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The \textit{Sun Watcher using Active Pixel system detector and Image Processing}(SWAP) on board the \textit{PRoject for OnBoard Autonomy\todash 2} (PROBA\todash 2) spacecraft provides images of the solar corona in EUV channel centered at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-11 K. Chandrashekhar , S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , B. Ravindra , Daniel B. Seaton

Coronal plumes are narrow, collimated structures that are primarily viewed above the solar poles and in coronal holes in the extreme ultraviolet, but also in sunspots. Open questions remain about plume formation, including the role of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Ayla Weitz , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Gianna Cauzzi , Kevin P. Reardon , Bart De Pontieu

While photospheric magnetic elements appear mainly as Bright Points (BPs) at the disk center and as faculae near the limb, high-resolution images reveal the coexistence of BPs and faculae over a range of heliocentric angles. This is not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 P. Kobel , J. Hirzberger , S. K. Solanki , A. Gandorfer , V. Zakharov

We developed an automated procedure for the identification of transient brightenings in images from the X-ray telescope on-board Hinode taken with an Al Poly filter in the equatorial coronal holes, polar coronal holes, and the quiet Sun…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Subramanian , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle

We performed a systematic study of the Doppler shifts and electron densities measured in an EUV bright point (hereafter BP) observed in more than 10 EUV lines with formation temperatures from log (T/K) p 4.5 to 6.3. Those parts of a BP seen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Hui Tian , Werner Curdt , Eckart Marsch , Jiansen He

The emergence of magnetic flux into the solar atmosphere produces, among other phenomena, Ellerman bombs (EBs), which are observed in H alpha and are due to magnetic reconnection in the photosphere below the chromospheric canopy. Signs of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Ada Ortiz , Viggo H. Hansteen , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Coronal Bright Fronts (CBF) are large-scale wavelike disturbances in the solar corona, related to solar eruptions. They are observed in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light as transient bright fronts of finite width, propagating away from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 K. Kozarev , A. Davey , A. Kendrick , M. Hammer , C. Keith

We report on the properties of coronal loop foot-point heating with observations at the highest resolution, from the CRisp Imaging Spectro-Polarimeter (CRISP) located at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) and co-aligned NASA Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 V. N. Nived , E. Scullion , J. G. Doyle , R. Susino , P. Antolin , D. Spadaro , C. Sasso , S. Sahin , M. Mathioudakis

Coronal jets are ubiquitous, collimated million-degree ejections that contribute to the energy and mass supply of the upper solar atmosphere and the solar wind. Solar Orbiter provides an unprecedented opportunity to observe fine-scale jets…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 D. Nóbrega-Siverio , R. Joshi , E. Sola-Viladesau , D. Berghmans , D. Lim

We investigated mini-filament (MF) eruptions near coronal hole (CH) boundaries to explore their role in coronal dynamics and their potential contributions to the solar wind. Using high-resolution H$\alpha$ images from the 1.6m Goode Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Nengyi Huang , Haimin Wang

In addition to a component of the emission that originates from clearly distinguishable coronal loops, the solar corona also exhibits extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray ambient emission that is rather diffuse and is often considered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-24 Nikolina Milanović , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Hardi Peter

Coronal loops generally trace magnetic lines of force in the upper solar atmosphere. Understanding the loop morphology and its temporal evolution has implications for coronal heating models that rely on plasma heating due to reconnection at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 B. Ram , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal , H. Peter , F. Plaschke

Intensity oscillations of coronal bright points (BPs) have been studied for past several years. It has been known for a while that these BPs are closed magnetic loop like structures. However, initiation of such intensity oscillations is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 K. Chandrashekhar , Aveek Sarkar

Bright small-scale magnetic elements found mainly in intergranular lanes at the solar surface are named bright points (BPs). They show high contrasts in Fraunhofer G-band observations and are described by nearly vertical slender flux tubes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 T. L. Riethmüller , S. K. Solanki

The inference of the magnetic field vector from spectropolarimetric observations is crucial for understanding the physical processes governing the solar corona. We investigate which information on the magnetic fields of coronal bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Ernest Alsina Ballester , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Fernando Moreno-Insertis , Supriya Hebbur Dayananda

Our recent observational study shows that the majority of coronal bright points (CBPs) in the quiet Sun are sources of one or more eruptions during their lifetime. Here, we investigate the non-potential time dependent structure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Klaus Galsgaard , Maria S. Madjarska , Duncan H. Mackay , Chaozhou Mou

We present a comprehensive characterization of 26 CME-driven compressive waves known as Coronal Bright Fronts (CBFs) observed in the low solar corona between 2010 and 2017. These CBFs have been found to be associated with SEP events near…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Mohamed Nedal , Kamen Kozarev , Rositsa Miteva , Oleg Stepanyuk , Momchil Dechev

Coronal plumes are bright magnetic funnels found in quiet regions (QRs) and coronal holes (CHs). They extend high into the solar corona and last from hours to days. The heating processes of plumes involve dynamics of the magnetic field at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Ellis A. Avallone , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Navdeep K. Panesar , Ronald L. Moore , Amy Winebarger

One of the most dramatic manifestations of solar activity are large-scale coronal bright fronts (CBFs) observed in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) images of the solar atmosphere. To date, the energetics and kinematics of CBFs remain poorly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 David M. Long , Peter T. Gallagher , R. T. James McAteer , D. Shaun Bloomfield

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