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We present results from numerical modeling of emerging flux regions on the solar surface. The modeling was carried out by means of 3D radiative MHD simulations of the rise of buoyant magnetic flux tubes through the convection zone and into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. M. Cheung , M. Schuessler , T. D. Tarbell , A. M. Title

We study a granular-sized magnetic flux emergence event that occurred in NOAA 11024 in July 2009. The observations were made with the CRISP spectropolarimeter at the Swedish 1 m Solar Telescope achieving a spatial resolution of 0.14".…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ada Ortiz , Luis Bellot Rubio , Viggo Hansteen , Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

We study the evolution of a small-scale emerging flux region (EFR) in the quiet Sun, from its emergence to its decay. We track processes and phenomena across all atmospheric layers, explore their interrelations and compare our findings with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 I. Kontogiannis , G. Tsiropoula , K. Tziotziou , C. Gontikakis , C. Kuckein , M. Verma , C. Denker

We investigate the atmospheric response to a small emerging flux region (EFR) that occurred in the positive polarity of Active Region 11236 on 23 \,-\ 24 June 2011. Data from the \textit{Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmopheric Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. L. Shelton , L. K. Harra , L. M. Green

State-of-the-art solar instrumentation is revealing magnetic activity of the Sun with unprecedented resolution. Observations with the 1.6m New Solar Telescope of the Big Bear Solar Observatory are making next steps in our understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Santiago Vargas Dominguez , Alexander Kosovichev , Vasyl Yurchyshyn

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are among the most prominent manifestations of the magnetic activity of the Sun. The strongest events of them tend to occur in active regions (ARs) that are large, complex, and dynamically evolving.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Shin Toriumi

We study the emergence of magnetic flux at very small spatial scales (less than 2 arcsec) in the quiet Sun internetwork. To this aim, a time series of spectropolarimetric maps was taken at disk center using the instrument SP/SOT on board…

In June 2013, the two scientific instruments onboard the second Sunrise mission witnessed, in detail, a small-scale magnetic flux emergence event as part of the birth of an active region. The Imaging Magnetograph Experiment (IMaX) recorded…

Magnetic field data provided by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory were utilized to explore the changes in the magnetic energy of four active regions (ARs) during their emergence. We found that at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Olga K. Kutsenko , Alexander S. Kutsenko , Valentina I. Abramenko

We report multi-wavelength ultraviolet observations taken with the IRIS satellite, concerning the emergence phase in the upper chromosphere and transition region of an emerging flux region (EFR) embedded in the unipolar plage of active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 S. L. Guglielmino , F. Zuccarello , P. R. Young , P. Romano , M. Murabito

Small bipolar magnetic features are observed to appear in the interior of individual granules in the quiet Sun, signaling the emergence of tiny magnetic loops from the solar interior. We study the origin of those features as part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-05 F. Moreno-Insertis , J. Martinez-Sykora , V. H. Hansteen , D. Muñoz

Context: Flux emergence in the solar atmosphere is a complex process that causes a release of magnetic energy as heat and acceleration of solar plasma at a variety of spatial scales. Methods: We analysed imaging spectropolarimetric data…

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

With the ever increasing influx of high resolution images of the solar surface obtained at a multitude of wavelengths, various processes occurring at small spatial scales have become a greater focus of our attention. Complex small-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-08 V. B. Yurchyshyn , P. R. Goode , V. I. Abramenko , J. Chae , W. Cao , A. Andic , K. Ahn

Upflows observed at the edges of active regions have been proposed as the source of the slow solar wind. In the particular case of Active Region (AR) 10942, where such an upflow has been already observed, we want to evaluate the part of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-11 Céline Boutry , Eric Buchlin , Jean-Claude Vial , Stéphane Régnier

Active regions are thought to be one contributor to the slow solar wind. Upflows in EUV coronal spectral lines are routinely osberved at their boundaries, and provide the most direct way for upflowing material to escape into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 David H. Brooks , Louise Harra , Stuart D. Bale , Krzysztof Barczynski , Cristina Mandrini , Vanessa Polito , Harry P. Warren

Recent Sunrise/IMaX observations have revealed the existence of supersonic magnetic flows. Our aim is to determine the origin of such flows by using realistic MHD simulations. We simulate cancellation and emergence of magnetic flux through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Danilovic , R. H. Cameron , S. K. Solanki

Data for 3046 solar active regions (ARs) observed since May 12, 1996 to December 27, 2021 were utilized to explore how the magnetic fluxes from ARs of different complexity follow the solar cycle. Magnetograms from the Michelson Doppler…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-15 Valentina I. Abramenko , Regina A. Suleymanova , Anastasija V. Zhukova

Magnetic active regions on the Sun are harbingers of space weather events. Understanding the physics of how they form and evolve will improve space weather forecasting. Our aim is to characterise the surface magnetic field and flows for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Camron S. Alley , Hannah Schunker

We study the ascent of granular-sized magnetic bubbles from the solar photosphere through the chromosphere into the transition region and above, for the first time. Such events occurred in a flux emerging region in NOAA 11850 on September…