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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

Aims. Convective collapse, a theoretically predicted process that intensifies existing weak magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere, was first directly observed in a single event by Nagata et al. (2008) using the high resolution Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. E. Fischer , A. G. de Wijn , R. Centeno , B. W. Lites , C. U. Keller

Recent spectro-polarimetric observations have provided detailed measurements of magnetic field, velocity and intensity during events of magnetic field intensification in the solar photosphere. We consider the temporal evolution of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Danilovic , M. Schüssler , S. K. Solanki

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 observations of active region NOAA 11271 were obtained with the spectro-polarimeter on board Hinode to analyze the properties of an anomalous flow in the photosphere in a sunspot penumbra. We detect a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Rohan E. Louis , Christian Beck , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

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 emergence of magnetic flux at very small spatial scales (less than 2 arcsec) in the quiet Sun internetwork. To this aim, a time series of spectropolarimetric maps was taken at disk center using the instrument SP/SOT on board…

In a previous work, we reported on the discovery of supersonic magnetic upflows on granular cells in data from the {\sc Sunrise}/IMaX instrument. In the present work we investigate the physical origin of these events employing data of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. M. Borrero , V. Martinez Pillet , W. Schmidt , C. Quintero Noda , J. A. Bonet , J. C. del Toro Iniesta , L. R. Bellot Rubio

We report on the dynamical interaction of quiet-Sun magnetic fields and granular convection in the solar photosphere as seen by \textsc{Sunrise}. We use high spatial resolution (0\farcs 15--0\farcs 18) and temporal cadence (33 s)…

In its first encounter at solar distances as close as r = 0.16AU, Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observed numerous local reversals, or inversions, in the heliospheric magnetic field (HMF), which were accompanied by large spikes in solar wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Allan R Macneil , Mathew J Owens , Robert T Wicks , Mike Lockwood

Emerging flux regions (EFRs) are known to exhibit various sporadic local heating events in the lower atmosphere. To investigate the characteristics of these events, especially to link the photospheric magnetic fields and atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Mark C. M. Cheung

Solar pores are active regions with large magnetic field strengths and apparent simple magnetic configurations. Their properties resemble the ones found for the sunspot umbra although pores do not show penumbra. Therefore, solar pores…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 C. Quintero Noda , T. Shimizu , B. Ruiz Cobo , Y. Suematsu , Y. Katsukawa , K. Ichimoto

The velocity pattern of a fan loop structure within a solar active region over the temperature range 0.15-1.5 MK is derived using data from the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board the Hinode satellite. The loop is aligned towards the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. R. Young , B. O'Dwyer , H. E. Mason

Minimal observational evidence exists for fast transition region (TR) upflows in the presence of cool loops. Observations of such occurrences challenge notions of standard solar atmospheric heating models, as well as their description of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 N. B. Orange , D. L. Chesny , H. M. Oluseyi , K. Hesterly , M. Patel , P. R. Champey

Recent observations with the HINODE satellite have found abundant horizontal magnetic fields in the internetwork quiet Sun. We compare the results on the horizontal fields with ground-based observations. We obtained 30 sec-integrated data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. A. R. Beck , R. Rezaei

We perform NLTE inversions in a large set of umbral flashes, including the dark fibrils visible within them, and in the quiescent umbra by using the inversion code NICOLE on a set of full Stokes high-resolution Ca II 8542 A observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Vasco M. J. Henriques , Michail Mathioudakis , Hector Socas-Navarro , Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez

Recent observations revealed loop-like structures at very small scales visible in observables that sample transition region (TR) and coronal temperatures. Their formation remains unclear. We study an example of a bipolar system in realistic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 M. Skan , S. Danilovic , J. Leenaarts , F. Calvo , M. Rempel

We present a subset of multi-wavelengths observations obtained with the Japanese Hinode mission, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) at Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain during the time period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Verma , H. Balthasar , N. Deng , C. Liu , T. Shimizu , H. Wang , C. Denker

In this study, we investigate motions in the hot plasma above the flare loops during the 2017 September 10 X8.2 flare event. We examine the region to the south of the main flare arcade, where there is data from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Katharine K. Reeves , Vanessa Polito , Bin Chen , Giselle Galan , Sijie Yu , Wei Liu , Gang Li

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