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The temperature of the solar atmosphere increases from thousands to millions of degrees moving from the lower layer (chromosphere) to the outermost one (corona), while the density drops accordingly. The mechanism behind this phenomenon,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Luca Barbieri , Lapo Casetti , Andrea Verdini , Simone Landi

The solar atmosphere may be heated by Alfven waves that propagate up from the convection zone and dissipate their energy in the chromosphere and corona. To further test this theory, we consider wave heating in an active region observed on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Asgari-Targhi , A. A. van Ballegooijen , S. R. Cranmer , E. E. DeLuca

Extreme-ultraviolet images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory often show looplike fine structure to be present where no minority-polarity flux is visible in magnetograms, suggesting that the rate of ephemeral region (ER) emergence inside…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Y. -M. Wang

The solar atmosphere was traditionally represented with a simple one-dimensional model. Over the past few decades, this paradigm shifted for the chromosphere and corona that constitute the outer atmosphere, which is now considered a dynamic…

How the solar atmosphere is heated from a temperature of about $5,000-6,000$\,K in the lower atmosphere to about $1-2$\,MK in the corona has challenged the astrophysical community for about 80 years. The same puzzle exists for the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Tanmoy Samanta , Guanchong Cheng , Yifu Wang , Robert Erdelyi

The solar atmosphere shows anomalous variation in temperature, starting from the 5500 K photosphere to the million-degree Kelvin corona. The corona itself expands into the interstellar medium as the free streaming solar wind, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Vishal Upendran

We present new measurements of the dependence of the Extreme Ultraviolet radiance on the total magnetic flux in active regions as obtained from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Harry P. Warren , Lisa A. Upton , Peter R. Young

The heating of the lower solar corona is examined using numerical simulations and theoretical models of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in open magnetic regions. A turbulent energy cascade to small length scales perpendicular to the mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Dmitruk , W. H. Matthaeus , L. J. Milano , S. Oughton , G. P. Zank , D. J. Mullan

We report the smallest coronal jets ever observed in the quiet Sun with recent high resolution observations from the High Resolution Telescopes (HRI-EUV and HRI-Ly{\alpha}) of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard Solar Orbiter. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Zhenyong Hou , Hui Tian , David Berghmans , Hechao Chen , Luca Teriaca , Udo Schuhle , Yuhang Gao , Yajie Chen , Jiansen He , Linghua Wang , Xianyong Bai

This work focus on the first results on the identification and characterization of periodic plasma density fluctuations in the outer corona, observed in STEREO-A COR1 white-light image time series. A 2D reconstruction of the spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Telloni , R. Ventura , P. Romano , D. Spadaro , E. Antonucci

At low coronal temperatures around or below 1 MK distinct areas in the surroundings of active regions (AR) show emission at a level significantly below the emission coming from the quiet Sun (QS). These areas are referred to as dark halos,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 J. D. Nölke , S. K. Solanki , J. Hirzberger , H. Peter , L. P. Chitta , K. H. Glassmeier , D. Calchetti , G. Valori

Coronal holes are the darkest and least active regions of the Sun, as observed both on the solar disk and above the solar limb. Coronal holes are associated with rapidly expanding open magnetic fields and the acceleration of the high-speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Steven R. Cranmer

Recent analysis of high-cadence white-light images taken by the Solar-Terrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) near solar maximum has revealed that outflowing density structures are released in an ubiquitous manner in the solar wind. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Léa Griton , Rui F. Pinto , Nicolas Poirier , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Michaël Lavarra , Alexis P. Rouillard

The High Resolution Imager (HRI_EUV) telescope of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter has observed EUV brightenings, so-called campfires, as fine-scale structures at coronal temperatures. The goal of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-18 Krzysztof Barczynski , Karen A. Meyer , Louise K. Harra , Duncan H. Mackay , Frederic Auchere , David Berghmans

The variation of the vector magnetic field along structures in the solar corona remains unmeasured. Using a unique combination of spectropolarimetry and stereoscopy, we infer and compare the vector magnetic field structure and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Thomas A. Schad , Matthew J. Penn , Haosheng Lin , Philip G. Judge

Weak heating events are frequent and ubiquitous in solar corona. They derive their energy from the local magnetic field and form a major source of local heating, signatures of which are seen in EUV and X-ray bands. Their radio emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Atul Mohan , Patrick I. McCauley , Alpha Mastrano , Divya Oberoi

This work consists of two parts: the first devoted to the study of the heating of the magnetically confined Solar Corona, and the second to the acceleration of the Slow Solar Wind. Direct 3D reduced MHD simulations are presented. They model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-13 A. F. Rappazzo

The extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) brightenings identified by Solar Orbiter, commonly known as campfires, are the smallest transient brightenings detected to date outside active regions in the solar corona. We investigate the spatio-temporal…

In this paper, we report the observed temporal correlation between extreme-violet (EUV) emission and magneto-acoustic oscillations in a EUV moss region, which is the footpoint region only connected by magnetic loops with million-degree…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Parida Hashim , Zhenxiang Hong , Haisheng Ji , Jinhua Shen , Kaifan Ji , Wenda Cao

Decaying active region 10942 is investigated from 4:00-16:00 UT on February 24, 2007 using a suite of EUV observing instruments. Results from Hinode/EIS, STEREO and TRACE show that although the active region has decayed and no sunspot is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jason Scott , P. C. H. Martens , David McKenzie