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Waves are an integral part of the solar atmosphere, and their characteristics (e.g., dominant period, range of periods, power, and phase angle) change on a diverse spatio-temporal scale. It is well well-established observationally that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Pradeep Kayshap , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak , Suresh Babu

For many years various asymmetrical profiles of different spectral lines emitted from solar flares have been frequently observed. These asymmetries or line shifts are caused predominantly by vertical mass motions in flaring layers and they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Berlicki

Context. The radiative losses in the solar chromosphere vary from 4~kW~m$^{-2}$ in the quiet Sun, to 20~kW~m$^{-2}$ in active regions. The mechanisms that transport non-thermal energy to and deposit it in the chromosphere are still not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-18 Jorrit Leenaarts , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Sanja Danilovic , Göran Scharmer , Mats Carlsson

The solar spectrum conveys most of our diagnostics to find out how our star works. They must be understood for utilization, but solar spectrum formation is complex because the interaction of matter and radiation within the solar atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-16 Robert J. Rutten

Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) effects in diagnostically important solar Fe I lines are important due to the strong sensitivity of Fe I to ionizing UV radiation, which may lead to a considerable under-population of the Fe I…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 René Holzreuter , Sami K. Solanki

Rotation is a significant characteristic of the Sun and other stars, and it plays an important role in understanding their dynamo actions and magnetic activities. In this study, the rotation of the solar chromospheric activity is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-22 Jing-Chen Xu , Peng-Xin Gao , Xiang-Jun Shi

During solar flares, spectral lines formed in the photosphere have been shown to exhibit changes to their profiles despite the challenges of energy transfer to these depths. Recent work has shown that deep-forming spectral lines are subject…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-05 Aaron J. Monson , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Adam F. Kowalski

We present significant improvements of our approach in constructing detailed atmospheric models and synthetic spectra for hot luminous stars: 1. A sophisticated and consistent description of line blocking and blanketing. Our solution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. A. Pauldrach , T. L. Hoffmann , M. Lennon

The solar chromosphere is a vigorously dynamic region of the sun, where waves and magnetic fields play an important role. To improve chromospheric diagnostics, we present new observations in Ca II 8542 carried out with the SST/CRISP on La…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Hector Socas-Navarro , Michiel van Noort , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Recent experiments on femtosecond pulses in water displayed long distance propagation analogous to that reported in air. We verify this phenomena numerically and show that the propagation is dynamic as opposed to self-guided. Furthermore,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kolesik , E. M. Wright , J. V. Moloney

Waves are observed at all layers of the solar atmosphere and the magnetic field plays a key role in their propagation. While deep down in the atmosphere the p-modes are almost entirely of acoustic nature, in the upper layers magnetic forces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Elena Khomenko , Irantzu Calvo Santamaria

The very nature of the solar chromosphere, its structuring and dynamics, remains far from being properly understood, in spite of intensive research. Here we point out the potential of chromospheric observations at millimeter wavelengths to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. A. Loukitcheva , S. K. Solanki , S. White

In this paper, we present a numerical simulation of an impulsively driven chromospheric jet in the solar atmosphere using the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations coupled with frequency- and angle-averaged radiation transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 J. J. González-Avilés

We solve a hydrodynamic model of active chromatin dynamics, within a confined geometry simulating the cell nucleus. Using both analytical and numerical methods, we describe the behavior of the chromatin polymer driven by the activity of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-05 Iraj Eshghi , Alexandra Zidovska , Alexander Y. Grosberg

The solar atmosphere is permeated by various types of waves that originate from subsurface convection. As these waves propagate upward, they encounter they encounter a steep decrease in the density of the medium, leading to their steepening…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 Ravi Chaurasiya , 1 Ankala Raja Bayanna , 1 Robertus Erdélyi

Context. The He i 1083 nm is a powerful diagnostic for inferring properties of the upper solar chromosphere, in particular for the magnetic field. The basic formation of the line in one-dimensional models is well understood, but the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Jorrit Leenaarts , Thomas Golding , Mats Carlsson , Tine Libbrecht , Jayant Joshi

The origin of the near-ultraviolet and optical continuum radiation in flares is critical for understanding particle acceleration and impulsive heating in stellar atmospheres. Radiative-hydrodynamic simulations in 1D have shown that high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Adam F. Kowalski , Joel C. Allred

We study line driven stellar winds using time-dependent radiation hydrodynamics where the continuum radiation couples to the gas via either a scattering or absorption opacity and there is an additional radiation force due to spectral lines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Sergei Dyda , Shane W. Davis

We have performed 3D radiation MHD simulations extending from the convection zone to the corona covering a box 16 Mm$^3$ at 32 km spatial resolution. The simulations show very fine structure in the chromosphere with acoustic shocks…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-12 Mats Carlsson , Viggo H. Hansteen , Boris V. Gudiksen

Waves and shocks traveling through the solar chromospheric plasma are influenced by its partial ionization and weak collisional coupling, and may become susceptible to multi-fluid effects, similar to interstellar shock waves. In this study,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 B. Popescu Braileanu , V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko , A. de Vicente