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We have made high-resolution, high-sensitivity dynamic spectra of a sample of strong pulsars at 430 MHz with the Arecibo radiotelescope. For 4 pulsars we find faint but sharply delineated features in the secondary spectra. These are…

The structure and energy balance of the solar chromosphere remain poorly known. We have used the imaging spectrometer IBIS at the Dunn Solar Telescope to obtain fast-cadence, multi-wavelength profile sampling of Halpha and Ca II 854.2 nm…

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Our aim is to determine the plasma properties of a coronal bright point and compare its magnetic topology extrapolated from magnetogram data with its appearance in X-ray images. We analyse spectroscopic data obtained with EIS/Hinode, Ca II…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-07 D. Pérez-Suárez , R. C. Maclean , J. G. Doyle , M. S. Madjarska

The Mg II k emission line is a good indicator of the level of chromospheric activity in late-type stars. We investigate the dependence of this activity indicator on fundamental stellar parameters. To this purpose we use IUE observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Cardini

Sunspots have played a key role in aiding our understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave phenomenon in the Sun's atmosphere, and it is well known they demonstrate a number of wave phenomenon associated with slow MHD modes. Recent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 R. J. Morton , K. Mooroogen , V. M. J. Henriques

The study of the differential rotation in the chromosphere of the Sun is of significant importance as it provides valuable insights into the rotational behaviour of the solar atmosphere at higher altitudes and the coupling mechanism between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Dibya Kirti Mishra , Srinjana Routh , Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Subhamoy Chatterjee , Dipankar Banerjee

Small-scale brightenigs are ubiquitous, dynamic and energetic phenomena found in the chromopshere. An advanced filter-detection algorithm applied to high-resolution observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph enables the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Llŷr Humphries , Huw Morgan , David Kuridze

Moving magnetic features (MMFs) are small-size magnetic elements that are seen to stream out from sunspots, generally during their decay phase. Several observational results presented in the literature suggest them to be closely related to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Criscuoli , D. Del Moro , F. Giannattasio , B. Viticchié , F. Giorgi , I. Ermolli , F. Zuccarello , F. Berrilli

Paper I presents the magnetic structure of a filament that developed in active region (AR) NOAA 10781. In this paper we complement those results with the velocities retrieved from Doppler shifts measured at the chromosphere and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 C. Kuckein , V. Martinez Pillet , R. Centeno

Spicules are long, thin, highly dynamic features that jut out ubiquitously from the solar limb. They dominate the interface between the chromosphere and corona and may provide significant mass and energy to the corona. We use high-quality…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 B. De Pontieu , M. Carlsson , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , R. J. Rutten , V. H. Hansteen , H. Watanabe

We present new spectroscopic observations in the Ca~{\sc ii} H \& K line region for a sample of 28 chromospherically active binary systems (RS$~$CVn and BY$~$Dra classes), with different activity levels. By using the spectral subtraction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Montes , E. De Castro , M. J. Fernandez-Figueroa , M. Cornide

Quiescent filaments are prominent features of the solar atmosphere, and their evolution reflects the coronal magnetic field's response to photospheric magnetic activity. Here, we report on a quiescent filament observed from 2023 September…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Garima Karki , Jinhan Guo , Brigitte Schmieder , Ramesh Chandra , Pascal Démoulin , Stefaan Poedts , Bernard Gelly

Sunspot atmospheres are highly inhomogeneous hosting both quasi-stable and transient features, such as `umbral micro-jets' and dark fibril-like events. We seek to understand the morphological properties and formation mechanisms of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 C. J. Nelson , V. M. J. Henriques , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

Simultaneous measurement of line-of-sight (LOS) magnetic and velocity fields at the photosphere and chromosphere are presented. Fe I line at $\lambda6569$ and $H_{\alpha}$ at $\lambda6563$ are used respectively for deriving the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Nagaraju , K. Sankarasubramanian , K. E. Rangarajan

We analyze observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph of the Mg II k line, the Mg II UV subordinate lines, and the O I 135.6 nm line to better understand the solar plage chromosphere. We also make comparisons with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-21 Mats Carlsson , Jorrit Leenaarts , Bart De Pontieu

Aims. We analyze observational data from 4 instruments to study the correlations between chromospheric emission, spanning the heights from the temperature minimum region to the middle chromosphere, and photospheric magnetic field. Methods:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Maria A. Loukitcheva , Sami K. Solanki , Stephen M. White

We investigated the radiative emission of different types of solar features in the spectral range of the Ca II K line. We analyzed full-disk 2k x 2k observations from the PSPT Precision Solar Photometric Telescope. The data were obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-02 S. Criscuoli , I. Ermolli , J. Fontenla , F. Giorgi , M. Rast , S. Solanki , H. Uitenbroek

The physics of Sunspots is a fascinating and demanding field of research in solar astronomy. Interaction of magnetic fields and plasma flows takes place in a tangled magnetic geometry and occurs on spatial scales that pose a continuous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-10 Alexandra Tritschler

With the ever increasing influx of high resolution images of the solar surface obtained at a multitude of wavelengths, various processes occurring at small spatial scales have become a greater focus of our attention. Complex small-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-08 V. B. Yurchyshyn , P. R. Goode , V. I. Abramenko , J. Chae , W. Cao , A. Andic , K. Ahn

Mg II lines represent one of the strongest emissions from the chromospheric plasma during solar flares. In this article, we studied the Mg II lines observed during the X1 flare on March 29 2014 (SOL2014-03-29T17:48) by IRIS. IRIS detected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 W. Liu , P. Heinzel , L. Kleint , J. Kasparova