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A sunspot acts as a waveguide in response to the dynamics of the solar interior; the trapped waves and oscillations could reveal its thermal and magnetic structures. We study the oscillations in a sunspot intruded by a light bridge, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Ding Yuan , Robert W. Walsh

Sunspot atmospheres are highly inhomogeneous hosting both quasi-stable and transient features, such as `umbral micro-jets' and dark fibril-like events. We seek to understand the morphological properties and formation mechanisms of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 C. J. Nelson , V. M. J. Henriques , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

Chromospheric jets are plausible agents of energy and mass transport in the solar chromosphere, although their driving mechanisms have not yet been elucidated. Magnetic field measurements are key for distinguishing the driving mechanisms of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 T. Matsumoto , K. Kawabata , K. Katsukawa , H. Iijima , C. Quintero Noda

The Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard HINODE successfully and continuously observed a formation process of a light bridge in a matured sunspot of the NOAA active region 10923 for several days with high spatial resolution. During its…

High spatial- and temporal-resolution images of coronal hole regions show a dynamical environment where mass flows and jets are frequently observed. These jets are believed to be important for the coronal heating and the acceleration of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-31 K. Chandrashekhar , A. Bemporad , D. Banerjee , G. R. Gupta , L. Teriaca

Solar jets are collimated plasma flows moving along magnetic field lines and accelerated at low altitude following magnetic reconnection. Several of them originate from anemone-shaped low-lying arcades and the most impulsive ones tend to be…

We present data of 10 penumbral microjets (PMJs) observed in H\alpha, Ca II 8542 \AA, and Fe I 6302 \AA line pair with the Swedish 1 m Solar Telescope (SST) with CRISP and Ca II K with SST/CHROMIS in active region NOAA 12599 on the 12th…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 D. Buehler , S. Esteban Pozuelo , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , G. B. Scharmer

Small-scale jet-like eruptions, such as picoflare jets and jetlets, are recognized as potential contributors to coronal heating and solar wind acceleration, yet their physical origin is still not fully established. Using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Annu Bura , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Tanmoy Samanta , Jayant Joshi

We present the results obtained by analyzing high spatial and spectral resolution data of the solar photosphere acquired by the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter at the Swedish Solar Telescope on 6 August 2011, relevant to a large sunspot…

A small blowout jet was observed at the boundary of the south polar coronal hole on 2011 February 8 at around 21:00 UT. Images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) revealed an expanding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Peter R. Young , Karin Muglach

Light bridges, the bright structures that divide the umbra of sunspots and pores into smaller pieces, are known to produce wide variety of activity events in solar active regions (ARs). It is also known that the light bridges appear in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Mark C. M. Cheung

Velocity structures of jets in a coronal hole have been derived for the first time. Hinode observations revealed the existence of many bright points in coronal holes. They are loop-shaped and sometimes associated with coronal jets. Spectra…

We report new results from an HST archival program to study proper motions in the optical jet of the nearby radio galaxy M87. Using over 13 years of archival imaging, we reach accuracies below 0.1c in measuring the apparent velocities of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Eileen T. Meyer , W. B. Sparks , J. A. Biretta , Jay Anderson , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Roeland P. van der Marel , Colin Norman , Masanori Nakamura

We present long-slit spectroscopic observations of the HH 110 jet obtained with the 4.2~m William Herschel Telescope. We have obtained for the first time, spectra for slit positions along and across the jet axis (at the position of knots B,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 A. Riera , R. Lopez , A. C. Raga , R. Estalella , G. Anglada

High-resolution observations of dynamic phenomena give insight into properties and processes that govern the low solar atmosphere. We present the analysis of jet-like phenomena emanating from a penumbral foot-point in active region (AR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-09 Llŷr Dafydd Humphries , Erwin Verwichte , David Kuridze , Huw Morgan

Macrospicules are typically described as solar jets that are larger and longer-lived than spicules, and visible mostly in transition-region spectral lines. They show a broad variation in properties, which pose substantial difficulties for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-10 Ivan P. Loboda , Sergej A. Bogachev

I report observations of unusually strong photospheric and chromospheric velocity oscillations in and near the leading sunspot of NOAA 10781 on 03 July 2005. I investigate an impinging wave as a possible origin of the velocity pattern, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 C. Beck

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

Recent IRIS observations have revealed a prevalence of intermittent small-scale jets with apparent speeds of 80 - 250 km s$^{-1}$, emanating from small-scale bright regions inside network boundaries of coronal holes. We find that these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-22 Nancy Narang , Rebecca T. Arbacher , Hui Tian , Dipankar Banerjee , Steven R. Cranmer , Ed E. DeLuca , Sean McKillop

Sunspot observations in chromospheric spectral lines have revealed the existence of short-lived linear bright transients, commonly referred to as penumbral micro-jets (PMJs). Details on the origin and physical nature of PMJs are to large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Ainar Drews