Author: Hugh Hudson, Nicolina Chrysaphi, and Norman Gray at the University of Glasgow.
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A “Grand Archive of Solar Flare Cartoons” has long existed on the Web [1], but without updates within the past decade because of the unfortunate loss of a password, and because the original quite primitive HTML made it hard to access new items.… continue to the full article
Author: Norbert Magyar and Valery M. Nakariakov at the University of Warwick.
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In solar physics, coronal loops have long been in the spotlight. As building blocks of the closed solar corona, understanding their structure and evolution is akin to understanding the coronal heating problem.… continue to the full article
Author: Sargam M. Mulay (now University of Glasgow) Giulio Del Zanna, and Helen Mason at the University of Cambridge.
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Solar jets are small scale energetic events that eject collimated plasma in the solar atmosphere.… continue to the full article
Author: Gerry Doyle (Armagh); Abhishek Srivastava, Sudheer Mishra, Bhola Dwivedi & Dipankar Banerjee (India), Petr Jelı́nek & Pradeep Kayshap (Czech Republic); Tanmoy Samanta & Hui Tian (China); Vaibhav Pant (Belgium)
Magnetic reconnection is a physical process that may yield various phenomena in astrophysical and laboratory plasma, e.g., energetic flares, geomagnetic substorms, tokamak disruptions, controlled fusion experiments, etc [1,2].… continue to the full article
Author: Farhad Allian, Rekha Jain (The University of Sheffield) and Bradley W. Hindman (University of Colorado Boulder)
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Amongst the most fascinating features of the dynamic solar atmosphere lie the complex curved loops of illuminatingly hot plasma that are traced by the magnetic field lines.… continue to the full article
Author: Deborah Baker, Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi, David Long (UCL-MSSL, UK) and David H. Brooks (George Mason University, USA).
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The elemental composition of astrophysical plasma and its variations are crucial to our understanding of the physical conditions and processes occurring within the plasma.… continue to the full article
Author: Adam J. Finley, Sean P. Matt and Victor See, University of Exeter.
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There have only been a few of attempts to quantify the rate at which angular momentum is lost from the Sun due to the solar wind.… continue to the full article
Author: Petros Syntelis and Vasilis Archontis at the University of St Andrews, and Kanaris Tsinganos at the University of Athens.
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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large scale eruptive events responsible for the sudden expulsion of magnetised plasma from the solar corona into the interplanetary medium.… continue to the full article
Author: Richard Morton Northumbria University.
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Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are thought to play some role in the heating of cool, solar-like stars’ atmospheres, and acceleration of their winds. The role of acoustic (or longitudinal MHD) modes in energising stellar coronae has long been discounted, both from theoretical and observational considerations.… continue to the full article
Author: David Kuridze at the Aberystwyth University, Mihalis Mathioudakis at the Queen’s University Belfast, Huw Morgan at the Aberystwyth University.
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The structure and dynamics of the most energetic events in the Sun’s outer atmosphere such as flares, eruptions, coronal loops and coronal mass ejections are controlled by the magnetic field.… continue to the full article