TL;DR
This paper reviews the dynamic nature of the solar corona as observed through X-ray emissions, emphasizing the role of magnetic fields and recent advances in high-resolution observations to understand coronal heating.
Contribution
It provides a historical overview and summarizes recent progress enabled by high-resolution X-ray observations in understanding the solar corona.
Findings
High-resolution X-ray observations reveal complex coronal structures.
Magnetic fields are fundamental in coronal heating and structuring.
Recent data advances improve understanding of solar magnetic activity.
Abstract
The X-ray emission from the Sun reveals a very dynamic hot atmosphere, the corona, which is characterized by a complex morphology and broad range of timescales of variability and spatial structuring. The solar magnetic fields play a fundamental role in the heating and structuring of the solar corona. Increasingly higher quality X-ray solar observations with high spatial (down to subarcsec) and temporal resolution provide fundamental information to refine our understanding of the solar magnetic activity and of the underlying physical processes leading to the heating of the solar outer atmosphere. Here we provide a brief historical overview of X-ray solar observations and we summarize recent progress in our understanding of the solar corona as made possible by state-of-the-art current X-ray observations.
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