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White-light observations by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager of a loop-prominence system occurring in the aftermath of an X-class flare on 2013 May 13 near the eastern solar limb show a linearly polarized…

Low-frequency (80-240 MHz) radio observations of the solar corona are presented using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), and several discoveries are reported. The corona is reviewed, followed by chapters on Type III bursts and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-05 Patrick I. McCauley

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are one of the main drivers for space weather disturbances. In the past, different approaches have been used to automatically detect events in existing time series resulting from solar wind in…

In the last decade, imaging polarimeters based on micropolarizer arrays have been developed for use in terrestrial remote sensing and metrology applications. Micropolarizer-based sensors are dramatically smaller and more mechanically robust…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-11 Dmitry Vorobiev , Zoran Ninkov , Lee Bernard , Neal Brock

We determine the 3D geometry and deprojected mass of 29 well-observed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their interplanetary counterparts (ICMEs) using combined STEREO-SOHO white-light data. From the geometry parameters we calculate the…

A turbulent dynamo in spherical geometry with an outer corona is simulated to study the sign of magnetic helicity in the outer parts. In agreement with earlier studies, the sign in the outer corona is found to be opposite to that inside the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-18 Axel Brandenburg , Mohira B. Ashurova , Sarah Jabbari

Magnetism defines the complex and dynamic solar corona. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are thought to be caused by stresses, twists, and tangles in coronal magnetic fields that build up energy and ultimately erupt, hurling plasma into…

Tomography is a powerful technique for recovering the three-dimensional (3D) density structure of the global solar corona. In this work, we present an improved tomography method by introducing radial weighting in the regularization term.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Tongjiang Wang , C. Nick Arge , Shaela I. Jones

Incoherent background can create an intrinsic problem for standard small angle neutron scattering measurements. Biological samples contain hydrogen which is a strong incoherent scatterer thus creating an intrinsic source of background that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-01-26 Earl Babcock , Alexander Ioffe , Zahir Salhi

In recent years, new high spatial resolution observations of the Sun's atmosphere have revealed the presence of a plethora of small-scale magnetic elements down to the resolution limit of current cohort of solar telescopes ($\sim 100-120$…

Polarization is a powerful remote-sensing method to investigate solar system bodies. It is an especially sensitive diagnostic tool to reveal physical properties of the bodies whose observational characteristics are governed by small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bagnulo , H. Boehnhardt , K. Muinonen , L. Kolokolova , I. Belskaya , M. A. Barucci

Coronal oscillations offer insight into energy transport and driving in the solar atmosphere. Knowing its polarisation state helps constrain a wave's displacement and velocity amplitude, improving estimates of wave energy flux and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-10 T. J. Duckenfield , D. B. Jess , R. J. Morton , S. Jafarzadeh

The solar wind is a dynamic plasma outflow that shapes heliospheric conditions and drives space weather. Identifying its large-scale phenomena is crucial, yet the increasing volume of high-cadence Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations poses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Valmir P Moraes Filho , Daniela Martin , Jasmine R. Kobayashi , Connor O'Brien , Jinsu Hong , Evangelia Samara , Joseph Gallego

Solar Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are sometimes deflected during their propagation. This deflection may be the consequence of interaction between a CME and a coronal hole or the solar wind. We analyze 44 halo-CMEs whose deflection angle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Jingjing Wang , J. Todd Hoeksema , Siqing Liu

High precision polarization measurements open new opportunities for the study of the magnetic field structure as traced by polarimetric measurements of the interstellar dust emission. Polarization parameters suffer from bias in the presence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 D. Alina , L. Montier , I. Ristorcelli , J. -P. Bernard , F. Levrier , E. Abdikamalov

We present here the first effort to compute synthetic synchrotron polarization maps of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe). Our goal is to highlight how polarization can be used as an additional diagnostic tool for the flow structure in the inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna , E. amato , D. Volpi

Polarimetry is an area of high energy astrophysics which is still relatively unexplored, even though it is recognized that this type of measurement could drastically increase our knowledge of the physics and geometry of high energy sources.…

Determining the mechanisms responsible for the heating of the coronal plasma and maintaining and accelerating the solar wind are long standing goals in solar physics. There is a clear need to constrain the energy, mass and momentum flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-21 R. J. Morton , E. Scullion , D. S. Bloomfield , J. A. McLaughlin , S. Regnier , S. W. McIntosh , S. Tomczyk , P. Young

In this work we analyze the polarization observational properties of solitonic boson stars orbited by spherical hot-spots emitting synchrotron radiation from a thermal distribution of electrons. We consider three boson star configurations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 João Luís Rosa , Nicolas Aimar , Hanna Liis Tamm

I review some recent advances in methods to diagnose polarized radiation with which we may hope to explore the magnetism of the solar chromosphere and corona. These methods are based on the remarkable signatures that the radiatively induced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Trujillo Bueno