Polito, Vanessa
Inactive
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staff
Selected Publications
Article
Cho, Kyuhyoun, Testa, Paola, De Pontieu, Bart, and Polito, Vanessa. 2023. "A Statistical Study of IRIS Observational Signatures of Nanoflares and Nonthermal Particles ." The Astrophysical Journal , 945 143. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb7da .
2023
Shen, Chengcai, Polito, Vanessa, Reeves, Katharine K., Chen, Bin, Yu, Sijie, and Xie, Xiaoyan. 2023. "Non-thermal Broadening of IRIS Fe XXI Line Caused by Turbulent Plasma Flows in the Magnetic Reconnection Region During Solar Eruptions ." Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences , 10 19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2023.1096133 .
2023
Bakke, H., Carlsson, M., Rouppe van der Voort, L., Gudiksen, B. V., Polito, V., Testa, Paola, and De Pontieu, B. 2022. "Chromospheric emission from nanoflare heating in RADYN simulations ." Astronomy and Astrophysics , 659 A186. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142842 .
2022
De Pontieu, Bart, Testa, Paola, MartÃnez-Sykora, Juan, Antolin, Patrick, Karampelas, Konstantinos, Hansteen, Viggo, Rempel, Matthias, Cheung, Mark C. M., Reale, Fabio, Danilovic, Sanja, Pagano, Paolo, Polito, Vanessa, De Moortel, Ineke, Nóbrega-Siverio, Daniel, Van Doorsselaere, Tom, Petralia, Antonino, Asgari-Targhi, Mahboubeh, Boerner, Paul, Carlsson, Mats, Chintzoglou, Georgios, Daw, Adrian, DeLuca, Edward, Golub, Leon, Matsumoto, Takuma, Ugarte-Urra, Ignacio et al. 2022. "Probing the Physics of the Solar Atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE). I. Coronal Heating ." The Astrophysical Journal , 926 52. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac4222 .
2022
Cheung, Mark C. M., MartÃnez-Sykora, Juan, Testa, Paola, De Pontieu, Bart, Chintzoglou, Georgios, Rempel, Matthias, Polito, Vanessa, Kerr, Graham S., Reeves, Katharine K., Fletcher, Lyndsay, Jin, Meng, Nóbrega-Siverio, Daniel, Danilovic, Sanja, Antolin, Patrick, Allred, Joel, Hansteen, Viggo, Ugarte-Urra, Ignacio, DeLuca, Edward, Longcope, Dana, Takasao, Shinsuke, Derosa, Marc L., Boerner, Paul, Jaeggli, Sarah, Nitta, Nariaki V., Daw, Adrian et al. 2022. "Probing the Physics of the Solar Atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE). II. Flares and Eruptions ." The Astrophysical Journal , 926 53. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac4223 .
2022
Shen, Chengcai, Chen, Bin, Reeves, Katharine K., Yu, Sijie, Polito, Vanessa, and Xie, Xiaoyan. 2022. "The origin of underdense plasma downflows associated with magnetic reconnection in solar flares ." Nature Astronomy , 6 317–324. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01570-2 .
2022
De Pontieu, Bart, Polito, Vanessa, Hansteen, Viggo, Testa, Paola, Reeves, Katharine K., Antolin, Patrick, Nóbrega-Siverio, Daniel Elias, Kowalski, Adam F., Martinez-Sykora, Juan, Carlsson, Mats, McIntosh, Scott W., Liu, Wei, Daw, Adrian, and Kankelborg, Charles C. 2021. "A New View of the Solar Interface Region from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) ." Solar Physics , 296 84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-021-01826-0 .
2021
Reeves, Katharine K., Polito, Vanessa, Chen, Bin, Galan, Giselle, Yu, Sijie, Liu, Wei, and Li, Gang. 2020. "Hot Plasma Flows and Oscillations in the Loop-top Region During the 2017 September 10 X8.2 Solar Flare ." The Astrophysical Journal , 905 165. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abc4e0 .
2020
Testa, Paola, Polito, Vanessa, and Pontieu, Bart De. 2020. "IRIS Observations of Short-term Variability in Moss Associated with Transient Hot Coronal Loops ." The Astrophysical Journal , 889 124. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab63cf .
2020
Polito, Vanessa, De Pontieu, Bart, Testa, Paola, Brooks, David H., and Hansteen, Viggo. 2020. "IRIS Observations of the Low-atmosphere Counterparts of Active Region Outflows ." The Astrophysical Journal , 903 68. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abba1d .
2020
Smith, Randall, Hahn, Michael, Raymond, John, Kallman, T., Ballance, C. P., Polito, Vanessa, Del Zanna, Giulio, Gu, Liyi, Hell, Natalie, Cumbee, Renata, Betancourt-Martinez, Gabriele, Costantini, Elisa, and Corrales, Lia. 2020. "Roadmap on cosmic EUV and x-ray spectroscopy ." Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular Physics , 53 092001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ab69aa .
2020
Polito, Vanessa, Testa, Paola, and De Pontieu, Bart. 2019. "Can the Superposition of Evaporative Flows Explain Broad Fe XXI Profiles during Solar Flares? " The Astrophysical Journal , 879 L17. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab290b .
2019
Polito, Vanessa, Dudík, Jaroslav, Kašparová, Jana, Dzifčáková, Elena, Reeves, Katharine K., Testa, Paola, and Chen, Bin. 2018. "Broad Non-Gaussian Fe XXIV Line Profiles in the Impulsive Phase of the 2017 September 10 X8.3-class Flare Observed by Hinode/EIS ." The Astrophysical Journal , 864 63. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad62d .
2018
Polito, V., Testa, P., Allred, J., De Pontieu, B., Carlsson, M., Pereira, T. M. D., Gosic, Milan, and Reale, Fabio. 2018. "Investigating the Response of Loop Plasma to Nanoflare Heating Using RADYN Simulations ." The Astrophysical Journal , 856 178. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aab49e .
2018
Polito, Vanessa, Galan, Giselle, Reeves, Katharine K., and Musset, Sophie. 2018. "Possible Signatures of a Termination Shock in the 2014 March 29 X-class Flare Observed by IRIS ." The Astrophysical Journal , 865 161. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aadada .
2018
Dudík, Jaroslav, Polito, Vanessa, Dzifcáková, Elena, Del Zanna, Giulio, and Testa, Paola. 2017. "Non-Maxwellian Analysis of the Transition-region Line Profiles Observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph ." The Astrophysical Journal , 842 19. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa71a8 .
2017
Polito, V., Del Zanna, G., Dudík, J., Mason, H. E., Giunta, A., and Reeves, Katharine K. 2016. "Density diagnostics derived from the O iv and S iv intercombination lines observed by IRIS ." Astronomy and Astrophysics , 594 A64. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628965 .
2016
Polito, V., Reep, J. W., Reeves, Katharine K., Simões, P. J. A., Dudík, J., Del Zanna, G., Mason, H. E., and Golub, L. 2016. "Simultaneous IRIS and Hinode/EIS Observations and Modelling of the 2014 October 27 X2.0 Class Flare ." The Astrophysical Journal , 816 89. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/816/2/89 .
2016
Polito, V., Reeves, Katharine K., Del Zanna, G., Golub, L., and Mason, H. E. 2015. "Joint High Temperature Observation of a Small C6.5 Solar Flare With Iris/Eis/Aia ." The Astrophysical Journal , 803 84. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/803/2/84 .
2015