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We use H$\alpha$ imaging spectroscopy taken via the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) to investigate the occurrence of fan-shaped jets at the solar limb. We show evidence for near-simultaneous photospheric reconnection at a sunspot edge…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-22 A. Reid , V. M. J. Henriques , M. Mathioudakis , T. Samanta

We studied bright umbral dots (UDs) detected in a moderate size sunspot and compared their statistical properties to recent MHD models. The study is based on high resolution data recorded by the New Solar Telescope at the Big Bear Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Kilcik , V. B. Yurchyshyn , M. Rempel , V. Abramenko , R. Kitai , P. R. Goode , W. Cao , H. Watanabe

Evidence is beginning to be put forward that demonstrates the role of the chromosphere in supplying energy and mass to the corona. We aim to assess the role of chromospheric jets in active region dynamics. Using a combination of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. J. Morton

We report a solar jet phenomenon associated with successive flares on November 10th 2014. These explosive events were involved with the satellite spots' emergence around a delta-type sunspot in the decaying active region NOAA 12205. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Takahito Sakaue , Akiko Tei , Ayumi Asai , Satoru Ueno , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Kazunari Shibata

Recent high-resolution solar observations have unveiled the presence of small-scale loop-like structures in the lower solar atmosphere, often referred to as unresolved fine structures, low-lying loops, and miniature hot loops. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Annu Bura , Tanmoy Samanta , Alphonse Sterling , Yajie Chen , Jayant Joshi , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Ronald L. Moore

The Hinode satellite opens a new era to the sunspots research, because of its high spatial resolution and temporal stability. Fine scale structures in sunspots, called umbral dots (UDs), have become one of the hottest topics in terms of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hiroko Watanabe

Context: Solar pores are small sunspots lacking a penumbra that have a prevailing vertical magnetic field component. They can include light bridges at places with locally reduced magnetic field. Like sunspots, they exhibit a wide range of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Sobotka , M. Švanda , J. Jurčák , P. Heinzel , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli

We present the results of multi wavelength, co-spatial and near co-temporal observations of jets above a sunspot light bridge. The data were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board Hinode, the Interface Region Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-12 Lokesh Bharti

Spectropolarimetric time series data of the primary spot of active region NOAA 9448 were obtained in the Si I 10827 \AA line and the He I 10830 \AA multiplet with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter. Throughout the time series the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Shaun Bloomfield , Andreas Lagg , Sami K. Solanki

Observations with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) have revealed numerous sub-arcsecond bright dots in the transition region above sunspots. These bright dots are seen in the 1400\AA{} and 1330\AA{} slit-jaw images. They are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 H. Tian , L. Kleint , H. Peter , M. Weber , P. Testa , E. DeLuca , L. Golub , N. Schanche

High resolution blue continuum filtergrams from Hinode are employed to study the umbral fine structure of a regular unipolar sunspot. The removal of scattered light from the images increases the rms contrast by a factor of 1.45 on average.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Rohan E. Louis , Shibu K. Mathew , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , B. Ravindra , A. Raja Bayanna

We investigated three fan-shaped jets observed above sunspot light bridges or nearby sunspot regions. The study aimed to explore the dynamics and physical properties of jets' features that appear as blob-like structures at the tips of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Heesu Yang , Maria S. Madjarska , EunKyung Lim , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Klaus Galsgaard

We report the smallest coronal jets ever observed in the quiet Sun with recent high resolution observations from the High Resolution Telescopes (HRI-EUV and HRI-Ly{\alpha}) of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard Solar Orbiter. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Zhenyong Hou , Hui Tian , David Berghmans , Hechao Chen , Luca Teriaca , Udo Schuhle , Yuhang Gao , Yajie Chen , Jiansen He , Linghua Wang , Xianyong Bai

Images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) at 211A are used to identify the solar source of the type III radio bursts seen in WIND/WAVES dynamic spectra. We analyse a 2.5 hour period during which six strong bursts are seen. The radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. E. Innes , R. H. Cameron , S. K. Solanki

The aim of this study is revisit the physical parameters of umbral dots (UDs) with the latest high resolution observations and contribute to the scientific understanding of their formation and evolution. In this study, we applied a particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Ali Kilcik , Volkan Sarp , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Jean-Pierre Rozelot , Atila Özgüc

We analyze several unusual filamentary structures, which appeared in the umbra of one of the sunspots in AR 11302. They do not resemble typical light bridges, neither in morphology, nor in evolution. We analyze data from SDO/HMI to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lucia Kleint , Alberto Sainz Dalda

Context. Penumbral microjets are elongated jet-like brightenings observed in the chromosphere above sunspot penumbrae. They are transient events that last from a few seconds to several minutes and are thought to originate from magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 A. Siu-Tapia , L. R. Bellot Rubio , D. Orozco Suárez , R. Gafeira

To better understand the characteristics, driving mechanisms, and potential heating contributions of chromospheric jets, we analyze two contrasting types: one originating from within the sunspot penumbra (inside jets), and the other…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Guotang Wu , Xiaoli Yan , Zhike Xue , Jincheng Wang , Zhe Xu , Liheng Yang , Yian Zhou , Liping Yang , Xinsheng Zhang , Qifan Dong , Zongyin Wu

Chromospheric brighten and H$\alpha$ surge are the evident and common phenomena along sunspot light bridge. In this paper, a coronal jet ejects from sunspot light bridge is presented. Using the data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Suo Liu

We analyse sunspot oscillations using Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) slit-jaw and spectral data and narrow-band chromospheric images from the New Solar Telescope (NST) for the main sunspot in NOAA AR 11836. We report that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Valentyna Abramenko , Ali Kilcik