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Determining the nanoflare heating frequency of an X-ray Bright Point observed by MaGIXS
Biswajit Mondal, P. S. Athiray, Amy R. Winebarger +18
Nanoflares are thought to be one of the prime candidates that can heat the solar corona to its multi-million kelvin temperature. Individual nanoflares are difficult to detect with…
Fundamentals of impulsive energy release in the corona
Albert Y. Shih, Lindsay Glesener, Säm Krucker +30
It is essential that there be coordinated and co-optimized observations in X-rays, gamma-rays, and EUV during the peak of solar cycle 26 (~2036) to significantly advance our unders…
The Multiview Observatory for Solar Terrestrial Science (MOST)
N. Gopalswamy, S. Christe, S. F. Fung +54
We report on a study of the Multiview Observatory for Solar Terrestrial Science (MOST) mission that will provide comprehensive imagery and time series data needed to understand the…
The First Flight of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS)
Sabrina L. Savage, Amy R. Winebarger, Ken Kobayashi +34
The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) sounding rocket experiment launched on July 30, 2021 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. MaGIXS is a unique…
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…
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…
Calibration of the MaGIXS experiment II: Flight Instrument Calibration
P. S. Athiray, Amy R. Winebarger, Patrick Champey +21
The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) is a sounding rocket experiment that observes the soft X-ray spectrum of the Sun from 6.0 - 24 Angstrom (0.5 - 2.0 keV),…
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…
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…
New Observations of the IR Emission Corona from the July 2, 2019 Eclipse Flight of the Airborne Infrared Spectrometer
Jenna E. Samra, Chad A. Madsen, Peter Cheimets +4
The Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) was commissioned during the 2017 total solar eclipse, when it observed five infrared coronal emission lines from a Gulfstream V (GV) r…
The Airborne Infrared Spectrometer: Development, Characterization, and the 21 August 2017 Eclipse Observation
Jenna E. Samra, Vanessa Marquez, Peter Cheimets +6
On August 21, 2017, the Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) observed the total solar eclipse at an altitude of 14 km from aboard the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V research aircraft.…
High resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy and the quest for the hot (5-10 MK) plasma in solar active regions
G. Del Zanna, V. Andretta, P. J. Cargill +5
We discuss the diagnostics available to study the 5-10 MK plasma in the solar corona, which is key to understanding the heating in the cores of solar active regions. We present sev…
LUCI onboard Lagrange, the Next Generation of EUV Space Weather Monitoring
M. J. West, C. Kintziger, M. Haberreiter +7
LUCI (Lagrange eUv Coronal Imager) is a solar imager in the Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) that is being developed as part of the Lagrange mission, a mission designed to be positioned a…
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…
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,…
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-…
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…
Solar Active Region Heating Diagnostics from High Temperature Emission using the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS)
P. S. Athiray, Amy R. Winebarger, Will T. Barnes +7
The relative amount of high temperature plasma has been found to be a useful diagnostic to determine the frequency of coronal heating on sub-resolution structures. When the loops a…
Signatures of the non-Maxwellian -distributions in optically thin line spectra. II. Synthetic Fe XVII--XVIII X-ray coronal spectra and predictions for the Marshall Grazing-Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS)
Jaroslav Dudik, Elena Dzifcakova, Giulio Del Zanna +4
We investigated the possibility of diagnosing the degree of departure from the Maxwellian distribution using the Fe XVII - Fe XVIII spectra originating in plasmas in collisional io…
Unfolding overlapped slitless imaging spectrometer data for extended sources
Amy Winebarger, Mark Weber, Christian Bethge +9
Slitless spectrometers can provide simultaneous imaging and spectral data over an extended field of view, thereby allowing rapid data acquisition for extended sources. In some inst…
Homologous Helical Jets: Observations by IRIS, SDO and Hinode and Magnetic Modeling with Data-Driven Simulations
Mark C. M. Cheung, B. De Pontieu, T. D. Tarbell +18
We report on observations of recurrent jets by instruments onboard the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Hinode spacecrafts. Over a…
The Unresolved Fine Structure Resolved - IRIS observations of the Solar Transition Region
V. Hansteen, B. De Pontieu, M. Carlsson +18
The heating of the outer solar atmospheric layers, i.e., the transition region and corona, to high temperatures is a long standing problem in solar (and stellar) physics. Solutions…
Signatures of the non-Maxwellian -distributions in optically thin line spectra \subtitle{I. Theory and synthetic Fe IX--XIII spectra}
J. Dudík, G. Del Zanna, H. E. Mason +1
We investigate the possibility of diagnosing the degree of departure from the Maxwellian distribution using single-ion spectra originating in astrophysical plasmas in collisional i…
An Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph first view on Solar Spicules
T. M. D. Pereira, B. De Pontieu, M. Carlsson +17
Solar spicules have eluded modelers and observers for decades. Since the discovery of the more energetic type II, spicules have become a heated topic but their contribution to the…