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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

Coronal Bright Points (CBPs) are ubiquitous structures in the solar atmosphere composed of hot small-scale loops observed in EUV or X-Rays in the quiet Sun and coronal holes. They are key elements to understand the heating of the corona;…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 D. Nóbrega-Siverio , F. Moreno-Insertis

We study the signatures of different coronal heating regimes on the differential emission measure (DEM) of multi-stranded coronal loops by means of hydrodynamic simulations. We consider heating either uniformly distributed along the loops…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 R. Susino , A. C. Lanzafame , A. F. Lanza , D. Spadaro

Spectroscopic observations of the emission lines formed in the solar transition region (TR) commonly show persistent downflows of the order of 10--15 km/s. The cause of such downflows, however, is still not fully clear and has remained a…

Chromospheric observations taken at high cadence and high spatial resolution show a range of spicule like features, including Type I, Type II (as well as RBEs and RREs) and those which seem to appear within a few seconds, which if…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 J. Shetye , J. G. Doyle , E. Scullion , C. J. Nelson , D. Kuridze , V. Henriques , F. Woeger , T. Ray

Context. The solar corona maintains temperatures of a million Kelvin or more. The plasma heating mechanisms responsible for these extreme temperatures are still unclear. Large regions of magnetic activity in the photosphere cause extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 I. Kraus , Ph. -A. Bourdin , J. Zender , M. Bergmann , A. Hanslmeier

We study intensity disturbances above a solar polar coronal hole seen in the AIA 171 \AA\ and 193 \AA\ passbands, aiming to provide more insights into their physical nature. The damping and power spectra of the intensity disturbances with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Fangran Jiao , Lidong Xia , Zhenghua Huang , Bo Li , Hui Fu , Ding Yuan , Kalugodu Chandrashekhar

We report on the detection (10 \sigma) of 917 events of long-period (3 to 16 hours) intensity pulsations in the 19.5 nm passband of the SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope. The data set spans from January 1997 to July 2010, i.e the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 F. Auchère , K. Bocchialini , J. Solomon , E. Tison

The physical processes causing energy exchange between the Sun's hot corona and its cool lower atmosphere remain poorly understood. The chromosphere and transition region (TR) form an interface region between the surface and the corona that…

One of the outstanding problems in all of space science is uncovering how the solar corona is heated to temperatures greater than 1 MK. Though studied for decades, one of the major difficulties in solving this problem has been unraveling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nicholeen M. Viall , James A. Klimchuk

Despite decades of studying the Sun, the coronal heating problem remains unsolved. One fundamental issue is that we do not know the spatial scale of the coronal heating mechanism. At a spatial resolution of 1000 km or more it is likely that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-07 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra

We present a model for the intensity of optically thin EUV emission for a plasma atmosphere. We apply our model to the solar corona as observed using the six optically thin EUV channels of the SDO/AIA instrument. The emissivity of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-31 D. J. Pascoe , A. Smyrli , T. Van Doorsselaere

The transition region between the Sun's corona and chromosphere is important to the mass and energy transfer from the lower atmosphere to the corona; consequently, this region has been studied intensely with ultraviolet (UV) and extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 C. Gontikakis , S. K. Antiochos , P. R. Young

The temperatures of the heavy ions ($T_i$) in the solar corona provide critical information about the heating mechanism of the million-degree corona. However, the measurement of $T_i$ is usually challenging due to the nonthermal motion,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Yingjie Zhu , Judit Szente , Enrico Landi

An inverted U burst with equally developed ascending and descending branches observed by Giant Ukrainian Radio Telescope (GURT) on 18 April 2017 in meter wavelengths band is discussed. This U burst was attributed to the high coronal loop…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 V. V. Dorovskyy , V. N. Melnik , A. A. Konovalenko , S. N. Yerin , I. N. Bubnov

The large uncertainties associated with measuring the amount of high temperature emission in solar active regions represents a significant impediment to making progress on the coronal heating problem. Most current observations at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-20 Luca Teriaca , Harry Warren , Werner Curdt

We examine Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) Goode Solar Telescope (GST) high-spatial resolution (0''.06), high-cadence (3.45 s), H-alpha-0.8 Angstrom images of central-disk solar spicules, using data of Samanta et al. (2019). We compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Tanmoy Samanta , Vasyl Yurchyshyn

Context. The corona of the Sun is the part of the solar atmosphere with temperatures of over one million Kelvin, which needs to be heated internally in order to exist. This heating mechanism remains a mystery; we see large magnetically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 I. Kraus , Ph. -A. Bourdin , J. Zender , M. Bergmann , A. Hanslmeier

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

The ubiquity of recently discovered low-amplitude decayless kink oscillations of plasma loops allows for the seismological probing of the corona on a regular basis. In particular, in contrast to traditionally applied seismology which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Sergey A. Anfinogentov , Valery. M. Nakariakov