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Imaging spectroscopy of the solar atmosphere using the NaI D1 line yields marked asymmetry between the blue and red line wings: sampling a quiet-Sun area in the blue wing displays reversed granulation, whereas sampling in the red wing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. J. Rutten , J. Leenaarts , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , A. G. de Wijn , M. Carlsson , V. Hansteen

Aims. We examined the capabilities of methods based on the weak-field approximation and line bisectors to extract fast and reliable information about the height stratification of the magnetic field and line-of-sight velocities,…

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

Excess chromospheric emissions within deep photospheric lines are effective proxies of stellar magnetism for FGK stars. This emission decays with stellar age and is a potential determinant of this important stellar quantity. We report…

The sunspot umbra harbors the coolest plasma on the solar surface due to the presence of strong magnetic fields. The routinely used atomic lines to observe the photosphere have weak signals in the umbra and are often swamped by molecular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 H. N. Smitha , J. S. Castellanos Durán , S. K. Solanki , S. K. Tiwari

The solar chromosphere is a transition layer between the cool, dense photosphere and the hot, rarefied corona. This boundary region plays a key role in regulating energy transport and structuring the magnetic field throughout the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 M. Kriginsky , J. Leenaarts , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , S. Danilovic , O. Andriienko

The influence of the convective structure of the solar photosphere on the shifts of spectral lines of iron was studied. Line profiles in the visible and infrared spectrum were synthesized with the use of 2-D time-dependent hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 V. A. Sheminova , A. S. Gadun

Context: Flux emergence in the solar atmosphere is a complex process that causes a release of magnetic energy as heat and acceleration of solar plasma at a variety of spatial scales. Methods: We analysed imaging spectropolarimetric data…

We study the circular polarization of the Mn I resonance lines at 279.56, 279.91, and 280.19 nm (hereafter, UV multiplet) by means of radiative transfer modeling. In 2019, the CLASP2 mission obtained unprecedented spectropolarimetric data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-24 Tanausú del Pino Alemán , Ernest Alsina Ballester , Javier Trujillo Bueno

The polarization of the Mg II h and k lines holds significant diagnostic potential for measuring chromospheric magnetic fields, which are crucial for understanding the physical processes governing the energy transport and dissipation in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Hao Li , Tanausú del Pino Alemán , Javier Trujillo Bueno

A new generation of dedicated Doppler spectrographs will attempt to detect low-mass exoplanets around mid-late M stars at near infrared (NIR) wavelengths, where those stars are brightest and have the most Doppler information content. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Paul Robertson , Chad Bender , Suvrath Mahadevan , Arpita Roy , Lawrence W. Ramsey

Solar prominences contain a significant amount of neutral species. The dynamics of the ionised and neutral fluids composing the prominence plasma can be slightly different if the collisional coupling is not strong enough. Large-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 S. J. González Manrique , E. Khomenko , M. Collados , C. Kuckein , T. Felipe , P. Gömöry

One of the primary sources of stellar spectral variability is magnetic activity. While our current understanding of chromospheric activity is largely derived from specific lines sensitive to chromospheric heating, such as the Ca II HK…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Mariela C. Vieytes , Lily L. Zhao , Megan Bedell

The chromospheric H-alpha spectral line is a strong line in the spectrum of the Sun and other stars. In the stellar regime, this spectral line is already used as a powerful tracer of stellar activity. For the Sun, other tracers (i.e, CaII…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 A. Diercke , C. Kuckein , P. W. Cauley , K. Poppenhäger , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , E. Dineva , C. Denker

The photoionization model of narrow-line regions (NLRs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has been investigated for decades. Many published models are restricted to simple linear scaling abundance relations, dust-free assumption, uniform AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-23 Peixin Zhu , Lisa J. Kewley , Ralph S. Sutherland

The heating of the Sun's chromosphere remains poorly understood. While progress has been made on understanding what drives the quiet Sun internetwork chromosphere, chromospheric heating in strong magnetic field regions continues to present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-07 J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , B. De Pontieu , M. Carlsson , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

The Chromospheric LAyer SpectroPolarimeter missions, CLASP2 and CLASP2.1, demonstrated that the near-UV spectral region between 279.30 and 280.68 nm is suitable for studying the magnetism of the solar chromosphere. In particular, the…

We utilize Kepler data to study the precision differential photometric variability of solar-type and cooler stars at different timescales, ranging from half an hour to 3 months. We define a diagnostic that characterizes the median…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Gibor Basri , Lucianne Walkowicz , Ansgar Reiners

The O I 1355{\AA} spectral line is one of the only optically thin lines that are both routinely observed and thought to be formed in the chromosphere. We present analysis of a variety of observations of this line with the Interface Region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Mats Carlsson , Bart De Pontieu

We show that the line broadening in quiescent solar prominences is mainly due to non-thermal velocities. We have simultaneously observed a wide range of optically thin lines in quiescent prominences, selected for bright and narrow Mg\,b…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-26 Goetz Stellmacher , Eberhard Wiehr

Quiescent filaments appear as absorption features on the solar disk when observed in chromospheric lines and at continuum wavelengths in the millimeter (mm) range. Active region (AR) filaments are their small-scale, low-altitude analogues,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-29 J. M. da Silva Santos , S. M. White , K. Reardon , G. Cauzzi , S. Gunár , P. Heinzel , J. Leenaarts