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astro-ph.SR2025

A New Method of Deriving Doppler Velocities for Solar Orbiter SPICE

J. E. Plowman, D. M. Hassler, M. E. Molnar +7

This paper presents a follow-up to previous work on correcting PSF-induced Doppler artifacts in observations by the SPICE spectrograph on Solar Orbiter. In a previous paper, we dem…

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★ 5 cited

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.SR2023★ 77 cited

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.SR2023★ 7 cited

Beyond small-scale transients: a closer look at the diffuse quiet solar corona

J. Gorman, L. P. Chitta, H. Peter +9

Within the quiet Sun corona imaged at 1 MK, much of the field of view consists of diffuse emission that appears to lack the spatial structuring that is so evident in coronal loops…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

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★ 1 cited

Initial radiometric calibration of the High-Resolution EUV Imager () of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter

S. Gissot, F. Auchère, D. Berghmans +21

The telescope was calibrated on ground at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany's national metrology institute, using the Metrology L…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 17 cited

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.SR2023★ 17 cited

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.SR2023★ 19 cited

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★ 11 cited

Slow Solar Wind Connection Science during Solar Orbiter's First Close Perihelion Passage

Stephanie L. Yardley, Christopher J. Owen, David M. Long +76

The Slow Solar Wind Connection Solar Orbiter Observing Plan (Slow Wind SOOP) was developed to utilise the extensive suite of remote sensing and in situ instruments on board the ESA…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 15 cited

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.SR2023★ 19 cited

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…

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★ 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.SR2023★ 25 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 30 cited

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.SR2022★ 16 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 1 cited

SPICE PSF Correction: General Framework and Capability Demonstration

Joseph E. Plowman, Frédéric Auchère, Regina Aznar Cuadrado +5

We present a new method of removing PSF artifacts and improving the resolution of multidimensional data sources including imagers and spectrographs. Rather than deconvolution, whic…

astro-ph.SR2022

A Statistical Comparison of EUV Brightenings Observed by SO/EUI with Simulated Brightenings in Non-potential Simulations

Krzysztof Barczynski, Karen A. Meyer, Louise K. Harra +3

The High Resolution Imager (HRI_EUV) telescope of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter has observed EUV brightenings, so-called campfires, as fine-…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 14 cited

Plasma composition measurements in an active region from Solar Orbiter/SPICE and Hinode/EIS

David H. Brooks, Miho Janvier, Deborah Baker +28

A key goal of the Solar Orbiter mission is to connect elemental abundance measurements of the solar wind enveloping the spacecraft with EUV spectroscopic observations of their sola…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 6 cited

Automatic detection technique for solar filament oscillations in GONG data

Manuel Luna, Joan-René Merou Mestre, Frédéric Auchère

Solar filament oscillations have been known for decades. Now thanks to the new capabilities of the new telescopes, these periodic motions are routinely observed. Oscillations in fi…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 37 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 57 cited

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…