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Coronal Bright Points (CBPs) are ubiquitous structures in the solar atmosphere composed of hot small-scale loops observed in EUV or X-Rays in the quiet Sun and coronal holes. They are key elements to understand the heating of the corona;…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 D. Nóbrega-Siverio , F. Moreno-Insertis

Context. The solar corona maintains temperatures of a million Kelvin or more. The plasma heating mechanisms responsible for these extreme temperatures are still unclear. Large regions of magnetic activity in the photosphere cause extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 I. Kraus , Ph. -A. Bourdin , J. Zender , M. Bergmann , A. Hanslmeier

Coronal Bright Points (CBPs) are sets of small-scale coronal loops, connecting opposite magnetic polarities, primarily characterized by their enhanced extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray emission. Being ubiquitous, they are thought to play…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Souvik Bose , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Bart De Pontieu , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Context. The corona of the Sun is the part of the solar atmosphere with temperatures of over one million Kelvin, which needs to be heated internally in order to exist. This heating mechanism remains a mystery; we see large magnetically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 I. Kraus , Ph. -A. Bourdin , J. Zender , M. Bergmann , A. Hanslmeier

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

Coronal bright points (CBPs) as characteristics of the solar corona are small-scale bright features ubiquitously observed at extreme ultraviolet passbands. Here, we focused on time series of CBPs in the periods of their lifetimes. We used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-25 Mahdieh Mehrabian , Bardia Kaki , Yusefali Abedini

We investigate the chromospheric counterpart of small-scale coronal loops constituting a coronal bright point (CBP) and its response to a photospheric magnetic-flux increase accompanied by co-temporal CBP heating. We used co-observations…

A single case study of a CBP in an equatorial coronal hole with an exceptionally large size is investigated to extend our understanding of the formation of mini-filaments, their destabilisation and the origin of the eruption triggering the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Maria S. Madjarska , Klaus Galsgaard , Duncan H. Mackay , Kostadinka Koleva , Momchil Dechev

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

Coronal bright points (BPs) are numerous, bright, small-scale dynamical features found in the solar corona. Bright points have been observed to exhibit intensity oscillations across a wide range of periodicities and are likely an important…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Brad Ramsey , Erwin Verwichte , Huw Morgan

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

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

The evolution of a coronal loop is studied by means of numerical simulations of the fully compressible three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations using the HYPERION code. The footpoints of the loop magnetic field are advected by random…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , B. D. Taylor , I. Ugarte-Urra , H. P. Warren , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli

Coronal bright points (CBPs) are small-scale and long-duration brightenings in the lower solar corona. They are often explained in terms of magnetic reconnection. We aim to study the sub-structures of a CBP and clarify the relationship…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Q. M. Zhang , P. F. Chen , M. D. Ding , H. S. Ji

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

Coronal bright points (BPs) are small-scale luminous features seen in the solar corona. Quasi-periodic brightenings are frequently observed in the BPs and are generally linked with underneath magnetic flux changes. We study the dynamics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Tanmoy Samanta , Dipankar Banerjee , Hui Tian

An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) close-up view of the Sun offers unprecedented detail of heating events in the solar corona. Enhanced temporal and spatial images obtained by the Solar Orbiter during its first science perihelion enabled us to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , L. P. Chitta , Huidong Hu , Xiaowei Zhao

The heating of the solar corona and the puzzle of the slender high reaching magnetic loops seen in observations from the Transition Region And Coronal Explorer(TRACE) has been investigated through 3D numerical simulations, and found to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris V. Gudiksen , Aake Nordlund

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

Coronal bright points (CBP) are ubiquitous small brightenings in the solar corona associated with small magnetic bipoles. We derive the solar differential rotation profile by tracing the motions of CBPs detected by the Atmospheric Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-25 Davor Sudar , Ivica Skokić , Roman Brajša , Steven H. Saar
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