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We analyzed a coronal loop observed with the Normal Incidence Spectrometer (NIS), which is part of the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The measured Doppler shifts and proper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Gontikakis , G. J. D. Petrie , H. C. Dara , K. Tsinganos

Coupling between the photosphere, chromosphere and corona in the quiet Sun (QS) is governed by a complex interplay between magnetic structuring, heating, mass loading, and radiative cooling. Constraining how this balance responds to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Quentin Noraz , Mats Carlsson , Guillaume Aulanier

In this paper, we study the heating of the magnetized solar chromosphere induced by the large fraction of neutral atoms present in this layer. The presence of neutrals, together with the decrease with height of the collisional coupling,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Elena Khomenko , Manuel Collados

The temperatures of the heavy ions ($T_i$) in the solar corona provide critical information about the heating mechanism of the million-degree corona. However, the measurement of $T_i$ is usually challenging due to the nonthermal motion,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Yingjie Zhu , Judit Szente , Enrico Landi

Protons in the solar corona and heliosphere exhibit anisotropic velocity distributions, violation of magnetic moment conservation, and a general lack of thermal equilibrium with the other particle species. There is no agreement about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Steven R. Cranmer

The coronal heating problem remains one of the most challenging questions in solar physics. The energy driving coronal heating is widely understood to be associated with convective motions below the photosphere. Recent high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Rui Wang , Yiming Jiao , Xiaowei Zhao , Chong Huang

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

We reach a thermodynamic interpretation of CODET model and its prediction to electrons density and temperature grounded on the physics of hydro magnetism in global equilibrium. The thermodynamic interpretation finds consistency with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-19 Daniel B. Berdichevsky , Jenny M. Rodríguez Gómez , Luis E. Vieira , Allison Dal Lago

Context. Recent observations by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board Solar Orbiter have characterized prevalent small-scale transient brightenings in the corona above the quiet Sun termed campfires. Aims. In this study we search…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Yajie Chen , Damien Przybylski , Hardi Peter , Hui Tian , F. Auchère , D. Berghmans

A simplified non-linear numerical model for the development of incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the presence of a strong magnetic field B0 and stratification, nicknamed Shell-Atm, is presented. In planes orthogonal to the mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. Buchlin , M. Velli

The energy that heats the magnetically closed solar corona originates in the complex motions of the massive photosphere. Turbulent photospheric convection slowly displaces the footpoints of coronal field lines, causing them to become…

Since the first discovery of an extrasolar planetary system more than a decade ago, hundreds more have been discovered. Surprisingly, many of these systems harbor Jupiter-class gas giants located close to the central star, at distances of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Cohen , J. J. Drake , V. L. Kashyap , S. H. Saar , I. V. Sokolov , W. B. Manchester , K. C. Hansen , T. I. Gombosi

Time profiles of solar soft X-ray microflares and structure soft X-ray solar corona thermal background are studied on RHESSI data. The observations of 2003 year are analyzed. Decrease fluxe of solar soft X-ray microflares and thermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-16 I. K. Mirzoeva

We present a new code designed to solve the equations of classical ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) in three dimensions, submitted to a constant gravitational field. The purpose of the code centers on the analysis of solar phenomena within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 J. J. Gonzalez-Aviles , A. Cruz-Osorio , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , F. S. Guzman

We investigate the formation of hot coronae and vertical outflows in accretion disks by magneto-rotational turbulence. We perform local three-dimensional (3D) MHD simulations with the vertical stratification by explicitly solving an energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yuki Io , Takeru K. Suzuki

In the present paper, using MPI-AMRVAC, we perform a 2.5-D numerical MHD simulation of the dynamics and associated thermodynamical evolution of an initially force-free Harris current sheet subjected to an external velocity perturbation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Sripan Mondal , Abhishek K Srivastava , David I. Pontin , Ding Yuan , Eric R. Priest

The heating of the Sun's corona has been explained by several different mechanisms including wave dissipation and magnetic reconnection. While both have been shown capable of supplying the requisite power, neither has been used in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-20 Kai E. Yang , Dana W. Longcope , M. D. Ding , Yang Guo

Coronal loops are the basic building block of the upper solar atmosphere. Comprehending how these are energized, structured, and evolve is key to understanding stellar coronae. Here we investigate how the energy to heat the loop is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 C. Breu , H. Peter , R. Cameron , S. K. Solanki , D. Przybylski , M. Rempel , L. P. Chitta

The extreme temperatures and non-thermal nature of the solar corona and solar wind arise from an unidentified physical mechanism that preferentially heats certain ion species relative to others. Spectroscopic indicators of unequal…

Modeling the solar atmosphere is challenging due to its layered structure and multi-scale dynamics. We aim to validate the new radiative MHD code MAGEC, which combines the MANCHA and MAGNUS codes into a finite-volume, shock-capturing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Anamaría Navarro , E. Khomenko , N. Vitas , T. Felipe