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Impulsive coronal heating during the interaction of surface magnetic fields in the lower solar atmosphere

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Date
12/2020
Author
Chitta, L. P.
Peter, H.
Priest, E. R.
Solanki, S. K.
Keywords
Magnetic reconnection
Sun: chromosphere
Sun: corona
Sun: magnetic fields
Sun: transition region
Sun: flares
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
DAS
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Abstract
Coronal plasma in the cores of solar active regions is impulsively heated to more than 5 MK. The nature and location of the magnetic energy source responsible for such impulsive heating is poorly understood. Using observations of seven active regions from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, we found that a majority of coronal loops hosting hot plasma have at least one footpoint rooted in regions of interacting mixed magnetic polarity at the solar surface. In cases when co-temporal observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space mission are available, we found spectroscopic evidence for magnetic reconnection at the base of the hot coronal loops. Our analysis suggests that interactions of magnetic patches of opposite polarity at the solar surface and the associated energy release during reconnection are key to impulsive coronal heating.
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Chitta , L P , Peter , H , Priest , E R & Solanki , S K 2020 , ' Impulsive coronal heating during the interaction of surface magnetic fields in the lower solar atmosphere ' , Astronomy & Astrophysics , vol. 644 , A130 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039099
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039099
ISSN
0004-6361
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © L. P. Chitta et al. 2020. Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 695075) and has been supported by the BK21 plus program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education of Korea. Open Access funding provided by Max Planck Society.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21226

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