The thermal and spatial structure of the solar corona over the cycle and its implication for the coronae of inactive stars

We use spectral (SOHO/SUMER and Hinode/EIS) and imaging (Hinode/XRT and SDO/AIA) solar coronal data to systematically measure the thermal structure of different types of solar features (coronal hole, quiet Sun, X-ray bright points, active regions...), and how they vary over the solar cycle. We use a combination of these structures to construct a model for the quiet corona of the inactive G8V star tau Ceti, which is a candidate stellar analog of a solar magnetic minimum. Since tau Ceti is significantly metal-poor relative to the Sun, we reconstruct the solar results with corresponding lower metallicities to generate more appropriate coronal structures.