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We report the observations of the magneto-hydrodynamic waves propagating along magnetic flux tubes in the solar photosphere. We identified 20 isolated strong peaks (8 peaks for pores and 12 peaks for inter-granular magnetic structure) in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daisuke Fujimura , Saku Tsuneta

Solar granules are bright patterns surrounded by dark channels called intergranular lanes in the solar photosphere and are a manifestation of overshooting convection. Observational studies generally find stronger upflows in granules and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 T. Oba , T. L. Riethmüller , S. K. Solanki , Y. Iida , C. Quintero Noda , T. Shimizu

We investigate a region of the quiet solar photosphere exhibiting three-lobed Stokes V profiles in the Fe I spectral line at 15648 Angstroem. The data were acquired with the GRIS spectropolarimeter attached to the GREGOR telescope. We aim…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Christoph Kiess , Juan Manuel Borrero , Wolfgang Schmidt

Previous studies have related surface temperature maps, obtained with the Doppler imaging (DI) technique, of LQ Hya with long-term photometry. We compare surface magnetic field maps, obtained with the Zeeman Doppler imaging (ZDI) technique,…

Hanle-effect observations of forbidden coronal line transitions and recently also longitudinal Zeeman-effect measurements of coronal lines show quantitative signatures of the weak coronal magnetic field. The interpretation of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Kramar , Bernd Inhester

A big challenge in solar and stellar physics in the coming years will be to decipher the magnetism of the solar outer atmosphere (chromosphere and corona) along with its dynamic coupling with the magnetic fields of the underlying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno , E. Landi Degl'Innocenti

In this work, we introduce a novel generative denoising diffusion model for synthesizing the Sun's three-dimensional coronal magnetic field, a complex and dynamic region characterized by evolving magnetic structures. Despite daily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel E. da Silva , Michael Kirk , Nat Mathews , Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo

The magnetic field permeating the solar atmosphere is generally thought to provide the energy for much of the activity seen in the solar corona, such as flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), etc. To overcome the unavailability of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , S. Gosain , P. MacNeice , Alexei A. Pevtsov

We present a radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulation of the formation of an Active Region on the solar surface. The simulation models the rise of a buoyant magnetic flux bundle from a depth of 7.5 Mm in the convection zone up into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. C. M. Cheung , M. Rempel , A. M. Title , M. Schüssler

Photospheric magnetic vector maps from two different instruments are used to model the nonlinear force-free coronal magnetic field above an active region. We use vector maps inferred from polarization measurements of the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. K. Thalmann , S. K. Tiwari , T. Wiegelmann

The observation of propagating magneto-hydrodynamic kink waves in magnetic structures and measurement of their properties (amplitude, phase speed) can be used to diagnose the plasma conditions in the neighbourhood of the magnetic structure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 R J Morton

Context. The interplay between surface magnetic topology and chromospheric heating in active M dwarfs remains poorly constrained, limiting our understanding of their magnetic cycles and high-energy environments. Aims. We aim to test whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Shuai Liu , Jianrong Shi , Huigang Wei , Wenxian Li , Jifeng Liu , Shangbin Yang , Henggeng Han

The solar chromosphere can be observed well through strong absorption lines. We infer the physical parameters of chromospheric plasmas from these lines using a multilayer spectral inversion. This is a new technique of spectral inversion. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Jongchul Chae , Maria S. Madjarska , Hannah Kwak , Kyuhyoun Cho

We carry out a study of the global three-dimensional (3D) structure of the electron density and temperature of the quiescent inner solar corona ($r<1.25 R_\odot$) by means of tomographic reconstructions and magnetohydrodynamic simulations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 D. G. Lloveras , A. M. Vásquez , F. A. Nuevo , C. Mac Cormack , N. Sachdeva , W. Manchester , B. Van der Holst , R. A. Frazin

Non-linear force-free extrapolations are a common approach to estimate the 3D topology of coronal magnetic fields based on photospheric vector magnetograms. The force-free assumption is a valid approximation at coronal heights, but for the…

Sunspots are prominent manifestations of solar magnetoconvection and imaging their subsurface structure is an outstanding problem of wide physical importance. Travel times of seismic waves that propagate through these structures are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Shravan Hanasoge , Aaron Birch , Laurent Gizon , Jeroen Tromp

We analyze Fe I 630 nm observations of the quiet Sun at disk center taken with the spectropolarimeter of the Solar Optical Telescope aboard the Hinode satellite. A significant fraction of the scanned area, including granules, turns out to…

The Ca II H line is one of the strongest lines in the solar spectrum and provides continuous information on the solar atmosphere from the photosphere to the lower chromosphere. We describe an inversion approach that reproduces observed Ca…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-14 C. Beck , R. Rezaei , K. G. Puschmann

The atmosphere of the Sun is highly structured and dynamic in nature. From the photosphere and chromosphere into the transition region and the corona plasma-$\beta$ changes from above to below one, i.e. while in the lower atmosphere the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Peter

High resolution and seeing-free spectroscopic observation of a decaying sunspot was done with the Solar Optical Telescope aboard Hinode satellite. The target was NOAA 10944 located in the west side of the solar surface from March 2 to March…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hiroko Watanabe , Reizaburo Kitai , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Yukio Katsukawa
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