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The formation of shocks within the solar atmosphere remains one of the few observable signatures of energy dissipation arising from the plethora of magnetohydrodynamic waves generated close to the solar surface. Active region observations…

We analyze a solar active region observed by the Hinode CaII H line using the time-distance helioseismology technique, and infer wave-speed perturbation structures and flow fields beneath the active region with a high spatial resolution.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Junwei Zhao , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Takashi Sekii

High resolution spectropolarimetric data obtained by HINODE is used to characterize the small-scale penumbral magnetic field as well as the vertical and horizontal component of the Evershed effect (EE). The results demonstrate that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-14 Morten Franz

Inversion techniques applied to the radiative transfer equation for polarized light are capable of inferring the physical parameters in the solar atmosphere (temperature $T$, magnetic field ${\bf B}$, and line-of-sight velocity $v_{\rm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 J. M. Borrero , A. Pastor Yabar , B. Ruiz Cobo

Sunspots are crucial for exploring how magnetic fields and plasma flows interact in the solar atmosphere, spanning from the stable photosphere to the shock-dominated chromosphere. To determine the thermal, magnetic, and kinematic properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 A. Vicente Arevalo , J. M. Borrero , I. Milic , A. Pastor Yabar , I. Kontogiannis , A. G. M. Pietrow

We study the structure of the photospheric magnetic field of the quiet Sun by investigating weak spectro-polarimetric signals. We took a sequence of Stokes spectra of the Fe I 630.15 nm and 630.25 nm lines in a region of quiet Sun near the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Rezaei , R. Schlichenmaier , W. Schmidt , O. Steiner

The first significant sunquake event of Solar Cycle 25 was observed during the X1.5 flare of May 10, 2022, by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory. We perform a detailed spectro-polarimetric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Viacheslav M. Sadykov , John T. Stefan

Magnetic reconnection is thought to drive a wide variety of dynamic phenomena in the solar atmosphere. Yet the detailed physical mechanisms driving reconnection are difficult to discern in the remote sensing observations that are used to…

We study the observational signature of flux emergence in the photosphere using synthetic data from a 3D MHD simulation of the emergence of a twisted flux tube. Several stages in the emergence process are considered. At every stage we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Yelles Chaouche , M. C. M. Cheung , S. K. Solanki , M. Schuessler , A. Lagg

Rapid magnetic upflows in the quiet-Sun photosphere were recently uncovered from both SUNRISE/IMaX and Hinode/SOT observations. Here, we study magnetic upflow events (MUEs) from high-quality, high- (spatial, temporal, and spectral)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 S. Jafarzadeh , L. Rouppe van der Voort , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez

In this paper we propose an inversion strategy for the analysis of spectropolarimetric measurements taken by {\em Hinode} in the quiet Sun. The spectropolarimeter of the Solar Optical Telescope aboard {\em Hinode} records the Stokes spectra…

A quiet Sun magnetic flux cancelation event at the disk centre was recorded using the Integral Field Unit (IFU) mounted on the GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS). GRIS sampled the event in the photospheric Si I 10827 {\AA} spectral line.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Anjali. J. Kaithakkal , J. M. Borrero , C. E. Fischer , C. Dominguez-Tagle , M. Collados

Sunspots are prominent manifestations of the solar cycle and provide key constraints for understanding its operation. Also, knowing internal structure of sunspots allows us to gain insights on the energy transport in strong magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-29 R. Wenzel , S. V. Berdyugina , D. M. Fluri , J. Arnaud , A. Sainz-Dalda

Recent observations from Parker Solar Probe have revealed that the solar wind has a highly variable structure. How this complex behaviour is formed in the solar corona is not yet known, since it requires omnipresent fluctuations, which…

We examine whether or not it is possible to derive the field strength distribution of quiet Sun internetwork regions from very high spatial resolution polarimetric observations in the visible. In particular, we consider the case of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Orozco Suarez , L. R. Bellot Rubio , J. C. del Toro Iniesta

Small-scale transient phenomena in the quiet Sun are believed to play an important role in coronal heating and solar wind generation. One of them named as "X-ray jet" is the subject of our study. We indent to investigate the dynamics,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. S. Madjarska

Propagating (intensity) disturbances (PDs) are well reported in observations of coronal loops and polar plumes in addition to recent links with co-temporal spicule activity in the solar atmosphere. However, despite being reported in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Samuel Skirvin , Tanmoy Samanta , Tom Van Doorsselaere

The observation of propagating magneto-hydrodynamic kink waves in magnetic structures and measurement of their properties (amplitude, phase speed) can be used to diagnose the plasma conditions in the neighbourhood of the magnetic structure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 R J Morton

The expansion with height of the solar photospheric magnetic field and the plasma flows is investigated for three isolated bright points (BPs). The BPs were observed simultaneously with 3 instruments at the GREGOR telescope: (1) filtergrams…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Christoph Kuckein

Our knowledge of the lower solar atmosphere is mainly obtained from spectropolarimetric observations, which are often carried out in the red or infrared spectral range and almost always cover only a single or a few spectral lines. Here we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 T. L. Riethmüller , S. K. Solanki