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Elemental abundances in the solar corona and solar wind are often observed to differ from those in the solar photosphere, most commonly showing an enhancement of low first ionization-potential (FIP) elements (the FIP effect). The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Paola Testa , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Bart De Pontieu , Alberto Sainz Dalda , David Long , Deborah Baker , David H. Brooks

Why the tenuous solar outer atmosphere, or corona, is much hotter than the underlying layers remains one of the greatest challenge for solar modeling. Detailed diagnostics of the coronal thermal structure come from extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Gregory Fleishman , Sophie Musset , Véronique Bommier , Lindsay Glesener

The different elemental abundances of the photosphere and the corona are striking features of not only the Sun, but other stars as well. This phenomenon is known as the FIP effect (FIP stands for first ionization potential), and its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 B. Seli , K. Oláh , L. Kriskovics , Zs. Kővári , K. Vida , L. G. Balázs , J. M. Laming , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , D. Baker

The EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on the Hinode satellite is capable of measuring emission line center positions for Gaussian line profiles to a fraction of a spectral pixel, resulting in relative solar Doppler-shift measurements with an…

Context: Studying the problem of active region heating requires precise measurements of physical plasma parameters such as electron density, temperature etc. It is also important to understand the relationship of coronal structures with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Tripathi , H. E. Mason , P. R. Young , G. Del Zanna

We find that the element abundances in solar energetic particles (SEPs) and in the slow solar wind (SSW), relative to those in the photosphere, show different patterns as a function of the first ionization potential (FIP) of the elements.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-13 Donald V. Reames

Using spectra obtained by the EIS instrument onboard Hinode, we present a detailed spatially resolved abundance map of an active region (AR)-coronal hole (CH) complex that covers an area of 359 arcsec x 485 arcsec. The abundance map…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Baker , D. H. Brooks , P. Demoulin , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , L. M. Green , K. Steed , J. Carlyle

The chemical composition of the solar corona is different from that of the solar photosphere, with the strongest variation being observed in active regions (ARs). Using data from the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on…

We use coronal imaging observations with SDO/AIA, and Hinode/EIS spectral data, to explore the potential of narrow band EUV imaging data for diagnosing the presence of hot (T >~5MK) coronal plasma in active regions. We analyze observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Paola Testa , Fabio Reale

Plasma composition in the solar corona commonly differs from that of the photosphere, with the enhancement of low--first-ionization-potential (FIP) elements referred to as the FIP effect. This phenomenon provides important diagnostics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Man-Hei Ng , Xiaoping Zhang , P. F. Chen

We review our state of knowledge of coronal element abundance anomalies in the Sun and stars. We concentrate on the first ionization potential (FIP) effect observed in the solar corona and slow-speed wind, and in the coronae of solar-like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 J. Martin Laming

We revisit in more detail a model for element abundance fractionation in the solar chromosphere, that gives rise to the "FIP Effect" in the solar corona and wind. Elements with first ionization potential below about 10 eV, i.e. those that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 J. Martin Laming

The Integrated Science Investigations of the Sun (IS$\odot$IS) instrument suite includes two Energetic Particle instruments: EPI-Hi, designed to measure ions from ~1-200 MeV/nuc, and EPI-Lo, designed to measure ions from ~20 keV/nuc to ~15…

Sulphur, with a first ionisation potential (FIP) of 10.36 eV, lies at the boundary between low- and high-FIP elements, making it particularly sensitive to fractionation processes in the solar atmosphere. Sulphur exhibits variable behaviour…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Dominik Orlovskij , Andy S. H. To , David M. Long

The element abundances in the solar corona and solar wind are often different from those of the solar photosphere, typically with a relative enrichment of elements with low first ionization potential (FIP effect). Here we study the spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Paola Testa , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Bart De Pontieu

The extreme ultraviolet portion of the solar spectrum contains a wealth of diagnostic tools for probing the lower solar atmosphere in response to an injection of energy, particularly during the impulsive phase of solar flares. These include…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Ryan O. Milligan

Observations of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) are an efficient remote-sensing method to study the solar wind and inner heliosphere. From 2016 to 2018, some distinctive observations of IPS sources like 3C 286 and 3C 279 were…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Li-Jia Liu , Bo Peng , Lei Yu , Ye-Zhao Yu , Ji-Guang Lu , Bin Liu , O. Chang , M. M. Bisi , FAST Collaboration

We report measurements of a polar coronal hole during the recent solar minimum using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer on Hinode. Five observations are analyzed that span the polar coronal hole from the central meridian to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Hahn , P. Bryans , E. Landi , M. P. Miralles , D. W. Savin

The first simultaneous observations of the Fe XVIII 974.86 {\AA} and Fe XX 721.56 {\AA} forbidden lines from the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) spectrograph on Solar Orbiter are presented. The lines were observed from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 Peter R. Young , Andrew R. Inglis , Graham S. Kerr , Therese A. Kucera , Daniel F. Ryan

A preliminary assessment of the in-flight radiometric calibration of the Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) is presented. This is done with the line ratio technique applied to a wide range of observations of the quiet Sun, active regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Del Zanna