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New views on the emission and structure of the solar transition region

He, Jiansen; Tian, Hui; Marsch, Eckart +2 more

The Sun is the only star that we can spatially resolve and it can be regarded as a fundamental plasma laboratory of astrophysics. The solar transition region (TR), the layer between the solar chromosphere and corona, plays an important role in solar wind origin and coronal heating. Recent high-resolution observations made by SOHO, TRACE, and Hinod…