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Sunspots are concentrations of magnetic field on the visible solar surface that strongly affect the convective energy transport in their interior and surroundings. The filamentary outer regions (penumbrae) of sunspots show systematic radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 M. Rempel , M. Schüssler , R. H. Cameron , M. Knölker

We present results of numerical 3D MHD simulations with radiative energy transfer of fine structure in a small sunspot of about 4 Mm width. The simulations show the development of filamentary structures and flow patterns that are, except…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Heinemann , A. Nordlund , G. B. Scharmer , H. C. Spruit

Coronal plumes are narrow, collimated structures that are primarily viewed above the solar poles and in coronal holes in the extreme ultraviolet, but also in sunspots. Open questions remain about plume formation, including the role of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Ayla Weitz , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Gianna Cauzzi , Kevin P. Reardon , Bart De Pontieu

The aim of this work is the determination of the twist, writhe, and self magnetic helicity of penumbral filaments located in an inner Sunspot penumbra. To this extent, we inverted data taken with the spectropolarimeter (SP) aboard Hinode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Basilio Ruiz Cobo , Klaus G. Puschmann

We observed an elongated filamentary bright structure inside the umbra of the big sunspot in active region NOAA 12529, which differs from the light bridges usually observed in sunspots for its morphology, magnetic configuration, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Salvo L. Guglielmino , Paolo Romano , Francesca Zuccarello

High resolution spectropolarimetric observations of 3 sunspots taken with Hinode demonstrate the existence of supersonic downflows at or close to the umbra-penumbra boundary which have not been reported before. These downflows are confined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rohan E. Louis , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

Relying on the assumption that the interchange convection of magnetic flux tubes is the physical cause for the existence of sunspot penumbrae, we propose a model in which the dynamical evolution of a thin magnetic flux tube reproduces the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. Schlichenmaier , K. Jahn , H. U. Schmidt

Pores are one of the various features forming in the photosphere by the emergence of magnetic field onto the solar surface. They lie at the border between tiny magnetic elements and larger sunspots. Light bridges, in such structures, are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Giordano , F. Berrilli , D. Del Moro , V. Penza

In this work we selected one particular fibril from a high resolution solar chromosphere observation from the Dutch Open Telescope, and tried to obtain a broad picture of the intricate mechanism that might be incorporated in the multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Emanuel Sungging Mumpuni , Dhani Herdiwijaya , Mitra Djamal , Thomas Djamaluddin

We study the formation of a sunspot penumbra in the active region NOAA11024. We simultaneously observed the Stokes parameters of the photospheric iron lines at 1089.6 nm with the TIP and 617.3 nm with the GFPI spectropolarimeters along with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-15 Reza Rezaei , Nazaret Bello Gonzalez , Rolf Schlichenmaier

We present an analysis of twisting motions in penumbral filaments in sunspots located at heliocentric angles from $30^\circ$ to $48^\circ$ using three time series of blue continuum images obtained by the Broadband Filter Imager (BFI)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Lokesh Bharti , Sami K. Solanki , Johann Hirzberger

Context. Bright heads of penumbral filaments, penumbral grains (PGs), show apparent horizontal motions inwards, towards the umbra, or outwards, away from the umbra. Aims. We aim to prove statistically whether the direction of PGs' apparent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Michal Sobotka , Jan Jurčák , J. Sebastián Castellanos Durán , Marta García-Rivas

We present unprecedented high-resolution TiO images and Fe I 1565 nm spectropolarimetric data of two light bridges taken by the 1.6-m Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory. In the first light bridge (LB1), we find striking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Jingwen Zhang , Hui Tian , Sami K. Solanki , Haimin Wang , Hardi Peter , Kwangsu Ahn , Yan Xu , Yingjie Zhu , Wenda Cao , Jiansen He , Linghua Wang

The correct identification of topological magnetic objects in experiments is an important issue. In the present work we report on the characterization of metastable skyrmionic spin structures with various topological charges…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-19 Krisztián Palotás , Levente Rózsa , Eszter Simon , László Udvardi , László Szunyogh

Using the IRAS Infrared Sky Survey Atlas, we have made 60 x 60 deg mosaics of the far-infrared emission in the Milky Way. By applying a median normalizing spatial filter, we were able to eliminate the strong gradient in brightness towards…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 William H. Waller , Frank Varosi , Francois Boulanger , Seth W. Digel

The possibility of positronium detection at radio wavelengths is investigated in detail. For orthopositronium, the fine structure lines of the n = 2 level (1.62 cm, 2.30 cm and 3.48 cm) may be probably detected by radiotelescopes of next…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Burdyuzha , Ph. Durouchoux , V. Kauts

We study the structure and evolution of the horizontal proper motions in a regular sunspot penumbra, very close to the solar disc center, in active region NOAA 11092 using a 48 min time sequences of blue continuum images recorded by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Hashem Hamedivafa

We studied the formation of the first penumbral sector around a pore in the following polarity of the Active Region (AR) NOAA 11490. We used a high spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution data set acquired by the Interferometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 M. Murabito , P. Romano , S. L. Guglielmino , F. Zuccarello

High spatial resolution spectro-polarimetric observation of a decaying spot was observed with the Diffraction Limited Spectro-Polarimeter. The spatial resolution achieved was close to the diffraction limit (0."18) of the Dunn Solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-21 K. Sankarasubramanian , H. Hagenaar

We analyze several unusual filamentary structures, which appeared in the umbra of one of the sunspots in AR 11302. They do not resemble typical light bridges, neither in morphology, nor in evolution. We analyze data from SDO/HMI to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lucia Kleint , Alberto Sainz Dalda