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We demonstrate that the radial magnetic-field component at the outer boundary of the sunspot penumbra is about 550 Mx cm$^{-2}$ independent of the sunspot area and the maximum magnetic field in the umbra. The mean magnetic-field intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 V. N. Obridko , M. M. Katsova , D. D. Sokoloff , B. D. Shelting , I. M. Livshits

Sunspots are the longest-known manifestation of solar activity, and their magnetic nature has been known for more than a century. Despite this, the boundary between umbrae and penumbrae, the two fundamental sunspot regions, has hitherto…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Jan Jurčák , Reza Rezaei , Nazaret Bello González , Rolf Schlichenmaier , Jiří Vomlel

Solar pores are strongly magnetized regions lacking a photospheric penumbra and characterized by predominantly vertical magnetic fields. We present a multi-line study of flashes in a solar pore using high-resolution observations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Sandeep Dubey , Christian Beck , Rahul Yadav , Tobias Felipe , Shibu K Mathew

The magnetic properties of the umbra-penumbra (UP) boundary of sunspots and the boundary of pores at various evolutionary stages have been characterised using datasets from different instruments. We aim to study the differences between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 M. García-Rivas , J. Jurčák , N. Bello González

We present properties of intensity oscillations of a sunspot in the photosphere and chromosphere using G~band and CaIIH filtergrams from Hinode. Intensity power maps as function of magnetic field strength and frequency reveal reduction of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-17 Ankala Raja Bayanna , Shibu K Mathew , Brajesh Kumar , Rohan E Louis , Parameswaran Venkatakrishnan

High resolution and seeing-free spectroscopic observation of a decaying sunspot was done with the Solar Optical Telescope aboard Hinode satellite. The target was NOAA 10944 located in the west side of the solar surface from March 2 to March…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hiroko Watanabe , Reizaburo Kitai , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Yukio Katsukawa

Umbral flashes are manifestations of magnetoacoustic shocks in the solar chromosphere. These phenomena are thought to influence the evolution of chromospheric umbral magnetic fields. However, the impact of these shocks on inferred…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Hirdesh Kumar , Tobias Felipe , Christoph Kuckein , S. J. González Manrique , A. Asensio Ramos

It was empirically determined that the umbra-penumbra boundaries of stable sunspots are characterized by a constant value of the vertical magnetic field. We analyzed the evolution of the photospheric magnetic field properties of a decaying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 M. Benko , S. J. González Manrique , H. Balthasar , P. Gömöry , C. Kuckein , J. Jurčák

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

Solar active regions show a wide variety of oscillatory phenomena. The presence of the magnetic field leads to the appearance of several wave modes, whose behavior is determined by the sunspot thermal and magnetic structure. We aim to study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 T. Felipe , C. Kuckein , E. Khomenko , I. Thaler

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Kartika Sangal , A. K. Srivastava , Libo Fu , Ding Yuan , Song Feng , Yuandeng Shen

Observations of a relation between continuum intensity and magnetic field strength in sunspots have been made during nearly five decades. This work presents full-Stokes measurements of the full-split (g = 3) line Fe I 1564.85 nm with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Michal Sobotka , Reza Rezaei

High resolution imaging observation of a sunspot umbra was done with Hinode Solar Optical Telescope (SOT). Filtergrams in wavelengths of blue and green continuum were taken during three consecutive days. The umbra consisted of a dark core…

We present the first high-resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of a sunspot at wavelengths of 1.3 mm and 3 mm, obtained during the solar ALMA Science Verification campaign in 2015, and compare them…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Maria Loukitcheva , Kazumasa Iwai , Sami K. Solanki , Stephen M. White , Masumi Shimojo

The sunspot penumbra comprises numerous thin, radially elongated filaments that are central for heat transport within the penumbra, but whose structure is still not clear. To investigate the fine-scale structure of these filaments, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari , Michiel van Noort , Andreas Lagg , Sami K. Solanki

The magnetic field inside the sunspot umbra, as observed by the Full-disk MagnetoGraph (FMG) onboard the Advanced Space based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), was found to be experiencing a weakening. To address this issue, we employed a method…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Haiqing Xu , Jiangtao Su , Suo Liu , Yuanyong Deng , Xianyong Bai , Jie Chen , Xiaofan Wang , Xiao Yang , Yongliang Song

We study 7530 sunspot umbrae and pores measured by the Hinode Spectropolarimeter (SP) between November 2006 and November 2012. We primarily seek confirmation of the long term secular decrease in the mean magnetic field strength of sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-22 T. A. Schad

We report on high angular resolution, high precision spectropolarimetric measurements of a decaying sunspot. The spot gradually lost its penumbra during the course of three days. In the late stages of evolution where the only remnant of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. R. Bellot Rubio , A. Tritschler , V. Martinez Pillet

Some models for the topology of the magnetic field in sunspot penumbrae predict the existence of field-free or dynamically weak-field regions in the deep Photosphere. To confirm or rule out the existence of weak-field regions in the deepest…

We determined the direction and strength of the photospheric and lower chromospheric magnetic field in the umbra and penumbra of a sunspot from inversions of spectropolarimetric observations of photospheric lines at 617\,nm and 1565\,nm,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 C. Beck , D. P. Choudhary