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most citedCritical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)

110 citations · 828 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

Determining the magnetic field of active region plages using the whole CLASP2/2.1 spectral window

David Afonso Delgado, Tanausú del Pino Alemán, Javier Trujillo Bueno +16

The Chromospheric LAyer SpectroPolarimeter missions, CLASP2 and CLASP2.1, demonstrated that the near-UV spectral region between 279.30 and 280.68 nm is suitable for studying the ma…

astro-ph.SR2024

Mapping the longitudinal magnetic field in the atmosphere of an active region plage from the inversion of the near-ultraviolet CLASP2.1 spectropolarimetric data

Hao Li, Tanausú del Pino Alemán, Javier Trujillo Bueno +10

We apply the HanleRT Tenerife Inversion Code to the spectro-polarimetric observations obtained by the Chromospheric LAyer SpectroPolarimeter. This suborbital space experiment measu…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 6 cited

Evidence for the Operation of the Hanle and Magneto-Optical Effects in the Scattering Polarization Signals Observed by CLASP2 Across the Mg II h and k Lines

Ryohko Ishikawa, Javier Trujillo Bueno, Ernest Alsina Ballester +8

Radiative transfer investigations of the solar Mg II h and k resonance lines around 280~nm showed that, while their circular polarization (Stokes V) signals arise from the Zeeman e…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 7 cited

The SWAP Filter: A Simple Azimuthally Varying Radial Filter for Wide-Field EUV Solar Images

Daniel B. Seaton, David Berghmans, D. Shaun Bloomfield +5

We present the SWAP Filter: an azimuthally varying, radial normalizing filter specifically developed for EUV images of the solar corona, named for the Sun Watcher with Active Pixel…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

Tomography of a solar plage with the Tenerife Inversion Code

Hao Li, T. del Pino Alemán, J. Trujillo Bueno +8

We apply the Tenerife Inversion Code (TIC) to the plage spectropolarimetric observations obtained by the Chromospheric LAyer SpectroPolarimeter (CLASP2). These unprecedented data c…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 56 cited

Defining the Middle Corona

Matthew J. West, Daniel B. Seaton, David B. Wexler +31

The middle corona, the region roughly spanning heliocentric altitudes from to , encompasses almost all of the influential physical transitions and processes that…

astro-ph.SR2022

Quiet Sun Center to Limb Variation of the Linear Polarization Observed by CLASP2 Across the Mg II h & k Lines

L. A. Rachmeler, J. Trujillo Bueno, D. E. McKenzie +25

The CLASP2 (Chromospheric LAyer SpectroPolarimeter 2) sounding rocket mission was launched on 2019 April 11. CLASP2 measured the four Stokes parameters of the Mg II h & k spectral…

astro-ph.SR2022

Parallel plasma loops and the energization of the solar corona

Hardi Peter, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta, Feng Chen +15

The outer atmosphere of the Sun is composed of plasma heated to temperatures well in excess of the visible surface. We investigate short cool and warm (<1 MK) loops seen in the cor…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 67 cited

Mapping Solar Magnetic Fields from the Photosphere to the Base of the Corona

Ryohko Ishikawa, Javier Trujillo Bueno, Tanausu del Pino Aleman +25

Routine ultraviolet imaging of the Sun's upper atmosphere shows the spectacular manifestation of solar activity; yet we remain blind to its main driver, the magnetic field. Here we…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 2 cited

Untangling the global coronal magnetic field with multiwavelength observations

S. E. Gibson, A. Malanushenko, G. de Toma +16

Magnetism defines the complex and dynamic solar corona. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are thought to be caused by stresses, twists, and tangles in coronal magnetic fields that buil…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 110 cited

Critical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)

Mark P. Rast, Nazaret Bello González, Luis Bellot Rubio +84

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) will revolutionize our ability to measure, understand and model the basic physical processes that control the structure and dynamics of…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 27 cited

The drivers of active region outflows into the slow solar wind

David H. Brooks, Amy R. Winebarger, Sabrina Savage +13

Plasma outflows from the edges of active regions have been suggested as a possible source of the slow solar wind. Spectroscopic measurements show that these outflows have an enhanc…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 52 cited

Is the High-Resolution Coronal Imager Resolving Coronal Strands? Results from AR 12712

Thomas Williams, Robert W. Walsh, Amy R. Winebarger +14

Following the success of the first mission, the High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) was launched for a third time (Hi-C 2.1) on 29th May 2018 from the White Sands Missile Range,…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 15 cited

Hi-C 2.1 Observations of Small-Scale Miniature-Filament-Eruption-Like Cool Ejections in Active Region Plage

Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore, Navdeep K. Panesar +5

We examine 172 Ang ultra-high-resolution images of a solar plage region from the Hi-C 2.1 ("Hi-C") rocket flight of 2018 May 29. Over its five-minute flight, Hi-C resolves a pletho…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 56 cited

Hi-C 2.1 Observations of Jetlet-like Events at Edges of Solar Magnetic Network Lane

Navdeep K. Panesar, Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore +15

We present high-resolution, high-cadence observations of six, fine-scale, on-disk jet-like events observed by the High-resolution Coronal Imager 2.1 (Hi-C 2.1) during its sounding-…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 61 cited

Fine-scale explosive energy release at sites of prospective magnetic flux cancellation in the core of the solar active region observed by Hi-C 2.1, IRIS and SDO

Sanjiv K. Tiwari, Navdeep K. Panesar, Ronald L. Moore +14

The second Hi-C flight (Hi-C2.1) provided unprecedentedly-high spatial and temporal resolution (250km, 4.4s) coronal EUV images of Fe IX/X emission at 172 Å, of AR 12712 on 2…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 69 cited

The High-Resolution Coronal Imager, Flight 2.1

Laurel A. Rachmeler, Amy R. Winebarger, Sabrina L. Savage +49

The third flight of the High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C 2.1) occurred on May 29, 2018, the Sounding Rocket was launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The instr…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 2 cited

Roadmap for Reliable Ensemble Forecasting of the Sun-Earth System

Gelu Nita, Rafal Angryk, Berkay Aydin +44

The authors of this report met on 28-30 March 2018 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, for a 3-day workshop that brought together a group of data provide…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 67 cited

Global Non-Potential Magnetic Models of the Solar Corona During the March 2015 Eclipse

A. R. Yeates, T. Amari, I. Contopoulos +17

Seven different models are applied to the same problem of simulating the Sun's coronal magnetic field during the solar eclipse on 2015 March 20. All of the models are non-potential…

astro-ph.SR2018

Solar Physics from Unconventional Viewpoints

Sarah E. Gibson, Angelos Vourlidas, Donald M. Hassler +6

We explore new opportunities for solar physics that could be realized by future missions providing sustained observations from vantage points away from the Sun-Earth line. These in…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 32 cited

Magnetic nulls and super-radial expansion in the solar corona

Sarah E. Gibson, Kevin Dalmasse, Laurel A. Rachmeler +5

Magnetic fields in the sun's outer atmosphere -- the corona -- control both solar-wind acceleration and the dynamics of solar eruptions. We present the first clear observational ev…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 37 cited

Observations of a Hybrid Double-Streamer/Pseudostreamer in the Solar Corona

Laurel A. Rachmeler, Sarah J. Platten, Christian Bethge +2

We report on the first observation of a single hybrid magnetic structure that contains both a pseudostreamer and a double helmet streamer. This structure was originally observed by…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 108 cited

The Magnetic Structure of Solar Prominence Cavities: New Observational Signature Revealed by Coronal Magnetometry

U. Bak-Steslicka, S. E. Gibson, Y. Fan +3

The Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) obtains daily full-Sun above-the-limb coronal observations in linear polarization, allowing for the first time a diagnostic of the coro…

astro-ph2008★ 38 cited

Reconnectionless CME eruption: putting the Aly-Sturrock conjecture to rest

L. A. Rachmeler, C. E. DeForest, C. C. Kankelborg

We demonstrate that magnetic reconnection is not necessary to initiate fast CMEs. The Aly-Sturrock conjecture states that the magnetic energy of a given force free boundary field i…