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Coronal rain is the well-known phenomenon in which hot plasma high in the Sun's corona undergoes rapid cooling (from > 10^6 K to < 10^4 K), condenses, and falls to the surface. Coronal rain appears frequently in active region coronal loops…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-22 E. I. Mason , S. K. Antiochos , N. M. Viall

Context. We have conducted a 3D MHD simulation of the solar corona above an active region (AR) in full scale and high resolution, which shows coronal loops, and plasma flows within them, similar to observations. Aims. We want to find the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

We propose an in-situ formation model for inverse-polarity solar prominence and demonstrate it using self-consistent 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations, including thermal conduction along magnetic fields and optically thin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takafumi Kaneko , Takaaki Yokoyama

Abundances of elements comprising solar energetic particles (SEPs) come with two very different patterns. Historically called "impulsive" and "gradual" events, they have been studied for 40 years, 20 years by the Wind spacecraft. Gradual…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Donald V. Reames

Context: The comparison of coronal and photospheric abundances in cool stars is an essential question to resolve. In the Sun an enhancement of the elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) is observed in the corona with respect to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-12 J. Sanz-Forcada , L. Affer , G. Micela

Coronal rain is ubiquitous in flare loops, forming shortly after the onset of the solar flare. Rain is thought to be caused by a thermal instability, a localized runaway cooling of material in the corona. The models that demonstrate this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Jeffrey W. Reep , Patrick Antolin , Stephen J. Bradshaw

(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

One scenario proposed to explain the million degrees solar corona is a finely-stranded corona where each strand is heated by a rapid pulse. However, such fine structure has neither been resolved through direct imaging observations nor…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Fabio Reale , Massimiliano Guarrasi , Paola Testa , Edward E. DeLuca , Giovanni Peres , Leon Golub

We present an examination of the First Ionization Potential (FIP) fractionation scenario invoking the ponderomotive force in the chromosphere, and its implications for the source(s) of slow speed solar winds by using observations from The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Natsuha Kuroda , J. Martin Laming

Coronal loops are the basic structures of the solar transition region and corona. The understanding of physical mechanism behind the loop heating, plasma flows, and filling are still considered a major challenge in the solar physics. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 G. R. Gupta , Durgesh Tripathi , Helen E. Mason

We present a 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a systematically rotating prominence inside its coronal cavity using the open-source \texttt{MPI-AMRVAC} code. Our simulation starts from a non-adiabatic, gravitationally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 Valeriia Liakh , Rony Keppens

We explore the suggestions by Uzdensky (2007) and Cassak et al. (2008) that coronal loops heated by magnetic reconnection should self-organize to a state of marginal collisionality. We discuss their model of coronal loop dynamics with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Imada , E. G. Zweibel

We present results of a multi-wavelength study of episodic plasma injection into the corona of AR 10942. We exploit long-exposure images of the Hinode and Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft to study the properties of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Scott W. McIntosh , Bart De Pontieu

Coronal loops form the basic building blocks of the magnetically closed solar corona yet much is still to be determined concerning their possible fine-scale structuring and the rate of heat deposition within them. Using an improved…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Thomas Williams , Robert W. Walsh , Stephane Regnier , Craig D. Johnston

We review major achievements in our understanding of multiphase coronal plasma, where cool-dense and hot-tenuous matter coexists, brought about by advances in modeling and theory, inspired by observations. We give an overview of models that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Rony Keppens , Yuhao Zhou , Chun Xia

Ever since their detection two decades ago, standing kink oscillations in coronal loops have been extensively studied both observationally and theoretically. Almost all driven coronal loop oscillations (e.g., by flares) are observed to damp…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 C. J. Nelson , A. A. Shukhobodskiy , R. Erdélyi , M. Mathioudakis

M-dwarf flares observed by the \textit{Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite} (\textit{TESS}) sometimes exhibit a "peak-bump" light-curve morphology, characterized by a secondary, gradual peak well after the main, impulsive peak. A similar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Kai E. Yang , Xudong Sun , Graham S. Kerr , Hugh S. Hudson

XMM-Newton has been performing comprehensive studies of X-ray bright RS CVn binaries in its Calibration and Guaranteed Time programs. We present results from ongoing investigations in the context of a systematic study of coronal emission…

Accurate forecasting of space weather requires knowledge of the source regions where solar energetic particles (SEP) and eruptive events originate. Recent work has linked several major SEP events in 2014, January, to specific features in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 David H. Brooks , Stephanie L. Yardley

Thermal non-equilibrium (TNE) is a phenomenon that can occur in solar coronal loops when the heating is quasi-constant and highly-stratified. Under such heating conditions, coronal loops undergo cycles of evaporation and condensation. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 C. Froment , P. Antolin , V. M. J. Henriques , P. Kohutova , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort