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Previous estimates of the solar flare abundances of Si, S, Cl, Ar, and K from the RESIK X-ray crystal spectrometer on board the CORONAS-F spacecraft were made on the assumption of isothermal X-ray emission. We investigate the effect on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 B. Sylwester , J. Sylwester , K. J. H. Phillips , A. Kepa , T. Mrosek

Our aim is to determine the dominant processes and timescales for the ionisation equilibrium of calcium under solar chromospheric conditions. The study is based on numerical simulations with the RADYN code, which includes hydrodynamics,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm , Mats Carlsson

The First Ionization Potential (FIP) bias, whereby elemental abundances for low FIP elements in different coronal structures vary from their photospheric values and may also vary with time, has been widely studied. In order to study the…

The Bent Crystal Spectrometer (BCS) on the NASA Solar Maximum Mission spacecraft observed the X-ray spectra of numerous solar flares during the periods 1980 February to November and 1984~--~1989. The instrument, the first of its kind to use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 J. Sylwester , B. Sylwester , K. J. H. Phillips , A. Kepa , C. G. Rapley

(Abridged) Extremely metal-poor stars contain the fossil records of the chemical composition of the early Galaxy. The NLTE profiles of the calcium lines were computed in a sample of 53 extremely metal-poor stars with a modified version of…

Context. Departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) distort the calcium abundance derived from stellar spectra in various ways, depending on the lines used and the stellar atmospheric parameters. The collection of atomic data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Y. Osorio , K. Lind , P. S. Barklem , C. Allende Prieto , Oleg Zatsarinny

The homogeneous data sets for the calcium and scandium abundances accounting for departures from LTE were obtained for a sample of 54 metallic-line (Am) stars. The Ca and Sc abundances were found to correlate with effective temperature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 L. I. Mashonkina , Yu. A. Fadeyev

We have investigated the abundance of calcium in early-type galaxies by measuring the strength of the Ca I 4227 absorption line in their integrated spectra. The database used is the large sample of early-type galaxy integrated spectra in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 L. C. Prochaska , James A. Rose , Ricardo P. Schiavon

Understanding how elemental abundances evolve during solar flares helps shed light on the mass and energy transfer between different solar atmospheric layers. However, prior studies have mostly concentrated on averaged abundances or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Man-Hei Ng , Chi-Long Tang , Xiaoping Zhang , Kuan-Vai Tam , Peng-Fei Chen , Wudong Dong , Jing Li , Chi-Pui Tang

The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL) is a large empirical stellar library used as a benchmark for the development of stellar population models. The inclusion of $\alpha$-elements abundances is crucial to disentangling the chemical evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-19 Pablo Santos-Peral , Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez , Alexandre Vazdekis , Pedro A. Palicio

Solar flares exhibit complex variations in elemental abundances compared to photospheric values. We examine the spatial and temporal evolution of coronal abundances in the X8.2 flare on 2017 September 10, aiming to interpret the often…

We use a large grid of photoionization models that are representative of observed planetary nebulae (PNe) to derive ionization correction factors (ICFs) for sodium, potassium, and calcium. In addition to the analytical expressions of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Alexia Amayo , Gloria Delgado-Inglada , Jorge García-Rojas

We use ACE/SWICS elemental composition data to compare the variations in solar wind fractionation as measured by SWICS during the last solar maximum (1999-2001), the solar minimum (2006-2009) and the period in which the Genesis spacecraft…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 P. Pilleri , D. B. Reisenfeld , T. H. Zurbuchen , S. T. Lepri , P. Shearer , J. A. Gilbert , R. von Steiger , R. C. Wiens

Archived high-resolution X-ray spectra in the 13~\AA\ to 22~\AA\ range from the Flat Crystal Spectrometer (FCS), an instrument on the Solar Maximum Mission operating in the 1980s, are analyzed with reference to nonflaring active regions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Kenneth J. H. Phillips , Barbara Sylwester , Janusz Sylwester

Since the advent of X-ray and EUV spectroscopy, the discovery of the First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect--where coronal elemental compositions diverge from their photospheric values based on the element's FIP--has remained a key puzzle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Biswajit Mondal , Amy R. Winebarger

We present and discuss the strong correspondence between evolution of the emission length scale in the lower transition region and in situ measurements of the fast solar wind composition during this most recent solar minimum. We combine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Scott W. McIntosh , Kandace K. Kiefer , Robert J. Leamon , Justin C. Kasper , Michael S. Stevens

The short-lived $^{26}$Al and $^{60}$Fe radionuclides are synthesized and expelled in the interstellar medium by core-collapse supernova events. The solar system's first solids, calcium-aluminium refractory inclusions (CAIs), contain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Michael Kuffmeier , Troels Frostholm Mogensen , Troels Haugboelle , Martin Bizzarro , Aake Nordlund

A high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic observation was made of the RS CVn-type binary star HR 1099 using the Resolve instrument onboard XRISM for its calibration purposes. During the $\sim$400 ks telescope time covering 1.5 binary orbit, a…

We have been using the 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) at Lick Observatory to optically monitor a sample of 157 blazars that are bright in gamma rays, being detected with high significance ($\ge 10\sigma$) in one year by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-27 Daniel P. Cohen , Roger W. Romani , Alexei V. Filippenko , S. Bradley Cenko , Benoit Lott , WeiKang Zheng , Weidong Li

Monte Carlo calculations of the O Kalpha line fluoresced by coronal X-rays and emitted just above the temperature minimum region of the solar atmosphere have been employed to investigate the use of this feature as an abundance diagnostic.…

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