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To study and monitor the Sun and its atmosphere, various space missions have been launched in the past decades. With the rapid improvement in technology and different mission requirements, the data products are subject to constant change.…

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In this work we combined AWSoM's non-equilibrium ionization [NEI] calculations from (Szente:2022) with the synthetic spectral computations of SPECTRUM (Szente:2019), to predict non-equilibrium line intensities across the entire domain of…

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Advances in intensity-based microscopy techniques have improved our ability to quantify particle motion at microscopic scales, enabling insight into diffusion and collective dynamics. Building on this foundation, we introduce a novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-03 Sophie Hermann , Seyed Saman Banarooei , Adam Carter , Carlos A. Silvera Batista , Sophie Marbach

Small-scale magnetic flux concentrations contribute significantly to the brightness variations of the Sun, yet observing them - particularly their magnetic field - near the solar limb remains challenging. Solar Orbiter offers an…

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The effects of acoustic wave absorption, mode conversion and transmission by a sunspot on the helioseismic inferences are widely discussed, but yet accounting for them has proved difficult for lack of a consistent framework within…

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Stellar intensity interferometers will achieve stellar imaging with a tenth of a milli- arcsecond resolution in the optical band by taking advantage of the large light collect- ing area and broad range of inter-telescope distances offered…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-19 Janvida Rou , Paul D. Nuñez , David Kieda , Stephan LeBohec

Clouds cast shadows on the surface and locally enhance solar irradiance by absorbing and scattering sunlight, resulting in fast and large solar irradiance fluctuations on the surface. Typical spatiotemporal scales and driving mechanisms of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Wouter Mol , Bart van Stratum , Wouter Knap , Chiel van Heerwaarden

Our observations of the quiet Sun with the NST have yielded unanticipated results on smal-scale solar dynamic. Althought small-scale solar dynamic have been well-studied, the NST is enabling us to probe finer scale dynamic exploiting higher…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-23 Aleksandra Andic

This work has been accepted by IEEE TGRS for publication. The majority of optical observations acquired via spaceborne earth imagery are affected by clouds. While there is numerous prior work on reconstructing cloud-covered information,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Patrick Ebel , Andrea Meraner , Michael Schmitt , Xiaoxiang Zhu

Convection plays a central role in the dynamics of any stellar interior, and yet its operation remains largely-hidden from direct observation. As a result, much of our understanding concerning stellar convection necessarily derives from…

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Different analyses of identical Hinode SOT/SP data of quiet-sun magnetic fields have in the past led to contradictory answers to the question of whether the angular distribution of field vectors is preferentially horizontal or vertical.…

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Carbon-electrode-based PSC devices are stressed under 1 Sun equivalent illumination in a stability setup, and different scan-speed dependent current-voltage (J-V) curves are measured during aging. The collected data is used to estimate…

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The irradiance of the Sun is modulated on all time scales. Small-scale solar magnetic elements composed of quiet-Sun network and active region plages contribute to this modulation on solar cycle time scales. The evaluation of their contrast…

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We examine whether or not it is possible to derive the field strength distribution of quiet Sun internetwork regions from very high spatial resolution polarimetric observations in the visible. In particular, we consider the case of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Orozco Suarez , L. R. Bellot Rubio , J. C. del Toro Iniesta

Here we formulate and solve the 3D radiative transfer problem of the polarization of the solar continuous radiation. Our approach takes into account not only the anisotropy of the continuum radiation, but also the symmetry-breaking effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Trujillo Bueno , N. Shchukina

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instruments onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite produce Doppler velocity and continuum intensity at 6173 A as well as intensity maps at 1600…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sebastien Couvidat

Satellite imaging has a central role in monitoring, detecting and estimating the intensity of key natural phenomena. One important feature of satellite images is the trade-off between spatial/spectral resolution and their revisiting time, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Haoqing Li , Bhavia Duvviri , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Edward Beighley , Deniz Erdogmus , Pau Closas