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We present numerical simulations in 3D settings where coronal rain phenomena take place in a magnetic configuration of a quadrupolar arcade system. Our simulation is a magnetohydrodynamic simulation including anisotropic thermal conduction,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 S. P. Moschou , R. Keppens , C. Xia , X. Fang

Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves

Magnetic reconnection, a plasma process converting magnetic energy to particle kinetic energy, is often invoked to explain magnetic energy releases powering high-energy flares in astrophysical sources including pulsar wind nebulae and black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-17 Gregory R. Werner , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Observed spectral profiles of emission lines from the corona are found to have widths exceeding the thermal line width. To investigate the physical mechanism, we run a 3D MHD model of a single, straightened loop in which we partially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 C. A. Breu , H. Peter , S. K. Solanki , R. Cameron , I. De Moortel

Coronal rain consists of cool and dense plasma condensations formed in coronal loops as a result of thermal instability. Previous numerical simulations of thermal instability and coronal rain formation have relied on artificially adding a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 P. Kohutova , P. Antolin , A. Popovas , M. Szydlarski , V. H. Hansteen

Multiwavelength observations of the propagating disturbances (PDs), discovered by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), are analyzed to determine its driving mechanism and physical nature. Two magnetic…

We analyze and model an M8.0 flare on 2005 May 13 observed by TRACE and RHESSI to determine the energy release rate from magnetic reconnection that forms and heats numerous flare loops. The flare exhibits two ribbons in UV 1600 {\AA}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 Wen-Juan Liu , Jiong Qiu , Dana W. Longcope , Amir Caspi

EUV imaging observations from several space missions (SOHO/EIT, TRACE, and SDO/AIA) have revealed a presence of propagating intensity disturbances in solar coronal loops. These disturbances are typically interpreted as slow magnetoacoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Elena Provornikova , Leon Ofman , Tongjiang Wang

During the last few decades, the most widely favored models for coronal heating have involved the in situ dissipation of energy, with footpoint shuffling giving rise to multiple current sheets (the "nanoflare" model) or to Alfv{\'e}n waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-04 Y. -M. Wang

This review surveys the statistics of solar X-ray flares, emphasising the new views that RHESSI has given us of the weaker events (the microflares). The new data reveal that these microflares strongly resemble more energetic events in most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-01 I. G. Hannah , H. S. Hudson , M. Battaglia , S. Christe , J. Kasparova , S. Krucker , M. R. Kundu , A. Veronig

Magnetic reconnection is a rapid energy release process that is believed to be responsible for flares on the Sun and stars. Nevertheless, such flare-related reconnection is mostly detected to occur in the corona, while there have been few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-21 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Ying Li , Kai Yang , Xin Cheng , Feng Chen , Cheng Fang , Wenda Cao

The sharp magnetic discontinuities which naturally appear in solar magnetic flux tubes driven by turbulent photospheric motions are associated with intense currents. \citet{Par83} proposed that these currents can become unstable to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kaspar Arzner , Loukas Vlahos

This Letter presents a calculation of the power spectra of weakly turbulent Alfven waves and fast magnetosonic waves ("fast waves") in low-beta plasmas. It is shown that three-wave interactions transfer energy to high-frequency fast waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Observational and theoretical evidence suggests that coronal heating is impulsive and occurs on very small cross-field spatial scales. A single coronal loop could contain a hundred or more individual strands that are heated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Klimchuk , S. Patsourakos , P. J. Cargill

A broad variety of observational methods allows us to see the effect of magnetic reconnection in high-temperature strongly-magnetized plasma of the solar corona. Some specific features of the large-scale reconnection in large solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-23 B. V. Somov , S. I. Bezrodnykh , L. S. Ledentsov

Plasma turbulence is thought to be associated with various physical processes involved in solar flares, including magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration and transport. Using Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager ({\it RHESSI})…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. P. Kontar , I. G. Hannah , N. H. Bian

Coronal jets are the captivating eruptions which are often found in the solar atmosphere, and primarily formed due to magnetic reconnection. Despite their short-lived nature and lower energy compared to many other eruptive events, e.g.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Sushree S Nayak , Samrat Sen , Arpit Kumar Shrivastav , R. Bhattacharyya , P. S. Athiray

This work consists of two parts: the first devoted to the study of the heating of the magnetically confined Solar Corona, and the second to the acceleration of the Slow Solar Wind. Direct 3D reduced MHD simulations are presented. They model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-13 A. F. Rappazzo

The magnetic topology and field line random walk properties of a nanoflare-heated and magnetically confined corona are investigated in the reduced magnetohydrodynamic regime. Field lines originating from current sheets form coherent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-27 A. F. Rappazzo , W. H. Matthaeus , D. Ruffolo , M. Velli , S. Servidio

Microflares have been considered to be among the major energy input sources to form active solar corona. To investigate the response of the low atmosphere to events, we conducted an ALMA observation at 3 mm coordinated with IRIS and Hinode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Toshifumi Shimizu , Masumi Shimojo , Masashi Abe
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