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astro-ph.SR2021★ 9 cited

SunnyNet: A neural network approach to 3D non-LTE radiative transfer

Bruce A. Chappell, Tiago M. D. Pereira

Context. Computing spectra from 3D simulations of stellar atmospheres when allowing for departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) is computationally very intensive.…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 8 cited

The formation and heating of chromospheric fibrils in a radiation-MHD simulation

M. K. Druett, J. Leenaarts, M. Carlsson +1

Aims: We examine the movements of mass elements within dense fibrils using passive tracer particles (corks) in order to understand fibril creation and destruction processes. Method…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 11 cited

Comparison of the Hall Magnetohydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics evolution of a flaring solar active region

Kamlesh Bora, Ramit Bhattacharyya, Avijeet Prasad +2

This work analyzes the Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulations of a flaring solar active region as a testbed while idealizing the coro…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 15 cited

EMISSA -- Exploring Millimeter Indicators of Solar-Stellar Activity I. The Initial mm-cm Main Sequence Star Sample

Atul Mohan, Sven Wedemeyer, Sneha Pandit +2

Due to their wide wavelength coverage across the millimetre to centimetre (mm - cm) range and their increased sensitivity, modern interferometric arrays facilitate observations of…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 13 cited

Improvement of the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) Vector Magnetic Field Inversion Code

Ana Belén Griñón-Marín, Adur Pastor Yabar, Yang Liu +2

A spectral line inversion code, Very Fast Inversion of the Stokes Vector (VFISV), has been used since May 2010 to infer the solar atmospheric parameters from the spectropolarimetri…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 18 cited

Characterising coronal turbulence using snapshot imaging of radio bursts in 80-200 MHz

Atul Mohan

Metrewave solar type-III radio bursts offer a unique means to study the properties of turbulence across the coronal heights.Theoretical models have shown that the apparent intensit…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 2 cited

Forward modelling of heating within a coronal arcade

Lianne Fyfe, Thomas Howson, Ineke De Moortel

Aims. We investigate the synthetic observational signatures from numerical models of coronal heating in an arcade to determine what features are associated with such heating, and w…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 30 cited

First observations from the SPICE EUV spectrometer on Solar Orbiter

A. Fludra, M. Caldwell, A. Giunta +28

We present first science observations taken during the commissioning activities of the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 24 cited

Linking the Sun to the Heliosphere Using Composition Data and Modelling. A Test Case with a Coronal Jet

Susanna Parenti, Iulia Chifu, Giulio Del Zanna +13

Our understanding of the formation and evolution of the corona and the heliosphere is linked to our capability of properly interpreting the data from remote sensing and in-situ obs…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 4 cited

Investigating coronal wave energy estimates using synthetic non-thermal line widths

Lianne Fyfe, Thomas Howson, Ineke De Moortel +2

Aims. Estimates of coronal wave energy remain uncertain as a large fraction of the energy is likely hidden in the non-thermal line widths of emission lines. In order to estimate th…

astro-ph.SR2021

Magnetic reconnection and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the solar corona

Thomas Howson, Ineke De Moortel, David Pontin

Context. The magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) has been proposed as a means of generating magnetohy- drodynamic turbulence and encouraging wave energy dissipation in the…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 15 cited

The Sun at millimeter wavelengths. III. Impact of the spatial resolution on solar ALMA observations

Henrik Eklund, Sven Wedemeyer, Mikołaj Szydlarski +1

Interferometric observations of the Sun with ALMA provide valuable diagnostic tools for studying the small-scale dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Estimations of the observability…

astro-ph.SR2021

The Solar ALMA Science Archive (SALSA)

Vasco M. J. Henriques, Shahin Jafarzadeh, Juan Camilo Guevara Gómez +5

In December 2016, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) carried out the first regular observations of the Sun. These early observations and the reduction of the r…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 3 cited

Solar Atmosphere Radiative Transfer Model Comparison based on 3D MHD simulations

M. Haberreiter, S. Criscuoli, M. Rempel +1

The reconstruction of the solar spectral irradiance (SSI) on various time scales is essential for the understanding of the Earth's climate response to the SSI variability. The driv…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 94 cited

Solar oxygen abundance

Maria Bergemann, Richard Hoppe, Ekaterina Semenova +10

Motivated by the controversy over the surface metallicity of the Sun, we present a re-analysis of the solar photospheric oxygen (O) abundance. New atomic models of O and Ni are use…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 17 cited

Solar surges related to UV bursts: Characterization through k-means, inversions and density diagnostics

D. Nóbrega Siverio, S. L. Guglielmino, A. Sainz Dalda

Surges are cool and dense ejections typically observed in chromospheric lines and closely related to other solar phenomena like UV bursts or coronal jets. Our aim is to address the…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 14 cited

On the Origin of Magnetic Pertubations associated with the FIP effect

M. Murabito, M. Stangalini, D. Baker +9

In \citet{Stangalini20} and \citet{Deb20}, magnetic oscillations were detected in the chromosphere of a large sunspot and found to be linked to the coronal locations where a First…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

DEATHSTAR: Nearby AGB stars with the Atacama Compact Array II. CO envelope sizes and asymmetries: The S-type stars

M. Andriantsaralaza, S. Ramstedt, W. H. T. Vlemmings +13

We aim to constrain the sizes of the CO circumstellar envelopes (CSEs) of 16 S-type stars, along with an additional 7 and 4 CSEs of C-type and M-type AGB stars, respectively. We ma…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 17 cited

Evidence of multithermal nature of spicular downflows. Impact on solar atmospheric heating

Souvik Bose, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Jayant Joshi +4

Spectroscopic observations of the emission lines formed in the solar transition region (TR) commonly show persistent downflows of the order of 10--15 km/s. The cause of such downfl…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 6 cited

On the Importance of Ca II Photoionisation by the Hydrogen Lyman Transitions in Solar Flare Models

Christopher M. J. Osborne, Petr Heinzel, Jana Kašparová +1

The forward fitting of solar flare observations with radiation-hydrodynamic simulations is a common technique for learning about energy deposition and atmospheric evolution during…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 59 cited

Probing the Physics of the Solar Atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE): II. Flares and Eruptions

Mark C. M. Cheung, Juan Martínez-Sykora, Paola Testa +25

Current state-of-the-art spectrographs cannot resolve the fundamental spatial (sub-arcseconds) and temporal scales (less than a few tens of seconds) of the coronal dynamics of sola…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 81 cited

Probing the physics of the solar atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE): I. Coronal Heating

Bart De Pontieu, Paola Testa, Juan Martinez-Sykora +24

The Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) is a proposed NASA MIDEX mission, currently in Phase A, composed of a multi-slit EUV spectrograph (in three narrow spectral bands centered arou…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 1 cited

A fast multi-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic formulation of the transition region adaptive conduction (TRAC) method

C. D. Johnston, A. W. Hood, I. De Moortel +2

We have demonstrated that the Transition Region Adaptive Conduction (TRAC) method permits fast and accurate numerical solutions of the field-aligned hydrodynamic equations, success…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 21 cited

Diagnostic capabilities of spectropolarimetric observations for understanding solar phenomena I. Zeeman-sensitive photospheric lines

C. Quintero Noda, P. S. Barklem, R. Gafeira +7

Future ground-based telescopes will expand our capabilities for simultaneous multi-line polarimetric observations in a wide range of wavelengths, from the near-ultraviolet to the n…