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Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) coronal dimmings are often observed in response to solar eruptive events. These phenomena can be generated via several different physical processes. For space weather, the most important of these is the temporary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 James Paul Mason , Thomas N. Woods , David F. Webb , Barbara J. Thompson , Robin C. Colaninno , Angelos Vourlidas

Coronal loops serve as the fundamental building blocks of the solar corona. Therefore, comprehending their properties is essential in unraveling the dynamics of the Sun's upper atmosphere. In this study, we conduct a comparative analysis of…

Context. Coronal loops are the basic building blocks of the solar corona, which are related to the mass supply and heating of solar plasmas in the corona. However, their fundamental magnetic structures are still not well understood. Most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Dong Li , Ding Yuan , Marcel Goossens , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Wei Su , Ya Wang , Yang Su , Zongjun Ning

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are often accompanied by coronal dimming evident in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft X-ray observations. The locations of dimming are sometimes considered to map footpoints of the erupting flux rope. As the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 J. X. Cheng , J. Qiu

The perplexing mystery of what maintains the solar coronal temperature at about a million K, while the visible disc of the Sun is only at 5800 K, has been a long standing problem in solar physics. A recent study by Mondal(2020) has provided…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Shabbir Bawaji , Ujjaini Alam , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi

Strong EUV lineshifts in solar spectra are generally indicative of highly dynamic and explosive events that are easily detected in comparable-wavelength EUV images, with the strongest such line shifts (several 100 km/s) occurring in solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Alphonse C. Sterling , Louise K. Harra , Navdeep K. Panesar , Ronald L. Moore

Observations with the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) have shown the Coma Cluster to be a source of EUV emission in excess of that produced by X-ray gas in the cluster. We have re-examined the EUVE data on this cluster in an attempt to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart Bowyer , Eric J. Korpela , Michael Lampton , T. W. Jones

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

So far most studies on the structure of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are conducted through white-light coronagraphs, which demonstrate about one third of CMEs exhibit the typical three-part structure in the high corona (e.g., beyond 2 Rs),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 H. Q. Song , J. Zhang , L. P. Li , Y. D. Liu , B. Zhu , B. Wang , R. S. Zheng , Y. Chen

Coronal holes are regions on the Sun's surface that map the foot-prints of open magnetic field lines. We have developed an automated routine to detect and track boundaries of long-lived coronal holes using full-disk EUV images obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Chris Lowder , Jiong Qiu , Robert Leamon , Yang Liu

The solar corona is full of dynamic phenomena, e.g., solar flares, micro flares in active regions, jets in coronal holes and in the polar regions, X-ray bright points in quiet regions, etc. They are accompanied by interesting physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Shin-nosuke Ishikawa , Tomoko Kawate , Shinsuke Imada , Taro Sakao

The discovery of ubiquitous low-frequency (3-5mHz) Alfvenic waves in the solar chromosphere (with Hinode/SOT), and corona (with CoMP and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO) has provided some insight into the non-thermal energy content of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Scott W. McIntosh , Bart De Pontieu

Type-I bursts (i.e. noise storms) are the earliest-known type of solar radio emission at the metre wavelength. They are believed to be excited by non-thermal energetic electrons accelerated in the corona. The underlying dynamic process and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Chuanyang Li , Yao Chen , Bing Wang , Guiping Ruan , Shiwei Feng , Guohui Du , Xiangliang Kong

We address the nature of EUV waves through direct observations of the formation of a diffuse wave driven by the expansion of a coronal mass ejection (CME) and its subsequent separation from the CME front. The wave and the CME on 2011 June 7…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , O. Olmedo , A. Vourlidas , M. D. Ding , Y. Liu

Spectroscopic diagnostics of solar coronal plasmas critically depends on the uncertainty in the measured line intensities. One of the main sources of uncertainty is instrumental scattered light, which is potentially most important in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Carolyn Wendeln , Enrico Landi

It is generally accepted that densities of quiet sun and active region plasma are sufficiently low to justify the optically thin approximation, and it is commonly used in the analysis of line emissions from plasma in the solar corona.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Edward Thiemann , Phillip Chamberlin , Francis Eparvier , Luke Epp

Coronal condensation and rain are a crucial part of the mass cycle between the corona and chromosphere. In some cases, condensation and subsequent rain originate in the magnetic dips formed during magnetic reconnection. This provides a new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Leping Li , Hardi Peter , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Hongqiang Song

The origin of the solar wind is one of the most important unresolved prob- lems in space and solar physics. We report here the first spectroscopic signatures of the nascent fast solar wind on the basis of observations made by the EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-12 H. Tian , C. -Y. Tu , E. Marsch , J. -S. He , S. Kamio

We present observations of the formation, propagation and decay of vortex- shaped features in coronal images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) associated with an eruption starting at about 2:30UT on Apr 8, 2010. The series of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Leon Ofman , Barbara J. Thompson

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