The enduring mystery of the solar corona
Philip G. Judge
TL;DR
This paper discusses the longstanding mystery of why the Sun's corona is significantly hotter than its surface, focusing on the role of magnetic fields in energy transport and deposition.
Contribution
It reviews current understanding and highlights unresolved questions about magnetic energy transfer mechanisms in the solar corona.
Findings
Magnetic fields are key to coronal heating.
The exact energy transport process remains unknown.
Current theories do not fully explain observed temperatures.
Abstract
Physicists have long known that the Sun's magnetic fields make its corona much hotter than the surface of the star itself. But how -- and why -- those fields transport and deposit their energy is still a mystery, as Philip G Judge explains
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