Observational evidence points to the chromosphere as the site of chemical fractionation responsible for the FIP effect in the solar corona.
Multi-fluid multi-species models for inverse FIP-effect
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The inverse First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect is rarely observed in the solar atmosphere, and this anomaly poses a challenging problem in understanding physical processes driving this chemical fractionation. In this work, we investigate various scenarios where the inverse FIP effect could occur using simplified 1D multi-fluid MHD models. The model treats the full MHD equations with multi-fluid and multi-species effects, rather than using wave analysis to derive the ponderomotive force and semi-empirical 1D models. In the parametric study considered here, for upward Alfv\'en waves, one can achieve a negative (opposite) ponderomotive force when the magnetic field strength and the magnetic flux tubes' expansion with height counteract the dissipation and damping effects from multi-fluid interactions.
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The connection between solar coronal abundances and the underlying lower atmospheric properties
Observational evidence points to the chromosphere as the site of chemical fractionation responsible for the FIP effect in the solar corona.