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In the current analysis, we use spectroscopic observations of the quiet-Sun made by IRIS instrument, and investigate wave propagation. We analyze various spectral lines formed in different atmospheric layers such as the photosphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Kartika Sangal , A. K. Srivastava , P. Kayshap , Ding Yuan , E. Scullion

Waves and shocks traveling through the solar chromospheric plasma are influenced by its partial ionization and weak collisional coupling, and may become susceptible to multi-fluid effects, similar to interstellar shock waves. In this study,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 B. Popescu Braileanu , V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko , A. de Vicente

Solar pores are efficient magnetic conduits for propagating magnetohydrodynamic wave energy into the outer regions of the solar atmosphere. Pore observations often contain isolated and/or unconnected structures, preventing the statistical…

We characterize waves in small magnetic elements and investigate their propagation in the lower solar atmosphere from observations at high spatial and temporal resolution. We use the wavelet transform to analyze oscillations of both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-31 Shahin Jafarzadeh , S. K. Solanki , M. Stangalini , O. Steiner , R. H. Cameron , S. Danilovic

We investigate the linear correlation coefficient between the intensities at different wavelengths in photospheric and chromospheric spectral lines. Waves that propagate vertically through the stratified solar atmosphere affect different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Beck , W. Rammacher

We investigate the oscillatory properties of the quiet solar chromosphere in relation to the underlying photosphere, with particular regard to the effects of the magnetic topology. We perform a Fourier analysis on a sequence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Vecchio , G. Cauzzi , K. P. Reardon , K. Janssen , T. Rimmele

Acoustic and magnetoacoustic waves are among the possible candidate mechanisms that heat the upper layers of solar atmosphere. A weak chromospheric plage near a large solar pore NOAA 11005 was observed on October 15, 2008 in the lines Fe I…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 M. Sobotka , P. Heinzel , M. Švanda , J. Jurčák , D. del Moro , F. Berrilli

High spatial and temporal resolution images of a sunspot, obtained simultaneously in multiple optical and UV wavelengths, are employed to study the propagation and damping characteristics of slow magnetoacoustic waves up to transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , T. Van Doorsselaere , G. Verth , R. J. Morton , V. Fedun , R. Erdelyi , D. J. Christian

Context. The carbon monoxide (CO) molecular line at around 46655 A in solar infrared spectra is often used to investigate the dynamic behavior of the cold heart of the solar atmosphere, i.e., sunspot oscillation, especially at the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 D. Li , X. Yang , X. Y. Bai , J. T. Su , Z. J. Ning , W. Cao , Y. Y. Deng

Recent high-resolution observations of sunspot oscillations using simultaneously operated ground- and space-based telescopes reveal the intrinsic connection between different layers of the solar atmosphere. However, it is not clear whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-13 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , Elena Khomenko

We present the results of numerical simulations of wave propagation and jet formation in solar atmosphere models with different magnetic field configurations. The presence in the chromosphere of waves with periods longer than the acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-05 L. Heggland , V. H. Hansteen , B. De Pontieu , M. Carlsson

We present a study of wave processes in the sunspot region NOAA 12670 on 2017 August 10 observed by the Goode Solar Telescope in the TiO 7057 A and Ha 6563 A spectral lines. To study the distribution of power oscillations and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Robert Sych , Yuzef Zhugzhda , Xiaoli Yan

We present the first results of sunspot oscillations from observations by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph. The strongly nonlinear oscillation is identified in both the slit-jaw images and the spectra of several emission lines…

We study the dynamics of shock waves observed in the umbra of a sunspot using the spectroscopic observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS). The presence of the shock significantly deforms the shape of the spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Pradeep Kayshap , Durgesh Tripathi , P. Jelinek

We study chromospheric oscillations including umbral flashes and running penumbral waves in a sunspot of active region (AR) using scanning spectroscopy in H-alpha and Ca II 8542A, with the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) at the 1.6…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-07 Ram Ajor Maurya , Jongchul Chae , Hyungmin Park , Heesu Yang , Donguk Song , Kyuhyoun Cho

The Ca II H line is one of the strongest lines in the solar spectrum and provides continuous information on the solar atmosphere from the photosphere to the lower chromosphere. We describe an inversion approach that reproduces observed Ca…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-14 C. Beck , R. Rezaei , K. G. Puschmann

We characterize the K I D1 & D2 lines in order to determine whether they could complement the 850 nm window, containing the Ca II infrared triplet lines and several Zeeman sensitive photospheric lines, that was studied previously. We…

Aims. To understand the morphology of the chromosphere in sunspot umbra. We investigate if the horizontal structures observed in the spectral core of the Ca II H line are ephemeral visuals caused by the shock dynamics of more stable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 V. M. J. Henriques , E. Scullion , M. Mathioudakis , D. Kiselman , P. T. Gallagher , F. P. Keenan

The propagation of solar waves through the sunspot of AR 9787 is observed using temporal cross-correlations of SOHO/MDI Dopplergrams. We then use three-dimensional MHD numerical simulations to compute the propagation of wave packets through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Cameron , L. Gizon , T. L. Duvall

The formation of shocks within the solar atmosphere remains one of the few observable signatures of energy dissipation arising from the plethora of magnetohydrodynamic waves generated close to the solar surface. Active region observations…