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A technique is described for measuring electrical currents in the solar corona. It uses radioastronomical polarization measurements of a spatially-extended radio source viewed through the corona. The observations yield the difference in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven R. Spangler

Twisted magnetic fields should be ubiquitous in flare-producing active regions where the magnetic fields are strongly non-potential. It has been shown that reconnection in helical magnetic coronal loops results in plasma heating and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 R. F. Pinto , M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , N. Vilmer

We present a systematic investigation of X-ray thermal coronae in 157 early-type galaxies and 22 late-type galaxies from a survey of 25 hot (kT>3 keV), nearby (z<0.05) clusters, based on CHANDRA archival data. Cool galactic coronae…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Sun , C. Jones , W. Forman , A. Vikhlinin , M. Donahue , M. Voit

Superflares on the solar type stars observed by \textit{Kepler} demonstrate the contrast in the optical continuum of the order 0.1--1 per cent. The mechanism of formation of this radiation is not firmly established. We consider a model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-09 B. A. Nizamov

We apply a new method to determine the magnetic field in coronal loops using observations of coronal loop oscillations. We analyze seven Doppler shift oscillation events detected by SUMER in the hot flare line Fe XIX to obtain oscillation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tongjiang Wang , Davina E. Innes , Jiong Qiu

Popular models for the formation of X-ray spectra in AGN assume that a large fraction of the disk's angular momentum dissipation takes place in a hot corona that carries a small amount of the accreting mass. Here I discuss the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tiziana Di Matteo

Coronal density, temperature and heat flux distributions for the equatorial and polar corona have been deduced by Lemaire [2012] from Saito's model of averaged coronal white light (WL) brightness and polarization observations. They are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Pierrard , K. Borremans , J. F. Lemaire

Solar flares are associated with intense soft X-ray emission generated by the hot flaring plasma. Kink unstable twisted flux-ropes provide a source of magnetic energy which can be released impulsively and account for the flare plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 R. F. Pinto , N. Vilmer , A. S. Brun

Estimating Alfven speeds is of interest in modelling the solar corona, studying the coronal heating problem and understanding the initiation and propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We assume here that the corona is in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Regnier , E. R. Priest , A. W. Hood

Abridged. We observed the 40 Myr old star DS Tuc A with XMM-Newton and recorded two X-ray bright flares, with the second event occurring about 12 ks after the first one. Their duration from the rise to the end of the decay was of about 8-10…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 I. Pillitteri , C. Argiroffi , A. Maggio , G. Micela , S. Benatti , F. Reale , S. Colombo , S. J. Wolk

The detailed knowledge of plasma heating and acceleration region properties presents a major observational challenge in solar flare physics. Using the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), the high temperature differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Natasha Jeffrey , Eduard Kontar , Brian Dennis

Knowledge of the electron density distribution in the solar corona put constraints on the magnetic field configurations for coronal modeling and on initial conditions for solar wind modeling. We work with polarized SOHO/LASCO-C2 images from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Judith de Patoul , Claire Foullon , Pete Riley

The disk-corona evaporation model naturally interprets many observational phenomena in black hole X-ray binaries, such as the truncation of an accretion disk and the spectral state transitions. On the other hand, magnetic field is known to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lei Qian , B. F. Liu , Xue-Bing Wu

The X-ray spectra of many active galactic nuclei (AGN) show a soft X-ray excess below 1-2 keV on top of the extrapolated high- energy power law. The origin of this component is uncertain. It could be a signature of relativistically blurred,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 P. O. Petrucci , F. Ursini , A. De Rosa , S. Bianchi , M. Cappi , G. Matt , M. Dadina , J. Malzac

Recently a distinctive class of hard X ray (HXR) sources located in the corona was found, which implies that the collisionally thick target model (CTTM) applies even to the corona. We investigated whether this idea can independently be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jeongwoo Lee , Daye Lim , G. S. Choe , Kap-Sung Kim , Minhwan Jang

New Swift monitoring observations of the variable, radio-quiet quasar, PDS 456, are presented. A bright X-ray flare was captured in September 2018, the flux increasing by a factor of 4 and with a doubling time-scale of 2 days. From the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 James Reeves , Valentina Braito , Delphine Porquet , Andrew Lobban , Gabriele Matzeu , Emanuele Nardini

Many studies of the solar corona have shown that the observed X-ray luminosity is well correlated with the total unsigned magnetic flux. In this paper we present results from the extensive numerical modeling of active regions observed with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Harry P. Warren , Amy R. Winebarger

We present the results of a detailed numerical simulation of the circumstellar environment around three exoplanet-hosting stars. A state-of-the-art global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model is considered, including Alfv\'en wave dissipation as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , G. A. J. Hussain , O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , C. Garraffo , J. Grunhut , T. I. Gombosi

The opening-up of the magnetic field during solar eruptive events is often accompanied by a dimming of the local coronal emission. From observations of filament eruptions recorded with the Extreme-Ultraviolet Imager on STEREO during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Eva Robbrecht , Yi-Ming Wang

Recently X-ray observations have shown the common presence of compact galactic coronae around intermediate-mass spheroid galaxies embedded in the intracluster/intragroup medium (ICM). We conduct 2-D hydrodynamic simulations to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Zhankui Lu , Q. Daniel Wang