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The first ionization potential (FIP) bias is currently used to trace the propagation of solar features ejected by the wind and solar eruptions (coronal mass ejections). The FIP bias also helps us to understand the formation of prominences,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 S. Parenti , G. Del Zanna , J. -C. Vial

The Solar First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect, where low-FIP elements are enriched in the corona relative to the photosphere, while high-FIP abundances remain unchanged, has been known for a long while. High resolution X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Nordon , E. Behar

The enrichment of coronal loops and the slow solar wind with elements that have low First Ionisation Potential, known as the FIP effect, has often been interpreted as the tracer of a common origin. A current explanation for this FIP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Victor Réville , Alexis P. Rouillard , Marco Velli , Andrea Verdini , Éric Buchlin , Michaël Lavarra , Nicolas Poirier

Plasma composition measurements are a vital tool for the success of current and future solar missions, but density and temperature insensitive spectroscopic diagnostic ratios are sparse, and their underlying accuracy in determining the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Deborah Baker , Sarah A. Matthews , Stephanie L. Yardley

Within the coronae of stars, abundances of those elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) often differ from their photospheric values. The coronae of the Sun and solar-type stars mostly show enhancements of low- FIP elements (the…

The abundances of low First Ionisation Potential (FIP) elements are three to four times higher (FIP bias) in the closed loop active corona than in the photosphere, known as the FIP effect. Observations suggest that the abundances vary in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Lakshitha Nama , Biswajit Mondal , S Narendranath , KT Paul

The composition of the solar corona differs from that of the photosphere, with the plasma thought to fractionate in the solar chromosphere according to the First Ionisation Potential (FIP) of the different elements. This produces a FIP…

Characterizing the plasma state in the near-Sun environment is essential to constrain the mechanisms that heat and accelerate the solar wind. In this study, we use Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations from Encounters 1 through 24 to…

Radiative losses play a critical role in the cooling of plasmas. When chromospheric plasma is sufficiently heated, it can flow into coronal loops which subsequently cool down due to radiation. From observations, we infer that this cooling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Luke Fushimi Benavitz , Jeffrey W. Reep , Lucas A. Tarr , Andy S. H. To

Context: Solar active regions (ARs) are key manifestations of the Sun's magnetic activity, displaying diverse spatial and temporal characteristics. Their formation and evolution play a crucial role in understanding the solar dynamo and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 M. Švanda , J. Jurčák , M. Schmassmann

Ponderomotive acceleration has been asserted to be a cause of the First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect, the by now well known enhancement in abundance by a factor of 3-4 over photospheric values of elements in the solar corona with FIP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 R. B. Dahlburg , J. M. Laming , B. D. Taylor , K. Obenschain

Solar atmospheric elemental abundances are now known to vary both in space and time. Dynamic modeling of these changes is therefore necessary to improve the accuracy of radiative hydrodynamic simulations. Recent studies have shown that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 David H. Brooks , Jeffrey W. Reep , Andy S. H. To , Luke Fushimi Benavitz , Lucas A. Tarr

A key goal of the Solar Orbiter mission is to connect elemental abundance measurements of the solar wind enveloping the spacecraft with EUV spectroscopic observations of their solar sources, but this is not an easy exercise. Observations…

One puzzling question in solar physics is the difference between elemental abundances in the photosphere and the corona. Elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) can be overabundant in the corona compared to the photosphere under…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Bálint Seli , Levente Kriskovics , Krisztián Vida

Many jets are detected at X-ray wavelengths in the Sun's polar regions, and the ejected plasma along the jets has been suggested to contribute mass to the fast solar wind. From in-situ measurements in the magnetosphere, it has been found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Kyoung-Sun Lee , David H. Brooks , Shinsuke Imada

Sixty years ago the first observation was published showing solar energetic particles (SEPs) with a sampling of chemical elements. Thus began study of the direct products of dynamic physics in the solar corona. As we have progressed from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-19 Donald V. Reames

The Mg/Ne abundance ratio in the quiet Sun is measured in both network and supergranule cell centre regions through EUV spectra from the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer on SOHO. Twenty four sets of data over the period 1996 March to 1998…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. R. Young

Element abundance ratios of magnesium to neon (Mg/Ne) and neon to oxygen (Ne/O) in the transition region of the quiet Sun have been derived by re-assessing previously published data from the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer on board the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Peter R. Young

(Abridged) We present results of XMM-Newton observations of the RS CVn binary $\sigma^2$ Coronae Borealis. The RGS and EPIC MOS2 spectra were simultaneously fitted with collisional ionization equilibrium plasma models to determine coronal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. A. Suh , M. Audard , M. Guedel , F. B. S. Paerels

The elemental composition of the solar wind differs from the solar photospheric composition. Elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) appear enhanced compared to O in the solar wind relative to the respective photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Verena Heidrich-Meisner , Lars Berger , Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber