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Chromospheric brighten and H$\alpha$ surge are the evident and common phenomena along sunspot light bridge. In this paper, a coronal jet ejects from sunspot light bridge is presented. Using the data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Suo Liu

Evidence is beginning to be put forward that demonstrates the role of the chromosphere in supplying energy and mass to the corona. We aim to assess the role of chromospheric jets in active region dynamics. Using a combination of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. J. Morton

We present the results of multi wavelength, co-spatial and near co-temporal observations of jets above a sunspot light bridge. The data were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board Hinode, the Interface Region Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-12 Lokesh Bharti

Sunspot light bridges (LBs) exhibit a wide range of short-lived phenomena in the chromosphere and transition region. In contrast, we use here data from the Multi-Application Solar Telescope (MAST), the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Rohan E. Louis , Shibu K. Mathew , A. Raja Bayanna , Christian Beck , Debi P. Choudhary

A light bridge is a magnetic intrusion into a sunspot, it interacts with the main magnetic field and excites a variety of dynamical processes. In the letter, we studied magnetic connectivity between a light bridge and coronal loops rooted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Yuhu Miao , Libo Fu , Xian Du , Ding Yuan , Chaowei Jiang , Jiangtao Su , Mingyu Zhao , Sergey Anfinogentov

High-resolution broadband filtergrams of active region NOAA 11271 in Ca ii H and G band were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope on board Hinode to identify the physical driver responsible for the dynamic and small-scale chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Rohan E. Louis , Christian Beck , Kiyoshi Ichimoto

Light bridges, the bright structures that divide the umbra of sunspots and pores into smaller pieces, are known to produce wide variety of activity events in solar active regions (ARs). It is also known that the light bridges appear in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Mark C. M. Cheung

It is well-known that light bridges inside a sunspot produce small-scale plasma ejections and transient brightenings in the chromosphere, but the nature and origin of such phenomena are still unclear. Utilizing the high-spatial and high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Donguk Song , Jongchul Chae , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Eun-Kyung Lim , Kyung-Suk Cho , Heesu Yang , Kyuhyoun Cho , Hannah Kwak

A light bridge is a prominent structure commonly observed within a sunspot. Its presence usually triggers a wealth of dynamics in a sunspot, and has a lasting impact on sunspot evolution. However, the fundamental structure of light bridges…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Song Feng , Yuhu Miao , Ding Yuan , Zhongquan Qu , Valery M. Nakariakov

Context: Solar pores are small sunspots lacking a penumbra that have a prevailing vertical magnetic field component. They can include light bridges at places with locally reduced magnetic field. Like sunspots, they exhibit a wide range of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Sobotka , M. Švanda , J. Jurčák , P. Heinzel , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli

Light bridge (LB) jets offer a unique window into small-scale eruptive phenomena within sunspots, the Sun's strongest magnetic environments; however, their generation mechanism remains a subject of debate. Using high-resolution observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Yadan Duan , Xiaoli Yan , Yuhang Gao , Jincheng Wang , Zhe Xu , Yongyuan Xiang

High-resolution observations of the solar chromosphere and transition region often reveal surge-like oscillatory activities above sunspot light bridges. These oscillations are often interpreted as intermittent plasma jets produced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Jingwen Zhang , Hui Tian , Jiansen He , Linghua Wang

Solid evidence of magnetic reconnection is rarely reported within sunspots, the darkest regions with the strongest magnetic fields and lowest temperatures in the solar atmosphere. Using the world's largest solar telescope, the 1.6-meter…

Sunspot light bridges are known to exhibit a variety of dynamic and persistent phenomena such as surges, small-scale jets etc. in the chromosphere and transition region. While it has generally been proposed that magnetic reconnection is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Rohan E. Louis , Julia K. Thalmann

Light bridges (LBs) are elongated structures with enhanced intensity embedded in sunspot umbra and pores. We studied the properties of a sample of 60 LBs observed with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Using IRIS near- and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Reza Rezaei

Recent high resolution spectropolarimetric observations from Hinode detected the presence of supersonic downflows in a sunspot light bridge (Louis et al. 2009). These downflows occurred in localized patches, close to regions where the field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-21 Rohan E. Louis , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

Context: Resistive Ohmic dissipation has been suggested as a mechanism for heating the solar chromosphere, but few studies have established this association. Aim: We aim to determine how Ohmic dissipation by electric currents can heat the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Rohan E. Louis , Avijeet Prasad , Christian Beck , Debi Prasad Choudhary , Mehmet S. Yalim

We report the discovery of supersonic downflows in a sunspot light bridge using measurements taken with the spectropolarimeter on board the Hinode satellite. The downflows occur in small patches close to regions where the vector magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rohan Eugene Louis , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

We report a different type of three-minute chromospheric oscillations above a sunspot in association with a small-scale impulsive event in a light bridge. During our observations, we found a transient brightening in the light bridge. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Donguk Song , Jongchul Chae , Hannah Kwak , Ryouhei Kano , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Yong-Jae Moon , Eun-Kyung Lim , Jeongwoo Lee

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission provides high-resolution observations of the chromosphere and transition region. We try to determine whether the light walls exist somewhere else in active regions besides light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Y. J. Hou , T. Li , S. H. Yang , J. Zhang
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