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Temporal and Spatial Scales in Coronal Rain Revealed by UV Imaging and Spectroscopic Observations
Toriumi, Shin; Antolin, Patrick; Katsukawa, Yukio +1 more
Coronal rain corresponds to cool and dense clumps in the corona accreting towards the solar surface; it is often observed above solar active regions. These clumps are generally thought to be produced by a thermal instability in the corona and their lifetime is limited by the time they take to reach the chromosphere. Although the rain usually fragm…
Locating Hot Plasma in Small Flares using Spectroscopic Overlappogram Data from the Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer
Reeves, Katharine K.; Lee, Kyoung-Sun; Hara, Hirohisa +6 more
One of the key processes associated with the "standard" flare model is chromospheric evaporation, a process during which plasma heated to high temperatures by energy deposition at the flare footpoints is driven upwards into the corona. Despite several decades of study, a number of open questions remain, including the relationship between plasma pr…