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Determining the Nanoflare Heating Frequency of an X-Ray Bright Point Observed by MaGIXS
- 1.0586241 - ASÚ 2025 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Mondal, B. - Athiray, P. S. - Winebarger, A. - Dudík, Jaroslav … Total 21 authors
Determining the Nanoflare Heating Frequency of an X-Ray Bright Point Observed by MaGIXS.
Astrophysical Journal. Roč. 967, č. 1 (2024), č. článku 23. ISSN 0004-637X. E-ISSN 1538-4357
Institutional support: RVO:67985815
Keywords : solar coronal heating * solar coronal loops * solar x-ray emission
OECD category: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Impact factor: 4.9, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
Nanoflares are thought to be one of the prime candidates that can heat the solar corona to its multimillion kelvin temperature. Individual nanoflares are difficult to detect with the present generation of instruments, but their presence can be inferred by comparing simulated nanoflare-heated plasma emissions with the observed emission. Using HYDRAD coronal loop simulations, we model the emission from an X-ray bright point (XBP) observed by the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS), along with the nearest available observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on board the Hinode observatory. The length and magnetic field strength of the coronal loops are derived from the linear force-free extrapolation of the observed photospheric magnetogram by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board SDO. Each loop is assumed to be heated by random nanoflares, whose magnitude and frequency are determined by the loop length and magnetic field strength. The simulation results are then compared and matched against the measured intensity from AIA, XRT, and MaGIXS. Our model results indicate the observed emission from the XBP under study could be well matched by a distribution of nanoflares with average delay times 1500-3000 s. Further, we demonstrate the high sensitivity of MaGIXS and XRT for diagnosing the heating frequency using this method, while AIA passbands are found to be the least sensitive.
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