Testa, Paola
Astrophysicist
Solar and stellar coronal physics; stellar magnetic activity; modeling of coronal loops; X-ray astronomy
Background And Education
Education And Training
- Ph.D., University of Palermo
Publications
Selected Publications
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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
- Testa, Paola, Martínez-Sykora, Juan, and De Pontieu, Bart. 2023. "Coronal Abundances in an Active Region: Evolution and Underlying Chromospheric and Transition Region Properties." The Astrophysical Journal, 944 117. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb343. 2023
- Testa, Paola, Bakke, Helle, Rouppe van der Voort, Luc, and De Pontieu, Bart. 2023. "High-resolution Observations of the Low Atmospheric Response to Small Coronal Heating Events in an Active Region Core." The Astrophysical Journal, 956 85. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf4f1. 2023
- Boro Saikia, S., Lueftinger, T., Airapetian, V. S., Ayres, T., Bartel, M., Guedel, M., Jin, M., Kislyakova, K. G., and Testa, P. 2023. "Nonthermal Motions and Atmospheric Heating of Cool Stars." The Astrophysical Journal, 950 124. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acca14. 2023
- Savage, Sabrina L., Winebarger, Amy R., Kobayashi, Ken, Athiray, P. S., Beabout, Dyana, Golub, Leon, Walsh, Robert W., Beabout, Brent, Bradshaw, Stephen, Bruccoleri, Alexander R., Champey, Patrick R., Cheimets, Peter, Cirtain, Jonathan, DeLuca, Edward E., Del Zanna, Giulio, Dudík, Jaroslav, Guillory, Anthony, Haight, Harlan, Heilmann, Ralf K., Hertz, Edward, Hogue, William, Kegley, Jeffery, Kolodziejczak, Jeffery, Madsen, Chad, Mason, Helen et al. 2023. "The First Flight of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-Ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS)." The Astrophysical Journal, 945 105. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbb58. 2023
- Martínez-Sykora, Juan, De Pontieu, Bart, Hansteen, Viggo H., Testa, Paola, Wargnier, Q. M., and Szydlarski, Mikolaj. 2023. "The Impact of Multifluid Effects in the Solar Chromosphere on the Ponderomotive Force under SE and NEQ Ionization Conditions." The Astrophysical Journal, 949 112. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc465. 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
- Peter, Hardi, Chitta, Lakshmi Pradeep, Chen, Feng, Pontin, David I., Winebarger, Amy R., Golub, Leon, Savage, Sabrina L., Rachmeler, Laurel A., Kobayashi, Ken, Brooks, David H., Cirtain, Jonathan W., De Pontieu, Bart, McKenzie, David E., Morton, Richard J., Testa, Paola, Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Walsh, Robert W., and Warren, Harry P. 2022. "Parallel Plasma Loops and the Energization of the Solar Corona." The Astrophysical Journal, 933 153. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7219. 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
- 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
- Ayres, Thomas, De Pontieu, Bart, and Testa, Paola. 2021. "In the Trenches of the Solar-stellar Connection. IV. Solar Full-disk Scans of C II, Si IV, and Mg II by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph." The Astrophysical Journal, 916 36. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abfa92. 2021
- Antolin, Patrick, Pagano, Paolo, Testa, Paola, Petralia, Antonino, and Reale, Fabio. 2021. "Reconnection nanojets in the solar corona." Nature Astronomy, 5 54–62. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1199-8. 2021
- 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
- Williams, Thomas, Walsh, Robert W., Winebarger, Amy R., Brooks, David H., Cirtain, Jonathan W., De Pontieu, Bart, Golub, Leon, Kobayashi, Ken, McKenzie, David E., Morton, Richard J., Peter, Hardi, Rachmeler, Laurel A., Savage, Sabrina L., Testa, Paola, Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Warren, Harry P., and Watkinson, Benjamin J. 2020. "Is the High-Resolution Coronal Imager Resolving Coronal Strands? Results from AR 12712." The Astrophysical Journal, 892 134. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab6dcf. 2020
- Warren, Harry P., Reep, Jeffrey W., Crump, Nicholas A., Ugarte-Urra, Ignacio, Brooks, David H., Winebarger, Amy R., Savage, Sabrina, De Pontieu, Bart, Peter, Hardi, Cirtain, Jonathan W., Golub, Leon, Kobayashi, Ken, McKenzie, David, Morton, Richard, Rachmeler, Laurel, Testa, Paola, Tiwari, Sanjiv, and Walsh, Robert. 2020. "Observation and Modeling of High-temperature Solar Active Region Emission during the High-resolution Coronal Imager Flight of 2018 May 29." The Astrophysical Journal, 896 51. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab917c. 2020
- Testa, Paola and Reale, Fabio. 2020. "On the Coronal Temperature in Solar Microflares." The Astrophysical Journal, 902 31. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abb36e. 2020
- Brooks, David H., Winebarger, Amy R., Savage, Sabrina, Warren, Harry P., De Pontieu, Bart, Peter, Hardi, Cirtain, Jonathan W., Golub, Leon, Kobayashi, Ken, McIntosh, Scott W., McKenzie, David, Morton, Richard, Rachmeler, Laurel, Testa, Paola, Tiwari, Sanjiv, and Walsh, Robert. 2020. "The Drivers of Active Region Outflows into the Slow Solar Wind." The Astrophysical Journal, 894 144. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8a4c. 2020
- De Pontieu, Bart, Martínez-Sykora, Juan, Testa, Paola, Winebarger, Amy R., Daw, Adrian, Hansteen, Viggo, Cheung, Mark C. M., and Antolin, Patrick. 2020. "The Multi-slit Approach to Coronal Spectroscopy with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE)." The Astrophysical Journal, 888 3. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5b03. 2020
- Cheung, M. C. M., Rempel, M., Chintzoglou, G., Chen, F., Testa, Paola, Martínez-Sykora, J., Sainz Dalda, A., DeRosa, M. L., Malanushenko, A., Hansteen, V., De Pontieu, B., Carlsson, M., Gudiksen, B., and McIntosh, S. W. 2019. "A comprehensive three-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a solar flare." Nature Astronomy, 3 160–166. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0629-3. 2019
- Graham, David R., De Pontieu, Bart, and Testa, Paola. 2019. "Automated Detection of Rapid Variability of Moss Using SDO/AIA and Its Connection to the Solar Corona." The Astrophysical Journal, 880 L12. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab2f91. 2019
- 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
- Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Panesar, Navdeep K., Moore, Ronald L., De Pontieu, Bart, Winebarger, Amy R., Golub, Leon, Savage, Sabrina L., Rachmeler, Laurel A., Kobayashi, Ken, Testa, Paola, Warren, Harry P., Brooks, David H., Cirtain, Jonathan W., McKenzie, David E., Morton, Richard J., Peter, Hardi, and Walsh, Robert W. 2019. "Fine-scale Explosive Energy Release at Sites of Prospective Magnetic Flux Cancellation in the Core of the Solar Active Region Observed by Hi-C 2.1, IRIS, and SDO." The Astrophysical Journal, 887 56. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab54c1. 2019
- Panesar, Navdeep K., Sterling, Alphonse C., Moore, Ronald L., Winebarger, Amy R., Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Savage, Sabrina L., Golub, Leon E., Rachmeler, Laurel A., Kobayashi, Ken, Brooks, David H., Cirtain, Jonathan W., De Pontieu, Bart, McKenzie, David E., Morton, Richard J., Peter, Hardi, Testa, Paola, Walsh, Robert W., and Warren, Harry P. 2019. "Hi-C 2.1 Observations of Jetlet-like Events at Edges of Solar Magnetic Network Lanes." The Astrophysical Journal, 887 L8. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab594a. 2019
- Reale, Fabio, Testa, Paola, Petralia, Antonino, and Graham, David R. 2019. "Impulsive Coronal Heating from Large-scale Magnetic Rearrangements: From IRIS to SDO/AIA." The Astrophysical Journal, 882 7. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab304f. 2019
- Reale, Fabio, Testa, Paola, Petralia, Antonino, and Kolotkov, Dmitrii Y. 2019. "Large-amplitude Quasiperiodic Pulsations as Evidence of Impulsive Heating in Hot Transient Loop Systems Detected in the EUV with SDO/AIA." The Astrophysical Journal, 884 131. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4270. 2019
- Cheung, Mark C. M., De Pontieu, Bart, Martínez-Sykora, Juan, Testa, Paola, Winebarger, Amy R., Daw, Adrian, Hansteen, Viggo, Antolin, Patrick, Tarbell, Theodore D., Wuelser, Jean-Pierre, Young, Peter R., and MUSE Team. 2019. "Multi-component Decomposition of Astronomical Spectra by Compressed Sensing." The Astrophysical Journal, 882 13. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab263d. 2019
- Bradshaw, Stephen J. and Testa, Paola. 2019. "Quantifying the Influence of Key Physical Processes on the Formation of Emission Lines Observed by IRIS. I. Non-equilibrium Ionization and Density-dependent Rates." The Astrophysical Journal, 872 123. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aafe85. 2019
- Rachmeler, Laurel A., Winebarger, Amy R., Savage, Sabrina L., Golub, Leon, Kobayashi, Ken, Vigil, Genevieve D., Brooks, David H., Cirtain, Jonathan W., De Pontieu, Bart, McKenzie, David E., Morton, Richard J., Peter, Hardi, Testa, Paola, Tiwari, Sanjiv K., Walsh, Robert W., Warren, Harry P., Alexander, Caroline, Ansell, Darren, Beabout, Brent L., Beabout, Dyana L., Bethge, Christian W., Champey, Patrick R., Cheimets, Peter N., Cooper, Mark A., Creel, Helen K. et al. 2019. "The High-Resolution Coronal Imager, Flight 2.1." Solar Physics, 294 174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-019-1551-2. 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
- Petralia, A., Reale, F., and Testa, P. 2018. "Guided flows in coronal magnetic flux tubes." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 609 A18. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731827. 2018
- Wülser, J. P., Jaeggli, S., De Pontieu, B., Tarbell, T., Boerner, P., Freeland, S., Liu, W., Timmons, R., Brannon, S., Kankelborg, C., Madsen, Chad, McKillop, Sean, Prchlik, Jakub, Saar, Steven, Schanche, Nicole E., Testa, P., Bryans, P., and Wiesmann, M. 2018. "Instrument Calibration of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) Mission." Solar Physics, 293 Article 149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-018-1364-8. 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
- 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
- Parenti, Susanna, Del Zanna, Giulio, Petralia, Antonino, Reale, Fabio, Teriaca, Luca, Testa, Paola, and Mason, Helen E. 2017. "Spectroscopy of Very Hot Plasma in Non-flaring Parts of a Solar Limb Active Region: Spatial and Temporal Properties." The Astrophysical Journal, 846 25. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa835f. 2017
- Petralia, A., Reale, F., Orlando, S., and Testa, P. 2016. "Bright Hot Impacts by Erupted Fragments Falling Back on the Sun: Magnetic Channelling." The Astrophysical Journal, 832 2. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/832/1/2. 2016
- Tajfirouze, E., Reale, F., Peres, G., and Testa, P. 2016. "EUV Flickering of Solar Coronal Loops: A New Diagnostic of Coronal Heating." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 817 L11. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/817/2/L11. 2016
- Ayres, Thomas R., Kashyap, V., Saar, S., Huenemoerder, D., Korhonen, H., Drake, Jeremy J., Testa, P., Cohen, O., Garraffo, Cecilia, Granzer, T., and Strassmeier, K. 2016. "FK Comae Berenices, King of Spin: The COCOA-PUFS Project." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 223 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/223/1/5. 2016
- Testa, Paola, De Pontieu, Bart, and Hansteen, Viggo. 2016. "High Spatial Resolution Fe XII Observations of Solar Active Regions." The Astrophysical Journal, 827 99. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/827/2/99. 2016
- Tajfirouze, E., Reale, F., Petralia, A., and Testa, P. 2016. "Time-resolved Emission from Bright Hot Pixels of an Active Region Observed in the EUV Band with SDO/AIA and Multi-stranded Loop Modeling." The Astrophysical Journal, 816 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/816/1/12. 2016
- Cheung, Mark C. M., De Pontieu, B., Tarbell, T. D., Fu, Y., Tian, H., Testa, P., Reeves, Katharine K., Martínez-Sykora, J., Boerner, P., Wülser, J. P., Lemen, J., Title, A. M., Hurlburt, N., Kleint, L., Kankelborg, C., Jaeggli, S., Golub, L., McKillop, S., Saar, S., Carlsson, M., and Hansteen, V. 2015. "Homologous Helical Jets: Observations By IRIS, SDO, and Hinode and Magnetic Modeling With Data- Driven Simulations." The Astrophysical Journal, 801 83. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/801/2/83. 2015
- Martínez-Sykora, Juan, Rouppe van der Voort, Luc, Carlsson, Mats, De Pontieu, Bart, Pereira, Tiago M. D., Boerner, Paul, Hurlburt, Neal, Kleint, Lucia, Lemen, James, Tarbell, Ted D., Title, Alan, Wuelser, Jean-Pierre, Hansteen, Viggo H., Golub, Leon, McKillop, Sean, Reeves, Katharine K., Saar, Steven, Testa, Paola, Tian, Hui, Jaeggli, Sarah, and Kankelborg, Charles. 2015. "Internetwork Chromospheric Bright Grains Observed With IRIS and SST." The Astrophysical Journal, 803 44. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/803/1/44. 2015
- Landi, E. and Testa, P. 2015. "Neon and Oxygen Abundances and Abundance Ratio in the Solar Corona." The Astrophysical Journal, 800 110. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/110. 2015
- Cheung, Mark C. M., Boerner, P., Schrijver, C. J., Testa, P., Chen, F., Peter, H., and Malanushenko, A. 2015. "Thermal Diagnostics with the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory: A Validated Method for Differential Emission Measure Inversions." The Astrophysical Journal, 807 143. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/807/2/143. 2015
- Schulz, Norbert S., Huenemoerder, David P., Günther, Moritz, Testa, Paola, and Canizares, Claude R. 2015. "X-Ray Properties of Low-mass Pre-main Sequence Stars in the Orion Trapezium Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 810 55. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/810/1/55. 2015
- Pereira, T. M. D., De Pontieu, B., Carlsson, M., Hansteen, V., Tarbell, T. D., Lemen, J., Title, A., Boerner, P., Hurlburt, N., Wülser, J. P., Martínez-Sykora, J., Kleint, L., Golub, L., McKillop, S., Reeves, Katharine K., Saar, S., Testa, P., Tian, H., Jaeggli, S., and Kankelborg, C. 2014. "An Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph First View on Solar Spicules." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 792 L15. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/792/1/L15. 2014
- Reale, F., Orlando, S., Testa, P., Landi, E., and Schrijver, C. J. 2014. "Bright Hot Impacts by Erupted Fragments Falling Back on the Sun: UV Redshifts in Stellar Accretion." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 797 L5. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/797/1/L5. 2014
- Kleint, L., Antolin, P., Tian, H., Judge, P., Testa, P., De Pontieu, B., Martínez-Sykora, J., Reeves, Katharine K., Wuelser, J. P., McKillop, S., Saar, S., Carlsson, M., Boerner, P., Hurlburt, N., Lemen, J., Tarbell, T. D., Title, A., Golub, L., Hansteen, V., Jaeggli, S., and Kankelborg, C. 2014. "Detection of Supersonic Downflows and Associated Heating Events in the Transition Region above Sunspots." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 789 L42. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/789/2/L42. 2014
- Testa, P., De Pontieu, B., Allred, J., Carlsson, M., Reale, F., Daw, A., Hansteen, V., Martinez-Sykora, J., Liu, W., DeLuca, Edward E., Golub, L., McKillop, S., Reeves, Katharine K., Saar, S., Tian, H., Lemen, J., Title, A., Boerner, P., Hurlburt, N., Tarbell, T. D., Wuelser, J. P., Kleint, L., Kankelborg, C., and Jaeggli, S. 2014. "Evidence of nonthermal particles in coronal loops heated impulsively by nanoflares." Science, 346 1255724. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1255724. 2014
- Tian, H., DeLuca, Edward E., Reeves, Katharine K., McKillop, S., De Pontieu, B., Martínez-Sykora, J., Carlsson, M., Hansteen, V., Kleint, L., Cheung, M., Golub, L., Saar, S., Testa, P., Weber, Mark A., Lemen, J., Title, A., Boerner, P., Hurlburt, N., Tarbell, T. D., Wuelser, J. P., Kankelborg, C., Jaeggli, S., and McIntosh, S. W. 2014. "High-resolution Observations of the Shock Wave Behavior for Sunspot Oscillations with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph." The Astrophysical Journal, 786 137. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/137. 2014
- Peter, H., Tian, H., Curdt, W., Schmit, D., Innes, D., De Pontieu, B., Lemen, J., Title, A., Boerner, P., Hurlburt, N., Tarbell, T. D., Wuelser, J. P., Martínez-Sykora, Juan, Kleint, L., Golub, L., McKillop, S., Reeves, Katharine K., Saar, S., Testa, P., Kankelborg, C., Jaeggli, S., Carlsson, M., and Hansteen, V. 2014. "Hot explosions in the cool atmosphere of the Sun." Science, 346 1255726. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1255726. 2014
- Tian, H., Kleint, L., Peter, H., Weber, Mark A., Testa, P., DeLuca, Edward E., Golub, L., and Schanche, N. 2014. "Observations of Subarcsecond Bright Dots in the Transition Region above Sunspots with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 790 L29. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/790/2/L29. 2014
- De Pontieu, B., Rouppe van der Voort, L., McIntosh, S. W., Pereira, T. M. D., Carlsson, M., Hansteen, V., Skogsrud, H., Lemen, J., Title, A., Boerner, P., Hurlburt, N., Tarbell, T. D., Wuelser, J. P., De Luca, E. E., Golub, L., McKillop, S., Reeves, Katharine K., Saar, S., Testa, P., Tian, H., Kankelborg, C., Jaeggli, S., Kleint, L., and Martinez-Sykora, J. 2014. "On the prevalence of small-scale twist in the solar chromosphere and transition region." Science, 346 1255732. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1255732. 2014
- Boerner, P. F., Testa, P., Warren, H., Weber, Mark A., and Schrijver, C. J. 2014. "Photometric and Thermal Cross-calibration of Solar EUV Instruments." Solar Physics, 289 2377–2397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-013-0452-z. 2014
- Tian, H., DeLuca, Edward E., Cranmer, S. R., De Pontieu, B., Peter, H., Martínez-Sykora, J., Golub, L., McKillop, S., Reeves, Katharine K., Miralles, Mari Paz, McCauley, P., Saar, S., Testa, P., Weber, Mark A., Murphy, Nicholas A., Lemen, J., Title, A., Boerner, P., Hurlburt, N., Tarbell, T. D., Wuelser, J. P., Kleint, L., Kankelborg, C., Jaeggli, S., Carlsson, M. et al. 2014. "Prevalence of small-scale jets from the networks of the solar transition region and chromosphere." Science, 346 1255711. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1255711. 2014
- De Pontieu, B., Title, A. M., Lemen, J. R., Kushner, G. D., Akin, D. J., Allard, B., Berger, T., Boerner, P., Cheung, M., Chou, C., Drake, J. F., Duncan, D. W., Freeland, S., Heyman, G. F., Hoffman, C., Hurlburt, N. E., Lindgren, R. W., Mathur, D., Rehse, R., Sabolish, D., Seguin, R., Schrijver, C. J., Tarbell, T. D., Wülser, J. -P, Wolfson, C. J. et al. 2014. "The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)." Solar Physics, 289 2733–2779. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-014-0485-y. 2014
- Landi, E. and Testa, P. 2014. "The Temperature of Quiescent Streamers during Solar Cycles 23 and 24." The Astrophysical Journal, 787 33. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/787/1/33. 2014
- Hansteen, V., De Pontieu, B., Carlsson, M., Lemen, J., Title, A., Boerner, P., Hurlburt, N., Tarbell, T. D., Wuelser, J. P., Pereira, T. M. D., De Luca, E. E., Golub, L., McKillop, S., Reeves, Katharine K., Saar, S., Testa, P., Tian, H., Kankelborg, C., Jaeggli, S., Kleint, L., and Martínez-Sykora, J. 2014. "The unresolved fine structure resolved: IRIS observations of the solar transition region." Science, 346 1255757. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1255757. 2014
- Petralia, A., Reale, F., Testa, P., and Del Zanna, G. 2014. "Thermal structure of a hot non-flaring corona from Hinode/EIS." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 564 3. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322998. 2014
- Torrejón, J. M., Schulz, N. S., Nowak, M. A., Testa, P., and Rodes, J. J. 2013. "Hot Thermal X-Ray Emission from the Be Star HD 119682." The Astrophysical Journal, 765 13. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/765/1/13. 2013
- Bowen, Trevor A., Testa, Paola, and Reeves, Katharine K. 2013. "Multi-wavelength Observations of Solar Flares with a Constrained Peak X-Ray Flux." The Astrophysical Journal, 770 126. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/770/2/126. 2013
- Testa, Paola, De Pontieu, Bart, Martínez-Sykora, Juan, DeLuca, Edward E., Hansteen, Viggo, Cirtain, Jonathan, Winebarger, Amy, Golub, Leon, Kobayashi, Ken, Korreck, Kelly, Kuzin, Sergey, Walsh, Robert, DeForest, Craig, Title, Alan, and Weber, Mark A. 2013. "Observing Coronal Nanoflares in Active Region Moss." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 770 L1. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/770/1/L1. 2013
- Martens, P. C. H., Attrill, G. D. R., Davey, Alisdair R., Engell, Alexander J., Farid, Samaiyah, Grigis, P. C., Kasper, Justin C., Korreck, Kelly E., Saar, S. H., Savcheva, A., Su, Y., Testa, P., Wills-Davey, M., Bernasconi, P. N., Raouafi, N. -E, Delouille, V. A., Hochedez, J. F., Cirtain, J. W., DeForest, C. E., Angryk, R. A., De Moortel, I., Wiegelmann, T., Georgoulis, M. K., McAteer, R. T. J., and Timmons, R. P. 2012. "Computer Vision for the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)." Solar Physics, 275 79–113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-010-9697-y. 2012
- Testa, Paola and Reale, Fabio. 2012. "Hinode/EIS Spectroscopic Validation of Very Hot Plasma Imaged with the Solar Dynamics Observatory in Non-flaring Active Region Cores." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 750 L10. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/750/1/L10. 2012
- Boerner, Paul, Edwards, Christopher, Lemen, James, Rausch, Adam, Schrijver, Carolus, Shine, Richard, Shing, Lawrence, Stern, Robert, Tarbell, Theodore, Title, Alan, Wolfson, C. Jacob, Soufli, Regina, Spiller, Eberhard, Gullikson, Eric, McKenzie, David, Windt, David, Golub, Leon, Podgorski, William, Testa, Paola, and Weber, Mark. 2012. "Initial Calibration of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)." Solar Physics, 275 41–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-011-9804-8. 2012
- Testa, Paola, De Pontieu, Bart, Martínez-Sykora, Juan, Hansteen, Viggo, and Carlsson, Mats. 2012. "Investigating the Reliability of Coronal Emission Measure Distribution Diagnostics using Three-dimensional Radiative Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations." The Astrophysical Journal, 758 54. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/758/1/54. 2012
- Landi, E., Reale, F., and Testa, P. 2012. "Monte Carlo Markov chain DEM reconstruction of isothermal plasmas." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 538. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117424. 2012
- Testa, Paola, Drake, Jeremy J., and Landi, Enrico. 2012. "Testing EUV/X-Ray Atomic Data for the Solar Dynamics Observatory." The Astrophysical Journal, 745, (2). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/111. 2012
- Mitschang, Arik W., Schulz, Norbert S., Huenemoerder, David P., Nichols, Joy S., and Testa, Paola. 2011. "Detailed X-Ray Line Properties of 2Ori A in Quiescence." The Astrophysical Journal, 734 14. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/734/1/14. 2011
- Foster, Adam R. and Testa, Paola. 2011. "Fe IX Calculations for the Solar Dynamics Observatory." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 740 L52. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/740/2/L52. 2011
- Martínez-Sykora, Juan, De Pontieu, Bart, Testa, Paola, and Hansteen, Viggo. 2011. "Forward Modeling of Emission in Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly Passbands from Dynamic Three-dimensional Simulations." The Astrophysical Journal, 743, (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/23. 2011
- Berger, Thomas, Testa, Paola, Hillier, Andrew, Boerner, Paul, Low, Boon Chye, Shibata, Kazunari, Schrijver, Carolus, Tarbell, Ted, and Title, Alan. 2011. "Magneto-thermal convection in solar prominences." Nature, 472, (7342) 197–200. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09925. 2011
- Ma, Suli, Raymond, John C., Golub, Leon, Lin, Jun, Chen, Huadong, Grigis, Paolo, Testa, Paola, and Long, David. 2011. "Observations and Interpretation of a Low Coronal Shock Wave Observed in the EUV by the SDO/AIA." The Astrophysical Journal, 738 160. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/738/2/160. 2011
- Reale, Fabio, Guarrasi, Massimiliano, Testa, Paola, DeLuca, Edward E., Peres, Giovanni, and Golub, Leon. 2011. "Solar Dynamics Observatory Discovers Thin High Temperature Strands in Coronal Active Regions." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 736. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/736/1/L16. 2011
- Testa, Paola, Reale, Fabio, Landi, Enrico, DeLuca, Edward E., and Kashyap, Vinay L. 2011. "Temperature Distribution of a Non-flaring Active Region from Simultaneous Hinode XRT and EIS Observations." The Astrophysical Journal, 728, (1) 30. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/728/1/30. 2011
- Huenemoerder, David P., Schulz, Norbert S., Testa, Paola, Drake, Jeremy J., Osten, Rachel A., and Reale, Fabio. 2010. "X-ray Flares of EV Lac: Statistics, Spectra, and Diagnostics." The Astrophysical Journal, 723 1558–1567. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/723/2/1558. 2010
- Attrill, Gemma D. R., Engell, Alexander J., Wills-Davey, Meredith J., Grigis, Paolo, and Testa, Paola. 2009. "Hinode/XRT and STEREO Observations of a Diffuse Coronal "Wave"-Coronal Mass Ejection-Dimming Event." The Astrophysical Journal, 704 1296–1308. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/704/2/1296. 2009
- Ercolano, Barbara, Drake, Jeremy J., Reale, Fabio, Testa, Paola, and Miller, Jon M. 2008. "Fe Kalpha and Hydrodynamic Loop Model Diagnostics for a Large Flare on II Pegasi." The Astrophysical Journal, 688 1315–1319. 2008
- Testa, Paola, Drake, Jeremy J., Ercolano, Barbara, Reale, Fabio, Huenemoerder, David P., Affer, Laura, Micela, Giuseppina, and Garcia-Alvarez, David. 2008. "Geometry Diagnostics of a Stellar Flare from Fluorescent X-Rays." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 675 L97–L100. 2008
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