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We used the flux calibrated images through the Broad Band Filter Imager and Stokes Polarimeter data obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope onboard the Hinode spacecraft to study the properties of bright points in and around the sunspots.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Debi Prasad Choudhary , Toshifumi Shimizu

Magnetic elements on the quiet sun are buffeted by convective flows that cause lateral motions on timescales of minutes. The magnetic elements can be observed as bright points (BPs) in the G band at 4305 {\AA}. We present observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Nisenson , A. A. van Ballegooijen , A. G. de Wijn , P. Sutterlin

High resolution G-band images of the interior of a supergranulation cell show ubiquitous Bright Points (some 0.3 BPs per Mm^2). They are located in intergranular lanes and often form chains of elongated blobs whose smallest dimension is at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Sanchez Almeida , I. Marquez , J. A. Bonet , I. Dominguez Cerdena , R. Muller

Granules observed in solar photosphere are believed to be convective and turbulent, but the physical picture of granular dynamical process remains unclear. Here we performed an investigation of granular dynamical motions of full length…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Liu Yanxiao , Jiang Chaowei , Yuan Ding , Zuo Pingbing , Wang Yi , Cao Wenda

Small-scale brightenigs are ubiquitous, dynamic and energetic phenomena found in the chromopshere. An advanced filter-detection algorithm applied to high-resolution observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph enables the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Llŷr Humphries , Huw Morgan , David Kuridze

Bright points (BPs) are ubiquitous, small-scale energetic events with multithermal signatures, typically observed in the chromosphere and linked to both photospheric structure and coronal composition. Their evolution is influenced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Llŷr Humphries , Huw Morgan , David Kuridze

We use high spatial resolution observations and numerical simulations to study the velocity distribution of solar photospheric magnetic bright points. The observations were obtained with the Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere…

We present results of two-hour non-interrupted observations of solar granulation obtained under excellent seeing conditions with the largest aperture ground-based solar telescope - the New Solar Telescope (NST) - of Big Bear Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Valentyna Abramenko , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Philip Goode , Ali Kilcik

We present a new automated algorithm to identify, track, and characterize small-scale brightening associated with solar eruptive phenomena observed in H{\alpha}. The temporal spatially-localized changes in chromospheric intensities can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. S. Kirk , K. S. Balasubramaniam , J. Jackiewicz , B. J. McNamara , R. T. J. McAteer

Context. High-resolution observations of the solar photosphere reveal the presence of fine structures, in particular the so-called magnetic bright points (MBPs), which are small-scale features associated with strong magnetic field regions…

We aim to improve our picture of the low chromosphere in the quiet-Sun internetwork by investigating the intensity, horizontal velocity, size and lifetime variations of small bright points (BPs; diameter smaller than 0.3 arcsec) observed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 S. Jafarzadeh , S. K. Solanki , A. Feller , A. Lagg , A. Pietarila , S. Danilovic , T. L. Riethmüller , V. Martínez Pillet

Context. Magnetic Bright Points (MBPs) are small-scale magnetic features in the solar photosphere. They may be a possible source of coronal heating by rapid footpoint motions that cause magnetohydrodynamical waves. The number and size…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Utz , A. Hanslmeier , C. Möstl , R. Muller , A. Veronig , H. Muthsam

Context: Supergranulation is a pattern of the velocity field at the surface of the Sun, which has been known about for more than fifty years, however, no satisfactory explanation of its origin has been proposed. Aims: New observational…

Excessive or inadequate exposure to ultraviolet light (UV) is harmful to health and causes osteoporosis, colon cancer, and skin cancer. The UV Index, a standard scale of UV light, tends to increase in sunny places and sharply decrease in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-19 Yuuki Nishiyama , Kosuke Hatai , Kota Tsubouchi , Kaoru Sezaki

Prediction of solar flares is an important task in solar physics. The occurrence of solar flares is highly dependent on the structure and the topology of solar magnetic fields. A new method for predicting large (M and X class) flares is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Abbas Raboonik , Hossein Safari , Nasibe Alipour , Michael S. Wheatland

Bright small-scale magnetic elements found mainly in intergranular lanes at the solar surface are named bright points (BPs). They show high contrasts in Fraunhofer G-band observations and are described by nearly vertical slender flux tubes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 T. L. Riethmüller , S. K. Solanki

Coronal bright points (CBPs) as characteristics of the solar corona are small-scale bright features ubiquitously observed at extreme ultraviolet passbands. Here, we focused on time series of CBPs in the periods of their lifetimes. We used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-25 Mahdieh Mehrabian , Bardia Kaki , Yusefali Abedini

For bright transients such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), the Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) operates under event mode at early phases, which records incident positions and arrival time for each photon. The event file is able to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Hao Zhou , Zhi-Ping Jin , Stefano Covino , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Umbral dots (UDs) are transient, bright features observed in the umbral region of a sunspot. We study the physical properties of UDs observed in sunspots of different sizes. The aim of our study is to relate the physical properties of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Rahul Yadav , Rohan E. Louis , Shibu K. Mathew

A solar X-ray Bright point (BP) was observed with the SUMER-spectrograph of the SOHO-observatory. The data consist of four far-UV spectral lines formed between 2 10^4 - 6 10^5 K, with 2 arcsec spatial, 2.8 min temporal and 4 km/s spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Vilhu , J. Huovelin , S. Pohjolainen , J. Virtanen , W. Curdt