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Polar faculae are bright features that can be detected in solar limb observations and they are related to magnetic field concentrations. Although there is a large number of works studying them, some questions about their nature as their…

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Coronal bright points (CBP) are ubiquitous small brightenings in the solar corona associated with small magnetic bipoles. We derive the solar differential rotation profile by tracing the motions of CBPs detected by the Atmospheric Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-25 Davor Sudar , Ivica Skokić , Roman Brajša , Steven H. Saar

Employing Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) deep magnetograms and H${\alpha}$ images in a quiet region and a coronal hole, observed on September 14 and 16, 2004, respectively, we have explored the magnetic flux emergence, disappearance and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Jun Zhang , Jun Ma , Haimin Wang

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 Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter (CoMP) has previously demonstrated the presence of Doppler velocity fluctuations in the solar corona. The observed fluctuations are thought to be transverse waves, i.e. highly incompressible motions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 R. J. Morton , S. Tomczyk , R. F. Pinto

Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process crucial for heating the solar corona and generating the solar wind, but resolving and characterizing it on the Sun remains challenging. Using high-quality data from the…

We investigate the relationship between different transients such as blinkers detected in images taken at 304~{\AA}, extreme ultraviolet coronal bright points (ECBPs) at 193~{\AA}, X-ray coronal bright points (XCBPs) at 94~{\AA} on AIA, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Zahra Shokri , Nasibe Alipour , Hossein Safari , Pradeep Kayshap , Olena Podladchikova , Giuseppina Nigro , Durgesh Tripathi

The acceleration mechanism of EUV/X-ray jets is still unclear. For the most part, there are two candidates for the mechanism. One is magnetic reconnection, and the other is chromospheric evaporation. We observed a relatively compact X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Toshiki Kawai , Natsuo Kanda , Shinsuke Imada

Observational detection of quasi-periodic drifting fine structures in a type III radio burst associated with a solar flare SOL2015-04-16T11:22, with Low Frequency Array, is presented. Although similar modulations of the type III emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Eduard P. Kontar

Magnetic elements are thought to be described by flux tube models, and are well reproduced by MHD simulations. However, these simulations are only partially constrained by observations. We observationally investigate the relationship…

Broad-band images of the solar chromosphere in the Ca II H&K line cores around active regions are covered with fine bright elongated structures called bright fibrils. The mechanisms that form these structures and cause them to appear bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Sepideh Kianfar , Jorrit Leenaarts , Sanja Danilovic , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Carlos José Díaz Baso

High-resolution observations with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) reveal rotating magnetic field structures that extend from the solar surface into the chromosphere and the corona. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sven Wedemeyer , Oskar Steiner

EUV images of Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) from the AIA show striations related to the magnetic field structure in both open and closed magnetic regions. The brightness contrast implies coronal density contrasts of at least a factor of 6…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. C. Raymond , P. I. McCauley , S. R. Cranmer , C. Downs

We report a solar coronal split-band type II radio burst that was observed on 2016 March 16 with the Gauribidanur Radio Spectro-Polarimeter (GRASP) in the frequency range $\approx$\,90\,-\,50 MHz, and the Gauribidanur RadioheliograPH…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Anshu Kumari , R. Ramesh , C. Kathiravan , T. J. Wang , N. Gopalswamy

Coronal loops reveal crucial information about the nature of both coronal magnetic fields and coronal heating. The shape of the corresponding flux tube cross section and how it varies with position are especially important properties. They…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 James A. Klimchuk , Craig E. DeForest

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

By using a new method of forced-field extrapolation, we study the emerging flux region AR 11850 observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and Solar Dynamical Observatory (SDO). Our results suggest that the bright points…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Jie Zhao , Brigitte Schmieder , Hui Li , Etienne Pariat , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Li Feng , Michalina Grubecka

Multi-wavelength observations of an M 2.0 flare event on 2000 March 23 in NOAA active region 8910 provide us a good chance to study the detailed structure and dynamics of the magnetic reconnection region. In the process of the flare,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Leping Li , Jun Zhang

The corona of the Sun is dominated by emission from loop-like structures. When observed in X-ray or extreme ultraviolet emission, these million K hot coronal loops show a more or less constant cross section. In this study we show how the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Peter , S. Bingert

Small scale magnetic fields can be observed on the Sun in G-band filtergrams as MBPs (magnetic bright points) or identified in spectro-polarimetric measurements due to enhanced signals of Stokes profiles. These magnetic fields and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Utz , J. Jurčák , A. Hanslmeier , R. Muller , A. Veronig , O. Kühner