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Solar active regions show a wide variety of oscillatory phenomena. The presence of the magnetic field leads to the appearance of several wave modes, whose behavior is determined by the sunspot thermal and magnetic structure. We aim to study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 T. Felipe , C. Kuckein , E. Khomenko , I. Thaler

Active region NOAA 11035 appeared in December 2009, early in the new solar activity cycle. This region achieved a delta sunspot ($\delta$-spot) configuration when parasitic flux emerged near the rotationally leading magnetic polarity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Sarah A. Jaeggli

The fine-structure of magnetic field of a sunspot penumbra in the upper chromosphere is to be explored and compared to that in the photosphere. High spatial resolution spectropolarimetric observations were recorded with the 1.5-meter GREGOR…

Recent numerical simulations and observations of sunspots show a significant amount of opposite polarity magnetic field within the sunspot penumbra. Most of the opposite polarity field is associated with convective downflows. We present an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Lokesh Bharti , Matthias Rempel

The determination of the magnetic filed vector in solar filaments is possible by interpreting the Hanle and Zeeman effects in suitable chromospheric spectral lines like those of the He I multiplet at 10830 A. We study the vector magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 C. J. Díaz Baso , M. J. Martínez González , A. Asensio Ramos

We study the polarization signals and physical parameters of penumbral microjets (PMJs) by using high spatial resolution data taken in the Fe I 630 nm pair, Ca II 854.2 nm and Ca II K lines with the CRISP and CHROMIS instruments at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 S. Esteban Pozuelo , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , A. Drews , L. Rouppe van der Voort , G. B. Scharmer , M. Carlsson

Context. The Evershed effect, a nearly horizontal outflow of material seen in the penumbrae of sunspots in the photospheric layers, is a common characteristic of well-developed penumbrae, but is still not well understood. Even less is known…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 A. Siu-Tapia , A. Lagg , S. K. Solanki , M. van Noort , J. Jurčák

We investigate the dependence of penumbral microjets inclination on the position within penumbra. The high cadence observations taken on 10 November 2006 with the Hinode satellite through the \ion{Ca}{ii} H and G--band filters were analysed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Jurcak , Y. Katsukawa

Spectropolarimetric observations of a sunspot were carried out with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter at Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. Maps of the physical parameters were obtained from an inversion of the Stokes profiles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Rohan E. Louis , Horst Balthasar , Christoph Kuckein , Peter Gomory , Klaus G. Puschmann , Carsten Denker

We analyze the temporal evolution of the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic structure of the flaring active region (AR) NOAA 10930 by using the nonlinear force-free fields extrapolated from the photospheric vector magnetic fields observed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Inoue , D. Shiota , T. T. Yamamoto , V. S. Pandey , T. Magara , G. S. Choe

Atomic-level polarization and Zeeman effect diagnostics in the neutral helium triplet at 10830 angstroms in principle allow full vector magnetometry of fine-scaled chromospheric fibrils. We present high-resolution spectropolarimetric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 T. A. Schad , M. J. Penn , Haosheng Lin

We discuss penumbral fine structure in a small part of a pore, observed with the CRISP imaging spectropolarimeter at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST), close to its diffraction limit of 0.16 arcsec. Milne-Eddington inversions applied to…

We used spectropolarimetric observations of a sunspot in active region NOAA 11809 in the Ca ii line at 854.2 nm taken with the SpectroPolarimeter for Optical and Infrared Regions (SPINOR) at the Dunn Solar Telescope to infer thermodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-23 Debi Prasad Choudhary , Christian Beck

We discuss spectropolarimetric measurements of photospheric (Fe I 630.25 nm) and chromospheric (Ca II 854.21 nm) spectral lines. Our long-term goal is to diagnose properties of the magnetic field near the base of the corona. We compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. G. Judge , A. Tritschler , H. Uitenbroek , G. Cauzzi , K. Reardon , A. de Wijn

The variation of the vector magnetic field along structures in the solar corona remains unmeasured. Using a unique combination of spectropolarimetry and stereoscopy, we infer and compare the vector magnetic field structure and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Thomas A. Schad , Matthew J. Penn , Haosheng Lin , Philip G. Judge

Spectropolarimetric temporal series from Fe I $\lambda$ 6301.5 \AA\ and Ca II infrared triplet lines are obtained by applying the Stokes synthesis code NICOLE to a numerical simulation of wave propagation in a sunspot umbra from MANCHA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 T. Felipe , H. Socas-Navarro , E. Khomenko

The Stokes profiles of Fe I lines in the photosphere of the Sun are calculated within the Unno-Beckers-Landi-Dagl`Innocenti theory. Estimates of the magnetic strengthening of the lines were obtained. The changes in the Stokes profiles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-15 V. A. Sheminova

The equilibrium structure of sunspots depends critically on its magnetic topology and is dominated by magnetic forces. Tension force is one component of the Lorentz force which balances the gradient of magnetic pressure in force-free…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. Venkatakrishnan , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari

The accuracy of Milne-Eddington (ME) inversions, used to retrieve the magnetic field vector, depends upon the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the spectro-polarimetric observations. The SNR in real observations varies from pixel to pixel,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sanjay Gosain , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari , P. Venkatakrishnan

The Fe I 6173 {\AA} line is widely used in the measurements of vector magnetic fields by instruments including the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI). We perform non-local thermodynamic equilibrium calculations of this line based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-10 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Ying Li , Mats Carlsson