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Context. Magnetic Bright Points (MBPs) are small-scale magnetic features in the solar photosphere. They may be a possible source of coronal heating by rapid footpoint motions that cause magnetohydrodynamical waves. The number and size…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Utz , A. Hanslmeier , C. Möstl , R. Muller , A. Veronig , H. Muthsam

Sausage waves have been frequently reported in solar magnetic structures such as sunspots, pores, and coronal loops. However, they have not been unambiguously identified in photospheric bright points (BPs). Using high-resolution TiO image…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-23 Yuhang Gao , Fuyu Li , Bo Li , Wenda Cao , Yongliang Song , Hui Tian , Mingzhe Guo

The effect of using two representations of the normal-to-surface magnetic field to calculate photospheric measures that are related to active region (AR) potential for flaring is presented. Several AR properties were computed using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Jordan A. Guerra , Sung-H. Park , Ioannis Kontogiannis , Peter T. Gallagher , Manolis Georgoulis , D. Shaun Bloomfield

Small-scale magnetic fields can be observed on the Sun in high resolution G-band filtergrams as magnetic bright points (MBPs). We study Hinode/ Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) longitude and latitude scans of the quiet solar surface taken in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-07 D. Utz , A. Hanslmeier , A. Veronig , O. Kühner , R. Muller , J. Jurčák , B. Lemmerer

We gathered high resolution spectra for an ensemble of 55 bright active and inactive stars using the ARC 3.5 m Telescope Echelle Spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory ($R\approx$31,500). We measured spectroscopic effective temperatures,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Brett M. Morris , Jason L. Curtis , Charli Sakari , Suzanne L. Hawley , Eric Agol

G-band bright points are small-sized features characterized by high photometric contrast. Theoretical investigations indicate that these features have associated magnetic field strengths between 1-2 kG. Results from observations instead…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Serena Criscuoli , Han Uitenbroek

Magnetic bright points are small-scale magnetic elements ubiquitous across the solar disk, with the prevailing theory suggesting that they form due to the process of convective collapse. Employing a unique full Stokes spectropolarimetric…

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) provides spectroscopy and narrow band slit-jaw (SJI) imaging of the solar chromosphere and transition region at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. Combined with high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 H. Skogsrud , L. Rouppe van der Voort , B. De Pontieu

Magnetic elements are thought to be described by flux tube models, and are well reproduced by MHD simulations. However, these simulations are only partially constrained by observations. We observationally investigate the relationship…

Emerging flux regions (EFRs) are known to exhibit various sporadic local heating events in the lower atmosphere. To investigate the characteristics of these events, especially to link the photospheric magnetic fields and atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Mark C. M. Cheung

By using a new method of forced-field extrapolation, we study the emerging flux region AR 11850 observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and Solar Dynamical Observatory (SDO). Our results suggest that the bright points…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Jie Zhao , Brigitte Schmieder , Hui Li , Etienne Pariat , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Li Feng , Michalina Grubecka

We use high spatial resolution observations and numerical simulations to study the velocity distribution of solar photospheric magnetic bright points. The observations were obtained with the Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere…

(Abridged) Aims: In this paper, we seek to establish the suitability of imaging spectroscopy performed in the Ca II 854.2 nm line as a means to investigate the solar chromosphere at high resolution. Methods: We utilize monochromatic images…

Coronal bright points (CBPs) as characteristics of the solar corona are small-scale bright features ubiquitously observed at extreme ultraviolet passbands. Here, we focused on time series of CBPs in the periods of their lifetimes. We used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-25 Mahdieh Mehrabian , Bardia Kaki , Yusefali Abedini

Recent analysis of high-cadence white-light images taken by the Solar-Terrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) near solar maximum has revealed that outflowing density structures are released in an ubiquitous manner in the solar wind. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Léa Griton , Rui F. Pinto , Nicolas Poirier , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Michaël Lavarra , Alexis P. Rouillard

The Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS) installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the NSO/SP is used to investigate the morphology and dynamics of the lower chromosphere and the virtually non-magnetic fluctosphere below. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 F. Wöger , S. Wedemeyer-Böhm , H. Uitenbroek , T. R. Rimmele

We present observational constraints on the solar chromospheric heating contribution from acoustic waves with frequencies between 5 and 50 mHz. We utilize observations from the Dunn Solar Telescope in New Mexico complemented with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Momchil E. Molnar , Kevin P. Reardon , Steven R. Cranmer , Adam F. Kowalski , Yi Chai , Dale Gary

We use joint observations obtained with the Hinode space observatory and the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS) installed at the DST of the NSO/SP to investigate the morphology and dynamics of (a) non-magnetic and (b)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-18 F. Wöger , S. Wedemeyer-Böhm , T. Rimmele

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

One of the most important features in the solar atmosphere is magnetic network and its rela- tionship with the transition region (TR), and coronal brightness. It is important to understand how energy is transported into the corona and how…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Ehsan Tavabi