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Understanding the evolution of the complex magnetic fields found in solar active regions is an active area of research. There are numerous models for such fields which range in their complexity due to the number of known physical effects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Oliver Rice , Christopher Prior

Magnetic waves are a relevant component in the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Their significance has increased because of their potential as a remote diagnostic tool and their presumed contribution to plasma heating processes. We discuss…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 I. Arregui

A theory for the heating of coronal magnetic flux ropes is developed. The dissipated magnetic energy has two distinct contributions: (1) energy injected into the corona as a result of granule-scale, random footpoint motions, and (2) energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. A. van Ballegooijen , S. R. Cranmer

We present a comprehensive radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the quiet Sun and large solar active regions. The 197 Mm wide simulation domain spans from 18 (10) Mm beneath the photosphere to 113 Mm in the solar corona. Radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Feng Chen , Matthias Rempel , Yuhong Fan

We discuss the evolution of solar coronal element abundances over an active region lifetime. Magneto-convection drives the complexity of magnetic fields that emerge above the photosphere. This complexity is dissipated, together with that of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 David H. Brooks , Deborah Baker , David M. Long. Paola Testa , Harry P. Warren

Increasing evidence for coronal heating contributions from cooler solar atmospheric layers, notably quiet Sun (QS) conditions, challenges standard solar atmospheric descriptions of bright transition region (TR) emission. As such, questions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 N. Brice Orange , David L. Chesny , Hakeem M. Oluseyi

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

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 outer solar atmosphere, the corona, contains plasma at temperatures of more than a million K, more than 100 times hotter that solar surface. How this gas is heated is a fundamental question tightly interwoven with the structure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-07 F. Chen , H. Peter , S. Bingert , M. C. M. Cheung

It is essential that there be coordinated and co-optimized observations in X-rays, gamma-rays, and EUV during the peak of solar cycle 26 (~2036) to significantly advance our understanding of impulsive energy release in the corona. The open…

The X-ray emission from the Sun reveals a very dynamic hot atmosphere, the corona, which is characterized by a complex morphology and broad range of timescales of variability and spatial structuring. The solar magnetic fields play a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-09 Paola Testa , Fabio Reale

Recent imaging observations of EUV line emissions have shown evidence for frequent flare-like events in a majority of the pixels in quiet regions of the solar corona. The changes in coronal emission measure indicate impulsive heating of new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arnold O. Benz , Sam Krucker

Recent measurements of quiet Sun heating events by Krucker and Benz (1998) give strong support to Parker's (1988) hypothesis that small scale dissipative events make the main contribution to the quiet heating. Moreover, combining their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Podladchikova , T. Dudok de Wit , V. Krasnoselskikh , B. Lefebvre

We model a coronal loop as a three-dimensional magnetic cylinder in a realistic solar atmosphere that extends from the chromosphere to the corona. Kink oscillations, believed ubiquitous in the solar corona, are launched in the loop. Heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Mingzhe Guo , Timothy Duckenfield , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Konstantinos Karampelas , Gabriel Pelouze , Yuhang gao

Observations of the coronae of the Sun and of solar-like stars provide complementary information to advance our understanding of stellar magnetic activity, and of the processes leading to the heating of their outer atmospheres. While solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Paola Testa , Steve Saar , Jeremy Drake

We investigate the evolution of coronal loop emission in the context of the coronal magnetic field topology. New modeling techniques allow us to investigate the magnetic field structure and energy release in active regions. Using these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. -Y. Lee , Graham Barnes , K. D. Leka , Katharine K. Reeves , K. E. Korreck , L. Golub , E. E. DeLuca

The content of coronal material in the quiet Sun is not constant as soft X-ray and high-temperature EUV line observations have shown. New material, probably heated and evaporated from the chromosphere is occasionally injected even in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnold O. Benz , Sam Krucker

This paper is the third in a series of papers working towards the construction of a realistic, evolving, non-linear force-free coronal field model for the solar magnetic carpet. Here, we present preliminary results of 3D time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 K. A. Meyer , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen , C. E. Parnell

The photospheric magnetic field vector is continuously derived from measurements, while reconstruction of the three-dimensional (3D) coronal magnetic field requires modelling with photospheric measurements as a boundary condition. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 I. Chifu , B. Inhester , T. Wiegelmann

Solar Coronal Heating is a Nonlinear Quantum Mechanical Phenomenon. Corona is a powerful source of X-rays and ionisations & emissions of such radiations are quantum mechanical and levels are highly unstable to order of femto-seconds. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-28 Antony Soosaleon