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I report on observations of a set of magnetic loops above a region with late-phase flux emergence taken by IRIS, Hinode and SDO. The loop system consists of many transition region loop threads with size of 5--12\arcsec\ in length and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Zhenghua Huang

We analyze Fe I 630 nm observations of the quiet Sun at disk center taken with the spectropolarimeter of the Solar Optical Telescope aboard the Hinode satellite. A significant fraction of the scanned area, including granules, turns out to…

Low-m inertial modes have been recently discovered in the Sun's high-latitude regions. In this study, we characterize the observational properties of the m = 1 mode by analyzing time-distance subsurface flow maps. Synoptic flow maps,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Boyang Ding , Junwei Zhao , Ruizhu Chen , Matthias Waidele , Sushant S. Mahajan , Oana Vesa

We analyzed spectropolarimetric data from the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope to investigate physical properties of small-scale magnetic cancellations in the quiet Sun photosphere. Specifically, we looked at the full Stokes polarization…

The Solar Optical Telescope onboard Hinode revealed the fine-scale structure of the Evershed flow and its relation to the filamentary structures of the sunspot penumbra. The Evershed flow is confined in narrow channels with nearly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kiyoshi Ichimoto , SOT/Hinode-team

The chromosphere above active regions (ARs) on the Sun hosts magnetized supersonic downflows. Studies of these supersonic downflows help to decipher the magnetic fine structure and dynamics of the chromosphere. We perform a statistical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 K. Sowmya , A. Lagg , S. K. Solanki , J. S. Castellanos Durán

We study the dynamics of low-lying cool loop systems for three datasets as observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Radiances, Doppler shifts and line widths are investigated in and around observed cool loop systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Yamini K. Rao , Abhishek K. Srivastava , Pradeep Kayshap , Klaus Wilhelm , Bhola N. Dwivedi

We compare horizontal velocities, vertical magnetic fields and evolution of trees of fragmenting granules (TFG, also named families of granules) derived in the quiet Sun at disk center from observations at solar minimum and maximum of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 J. M. Malherbe , T. Roudier , R. Stein , Z. Frank

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have been considered as energy sources for heating the solar chromosphere and the corona. Although MHD waves have been observed in the solar atmosphere, there are a lack of quantitative estimates on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-01 Ryuichi Kanoh , Toshifumi Shimizu , Shinsuke Imada

The coupling between plasma flows and magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere governs the transport of angular momentum and the redistribution of magnetic flux, yet its manifestation in the magnetically dominated upper chromosphere remains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Srinjana Routh , Anshu Kumari , Rohan Bose , Vaibhav Pant , Divya Paliwal , Dipankar Banerjee , Nat Gopalswamy

Before using 3D MHD simulations of the solar photosphere in the determination of elemental abundances, one has to ensure that the correct amount of magnetic flux is present in the simulations. The presence of magnetic flux modifies the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 C. Beck , D. Fabbian , R. Rezaei , K. G. Puschmann

We report multi-wavelength ultraviolet observations taken with the IRIS satellite, concerning the emergence phase in the upper chromosphere and transition region of an emerging flux region (EFR) embedded in the pre-existing field of active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-18 Salvo L. Guglielmino , Francesca Zuccarello , Peter R. Young , Mariariata Murabito , Paolo Romano

Developing an understanding of how magnetic fields can become entangled in a prominence is important for predicting a possible eruption. This work investigates the kinetic energy and vorticity associated with plasma motion residing inside…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 M. S. Freed , D. E. McKenzie , D. W. Longcope , M. Wilburn

We performed a 3D radiative MHD simulation of the solar atmosphere. This simulation shows a jet-like feature that shows similarities to the type II spicules observed for the first time with Hinode. Rapid Blueshifted Events (RBEs) on the…

Solar subsurface zonal and meridional-flow profiles during the rising phase of solar cycle 24 are studied using time-distance helioseismology technique. The faster zonal bands in the torsional-oscillation pattern show strong hemispheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Junwei Zhao , A. G. Kosovichev , R. S. Bogart

Loops are one of the fundamental structures that trace the geometry of the magnetic field in the solar atmosphere. Their evolution and dynamics provide a crucial proxy for studying how the magnetized structures are formed and heated in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Zhenghua Huang , Bo Li , Lidong Xia , Mijie Shi , Hui Fu , Zhenyong Hou

Downflows with high velocities occur in the transition region above many sunspots; however, how these signatures evolve over short time-scales in both spatial and spectral terms is still unknown. In this article, we investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 C. J. Nelson , S. Krishna Prasad , M. Mathioudakis

In this study we report detailed observations of magnetic environment at four footpoints of two warm coronal loops observed on 5 May 2016 in NOAA AR 12542 (Loop I) and 17 Dec 2015 in NOAA AR 12470 (Loop II). These loops were connecting a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 Seray Şahin , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Pankaj Kumar , Ali Kilcik , Kwangsu Ahn , Xu Yang

The formation and the temporal evolution of a bipolar moving magnetic feature (MMF) was studied with high spatial and temporal resolution. The photometric properties were observed with the New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Eun-Kyung Lim , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Philip Goode

Analysis of the Interball-1 spacecraft data (1995-2000) has shown that the solar wind ion flux sometimes increases or decreases abruptly by more than 20% over a time period of several seconds or minutes. Typically, the amplitude of such…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Olga Khabarova , Georgy Zastenker
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