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Height series of H${\alpha}$ spectra in solar limb spicules obtained with the 53 cm coronagraph of the Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory are analyzed. Each height series covered 8 different heights beginning at 3800 km above the…

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

We studied spicular jets over a plage area and derived their dynamic characteristics using Hinode Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) high-resolution images. The target plage region was near the west limb of the solar disk. This location…

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) of the NASA small explorer mission provides significantly more complete and higher resolution spectral coverage of the dynamical conditions inside the chromosphere and transition region (TR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy , L. Golub

Semi-empirical models of the solar Chromosphere show in their emission spectrum, tomography property at millimeter, sub-millimeter, and infrared wavelengths for the center of the solar disk. In this work, we studied this property in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Victor De la Luz , J. A. Gonzalez-Esparza , P. Corona-Romero , J. Mejia-Ambriz

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

Determining the magnetic field related to solar spicules is vital for developing adequate models of these plasma jets, which are thought to play a key role in the thermal, dynamic and magnetic structure of the Chromosphere. Here we report…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 R. Centeno , J. Trujillo Bueno , A. Asensio Ramos

Spicules have been observed on the sun for more than a century, typically in chromospheric lines such as H-alpha and Ca II H. Recent work has shown that so-called 'type II' spicules may have a role in providing mass to the corona and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tiago M. D. Pereira , Bart De Pontieu , Mats Carlsson

We show signatures of spicules termed Rapid Blue-shifted Excursions (RBEs) in the Si iv 1394 {\AA} emission line using a semi-automated detection approach. We use the H{\alpha} filtergrams obtained by the CRISP imaging spectropolarimeter on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Nived Vilangot Nhalil , Juie Shetye , J. Gerry Doyle

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 study a solar spicule observed off-limb using high-resolution imaging spectroscopy in the Ca II 8542 \AA\ line obtained with the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) on the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope. Using a new version of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 D. Kuridze , H. Socas-Navarro , J. Koza , R. Oliver

We present first science observations taken during the commissioning activities of the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission. SPICE is a high-resolution imaging spectrometer…

We investigated the off-limb spicules observed in the Mg II h and k lines by IRIS in a solar polar coronal hole. We analyzed the large dataset of obtained spectra to extract quantitative information about the line intensities, shifts, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Akiko Tei , Stanislav Gunar , Petr Heinzel , Takenori J. Okamoto , Jiri Stepan , Sonja Jejcic , Kazunari Shibata

Science Verification (SV) data of solar observations with Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope were released to the scientific community. Understanding the centre to limb brightness function is necessary to compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-20 Davor Sudar , Roman Brajša , Ivica Skokić , Arnold O. Benz

Fibrillar structures are ubiquitous in the solar chromosphere and their potential for mediating the mass and energy transport in the solar atmosphere is undeniable. An accurate determination of their properties requires the use of advanced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Matheus Kriginsky , Ramon Oliver

Spicules are the thin hair/grass-like structures that are prominently observed at the chromospheric solar limb. It is believed that fibrils and rapid blueshifted and redshifted excursions (RBEs and RREs; collectively referred to as REs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Ravi Chaurasiya , Ankala Raja Bayanna , R. E. Louis , T. M. D. Pereira , S. K. Mathew

We present constraints on the structure of the chromosphere from observations of the Ca II H line profile near and off the solar limb. We obtained a data set of the Ca II H line in a field of view extending 20" across the limb. We analyzed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Beck , R. Rezaei

Solar spicules are plasma jets observed in the interface region between the visible solar surface and the corona. At any given time, there are millions of spicules present all over the Sun. While various models attempt to elucidate their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Kartav Kesri , Sahel Dey , Piyali Chatterjee , Robertus Erdelyi

The center-to-limb variations (CLVs) of photospheric and chromospheric spectral lines were obtained in 2025 July and August using drift scans from the echelle spectrograph of the 0.7 m Vacuum Tower Telescope at the Observatorio del Teide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Meetu Verma , Carsten Denker , Alexander G. M. Pietrow , Robert Kamlah , Dominique J. M. Petit dit de la Roche

We investigate high resolution spectroscopic and imaging observations from the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) instrument to study the dynamics of chromospheric spicule type events. It is widely accepted that chromospheric fine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 Juie Shetye , Erwin Verwichte , Marco Stangalini , J. G. Doyle