campfires. Aims. In this study we search…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Yajie Chen , Damien Przybylski , Hardi Peter , Hui Tian , F. Auchère , D. Berghmans

Solar nanojets are small-scale jets generated by component magnetic reconnection, characterized by collimated plasma motion perpendicular to the reconnecting magnetic field lines. As an indicator of nanoflare events, they are believed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Yuhang Gao , Hui Tian , David Berghmans , Yadan Duan , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Hechao Chen , Emil Kraaikamp

A blowout jet occurred within the south coronal hole on 9 February 2011 at 09:00 UT and was observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Peter Young , Karin Muglach

Context: The atmosphere of the quiet Sun is controlled by photospheric flows sweeping up concentrations of mixed polarity magnetic field. Along supergranule boundaries and junctions, there is a strong correlation between magnetic flux and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. E. Innes , A. Genetelli , R. Attie , H. E. Potts

Recent IRIS observations have revealed a prevalence of intermittent small-scale jets with apparent speeds of 80 - 250 km s$^{-1}$, emanating from small-scale bright regions inside network boundaries of coronal holes. We find that these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-22 Nancy Narang , Rebecca T. Arbacher , Hui Tian , Dipankar Banerjee , Steven R. Cranmer , Ed E. DeLuca , Sean McKillop

Solar jets are collimated plasma ejections driven by magnetic reconnection, which play a critical role in the energy release and mass transport in the solar atmosphere. Using Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) with its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Song Tan , Alexander Warmuth , Frédéric Schuller , Yuandeng Shen , Jake A. J. Mitchell , Fanpeng Shi

The slow solar wind belt in the quiet corona, observed with the Metis coronagraph on board Solar Orbiter on May 15, 2020, during the activity minimum of the cycle 24, in a field of view extending from 3.8 $R_\odot$ to 7.0 $R_\odot$, is…

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

High-frequency wave phenomena present a great deal of interest as one of the possible candidates to contribute to the energy input required to heat the corona as a part of the AC heating theory. However, the resolution of imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Elena Petrova , Norbert Magyar , Tom Van Doorsselaere , David Berghmans

Coronal loop oscillations are common phenomena in the solar corona, which are often classified as decaying and decayless oscillations. Using the high-resolution observation measured by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Dong Li , David M. Long

Solar microflares are ubiquitous in the solar corona, yet their driving mechanisms remain a subject of ongoing debate. Using high-resolution coronal observations from the Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), we identified about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Qingmei Wang , Yi Bi , Hongfei Liang , Jiayan Yang , Liufan Gong

One of the many outcomes of the Solar Orbiter mission is the evidence for the solar atmosphere being filled by highly impulsive bursts, down to about 200 km scale: the limit of the EUV instruments' spatial resolution. Small-scale events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Susanna Parenti

Recent imaging observations of EUV line emissions have shown evidence for frequent flare-like events in a majority of the pixels in quiet regions of the solar corona. The changes in coronal emission measure indicate impulsive heating of new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arnold O. Benz , Sam Krucker

Decayless kink oscillations are omnipresent in the solar atmosphere and a viable candidate for coronal heating. Though there have been extensive studies of decayless oscillations in coronal loops with a few hundred Mm lengths, the…

Solar flares, with energies ranging over several orders of magnitude, result from impulsive release of energy due to magnetic reconnection in the corona. Barring a handful, almost all microflares observed in X-rays are associated with the…

Small-scale propagating disturbances (PD) are ubiquitous in the solar corona. Time-Normalised Optical Flow (TNOF) is a method developed for mapping PD velocity fields in time series of Extreme-Ultraviolet (EUV) images. We show PD velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Nina Stankovic , Huw Morgan , Marilena Mierla , Nancy Narang , Luciano Rodriguez , David Berghmans

We present an analysis of EUV and soft X-ray emission detected toward Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) during its post-perihelion traverse of the solar corona on December 16, 2011. Observations were recorded by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Patrick I. McCauley , Steven H. Saar , John C. Raymond , Yuan-Kuen Ko , Pascal Saint-Hilaire

Small-scale jet-like eruptions, such as picoflare jets and jetlets, are recognized as potential contributors to coronal heating and solar wind acceleration, yet their physical origin is still not fully established. Using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Annu Bura , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Tanmoy Samanta , Jayant Joshi

We present high-resolution, high-cadence observations of six, fine-scale, on-disk jet-like events observed by the High-resolution Coronal Imager 2.1 (Hi-C 2.1) during its sounding-rocket flight. We combine the Hi-C 2.1 images with images…

Solar nanoflares are small eruptive events releasing magnetic energy in the quiet corona. If nanoflares follow the same physics as their larger counterparts, they should emit hard X-rays (HXRs) but with a rather faint intensity. A copious…