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The plasma of the solar corona harbors a multitude of coronal wave modes, some of which could be dissipated to provide the required energy and momentum to heat the corona and accelerate the solar wind. We present observations of the corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Momchil E. Molnar , Richard Morton , Alin Paraschiv , Chris Gilly , Steven R. Cranmer , Kevin Reardon , Thomas Schad

Aims. To study intensity oscillations in the solar chromosphere/corona above a quiet-Sun magnetic network. Methods. We analyse the time series of He II 256.32, Fe XI 188.23 and Fe XII 195.12 spectral lines observed by EUV Imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. K. Srivastava , D. Kuridze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , B. N. Dwivedi

The heating of coronal loops is investigated to understand the observational consequences in terms of the thermodynamics and radiative losses from the Sun as well as the magnetized coronae of stars with an outer convective envelope. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-02 A. F. Rappazzo , R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , M. Velli

Plasma turbulence cascading from MHD to kinetic scales in the heliospheric plasma is believed to play a key role in coronal heating and fast solar wind acceleration, but the properties of the turbulence remain poorly constrained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie , Daniel L. Clarkson , Alexander Pitna

Using data collected by the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission in October 2021, we investigated coronal regions of the Sun by analyzing the Doppler spectral width of radio signals to estimate solar wind velocity. A simplified equation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Keshav Aggarwal , R. K. Choudhary , Abhirup Datta , Roopa M. V. , Bijoy K. Dai

We investigate the evolutions of two prominences (P1,P2) and two bundles of coronal loops (L1,L2), observed with SDO/AIA near the east solar limb on 2012 September 22. It is found that there were large-amplitude oscillations in P1 and L1,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Quanhao Zhang , Yuming Wang , Rui Liu , Chenglong Shen , Min Zhang , Tingyu Gou , Jiajia Liu , Kai Liu , Zhenjun Zhou , Shui Wang

Magnetic loops filled with hot plasma are the main building blocks of the solar corona. Usually they have lengths of the order of the barometric scale height in the corona that is 50 Mm. Previously it has been suggested that miniature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Krzysztof Barczynski , Hardi Peter , Sabrina L. Savage

We characterize waves in small magnetic elements and investigate their propagation in the lower solar atmosphere from observations at high spatial and temporal resolution. We use the wavelet transform to analyze oscillations of both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-31 Shahin Jafarzadeh , S. K. Solanki , M. Stangalini , O. Steiner , R. H. Cameron , S. Danilovic

The solar inner corona is a region that plays a critical role in energizing the solar wind and propelling it to supersonic and supra-Alfvenic velocities. Despite its importance, this region remains poorly understood because of being least…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-25 Richa N. Jain , R. K. Choudhary , Anil Bhardwaj , T. Imamura , Anshuman Sharma , Umang M. Parikh

This work investigates the decayless kink oscillations of solar coronal loops and examines possible changes in their behaviour in active regions (ARs) before powerful solar flares (M- and X-class) and in the absence of powerful flares. To…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 A. B. Nechaeva , I. V. Zimovets , I. N. Sharykin , S. A. Anfinogentov

Using data obtained by the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) onboard Hinode, we have per- formed a survey of obvious and persistent (without significant damping) Doppler shift oscillations in the corona. We have found mainly two types of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-31 Hui Tian , Scott W. McIntosh , Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Bart De Pontieu , Davina E. Innes , Hardi Peter

Context. Tracing wave activity from the photosphere to the corona has important implications for coronal heating and prediction of the solar wind. Despite extensive theory and simulations, the detection of waves in realistic MHD simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Cherry , Boris Gudiksen , Adam J. Finley

Extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) waves are one of the large-scale phenomena on the Sun. They are defined as large propagating fronts in the low corona with speeds ranging from a few tens km/s to a multiple of 1000 km/s. They are often associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Ramesh Chandra , Pooja Devi , P. F. Chen , Brigitte Schmieder , Reetika Joshi , Bhuwan Joshi , Arun Kumar Awasthi

The dynamics of regions of the solar corona are investigated using Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) 171\AA\ and 193\AA\ data. The coronal emission from the quiet Sun, coronal loop footprints, coronal moss, and from above a sunspot is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jack Ireland , R. T. James McAteer , Andrew R. Inglis

Active region fan loops in AR 11076 were studied, in search of oscillations, using high cadence spectroscopic observations from EIS on board Hinode combined with imaging sequences from the AIA on board SDO. Spectra from EIS were analyzed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-08 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , Jagdev Singh

The propagation and the evolution of Alfvenic pulses in the solar coronal arcades is investigated by means of MHD numerical simulations. Significant transverse oscillations in coronal loops, triggered by nearby flare events, are often…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Del Zanna , Eveline Schaekens , Marco Velli

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…

We present a measurement of the energy carried and dissipated by Alfv\'en waves in a polar coronal hole. Alfv\'en waves have been proposed as the energy source that heats the corona and drives the solar wind. Previous work has shown that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Michael Hahn , Daniel W. Savin

In the solar atmosphere, Alfv\'en waves are believed to play an important role in the transfer of energy from the photosphere to the corona and solar wind, and in the heating of the chromosphere. We perform numerical computations to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas , Ramon Oliver , Jose Luis Ballester

We present observational constraints on the solar chromospheric heating contribution from acoustic waves with frequencies between 5 and 50 mHz. We utilize observations from the Dunn Solar Telescope in New Mexico complemented with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Momchil E. Molnar , Kevin P. Reardon , Steven R. Cranmer , Adam F. Kowalski , Yi Chai , Dale Gary