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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…

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We present the detection and characterization of fluctuations in linearly polarized emission from the atmosphere above the South Pole. These measurements make use of data from the SPT-3G receiver on the South Pole Telescope in three…

The ability of new instruments for providing accurate inferences of vector magnetic fields and line-of-sight velocities of the solar plasma depends a great deal on the sensitivity to these physical quantities of the spectral lines chosen to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-16 J. C. del Toro Iniesta , D. Orozco Suárez , L. R. Bellot Rubio

Interpreting the Stokes profiles observed in quiet regions of the solar chromosphere is a challenging task. The Stokes Q and U profiles are dominated by the scattering polarisation and the Hanle effect, and these processes can only be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Jan Jurcak , Jiri Stepan , Javier Trujillo Bueno , Michele Bianda

Context. Magnetic bright points (MBPs) are dynamic, small-scale magnetic elements often found with field strengths of the order of a kilogauss within intergranular lanes in the photosphere. Aims. Here we study the evolution of various…

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 analysis of near infrared spectropolarimetric data at the internetwork at different regions on the solar surface could offer constraints to reject current modeling of these quiet areas. We present spectro-polarimetric observations of…

The properties of magnetic fields forming an extended plage region in AR 10953 were investigated. Stokes spectra of the Fe I line pair at 6302 \AA recorded by the spectropolarimeter aboard the Hinode satellite were inverted using the SPINOR…

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We analyze a set of full Stokes profile observations of the flaring active region NOAA 10808 recorded with the Vector-Spectromagnetograph (VSM) of the SOLIS facility. We aim to quantify transient and permanent changes in the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. E. Fischer , C. U. Keller , F. Snik , L. Fletcher , H. Socas-Navarro

We describe, and test, a method of obtaining spectrally and spatially sampled Stokes polarimetry measurements based on star test polarimetry enabled by a stress engineered optic (SEO). When the SEO is placed in the pupil plane of an imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-17 David E. Spiecker , Thomas G. Brown

Observations of chromospheric spectral lines near and beyond the solar limb provide information on the solar chromosphere without any photospheric contamination. For ground-based observations near and off the limb with real-time image…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-12 C. Beck , R. Rezaei

Magnetic reconnection is an important driving mechanism of many chromospheric phenomena, e.g., UV bursts and chromospheric jets. Information about magnetic field is indispensable for analyzing chromospheric magnetic reconnection, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Xinyu Zhou , Takaaki Yokoyama , Haruhisa Iijima , Takuma Matsumoto , Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Masahito Kubo

Although the magnetic fields in the quiet Sun account for the majority of the magnetic energy in the solar photosphere, inferring their exact spatial distribution, origin, and evolution poses an important challenge because the signals lie…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Elias Ebert , Ivan Milic , Juan Manuel Borrero

We present the results from first spectropolarimetric observations of the solar photosphere acquired at the Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer. Full Stokes profiles were measured in the Fe I 630.15 nm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 B. Viticchié , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli , L. Bellot Rubio , A. Tritschler

CRISP (Crisp Imaging Spectro-polarimeter), the new spectropolarimeter at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope, opens a new perspective in solar polarimetry. With better spatial resolution (0.13") than Hinode in the Fe I 6302 A line and similar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Ortiz , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

The new CRISP filter at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope provides opportunities for observing the solar atmosphere with unprecedented spatial resolution and cadence. In order to benefit from the high quality of observational data from this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-23 Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez

In this paper, we produce synthetic radio views on simulated flux ropes in the solar corona, where finite-beta magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations serve to mimic the flux rope formation stages, as well as their stable endstates. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Alexey Kuznetsov , Rony Keppens , Chun Xia

Recent Sunrise/IMaX observations have revealed the existence of supersonic magnetic flows. Our aim is to determine the origin of such flows by using realistic MHD simulations. We simulate cancellation and emergence of magnetic flux through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Danilovic , R. H. Cameron , S. K. Solanki

We have fit synthetic visibilities from 3-D (CO5BOLD + PHOENIX) and 1-D (PHOENIX, ATLAS 12) model stellar atmospheres of Procyon (F5 IV) to high-precision interferometric data from the VLTI Interferometer (K-band) and from the Mark III…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. P. Aufdenberg , H. -G. Ludwig , P. Kervella

AIMS :The thermodynamic and magnetic field structure of the solar photosphere is analyzed by means of a novel 3-dimensional spectropolarimetric inversion and reconstruction technique. METHODS : On the basis of high-resolution,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-10 T. A. Carroll , M. Kopf