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Coronal loops serve as the fundamental building blocks of the solar corona. Therefore, comprehending their properties is essential in unraveling the dynamics of the Sun's upper atmosphere. In this study, we conduct a comparative analysis of…

A detailed analysis of a coronal loop oscillation event is presented, using data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) for the first time. The loop oscillation event occurred on 2010 Oct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Markus J. Aschwanden , Carolus J. Schrijver

Coronal loops are plasma structures in the solar atmosphere with temperatures reaching millions of Kelvin, shaped and sustained by the magnetic field. However, their morphology and fundamental nature remain subjects of debate. By studying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 N. Vasantharaju , H. Peter , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal

The driving and excitation mechanisms of decay-less kink oscillations in coronal loops remain under debate. We aim to quantify and provide simple observational constraints on the photospheric driving of oscillating coronal loops in a few…

The theoretical expectation that coronal loops should expand with height contrasts with observations that typically show constant cross-sections. We investigate the idea that this discrepancy results from loops being composed of fine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren

Solar microflares are ubiquitous in the solar corona, yet their driving mechanisms remain a subject of ongoing debate. Using high-resolution coronal observations from the Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), we identified about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Qingmei Wang , Yi Bi , Hongfei Liang , Jiayan Yang , Liufan Gong

We study here the phenomena of decayless kink oscillations in a system of active region (AR) coronal loops. Using high resolution observations from two different instruments, namely the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board Solar…

We investigate the traveling kink oscillation triggered by a solar flare on 2022 September 29. The observational data is mainly measured by the Solar Upper Transition Region Imager (SUTRI), the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Dong Li , Xianyong Bai , Hui Tian , Jiangtao Su , Zhenyong Hou , Yuanyong Deng , Kaifan Ji , Zongjun Ning

Solar extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) waves generally refer to large-scale disturbances propagating outward from sites of solar eruptions in EUV imaging observations. Using the recent observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Zheng Sun , Hui Tian , P. F. Chen , Shuo Yao , Zhenyong Hou , Hechao Chen , Linjie Chen

A coronal loop of 290~Mm length, observed at 171~\AA\ with SDO/AIA on February 6th 2024 near AR 13571, is found to oscillate with two significantly different oscillation periods, $48.8 \pm 6.1$~min and $4.8\pm 0.3$~min. The oscillations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Sihui Zhong , Valery M. Nakariakov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov

Drift pairs are an unusual type of fine structure sometimes observed in dynamic spectra of solar radio emission. They appear as two identical short narrowband drifting stripes separated in time; both positive and negative frequency drifts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Alexey Kuznetsov , Eduard Kontar

Decayless kink oscillations of an ensemble of loops are captured simultaneously by the High Resolution Imager (HRI) of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) from 22:58 UT on 5 November to 00:27 UT…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Sihui Zhong , Valery M. Nakariakov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Cis Verbeeck , David Berghmans

In-situ measurements by several spacecraft have revealed that the solar wind is frequently perturbed by transient structures (magnetic folds, jets, waves, flux-ropes) that propagate rapidly away from the Sun over large distances. Parker…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 R. F. Pinto , N. Poirier , A. P. Rouillard , A. Kouloumvakos , L. Griton , N. Fargette , R. Kieokaew , B. Lavraud , A. S. Brun

The understanding of the solar magnetic coronal structure is tightly linked to the shape of open field regions, specifically coronal holes. A dynamically evolving coronal hole coincides with the local restructuring of open to closed…

Coronal loops generally trace magnetic lines of force in the upper solar atmosphere. Understanding the loop morphology and its temporal evolution has implications for coronal heating models that rely on plasma heating due to reconnection at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 B. Ram , L. P. Chitta , S. Mandal , H. Peter , F. Plaschke

The fan-spine magnetic topology is believed to be responsible for many curious features in solar explosive events. A spine field line links distinct flux domains, but direct observation of such feature has been rare. Here we report a unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Guillaume Aulanier , Yingna Su , Iain G. Hannah , Rachel A. Hock

We use high-resolution images of the sun obtained by the SDO/AIA instrument to study the evolution of the coronal loops in a flaring solar active region. During 15 February 2011 a X-2.2 class flare occurred in NOAA 11158, a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Gosain

The \textit{Sun Watcher using Active Pixel system detector and Image Processing}(SWAP) on board the \textit{PRoject for OnBoard Autonomy\todash 2} (PROBA\todash 2) spacecraft provides images of the solar corona in EUV channel centered at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-11 K. Chandrashekhar , S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , B. Ravindra , Daniel B. Seaton

The solar photosphere, chromosphere and corona are known to rotate differentially as a function of latitude. To date, it is unclear if the solar transition region also rotates differentially. In this paper, we investigate differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Jaidev Sharma , Brajesh Kumar , Anil K Malik , Hari Om Vats

The first evidence of transverse oscillations of a multistranded loop with growing amplitudes and internal coupling observed by the Atomspheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is presented. The loop…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Joseph M. Davila , Yang Su
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