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We study Doppler velocity measurements at multiple heights in the solar atmosphere using a set of six filtergrams obtained by the Helioseismic magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory. There are clear and significant phase…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 Kaori Nagashima , Laurent Gizon , Aaron Birch , Björn Löptien , Sebastien Couvidat , Bernhard Fleck

The magnetic geometry of the solar atmosphere, combined with projection effects, makes it difficult to accurately map the propagation of ubiquitous waves in fibrillar structures. These waves are of interest due to their ability to carry…

We study the acoustic properties of the solar chromosphere in the high-frequency regime using a time sequence of velocity measurements in the chromospheric Ca II 854.2 nm line taken with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 K. P. Reardon , F. Lepreti , V. Carbone , A. Vecchio

Spicules are the most ubuiquitous type of jets in the solar atmosphere. The advent of high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and ground-based observatories has revealed the presence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Bart De Pontieu , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Georgios Chintzoglou

Long-exposure spectro-polarimetry in the near-infrared is a preferred method to measure the magnetic field and other physical properties of solar prominences. In the past, it has been very difficult to observe prominences in this way with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-11 G. E. Taylor , D. Schmidt , J. Marino , T. R. Rimmele , R. T. J. McAteer

Inaccurate limb-darkening models can be a significant source of error in the analysis of the light curves for transiting exoplanet and eclipsing binary star systems. To test the accuracy of published limb-darkening models, I have compared…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 P. F. L. Maxted

We present high-resolution spectroscopic observations of the quiet-Sun center-to-limb variations (CLV) of the He I triplet at 10 830 {\AA} and the nearby Si I 10 827 {\AA} line, observed with GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS) and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 A. G. M. Pietrow , C. Kuckein , M. Verma , C. Denker , J. C. Trelles Arjona , R. Kamlah , K. Poppenhäger

Context. An analysis of the oscillations above sunspots was carried out using simultaneous ground-based and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observations (SiI 10827A, HeI 10830A, FeI 6173A, 1700A, HeII 304A, FeIX 171A). Aims. Investigation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 N. I. Kobanov , A. A. Chelpanov , D. Y. Kolobov

The variation in area of quiet magnetic network measured over the sunspot cycle should modulate the spatially averaged photospheric temperature gradient, since temperature declines with optical depth more gradually in magnetic flux tube…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Serena Criscuoli , Peter Foukal

We present joint observations of the Sun by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). The observations were made of a solar active region on 2015 December 18 as part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 T. S. Bastian , G. Chintzoglou , B. De Pontieu , M. Shimojo , D. Schmit , J. Leenaarts , M. Loukitcheva

The Luminosity Oscillations Imager (LOI) of the Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations (VIRGO) instrument aboard the SoHO mission has been operating for almost the past 30 years. I report on the effect of solar activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Thierry Appourchaux

Various solar features can be seen on maps of the Sun in the mm and sub-mm wavelength range. The recently installed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is capable of observing the Sun in that wavelength range with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 R. Brajša , D. Sudar , A. O. Benz , I. Skokić , M. Bárta , B. De Pontieu , S. Kim , A. Kobelski , M. Kuhar , M. Shimojo , S. Wedemeyer , S. White , P. Yagoubov , Y. Yan

In this work we use solar observations with the ALMA radio telescope at the wavelength of 1.21 mm. The aim of the analysis is to improve understanding of the solar chromosphere, a dynamic layer in the solar atmosphere between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 R. Brajša , D. Sudar , I. Skokic , A. O. Benz , M. Kuhar , A. Kobelski , S. Wedemeyer , S. M. White , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Temmer , S. H. Saar , C. L. Selhorst

Aim: To study the interaction of the solar chromosphere with the transition region, in particular active-region jets in the transition region and their relation to chromospheric fibrils. Methods: We carefully align image sequences taken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. G. de Wijn , B. De Pontieu

High quality observations of the low-degree acoustic modes (p-modes) exist for almost two complete solar cycles using the solar spectrophotometer Mark-I, located at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Spain) and operating now as part of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 S. J. Jiménez-Reyes , T. Corbard , P. L. Pallé , T. Roca Cortés , S. Tomczyk

In this research, we investigate Explosive Events (EEs) in the off-limb solar atmosphere, with simultaneous observations from the Si IV, Mg II k, and slit-jaw images (SJI) of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), on 17 August…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 E. Tavabi , S. Zeighami , M. Heydari

Flares close to the solar limb, where the footpoints are occulted, can reveal the spectrum and structure of the coronal loop-top source in X-rays. We aim at studying the properties of the corresponding energetic electrons near their…

We use state-of-the-art radiation-MHD simulations and 3D non-LTE radiative transfer computations to investigate \Halpha\ line formation in the solar chromosphere and apply the results of this investigation to develop the potential of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jorrit Leenaarts , Mats Carlsson , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

We present a dataset of high resolution spectra of the Sun of many strongly polarized lines belonging to the second solar spectrum, i.e. the spectrum near the limb in linear polarization (scattering polarization). These solar spectra were…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Jean-Marie Malherbe

The determination of the cutoff frequency in real solar observations under different local physical conditions is an important and insufficiently explored aspect of waves in solar physics. This work utilizes the near ultraviolet (NUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Pradeep Kayshap , Gayathri Hegde , Z. E. Musielak , Kris Murawski , Tobıas Felipe