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Using the spectroscopic imaging capabilities of the Swedish Solar Telescope, we aim to provide the first investigation on the nature and dynamics of elongated absorption features (fibrils) observed in H$\alpha$ in the internetwork. We…

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Sunspot umbrae show a change in the dominant period of their oscillations from five minutes in the photosphere to three minutes in the chromosphere. In this paper, we explore the two most popular models proposed to explain the three-minute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 T. Felipe

We analyze the temporal behavior of Network Bright Points (NBPs), present in the solar atmosphere, using a set of data acquired during coordinated observations between ground-based observatories (mainly at the NSO/Sacramento Peak) and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Cauzzi , A. Falchi , R. Falciani

In this work we investigate the dynamic behavior of inter-network regions of the solar chromosphere. We observed the chromosphere of the quiet Sun using a narrow-band Lyot filter centered at the Ca II K 2v emission peak with a bandpass of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Wöger , S. Wedemeyer-Böhm , W. Schmidt , O. von der Lühe

Solar chromospheric observations of sunspot umbrae offer an exceptional view of magneto-hydrodynamic wave phenomena. In recent years, a wealth of wave signatures related to propagating magneto-acoustic modes have been presented, which…

The heating of the solar chromosphere remains one of the most important questions in solar physics. Our current understanding is that small-scale internetwork (IN) magnetic fields play an important role as a heating agent. Indeed,…

We study the acoustic properties of the solar chromosphere in the high-frequency regime using a time sequence of velocity measurements in the chromospheric Ca II 854.2 nm line taken with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 K. P. Reardon , F. Lepreti , V. Carbone , A. Vecchio

We search for signatures of high-frequency oscillations in the upper solar photosphere and low chromosphere in the context of acoustic heating of outer stellar atmospheres. We use ultraviolet image sequences of a quiet center-disk area from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. G. de Wijn , R. J. Rutten , T. D. Tarbell

Small-scale, newly emerging internetwork (IN) magnetic fields are considered a viable source of energy and mass for the solar chromosphere and possibly the corona. Multiple studies show that single events of flux emergence can indeed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Milan Gošić , Bart De Pontieu , Alberto Sainz Dalda

It is a well-known result that the power of five-minute oscillations is progressively reduced by magnetic fields in the solar photosphere. Many authors have pointed out that this fact could be due to a complex interaction of many processes:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Stangalini , F. Giannattasio , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli

Understanding energy transfer through the chromosphere is paramount to solving the coronal heating problem. We investigated the energy dissipation of acoustic waves in the chromosphere of the quiet Sun using 3D radiative magnetohydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Elias R. Udnæs , Tiago M. D. Pereira

The determination of the cutoff frequency in real solar observations under different local physical conditions is an important and insufficiently explored aspect of waves in solar physics. This work utilizes the near ultraviolet (NUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Pradeep Kayshap , Gayathri Hegde , Z. E. Musielak , Kris Murawski , Tobıas Felipe

We use images of high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution, obtained using both ground- and space-based instrumentation, to investigate the coupling between wave phenomena observed at numerous heights in the solar atmosphere. Intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 D. B. Jess , I. De Moortel , M. Mathioudakis , D. J. Christian , K. P. Reardon , P. H. Keys , F. P. Keenan

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have been considered as energy sources for heating the solar chromosphere and the corona. Although MHD waves have been observed in the solar atmosphere, there are a lack of quantitative estimates on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-01 Ryuichi Kanoh , Toshifumi Shimizu , Shinsuke Imada

Slow magnetoacoustic waves (SMAWs) have been considered in the past as a possible candidate for chromospheric heating. This study analyzes 20 active regions observed between 2012 and 2016 to examine the amplitude and energy flux variation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Y. Sanjay , S. Krishna Prasad , P. S. Rawat

We investigate the emergence of magnetic flux in the quiet Sun at very small spatial scales, focusing on the magnetic connection between the photosphere and chromosphere. The observational data consist of spectropolarimetric measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , L. R. Bellot Rubio

We present theoretical models of chromospheric heating for 55 Cancri, an orange dwarf of relatively low activity. Self-consistent, nonlinear and time-dependent ab-initio numerical computations are pursued encompassing the generation,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Diaa E. Fawzy , Manfred Cuntz

The chromosphere is a thin layer of the solar atmosphere that bridges the relatively cool photosphere and the intensely heated transition region and corona. Compressible and incompressible waves propagating through the chromosphere can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-12 D. B. Jess , R. J. Morton , G. Verth , V. Fedun , S. D. T. Grant , I. Giagkiozis

We investigate the interaction of magneto-acoustic waves with magnetic network elements with the aim of finding possible signatures of the magnetic shadow phenomenon in the vicinity of network elements. We carried out three-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Nutto , O. Steiner , M. Roth

Spatial maps of the high-pass frequency filtered time-averaged root-mean-squared (RMS) Doppler velocities tend to show substantial decrements within regions of strong field and curiously, randomly distributed patches of enhancement in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shravan M. Hanasoge