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Nanoflares are regarded as one of the major mechanisms of magnetic energy release and coronal heating in the solar outer atmosphere. We conduct a statistical study on the response of the chromosphere and transition region to nanoflares, as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Kyuhyoun Cho , Paola Testa , Bart De Pontieu , Vanessa Polito

Data obtained in the framework of the INTERBALL-Tail Probe (1995-2000) and RHESSI (from 2002 to the present) projects have revealed variations in the X-ray intensity of the solar corona in the photon energy range of 2-15 keV during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-08 I. K. Mirzoeva , S. G. Chefranov

A ubiquitous presence of weak energy releases is one of the most promising hypotheses to explain coronal heating, referred to as the nanoflare hypothesis. The accelerated electrons associated with such weak heating events are also expected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Rohit Sharma , Divya Oberoi , Marina Battaglia , Sam Krucker

The explanation of the coronal heating problem potentially lies in the existence of nanoflares, numerous small-scale heating events occuring across the whole solar disk. In this paper, we present the first imaging spectroscopy X-ray…

Recent simulations of solar active regions have shown that it is possible to reproduce both the total intensity and the general morphology of the high temperature emission observed at soft X-ray wavelengths using static heating models.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Harry P. Warren , Amy R. Winebarger

Small scale transients occur in the Solar corona at much higher frequencies than flares and play a significant role in coronal dynamics. Here we study three well-identified transients discovered by Hi-C and also detected by the EUV channels…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-01 Abhishek Rajhans , Durgesh Tripathi , Vinay L. Kashyap

Heating signatures from small-scale magnetic reconnection events in the solar atmosphere have proven to be difficult to detect through observations. Numerical models that reproduce flaring conditions are essential in the understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 H. Bakke , M. Carlsson , L. Rouppe van der Voort , B. V. Gudiksen , V. Polito , P. Testa , B. De Pontieu

Recent observations of Krucker & Benz (1998) give strong support to Parker's hypothesis (Parker 1988) that small scale dissipative events make the main contribution to quiet Sun coronal heating. They also showed that these small scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. Krasnoselskikh , O. Podladchikova , B. Lefebvre , N. Vilmer

Investigate particle acceleration and heating in a solar microflare. In a microflare with non-thermal emission to remarkably high energies ($>50$ keV), we investigate the hard X-rays with RHESSI imaging and spectroscopy and the resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-17 I. G. Hannah , S. Krucker , H. S. Hudson , S. Christe , R. P. Lin

Nanoflares are believed to be key contributors to heating solar non-flaring active regions, though their individual detection remains challenging. This study uses a data-driven field-aligned hydrodynamic model to examine nanoflare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-31 Biswajit Mondal , James A Klimchuk , Amy R. Winebarger , P. S. Athiray , Jiayi Liu

One of the many outcomes of the Solar Orbiter mission is the evidence for the solar atmosphere being filled by highly impulsive bursts, down to about 200 km scale: the limit of the EUV instruments' spatial resolution. Small-scale events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Susanna Parenti

All theories that attempt to explain the heating of the high temperature plasma observed in the solar corona are based on short bursts of energy. The intensities and velocities measured in the cores of quiescent active regions, however, can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Fana M. Mulu-Moore , Amy R. Winebarger , Harry P. Warren

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

Solar flares, with energies ranging over several orders of magnitude, result from impulsive release of energy due to magnetic reconnection in the corona. Barring a handful, almost all microflares observed in X-rays are associated with the…

We investigate the spatial and temporal evolution of the heating of the corona of a cool star such as our Sun in a three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (3D MHD) model. We solve the 3D MHD problem numerically in a box representing part of…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sven Bingert , Hardi Peter

Observations of radio noise storms can act as sensitive probes of nonthermal electrons produced in small acceleration events in the solar corona. We use data from noise storm episodes observed jointly by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-22 Tomin James , Prasad Subramanian

It is extremely difficult to simulate the details of coronal heating and also make meaningful predictions of the emitted radiation. Thus, testing realistic models with observations is a major challenge. Observational signatures of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 James A. Klimchuk , Kalman J. Knizhnik , Vadim M. Uritsky

High-frequency wave phenomena present a great deal of interest as one of the possible candidates to contribute to the energy input required to heat the corona as a part of the AC heating theory. However, the resolution of imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Elena Petrova , Norbert Magyar , Tom Van Doorsselaere , David Berghmans

Nanoflares, the basic unit of impulsive energy release may produce much of the solar background emission. Extrapolation of the energy frequency distribution of observed microflares, which follows a power law to lower energies can give an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-22 E. Tajfirouze , H. Safari

The evolution of a coronal loop is studied by means of numerical simulations of the fully compressible three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations using the HYPERION code. The footpoints of the loop magnetic field are advected by random…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 R. B. Dahlburg , G. Einaudi , B. D. Taylor , I. Ugarte-Urra , H. P. Warren , A. F. Rappazzo , M. Velli