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Ellerman Bombs (EBs) are thought to arise as a result of photospheric magnetic reconnection. We use data from the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST), to study EB events on the solar disk and at the limb. Both datasets show that EBs are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Reid , M. Mathioudakis , E. Scullion , J. G. Doyle , S. Shelyag , P. Gallagher

Aims. We investigated the potential of using Hepsilon to diagnose small-scale energetic phenomena such as Ellerman bombs, UV bursts, and small-scale flares. Our focus is to understand the formation of the line and how to use its properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 K. Krikova , T. M. D. Pereira

Recent observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) appear to show impulsive brightenings in high temperature lines, which when combined with simultaneous ground based observations in H$\alpha$, appear co-spatial to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 A. Reid , M. Mathioudakis , A. Kowalski , J. G. Doyle , J. C. Allred

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are short-lived and compact structures that are observed well in the wings of the hydrogen H-alpha line. EBs are also observed in the chromospheric CaII lines and in UV continua. H-alpha line profiles of EBs show a deep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Arkadiusz Berlicki , Petr Heinzel

Ellerman bombs and UV bursts are transient brightenings that are ubiquitously observed in the lower atmospheres of active and emerging flux regions. Here we present inversion results of SST/CRISP and CHROMIS, as well as IRIS data of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 G. J. M. Vissers , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , T. Libbrecht , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , G. B. Scharmer , M. Carlsson

Ellerman bombs (EBs) and Ultraviolet (UV) bursts are common brightening phenomena which are usually generated in the low solar atmosphere of emerging flux regions. In this paper, we have investigated the emergence of an initial un-twisted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Yajie Chen , Udo Ziegler , Jun Lin

Context. Ellerman bombs (EBs) are short-lived emission features, characterized by extended wing emission in hydrogen Balmer lines. Until now, no distinct signature of EBs has been found in the He I 10830 {\AA} line, and conclusive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tine Libbrecht , Jayant Joshi , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Jorrit Leenaarts , Andrés Asensio Ramos

We aim to investigate the temperature enhancements and formation heights of impulsive heating phenomena in solar active-regions such as Ellerman bombs (EBs), ultraviolet bursts (UVBs), and flaring active-region fibrils (FAFs) using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 J. M. da Silva Santos , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , S. M. White , J. Leenaarts , G. J. M. Vissers , V. H. Hansteen

Ellerman Bombs are signatures of magnetic reconnection, which is an important physical process in the solar atmosphere. How and where they occur is a subject of debate. In this paper we analyse Sunrise/IMaX data together with 3D MHD…

We study the H$\alpha$ and Ca II 8542 \r{A} line spectra of four typical Ellerman bombs (EBs) in active region NOAA 11765 on 2013 June 6, observed with the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph installed at the 1.6 meter New Solar Telescope at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-12 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Ying Li , Cheng Fang , Wenda Cao

Ellerman Bombs (EBs) are often found co-spatial with bipolar photospheric magnetic fields. We use H$\alpha$ imaging spectroscopy along with Fe I 6302.5 \AA\ spectro-polarimetry from the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST), combined with data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-31 A. Reid , M. Mathioudakis , J. G. Doyle , E. Scullion , V. Henriques , C. Nelson , T. Ray

Recent observations by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) have revealed pockets of hot gas ($\sim$2--8$\times$10$^{4}$ K) potentially resulting from magnetic reconnection in the partially ionized lower solar atmosphere (IRIS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-21 Hui Tian , Zhi Xu , Jiansen He , Chad Madsen

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are small brightening events in the solar lower atmosphere. By original definition, the main EB's characteristic is the two emission bumps in both wings of chromospheric lines, such as H$\alpha$ and Ca II 8542 {\AA}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 C. Fang , Q. Hao , M. D. Ding , Z. Li

Ellerman bombs (EBs) have been widely studied in recent years due to their dynamic, explosive nature and apparent links to the underlying photospheric magnetic field implying that they may be formed by magnetic reconnection in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 C. J. Nelson , E. M. Scullion , J. G. Doyle , N. Freij , R. Erdélyi

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are observable signatures of photospheric small-scale magnetic reconnection events. The reliable automatic detection of EBs would enable the study of the impact of magnetic reconnection on the Sun's dynamics. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 I. J. Soler Poquet , C. J. Díaz Baso , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , G. J. M. Vissers

The term "ultraviolet (UV) burst" is introduced to describe small, intense, transient brightenings in ultraviolet images of solar active regions. We inventorize their properties and provide a definition based on image sequences in…

We describe a new quiet-Sun phenomenon which we call "Quiet-Sun Ellerman-like Brightenings" (QSEB). QSEBs are similar to Ellerman bombs (EB) in some respects but differ significantly in others. EBs are transient brightenings of the wings of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten , Gregal J. M. Vissers

Ellerman bombs (EBs) with significant H$\alpha$ wing emissions and ultraviolet bursts (UV bursts) with strong Si IV emissions are two kinds of small transient brightening events that occur in the low solar atmosphere.We numerically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Yajie Chen , Jun Lin

Magnetic reconnection in the deep solar atmosphere can give rise to enhanced emission in the Balmer hydrogen lines, a phenomenon referred to as Ellerman bombs. Recent high quality H$\beta$ observations indicate that Ellerman bombs are more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Jayant Joshi , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

We study small-scale brightenings in Ca II 8542 \AA\ line-core images to determine their nature and effect on localized heating and mass transfer in active regions. High-resolution 2D spectroscopic observations of an active region in the Ca…