The properties of the solar corona and its connection to the solar wind

SR Cranmer, AR Winebarger - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The corona is a layer of hot plasma that surrounds the Sun, traces out its complex magnetic
field, and ultimately expands into interplanetary space as the supersonic solar wind …

Solar UV and X-ray spectral diagnostics

G Del Zanna, HE Mason - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2018 - Springer
X-ray and ultraviolet (UV) observations of the outer solar atmosphere have been used for
many decades to measure the fundamental parameters of the solar plasma. This review …

Electron power-law spectra in solar and space plasmas

M Oka, J Birn, M Battaglia, CC Chaston, SM Hatch… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Particles are accelerated to very high, non-thermal energies in solar and space plasma
environments. While energy spectra of accelerated electrons often exhibit a power law, it …

Quasi‐thermal noise spectroscopy: The art and the practice

N Meyer‐Vernet, K Issautier… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Quasi‐thermal noise spectroscopy is an efficient tool for measuring in situ macroscopic
plasma properties in space, using a passive wave receiver at the ports of an electric …

Nonequilibrium Ionization Effects on Synthetic Spectra in the AWSoM Solar Corona

J Szente, E Landi, B van der Holst - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we combined AWSoM's nonequilibrium ionization (NEI) calculations from
Szente et al. with the synthetic spectral computations of SPECTRUM to predict …

Non-thermal particle acceleration and power-law tails via relaxation to universal Lynden-Bell equilibria

RJ Ewart, ML Nastac, AA Schekochihin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Collisionless and weakly collisional plasmas often exhibit non-thermal quasi-equilibria.
Among these quasi-equilibria, distributions with power-law tails are ubiquitous. It is shown …

Can the superposition of evaporative flows explain broad Fe XXI profiles during solar flares?

V Polito, P Testa, B De Pontieu - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The observation of the high-temperature (≳ 10 MK) Fe xxi 1354.1 Å line with the Interface
Region Imaging Spectrograph has provided significant insights into the chromospheric …

Solar X-ray monitor on board the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter: in-flight performance and science prospects

NPS Mithun, SV Vadawale, A Sarkar, M Shanmugam… - Solar Physics, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Solar X-ray Monitor (abbreviated as XSM) on board India's Chandrayaan-2
mission is designed to carry out broadband spectroscopy of the Sun from lunar orbit. It …

In the Trenches of the Solar–Stellar Connection. VI. Total EclipSS

T Ayres, D Buzasi - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Ecliptic poles Stellar Survey (EclipSS; 2018–2019) collected Hubble Space
Telescope/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) 1150–1420 Å spectra of 49 FGK dwarfs at …

Solar flare arcade modeling: bridging the gap from 1D to 3D simulations of optically thin radiation

GS Kerr, JC Allred, V Polito - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Solar flares are 3D phenomena, but modeling a flare in 3D, including many of the important
processes in the chromosphere, is a computational challenge. Accurately modeling the …