Berghmans, David ; Zhukov, Andrei ; Verbeeck, Cis ; Lim, Daye ; Kraaikamp, Emil ; Auchère, Frederic ; Andretta, Vincenzo

Talk presented at 17th European Solar Physics Meeting on 2024-09-10

Abstract: At Solar Orbiter’s perihelion, the FSI telescope of the EUI instrument images the EUV corona up to 1 Rsun above the limb with a plate-scale better than 1000 km on the Sun. Here we report on exceptional FSI image sequences in the 17.4nm bandpass with deep exposures and a 30s cadence during the so-called “Density Fluctuations” and “Probe Quadrature” Solar Orbiter Observing Plans (SOOPs). These data, with unique high S/N in the high EUV corona, reveal ubiquitous intensity fluctuations propagating outward along open magnetic field-lines up to 1 Rsun above the limb, well beyond the FOV of traditional EUV imagers. Difference movies suggest these propagating intensity fluctuations have both a longitudinal as well as a transversal “swaying” component. We will discuss the relation of these high-altitude fluctuations with similar features reported before in the low solar corona (eg COMP & AIA data), as well as higher up in simultaneous Metis data. Implications for the energisation of the solar wind will be discussed.

Keyword(s): corona ; EUV ; EUI ; MHD waves
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