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The solar chromosphere is heated to temperatures higher than predicted by radiative equilibrium. This excess heating is greater in active regions where the magnetic field is stronger. We aim to investigate the magnetic topology associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 J. M. da Silva Santos , S. Danilovic , J. Leenaarts , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , X. Zhu , S. M. White , G. J. M. Vissers , M. Rempel

Different analyses of identical Hinode SOT/SP data of quiet-sun magnetic fields have in the past led to contradictory answers to the question of whether the angular distribution of field vectors is preferentially horizontal or vertical.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jan Stenflo

The magnetic and convective nature of the Sun's photosphere provides a unique platform from which generated waves can be modelled, observed, and interpreted across a wide breadth of spatial and temporal scales. As oscillations are generated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 David B. Jess , Peter H. Keys , Marco Stangalini , Shahin Jafarzadeh

Using numerical simulations of the magnetised solar photosphere carried out with the radiative magneto-hydrodynamic code, MURaM, and detailed spectro-polarimetric diagnostics of the simulated photospheric 6302A FeI line,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Shelyag , D. Przybylski

The magnetic field of the quiet-Sun chromosphere remains a mystery for solar physicists. The reduced number of chromospheric lines are intrinsically hard to model and only a few of them are magnetically sensitive. In this work, we use a 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-22 J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , H. Socas-Navarro , M. Carlsson , J. Leenaarts

Magnetic reconnection at small spatial scales is a fundamental driver of energy release and plasma dynamics in the lower solar atmosphere. We present observations of a brightening in an active region, captured in high-resolution data from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 J. M. da Silva Santos , E. Dunnington , R. Jarolim , S. Danilovic , S. Criscuoli

The rapid, irreversible change of the photospheric magnetic field has been recognized as an important element of the solar flare process. This Letter reports such a rapid change of magnetic fields during the 2011 February 13 M6.6 flare in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Chang Liu , Na Deng , Rui Liu , Jeongwoo Lee , Thomas Wiegelmann , Ju Jing , Yan Xu , Shuo Wang , Haimin Wang

The NaD1 line in the solar spectrum is sometimes attributed to the solar chromosphere. We study its formation in quiet-Sun network and internetwork. We first present high-resolution profile-resolved images taken in this line with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Leenaarts , R. J. Rutten , K. Reardon , M. Carlsson , V. Hansteen

Changes in the solar surface area covered by small-scale magnetic elements are thought to cause long-term changes in the solar spectral irradiance, which are important for determining the impact on Earth's climate. To study the effect of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Afram , Y. C. Unruh , S. K. Solanki , M. Schuessler , A. Lagg , A. Voegler

This paper concerns electromagnetic 3D subsurface imaging in connection with sparsity of signal sources. We explored an imaging approach that can be implemented in situations that allow obtaining a large amount of data over a surface or a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-26 Sampsa Pursiainen , Mikko Kaasalainen

The effects of acoustic wave absorption, mode conversion and transmission by a sunspot on the helioseismic inferences are widely discussed, but yet accounting for them has proved difficult for lack of a consistent framework within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-26 S. P. Rajaguru

Helioseismic techniques such as ring-diagram analysis have often been used to determine the subsurface structural differences between solar active and quiet regions. Results obtained by inverting the frequency differences between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chia-Hsien Lin , Sarbani Basu , Linghuai Li

I represent results three-dimensional numerical simulation of solar surface convection on scales local supergranulation with realistic model physics. I study thermal structure of convective motions in photosphere, the range of convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Ustyugov

Spectral inversion codes are powerful tools to analyze spectropolarimetric observations, and they provide important diagnostics of solar magnetic fields. Inversion codes differ by numerical procedures, approximations of the atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Balthasar , M. L. Demidov

The Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS) installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the NSO/SP is used to investigate the morphology and dynamics of the lower chromosphere and the virtually non-magnetic fluctosphere below. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 F. Wöger , S. Wedemeyer-Böhm , H. Uitenbroek , T. R. Rimmele

The Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) records line-of-sight Dopplergram images of convective flows on the surface. These images are used to obtain the multi-scale convective spectrum. We design…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 Samarth G Kashyap , Shravan M Hanasoge

Zeeman-Doppler Imaging (ZDI) is a powerful inversion method to reconstruct stellar magnetic surface fields. The reconstruction process is usually solved by translating the inverse problem into a regularized least-square or optimization…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. A. Carroll , M. Kopf , K. G. Strassmeier , I. Ilyin

Flux emergence is ubiquitous in the Sun's lower atmosphere, where the emerging magnetic flux can reconnect with the pre-existing magnetic field. We investigate plasmoid formation and the resulting multi-thermal emissions during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Robert Cameron , Hardi Peter , Yajie Chen , Jun Lin

The Mg I b$_2$ line at 5173 \r{A} is primarily magnetically sensitive to heights between the mid photosphere and the low chromosphere, a region that has not been sufficiently explored in the solar atmosphere but is crucial for understanding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 A. L. Siu-Tapia , L. R. Bellot Rubio , D. Orozco Suárez , R. Gafeira

Image super-resolution has been an important subject in image processing and recognition. Here, we present an attention-aided convolutional neural network (CNN) for solar image super-resolution. Our method, named SolarCNN, aims to enhance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Chunhui Xu , Jason T. L. Wang , Haimin Wang , Haodi Jiang , Qin Li , Yasser Abduallah , Yan Xu