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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

The inverse First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect is rarely observed in the solar atmosphere, and this anomaly poses a challenging problem in understanding physical processes driving this chemical fractionation. In this work, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Juan Martínez-Sykora , Paola Testa , Deborah Baker , Bart De Pontieu

We analyse the coronal elemental abundances during a small flare using Hinode/EIS observations. Compared to the pre-flare elemental abundances, we observed a strong increase in coronal abundance of Ca XIV 193.84 {\AA}, an emission line with…

Ponderomotive acceleration has been asserted to be a cause of the First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect, the by now well known enhancement in abundance by a factor of 3-4 over photospheric values of elements in the solar corona with FIP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 R. B. Dahlburg , J. M. Laming , B. D. Taylor , K. Obenschain

Plasma composition in the solar atmosphere differs between the photosphere and corona, producing an observable difference in elemental abundance known as the FIP effect. The FIP effect is characterised by the ratio of low to high FIP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Kristena D. Spruksta , David M. Long , Andy S. H. To

Understanding how elemental abundances evolve during solar flares helps shed light on the mass and energy transfer between different solar atmospheric layers. However, prior studies have mostly concentrated on averaged abundances or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Man-Hei Ng , Chi-Long Tang , Xiaoping Zhang , Kuan-Vai Tam , Peng-Fei Chen , Wudong Dong , Jing Li , Chi-Pui Tang

We have used Chandra to resolve the nearby 70 Oph (K0 V+K5 V) and 36 Oph (K1 V+K1 V) binary systems for the first time in X-rays. The LETG/HRC-S spectra of all four of these stars are presented and compared with an archival LETG spectrum of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Brian E. Wood , Jeffrey L. Linsky

We study the acoustic properties of the solar chromosphere in the high-frequency regime using a time sequence of velocity measurements in the chromospheric Ca II 854.2 nm line taken with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 K. P. Reardon , F. Lepreti , V. Carbone , A. Vecchio

Context: The mechanism behind the heating of the solar chromosphere remains unclear. Friction between neutrals and charges is expected to contribute to plasma heating in a partially ionised plasma (PIP). Aims: We aim to study the efficiency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 M. M. Gómez Míguez , D. Martínez-Gómez , E. Khomenko , B. Popescu Braileanu , M. Collados , P. S. Cally

Elemental abundance effects in active coronae have eluded our understanding for almost three decades, since the discovery of the First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect on the sun. The goal of this paper is to monitor the same coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-04 Raanan Nordon , Ehud Behar , Stephen A. Drake

One puzzling question in solar physics is the difference between elemental abundances in the photosphere and the corona. Elements with low first ionization potential (FIP) can be overabundant in the corona compared to the photosphere under…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Bálint Seli , Levente Kriskovics , Krisztián Vida

The composition of plasma in the solar corona is characterised by the First Ionisation Potential (FIP) bias, and is thought to be the result of a ponderomotive force acting in the chromosphere to separate ionised from neutral plasma.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Éabha Power , David M. Long , Teodora Mihailescu , Laura A. Hayes

We discuss the evolution of solar coronal element abundances over an active region lifetime. Magneto-convection drives the complexity of magnetic fields that emerge above the photosphere. This complexity is dissipated, together with that of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 David H. Brooks , Deborah Baker , David M. Long. Paola Testa , Harry P. Warren

We present measurements of elemental abundances in solar flares with the EUV Variability Experiment (EVE) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). EVE observes both high temperature Fe emission lines (Fe XV-Fe XXIV) and continuum emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Harry P. Warren

Coronal loops act as resonant cavities for low frequency fluctuations that are transmitted from the deeper layers of the solar atmosphere and are amplified in the corona, triggering nonlinear interactions. However trapping is not perfect,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Andrea Verdini , Roland Grappin , Marco Velli

The First Ionization Potential (FIP) bias, whereby elemental abundances for low FIP elements in different coronal structures vary from their photospheric values and may also vary with time, has been widely studied. In order to study the…

Alfv\'en waves are widely believed to play an important role in the transport of energy from the solar photosphere to the corona through the partially ionized chromosphere. In previous work, the properties of torsional Alfv\'en waves were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Roberto Soler

Recent observations have demonstrated that waves which are capable of carrying large amounts of energy are ubiquitous throughout the solar corona. However, the question of how this wave energy is dissipated (on which time and length scales)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jiajia Liu , Scott W. McIntosh , Ineke De Moortel , James Threlfall , Christian Bethge

In \citet{Stangalini20} and \citet{Deb20}, magnetic oscillations were detected in the chromosphere of a large sunspot and found to be linked to the coronal locations where a First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect was observed. In an…

Intermittent magnetohydrodynamical turbulence is most likely at work in the magnetized solar atmosphere. As a result, an array of scaling and multi-scaling image-processing techniques can be used to measure the expected self-organization of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manolis K. Georgoulis