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Sunspots are transient, magnetically intense features that host oscillations linked to magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. These waves may contribute to plasma heating and drive mass flows in the solar wind. Beyond their energetic role, they…

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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

Recent observations have revealed the ubiquitous presence of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and oscillations in the solar corona. The aim of this review is to present recent progress in the observational study of four types of wave (or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-02 Tongjiang Wang

Fibrils are dynamic plasma structures in the solar chromosphere. Studying these structures is critical for understanding solar atmospheric heating and mass transportation. The purpose of this study is to obtain the characteristics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Qifan Dong , Xiaoli Yan , Zhike Xue , Jincheng Wang , Zhe Xu , Liheng Yang , Yian Zhou , Xinsheng Zhang , Zongyin Wu , Guotang Wu

Height series of Doppler observation at the solar limb (covering 3800 - 8700 km distance above the photosphere) in $H_{\alpha}$ spectral line obtained by big coronagraph of Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory \citep{khu} show the periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Kukhianidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , E. Khutsishvili

The convectively driven, weakly magnetized regions of the solar photosphere dominate the Sun's surface at any given time, but the temporal variations of these quiet regions of the photosphere throughout the solar cycle are still not well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 James Crowley , Ivan Milic , Gianna Cauzzi , Kevin Reardon

Small-scale magnetic field concentrations (magnetic elements) in the quiet Sun are believed to contribute to the energy budget of the upper layers of the Sun's atmosphere, as they are observed to support a large number of MHD modes. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 M. Stangalini , F. Giannattasio , S. Jafarzadeh

Coronal loop oscillations are common phenomena in the solar corona, which are often classified as decaying and decayless oscillations. Using the high-resolution observation measured by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Dong Li , David M. Long

We study transverse fast magnetohydrodynamic waves in a system of two coronal loops modeled as smoothed, dense plasma cylinders in a uniform magnetic field. The collective oscillatory properties of the system due to the interaction between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Luna , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

The Sun's surface vibrates in characteristic 5-minute oscillations, known as p-modes, generated by sound waves trapped within the convection zone. Although these oscillations have long been hypothesized to reach into the solar wind, direct…

The first evidence of transverse oscillations of a multistranded loop with growing amplitudes and internal coupling observed by the Atomspheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is presented. The loop…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 Tongjiang Wang , Leon Ofman , Joseph M. Davila , Yang Su

Some observations suggest that solar spicules show small amplitude and high frequency oscillations of magneto-acoustic waves, which arise from photospheric granular forcing. We apply the method of MHD seismology to determine the period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Ajabshirizadeh , E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy

The cross sections of solar coronal loops are suggested to be rarely circular. We examine linear kink oscillations in straight, density-enhanced, magnetic cylinders with elliptical cross-sections by solving the three-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Mingzhe Guo , Bo Li , Tom Van Doorsselaere

We aim to ascertain the physical parameters of a propagating wave over the solar disk detected by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Using imaging data from the IRIS and the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO), we tracked bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 B. Zhang , Y. J. Hou , J. Zhang

Solar oscillations are expected to be excited by turbulent flows in the intergranular lanes near the solar surface. Time series recorded by the IMaX instrument aboard the {\sc Sunrise} observatory reveal solar oscillations at high…

Convective motions in the solar atmosphere cause spectral lines to become asymmetric and shifted in wavelength. For photospheric lines, this differential Doppler shift varies from the solar disk center to the limb. Precise and comprehensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Johannes Löhner-Böttcher , Wolfgang Schmidt , Rolf Schlichenmaier , Tilo Steinmetz , Ronald Holzwarth

We simulate transverse oscillations in radiatively cooling coronal loops and forward-model their spectroscopic and imaging signatures, paying attention to the influence of background emission. The transverse oscillations are driven at one…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Mijie Shi , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Patrick Antolin , Bo Li

The study of spatial and temporal scales on which small magnetic structures (magnetic elements) are organized in the quiet Sun may be approached by determining how they are transported on the solar photosphere by convective motions. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 F. Giannattasio , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli , L. Bellot Rubio , M. Gosic , D. Orozco Suarez

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

Aims. With the Solar Optical Telescope on Hinode, we investigate the basic properties of high-degree solar oscillations observed at two levels in the solar atmosphere, in the G-band (formed in the photosphere) and in the Ca II H line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 U. Mitra-Kraev , A. G. Kosovichev , T. Sekii