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astro-ph.SR2024

Spatial distributions of EUV brightenings in the quiet-Sun

C. J. Nelson, L. A. Hayes, D. Müller +16

The identification of large numbers of localised transient EUV brightenings, with small spatial scales, in the quiet-Sun corona has been one of the key early results from Solar Orb…

astro-ph.SR2022

Solar coronal heating from small-scale magnetic braids

L. P. Chitta, H. Peter, S. Parenti +19

Relaxation of braided coronal magnetic fields through reconnection is thought to be a source of energy to heat plasma in active region coronal loops. However, observations of activ…

astro-ph.SR2023

EUV fine structure and variability associated with coronal rain revealed by Solar Orbiter/EUI HRIEUV and SPICE

P. Antolin, A. Dolliou, F. Auchère +34

Coronal rain is the most dramatic cooling phenomenon of the solar corona and an essential diagnostic tool for the coronal heating properties. A puzzling feature of the solar corona…

astro-ph.SR2023

A multiple spacecraft detection of the 2 April 2022 M-class flare and filament eruption during the first close Solar Orbiter perihelion

M. Janvier, S. Mzerguat, P. R. Young +56

The Solar Orbiter mission completed its first remote-sensing observation windows in the spring of 2022. On 2/4/2022, an M-class flare followed by a filament eruption was seen both…

astro-ph.SR2025

Near-continuous tracking of solar active region NOAA 13664 over three solar rotations

I. Kontogiannis, Y. Zhu, K. Barczynski +6

Magnetic flux emergence and decay in the Sun span from days to months. However, their tracking is typically limited to about half a solar rotation when relying on single-vantage-po…

astro-ph.SR2023

First Perihelion of EUI on the Solar Orbiter mission

D. Berghmans, P. Antolin, F. Auchère +34

Context. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), onboard Solar Orbiter consists of three telescopes: the two High Resolution Imagers in EUV (HRIEUV) and in Lyman-α (HRILya), and the…

astro-ph.SR2025

CoSEE-Cat: A Comprehensive Solar Energetic Electron event Catalogue obtained from combined in situ and remote-sensing observations from Solar Orbiter -- Catalogue description and first statistical results

A. Warmuth, F. Schuller, R. Gómez-Herrero +39

(abridged) The acceleration of particles at the Sun and their propagation through interplanetary space are key topics in heliophysics. Specifically, solar energetic electrons (SEEs…

astro-ph.SR2023

Picoflare jets power the solar wind emerging from a coronal hole on the Sun

L. P. Chitta, A. N. Zhukov, D. Berghmans +17

Coronal holes are areas on the Sun with open magnetic field lines. They are a source region of the solar wind, but how the wind emerges from coronal holes is not known. We observed…

astro-ph.SR2024

SPICE Connection Mosaics to link the Sun's surface and the heliosphere

T. Varesano, D. M. Hassler, N. Zambrana Prado +28

We present an analysis of the first connection mosaic made by the SPICE instrument on board of the ESA / NASA Solar Orbiter mission on March 2nd, 2022. The data will be used to map…

astro-ph.SR2023

Ultra-high-resolution Observations of Persistent Null-point Reconnection in the Solar Corona

X. Cheng, E. R. Priest, H. T. Li +21

Magnetic reconnection is a key mechanism involved in solar eruptions and is also a prime possibility to heat the low corona to millions of degrees. Here, we present ultra-high-reso…

astro-ph.SR2021

Stereoscopy of extreme UV quiet Sun brightenings observed by Solar Orbiter/EUI

A. N. Zhukov, M. Mierla, F. Auchère +27

The 3D fine structure of the solar atmosphere is still not fully understood as most of the available observations are taken from a single vantage point. The goal of the paper is to…

astro-ph.SR2023

Observational Evidence of S-Web Source of the Slow Solar Wind

D. Baker, P. Demoulin, S. L. Yardley +25

From 2022 March 18-21, active region (AR) 12967 was tracked simultaneously by Solar Orbiter (SO) at 0.35 au and Hinode/EIS at Earth. During this period, strong blue-shifted plasma…

astro-ph.SR2021

The active region source of a type III radio storm observed by Parker Solar Probe during Encounter 2

L. Harra, D. H. Brooks, S. D. Bale +6

Context. To investigate the source of a type III radio burst storm during encounter 2 of NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission. Aims. It was observed that in encounter 2 of NASA'…

astro-ph.SR2023

Coronal voids and their magnetic nature

J. D. Nölke, S. K. Solanki, J. Hirzberger +68

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) observations of the quiet solar atmosphere reveal extended regions of weak emission compared to the ambient quiescent corona. The magnetic nature of these…

astro-ph.SR2021

Stereoscopic Measurements of Coronal Doppler Velocities

O. Podladchikova, L. Harra, K. Barczynski +8

The Solar Orbiter mission, with an orbit outside the Sun Earth line and leaving the ecliptic plane, opens up opportunities for the combined analysis of measurements obtained by sol…

astro-ph.SR2023

EUV brightenings in the quiet-Sun: Signatures in spectral and imaging data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

C. J. Nelson, F. Auchère, R. Aznar Cuadrado +13

Localised transient EUV brightenings, sometimes named `campfires', occur throughout the quiet-Sun. However, there are still many open questions about such events, in particular reg…

astro-ph.SR2026

Fast and periodic propagating disturbances along coronal loops detected with EUI on board Solar Orbiter

A. Dolliou, S. Mandal, K. Barczynski +9

Recent high-resolution observations from the Solar Orbiter mission can help detect the indirect signatures of heating at the smallest scales. In this work we measure the properties…

astro-ph.SR2023

Evidence of external reconnection between an erupting mini-filament and ambient loops observed by Solar Orbiter/EUI

Z. F. Li, X. Cheng, M. D. Ding +16

Mini-filament eruptions are one of the most common small-scale transients in the solar atmosphere. However, their eruption mechanisms are still not understood thoroughly. Here, wit…

astro-ph.SR2025

FIP Bias Evolution in an Emerging Active Region as observed in SPICE Synoptic Observations

T. Varesano, D. M. Hassler, N. Zambrana Prado +6

We investigate the time evolution of relative elemental abundances in the context of the first ionization potential effect focusing on an active region. Our aim is to characterize…

astro-ph.SR2022

Automatic detection of small-scale EUV brightenings observed by the Solar Orbiter/EUI

N. Alipour, H. Safari, C. Verbeeck +23

Context. Accurate detections of frequent small-scale extreme ultraviolet (EUV) brightenings are essential to the investigation of the physical processes heating the corona. Aims. W…