Coronal loops: observations and modeling of confined plasma

F Reale - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2014 - Springer
Coronal loops are the building blocks of the X-ray bright solar corona. They owe their
brightness to the dense confined plasma, and this review focuses on loops mostly as …

A contemporary view of coronal heating

CE Parnell, I De Moortel - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Determining the heating mechanism (or mechanisms) that causes the outer atmosphere of
the Sun, and many other stars, to reach temperatures orders of magnitude higher than their …

Wave heating of the solar atmosphere

I Arregui - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Magnetic waves are a relevant component in the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Their
significance has increased because of their potential as a remote diagnostic tool and their …

Coronal heating by MHD waves

T Van Doorsselaere, AK Srivastava, P Antolin… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
The heating of the solar chromosphere and corona to the observed high temperatures, imply
the presence of ongoing heating that balances the strong radiative and thermal conduction …

Multi-scale variability of coronal loops set by thermal non-equilibrium and instability as a probe for coronal heating

P Antolin, C Froment - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Solar coronal loops are the building blocks of the solar corona. These dynamic structures
are shaped by the magnetic field that expands into the solar atmosphere. They can be …

Thermal instability and non-equilibrium in solar coronal loops: from coronal rain to long-period intensity pulsations

P Antolin - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The complex interaction of the magnetic field with matter is the key to some of the most
puzzling observed phenomena at multiple scales across the Universe, from tokamak plasma …

Achievements of Hinode in the first eleven years

Hinode Review Team, K Al-Janabi… - Publications of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Hinode is Japan's third solar mission following Hinotori (1981–1982) and Yohkoh (1991–
2001): it was launched on 2006 September 22 and is in operation currently. Hinode carries …

Magnetic Tornado Properties: A Substantial Contribution to the Solar Coronal Heating via Efficient Energy Transfer

H Kuniyoshi, M Shoda, H Iijima… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In solving the solar coronal heating problem, it is crucial to comprehend the mechanisms by
which energy is conveyed from the photosphere to the corona. Recently, magnetic …

Nonlinear propagation of Alfvén waves driven by observed photospheric motions: application to the coronal heating and spicule formation

T Matsumoto, K Shibata - The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We have performed MHD simulations of Alfvén wave propagation along an open flux tube in
the solar atmosphere. In our numerical model, Alfvén waves are generated by the …

Active region loops: Hinode/extreme-ultraviolet imaging spectrometer observations

D Tripathi, HE Mason, BN Dwivedi… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We have carried out a study of active region loops using observations from the Extreme-
ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board Hinode using 1''raster data for an active …