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Sunspots are transient, magnetically intense features that host oscillations linked to magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. These waves may contribute to plasma heating and drive mass flows in the solar wind. Beyond their energetic role, they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Kartika Sangal , A. K. Srivastava , Libo Fu , Ding Yuan , Song Feng , Yuandeng Shen

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

We report the simultaneous presence of chromospheric umbral flashes and associated umbral waves, and propagating coronal disturbances, in a sunspot and related active region. We have analyzed time-distance maps obtained using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Aishawnnya Sharma , G. R. Gupta , Durgesh Tripathi , V. Kashyap , Amit Pathak

In this study we combine the multiwavelength ultraviolet -- optical (Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO) and radio (Nobeyama Radioheliograph, NoRH) observations to get further insight into space-frequency distribution of oscillations at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Y. Kolobov , N. I. Kobanov , A. A. Chelpanov , A. A. Kochanov , S. A. Anfinogentov , S. A. Chupin , I. I. Myshyakov , V. E. Tomin

We use high spatial and temporal resolution observations, simultaneously obtained with the New Vacuum Solar Telescope and Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory, to investigate the high-frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Bo Li , Song Feng , Xianyong Bai , Linhua Deng , Yunfei Yang , Zhike Xue , Rui Wang

Recently, spiral wave patterns (SWPs) have been detected in 3 minute oscillations of sunspot umbrae, but the nature of this phenomenon has remained elusive. We present a theoretical model that interprets the observed SWPs as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-23 Juhyung Kang , Jongchul Chae , Valery M. Nakariakov , Kyuhyoun Cho , Hannah Kwak , Kyeore Lee

We analyse sunspot oscillations using Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) slit-jaw and spectral data and narrow-band chromospheric images from the New Solar Telescope (NST) for the main sunspot in NOAA AR 11836. We report that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Valentyna Abramenko , Ali Kilcik

Waves and oscillations are important solar phenomena, not only because they can propagate and dissipate energy in the chromosphere, but also because they carry information about the structure of the atmosphere in which they propagate. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yi Chai , Dale E. Gary , Kevin P. Reardon , Vasyl Yurchyshyn

Exploiting high-resolution observations made by the Solar Optical Telescope onboard Hinode, we investigate the spatial distribution of power spectral density of oscillatory signal in and around NOAA active region 10935. The G-band data show…

High resolution and seeing-free spectroscopic observation of a decaying sunspot was done with the Solar Optical Telescope aboard Hinode satellite. The target was NOAA 10944 located in the west side of the solar surface from March 2 to March…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hiroko Watanabe , Reizaburo Kitai , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Yukio Katsukawa

We present observations of persistent oscillations of some bright features in the upper-chromosphere/transition-region above sunspots taken by IRIS SJ 1400 {\AA} and upward propagating quasi-periodic disturbances along coronal loops rooted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Zhenyong Hou , Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Hui Fu

Sunspot umbrae show a change in the dominant period of their oscillations from five minutes in the photosphere to three minutes in the chromosphere. In this paper, we explore the two most popular models proposed to explain the three-minute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 T. Felipe

Solar Optical Telescope onboard Hinode observed a sunspot (AR 11836) with two light bridges (LBs) on 31 Aug 2013. We analysed a 2-hour \ion{Ca}{2} H emission intensity data set and detected strong 5-min oscillation power on both LBs and in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ding Yuan , Valery M. Nakariakov , Zhenghua Huang , Bo Li , Jiangtao Su , Yihua Yan , Baolin Tan

Sunspots host a large variety of oscillatory phenomena, whose properties depend on the nature of the wave modes and the magnetic and thermodynamic structure of the spot. Umbral chromospheric oscillations exhibit significant differences…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 T. Felipe

We report on the spatial distribution of magnetogram oscillatory power and phase angles between velocity and magnetogram signals as observed with the Michelson Doppler Imager. The dataset is 151.25 arcsec times 151.25 arcsec containing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Norton , R. K. Ulrich , R. I. Bush , T. D. Tarbell

Solar chromospheric observations of sunspot umbrae offer an exceptional view of magneto-hydrodynamic wave phenomena. In recent years, a wealth of wave signatures related to propagating magneto-acoustic modes have been presented, which…

In sunspot umbrae, the core of some chromospheric lines exhibits periodic brightness enhancements known as umbral flashes. The consensus is that they are produced by the upward propagation of shock waves. This view has recently been…

Oscillations are ubiquitous in sunspots and the associated higher atmospheres. However, it is still unclear whether these oscillations are driven by the external acoustic waves (p-modes) or generated by the internal magnetoconvection. To…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 Xinsheng Zhang , Xiaoli Yan , Zhike Xue , Jincheng Wang , Zhe Xu , Qiaoling Li , Yang Peng , Liping Yang

Sunspots host various oscillations and wave phenomena like umbral flashes, umbral oscillations, running penumbral waves, and coronal waves. All fan loops rooted in sunspot umbra constantly show a 3-min period propagating slow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Ananya Rawat , Girjesh R. Gupta

High spatial and temporal resolution images of a sunspot, obtained simultaneously in multiple optical and UV wavelengths, are employed to study the propagation and damping characteristics of slow magnetoacoustic waves up to transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , T. Van Doorsselaere , G. Verth , R. J. Morton , V. Fedun , R. Erdelyi , D. J. Christian