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    Critical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)

    The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) will revolutionize our ability to measure, understand, and model the basic physical processes that control the structure and dynamics of ...

    Mark P. Rast, Nazaret Bello González, Luis Bellot Rubio, Wenda Cao in Solar Physics (2021)

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    Beam electrons as a source of Hα flare ribbons

    The observations of solar flare onsets show rapid increase of hard and soft X-rays, ultra-violet emission with large Doppler blue shifts associated with plasma upflows, and Hα hydrogen emission with red shifts up...

    Malcolm Druett, Eamon Scullion, Valentina Zharkova, Sarah Matthews in Nature Communications (2017)

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    High-frequency torsional Alfvén waves as an energy source for coronal heating

    The existence of the Sun’s hot atmosphere and the solar wind acceleration continues to be an outstanding problem in solar-astrophysics. Although magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes and dissipation of magnetic ener...

    Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, Juie Shetye, Krzysztof Murawski in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Magnetic tornadoes as energy channels into the solar corona

    Rotating magnetic structures in the Sun can channel energy outwards from the convection zone and may explain how the energy required to heat the outer layers of the Sun reaches its upper atmosphere.

    Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm, Eamon Scullion, Oskar Steiner, Luc Rouppe van der Voort in Nature (2012)