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A magnetic avalanche as the central engine powering a solar flare
L. P. Chitta, D. I. Pontin, E. R. Priest +17
Solar flares are the most powerful, magnetically driven, explosions in the heliosphere. The nature of magnetic energy release in the solar corona that heats the plasma and accelera…
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…
Investigating coronal loop morphology and dynamics from two vantage points
Sudip Mandal, Hardi Peter, James A. Klimchuk +9
Coronal loops serve as the fundamental building blocks of the solar corona. Therefore, comprehending their properties is essential in unraveling the dynamics of the Sun's upper atm…
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…
Evolution of dynamic fibrils from the cooler chromosphere to the hotter corona
Sudip Mandal, Hardi Peter, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta +17
Dynamic fibrils (DFs) are commonly observed chromospheric features in solar active regions. Recent observations from the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) aboard the Solar Orbiter h…
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…
Stereoscopic disambiguation of vector magnetograms: first applications to SO/PHI-HRT data
G. Valori, D. Calchetti, A. Moreno Vacas +34
Spectropolarimetric reconstructions of the photospheric vector magnetic field are intrinsically limited by the 180-ambiguity in the orientation of the transverse component.…
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…
Coronal Heating Rate in the Slow Solar Wind
Daniele Telloni, Marco Romoli, Marco Velli +59
This Letter reports the first observational estimate of the heating rate in the slowly expanding solar corona. The analysis exploits the simultaneous remote and local observations…
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…
Wavefront error of PHI/HRT on Solar Orbiter at various heliocentric distances
F. Kahil, A. Gandorfer, J. Hirzberger +31
We use wavefront sensing to characterise the image quality of the the High Resolution Telescope (HRT) of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (SO/PHI) data products during the…
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…
Direct assessment of SDO/HMI helioseismology of active regions on the Sun's far side using SO/PHI magnetograms
D. Yang, L. Gizon, H. Barucq +47
Earth-side observations of solar p modes can be used to image and monitor magnetic activity on the Sun's far side. Here we use magnetograms of the far side obtained by the Polarime…
Spectropolarimetric investigation of magnetohydrodynamic wave modes in the photosphere: First results from PHI on board Solar Orbiter
D. Calchetti, M. Stangalini, S. Jafarzadeh +31
In November 2021, Solar Orbiter started its nominal mission phase. The remote-sensing instruments on board the spacecraft acquired scientific data during three observing windows su…
Imaging and spectroscopic observations of extreme-ultraviolet brightenings using EUI and SPICE on board Solar Orbiter
Ziwen Huang, L. Teriaca, R. Aznar Cuadrado +16
The smallest extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) brightening events that were detected so far, called campfires, have recently been uncovered by the High Resolution EUV telescope (HRIEUV), w…
Slow solar wind sources. High-resolution observations with a quadrature view
Krzysztof Barczynski, Louise Harra, Conrad Schwanitz +16
The origin of the slow solar wind is still an open issue. One possibility that has been suggested is that upflows at the edge of an active region can contribute to the slow solar w…
Temperature of Solar Orbiter/EUI quiet Sun small scale brightenings: evidence for a cooler component
A. Dolliou, S. Parenti, F. Auchère +16
Context: On 2020 May 30, small and short-lived EUV brightenings were observed in the Quiet Sun (QS) during a four minutes sequence by EUI/HRIEUV on board Solar Orbiter. Their physi…
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…
Signatures of dynamic fibrils at the coronal base: Observations from Solar Orbiter/EUI
Sudip Mandal, Hardi Peter, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta +20
The solar chromosphere hosts a wide variety of transients, including dynamic fibrils (DFs) that are characterised as elongated, jet-like features seen in active regions, often thro…
What drives decayless kink oscillations in active region coronal loops on the Sun?
Sudip Mandal, Lakshmi P. Chitta, Patrick Antolin +19
We study here the phenomena of decayless kink oscillations in a system of active region (AR) coronal loops. Using high resolution observations from two different instruments, namel…
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…
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…
The magnetic drivers of campfires seen by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on Solar Orbiter
F. Kahil, J. Hirzberger, S. K. Solanki +56
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board the Solar Orbiter (SO) spacecraft observed small extreme ultraviolet (EUV) bursts, termed campfires, that have been proposed to be bri…
Propagating brightenings in small loop-like structures in the quiet Sun corona: Observations from Solar Orbiter/EUI
Sudip Mandal, Hardi Peter, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta +6
Brightenings observed in the solar extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) images are generally interpreted as signatures of micro- or nanoflares occurring at the transition region or coronal te…