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To explain the high temperature of the corona, much attention has been paid to the distribution of energy in dissipation events. Indeed, if the event energy distribution is steep enough, the smallest, unobservable events could be the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Vincent Joulin , Éric Buchlin , Jacques Solomon , Chloé Guennou

Coronal bright fronts (CBFs) are large scale wavefronts that propagate though the solar corona at hundreds of kilometers per second. While their kinematics have been studied in detail, many questions remain regarding the temporal evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 David M. Long , Edward E. DeLuca , Peter T. Gallagher

Context. It is possible to detect and track coronal bright points (CBPs) in SDO/AIA images. Combination of high resolution and high cadence provides a wealth of data that can be used to determine velocity flows on the solar surface with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Davor Sudar , Steven H. Saar , Ivica Skokić , Ivana Poljančić Beljan , Roman Brajša

Context. The solar corona is heated to high temperatures of the order of 10^{6} K. The coronal energy budget and specifically possible mechanisms of coronal heating (wave, DC-electric fields, ..) are poorly understood. This is particularly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Javadi , J. Buechner , A. Otto , J. C. Santos

Understanding the global rotational profile of the solar atmosphere and its variation is fundamental to uncovering a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of the solar magnetic field and the extent of coupling between different layers…

The Sun's corona is millions of degrees hotter than its 5,000 K photosphere. This heating enigma is typically addressed by invoking the deposition at coronal heights of non-thermal energy generated by the interplay between convection and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Bart De Pontieu , Scott W. McIntosh , Viggo H. Hansteen , Carolus J. Schrijver

Since their discovery twenty year ago, transition region bright points (TRBPs) have never been observed spectroscopically. Bright point properties have not been compared with similar transition region and coronal structures. In this work we…

What physical mechanisms heat the outer solar or stellar atmosphere to million-Kelvin temperatures is a fundamental but long-standing open question. In particular, the solar corona in active region cores contains an even hotter component…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Zekun Lu , Feng Chen , M. D. Ding , Can Wang , Yu Dai , Xin Cheng

Polar brightening (PB) observed at microwave frequencies serves as an important probe to study the thermal and magnetic properties in the Sun's polar regions. Building on earlier studies that linked microwave PB to polar faculae,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Rohan Bose , Anshu Kumari , Vaibhav Pant , Srinjana Routh , Divya Paliwal , M. V. Sunil Krishna

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

Bright points (BPs) are ubiquitous, small-scale energetic events with multithermal signatures, typically observed in the chromosphere and linked to both photospheric structure and coronal composition. Their evolution is influenced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Llŷr Humphries , Huw Morgan , David Kuridze

The heating of the solar chromosphere and corona to the observed high temperatures, imply the presence of ongoing heating that balances the strong radiative and thermal conduction losses expected in the solar atmosphere. It has been…

Condensations in the more than 10^6 K hot corona of the Sun are commonly observed in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV). While their contribution to the total solar EUV radiation is still a matter of debate, these condensations certainly provide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-06 H. Peter , S. Bingert , S. Kamio

Coronal density, temperature and heat flux distributions for the equatorial and polar corona have been deduced by Lemaire [2012] from Saito's model of averaged coronal white light (WL) brightness and polarization observations. They are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Pierrard , K. Borremans , J. F. Lemaire

Coronal holes are large-scale structures in the solar atmosphere that feature a reduced temperature and density in comparison to the surrounding quiet Sun and are usually associated with open magnetic fields. We perform a differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-01 Stephan G. Heinemann , Jonas Saqri , Astrid M. Veronig , Stefan J. Hofmeister , Manuela Temmer

Bright points (BPs) in the solar photosphere are radiative signatures of magnetic elements described by slender flux tubes located in the darker intergranular lanes. They contribute to the ultraviolet (UV) flux variations over the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-11 T. L. Riethmüller , S. K. Solanki , S. V. Berdyugina , M. Schüssler , V. Martínez Pillet , A. Feller , A. Gandorfer , J. Hirzberger

It is largely agreed that many coronal loops---those observed at a temperature of about 1 MK--- are bundles of unresolved strands that are heated by storms of impulsive nanoflares. The nature of coronal heating in hotter loops and in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nicholeen M. Viall , James A. Klimchuk

The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Sergey A. Anfinogentov

Dynamic fibrils (DFs) are commonly observed chromospheric features in solar active regions. Recent observations from the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) aboard the Solar Orbiter have revealed unambiguous signatures of DFs at the coronal…

Observing the Sun at high time and spatial scales is a step towards understanding the finest and fundamental scales of heating events in the solar corona. The Hi-C instrument has provided the highest spatial and temporal resolution images…