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The solar chromosphere exhibits a variety of waves originating from the photosphere and deeper layers, causing oscillations at different heights with distinct frequencies. This study identifies and analyze Atmospheric Gravity Waves (AGWs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 Ravi Chaurasiya , Ankala Raja Bayanna

Waves and oscillations have been observed in the Sun's atmosphere for over half a century. While such phenomena have readily been observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, spanning radio to gamma-ray sources, the underlying role…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 David B. Jess , Shahin Jafarzadeh , Peter H. Keys , Marco Stangalini , Gary Verth , Samuel D. T. Grant

We analyze the time series of Ca II H-line obtained from Hinode/SOT on the solar limb. We follow three cases of upwardly propagating kink waves along a spicule and inverted Y-shaped structures at the cusp of it. The time-distance analysis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 H. Ebadi , M. Ghiassi

We have performed MHD simulations of Alfven wave propagation along an open flux tube in the solar atmosphere. In our numerical model, Alfven waves are generated by the photospheric granular motion. As the wave generator, we used a derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Takuma Matsumoto , Kazunari Shibata

Consecutive height series of Ha spectra in solar limb spicules taken on the 53 cm coronagraph of Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory at the heights of 3800-8700 km above the photosphere have been analyzed. The aim is to observe oscillatory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. V. Zaqarashvili , E. Khutsishvili , V. Kukhianidze , G. Ramishvili

Using high cadence observations from the Hydrogen-alpha Rapid Dynamics camera imaging system on the Dunn Solar Telescope, we present an investigation of the statistical properties of transverse oscillations in spicules captured above the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 W. Bate , D. B. Jess , V. M. Nakariakov , S. D. T. Grant , S. Jafarzadeh , M. Stangalini , P. H. Keys , D. J. Christian , F. P. Keenan

To study motions and oscillations in the solar chromosphere and at the transition region (TR) level we analyze some extreme Doppler shifts observed off-limb with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Raster scans and slit-jaw…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy

We consider a first important parameter of spicules as observed above the solar visible limb: their apparent diameter as a function of the height above the limb which determines their aspect ratio and leads to the discussion of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy , A. Ajabshirizadeh

Understanding the dynamic solar chromosphere is fundamental in solar physics. Spicules are an important feature of the chromosphere, connecting the photosphere to the corona, potentially mediating the transfer of energy and mass. The aim of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tiago M. D. Pereira , Bart De Pontieu , Mats Carlsson

The chromosphere is a thin layer of the solar atmosphere that bridges the relatively cool photosphere and the intensely heated transition region and corona. Compressible and incompressible waves propagating through the chromosphere can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-12 D. B. Jess , R. J. Morton , G. Verth , V. Fedun , S. D. T. Grant , I. Giagkiozis

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

The solar corona has been revealed in the past decade to be a highly dynamic nonequilibrium plasma environment. Both the loop-filled coronal base and the extended acceleration region of the solar wind appear to be strongly turbulent, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven R. Cranmer

Swirls are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. They are believed to be related to the excitation of different modes of magnetohydrodynamic waves and pulses, as well as spicules. However, statistical studies of their collective behaviour are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jiajia Liu , David Jess , Robert Erdélyi , Mihalis Mathioudakis

It is well-known that the global acoustic oscillations of the Sun's atmosphere can excite resonance modes within large-scale magnetic concentrations. These structures are conduits of energy between the different layers of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 M. Berretti , M. Stangalini , G. Verth , V. Fedun , S. Jafarzadeh , D. B. Jess , F. Berrilli

Height series of Doppler observation at the solar limb (covering 3800 - 8700 km distance above the photosphere) in $H_{\alpha}$ spectral line obtained by big coronagraph of Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory \citep{khu} show the periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Kukhianidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , E. Khutsishvili

A number of recent investigations have revealed that transverse waves are ubiquitous in the solar chromosphere. The vast majority of these have been reported in limb spicules and active region fibrils. We investigate long-lived, quiet Sun,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Kuridze , R. J. Morton , R. Erdélyi , G. D. Dorrian , M. Mathioudakis , D. B. Jess , F. P. Keenan

Aims. We study the coherency of solar spicules intensity oscillations with increasing height above the solar limb in quiet Sun, active Sun and active region using observations from HINODE/SOT. Existence of coherency up to transition region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 E. Tavabi , A. Ajabshirizadeh , A. R. Ahangarzadeh Maralani , S. Zeighami

We use images of high spatial and temporal resolution, obtained with the Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere instrument at the Dunn Solar Telescope, to reveal how the generation of transverse waves in Type I spicules is a direct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. B. Jess , D. J. Pascoe , D. J. Christian , M. Mathioudakis , P. H. Keys , F. P. Keenan

Hydrodynamic jets are unstable to the kink instability (m=1 mode in cylindrical geometry) owing to the centripetal force, which increases the transverse displacement of the jet. When the jet moves along a magnetic field, then the Lorentz…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 T. V. Zaqarashvili

Popular scientific summary -- The atmosphere of the Sun is envisioned as composed of inherently complex, non-homogeneous, and dynamic layers. A detailed understanding of the physical processes involved in these layers is still lacking. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Souvik Bose