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Solar rotational tomography (SRT) applied to white-light coronal images observed at multiple aspect angles has been the preferred approach for determining the three-dimensional (3D) electron density structure of the solar corona. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-04 Didier Vibert , Christelle Peillon , Philippe Lamy , Richard A. Frazin , Julien Wojak

Measurement of the coronal magnetic field is a crucial ingredient in understanding the nature of solar coronal phenomena at all scales. We employed STEREO/COR1 data obtained during a deep minimum of solar activity in February 2008…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-06 M. Kramar , V. Airapetian , Z. Mikić , J. Davila

Measurement of the coronal magnetic field is a crucial ingredient in understanding the nature of solar coronal dynamic phenomena at all scales. We employ STEREO/COR1 data obtained near maximum of solar activity in December 2012 (Carrington…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-05 Maxim Kramar , Vladimir Airapetian , Haosheng Lin

This is the second of a series of three papers that present a methodology with the aim of creating a set of maps of the coronal density over a period of many years. This paper describes a method for reconstructing the coronal electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Huw Morgan

Knowledge of the electron density distribution in the solar corona put constraints on the magnetic field configurations for coronal modeling and on initial conditions for solar wind modeling. We work with polarized SOHO/LASCO-C2 images from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Judith de Patoul , Claire Foullon , Pete Riley

Tomography of the solar corona can provide cruicial constraints for models of the low corona, unique information on changes in coronal structure and rotation rates, and a valuable boundary condition for models of the heliospheric solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-11 Huw Morgan

Three dimensional electron density distributions in the solar corona are reconstructed for 100 Carrington Rotations (CR 2054$-$2153) during 2007/03$-$2014/08 using the spherically symmetric method from polarized white-light observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-25 Tongjiang Wang , Nelson L. Reginald , Joseph M. Davila , O. Chris St. Cyr , William T. Thompson

A discrete tomography method has been developed that is able to reconstruct three-dimensional coronal mass ejection (CME) density structure. We test the method by producing synthetic coronagraph imagery for three events using the…

This article presents the first direct "observation" of the global-scale, 3D coronal magnetic fields of Carrington Rotation (CR) Cycle 2112 using vector tomographic inversion techniques. The Vector tomographic inversion uses observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-18 M. Kramar , H. Lin , S. Tomczyk

We present a new method to reconstruct the three-dimensional electron density of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) based on a genetic algorithm, namely the genetic reconstruction method (GRM). GRM is first applied to model CMEs with different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Xinghua Dai , Huaning Wang , Bernd Inhester

Determination of the coronal electron density by the inversion of white-light polarized brightness (pB) measurements by coronagraphs is a classic problem in solar physics. An inversion technique based on the spherically symmetric geometry…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-30 Tongjiang Wang , Joseph M. Davila

The space mission STEREO will provide images from two viewpoints. An important aim of the STEREO mission is to get a 3D view of the solar corona. We develop a program for the stereoscopic reconstruction of 3D coronal loops from images taken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Wiegelmann , Bernd Inhester

The "Frequency-Agile Solar Radiotelescope" (FASR) litteraly opens up a new dimension in addition to the 3D Euclidian geometry: the frequency dimension. The 3D geometry is degenerated to 2D in all images from astronomical telescopes, but the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Markus J. Aschwanden , David Alexander , Marc DeRosa

The very sharp decrease of density with heliocentric distance makes imaging of coronal density structures out to a few solar radii challenging. The radial gradient in brightness can be reduced using numerous image processing techniques,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Huw Morgan , Shadia Rifai Habbal , Richard Woo

We undertake a first attempt towards a consistent reconstruction of the coronal magnetic field and the coronal density structure. We consider a stationary solar corona which has to obey the equations of magnetohydrostatics. We solve these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Wiegelmann , B. Inhester

I report on validation and testing of a novel 3D reconstruction method than can obtain coronal plasma properties from a single snapshot perspective. I first reported on the method in 2021, and I have since named it the Coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Joseph Plowman

We carry out a study of the global three-dimensional (3D) structure of the electron density and temperature of the quiescent inner solar corona ($r<1.25 R_\odot$) by means of tomographic reconstructions and magnetohydrodynamic simulations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 D. G. Lloveras , A. M. Vásquez , F. A. Nuevo , C. Mac Cormack , N. Sachdeva , W. Manchester , B. Van der Holst , R. A. Frazin

This work is aimed at quantifying the uncertainties in the 3D reconstruction of the location of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) obtained with the polarization ratio technique. The method takes advantage of the different distributions along…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 Alessandro Bemporad , Paolo Pagano

To understand its evolution and the effects of its eruptive events, the Sun is permanently monitored by multiple satellite missions. The optically-thin emission of the solar plasma and the limited number of viewpoints make it challenging to…

Understanding the 3D structure of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is crucial for understanding the nature and origin of solar eruptions. To derive information on the 3D structure of CMEs from white-light (total and polarized brightness)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Paolo Pagano , Alessandro Bemporad , Duncan Mackay
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