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We performed the temperature diagnostics using inversions of data from nine spectroscopic observations obtained with the IRIS spectrograph in the MgII h & k lines. The sensitivity to the temperature of the emission peaks of these lines was…

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Surges are cool and dense ejections typically observed in chromospheric lines and closely related to other solar phenomena like UV bursts or coronal jets. Our aim is to address the current lack of inverted models and diagnostics of surges…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-10 D. Nóbrega Siverio , S. L. Guglielmino , A. Sainz Dalda

We present the first Hinode/EIS observations of 5 min quasi-periodic oscillations detected in a transition-region line (He II) and five coronal lines (Fe X, Fe XII, Fe XIII, Fe XIV, and Fe XV) at the footpoint of a coronal loop. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 T. J. Wang , L. Ofman , J. M. Davila

Helioseismic observations have provided valuable datasets with which to pursue the detailed investigation of solar interior dynamics. Among various methods to analyse these data, normal-mode coupling has proven to be a powerful tool, used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Prasad Mani , Shravan Hanasoge

In the standard 2D model of eruption, the eruption of a magnetic flux rope is associated with magnetic reconnection occurring beneath it. However, in 3D, additional reconnection geometries are possible, in particular the AR-RF, where…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Reetika Joshi , Jaroslav Dudík , Brigitte Schmieder , Guillaume Aulanier , Ramesh Chandra

The origin of the slow solar wind is still an open issue. It has been suggested that upflows at the edge of active regions (AR) can contribute to the slow solar wind. Here, we compared the upflow region and the AR core and studied how the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Krzysztof Barczynski , Louise Harra , Lucia Kleint , Brandon Panos , David H. Brooks

Multiwavelength observations of the propagating disturbances (PDs), discovered by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), are analyzed to determine its driving mechanism and physical nature. Two magnetic…

High resolution spectral observations of the lower solar atmosphere (chromosphere and transition region) during coronal heating events, in combination with predictions from models of impulsively heated loops, provide powerful diagnostics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Paola Testa , Helle Bakke , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Bart De Pontieu

The Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) records line-of-sight Dopplergram images of convective flows on the surface. These images are used to obtain the multi-scale convective spectrum. We design…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 Samarth G Kashyap , Shravan M Hanasoge

In this ISSI-supported series of studies on magnetic helicity in the Sun, we systematically implement different magnetic helicity calculation methods on high-quality solar magnetogram observations. We apply finite-volume, discrete flux tube…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 J. K. Thalmann , M. K. Georgoulis , Y. Liu , E. Pariat , G. Valori , S. Anfinogentov , F. Chen , Y. Guo , K. Moraitis , S. Yang , A. Mastrano

Coronal bright points (BPs) are small-scale luminous features seen in the solar corona. Quasi-periodic brightenings are frequently observed in the BPs and are generally linked with underneath magnetic flux changes. We study the dynamics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Tanmoy Samanta , Dipankar Banerjee , Hui Tian

We use UV spectral observations of active regions with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) to investigate the properties of the coronal FeXII 1349.4A emission at unprecedented high spatial resolution (~0.33"). We find that by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Paola Testa , Bart De Pontieu , Viggo Hansteen

Surges often appear as a result of the emergence of magnetized plasma from the solar interior. Traditionally, they are observed in chromospheric lines such as H$\alpha$ 6563 \AA and Ca II 8542 \AA. However, whether there is a response to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-05 D. Nóbrega-Siverio , J. Martínez-Sykora , F. Moreno-Insertis , L. Rouppe van der Voort

We compare measurements of horizontal flows on the surface of the Sun using helioseismic time--distance inversions and coherent structure tracking of solar granules. Tracking provides 2D horizontal flows on the solar surface, whereas the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Svanda , Th. Roudier , M. Rieutord , R. Burston , L. Gizon

Local helioseismology has opened new frontiers in our quest for understanding of the internal dynamics and dynamo on the Sun. Local helioseismology reconstructs subsurface structures and flows by extracting coherent signals of acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao

While previous work explored the fractality and self-organized criticality (SOC) of flares and nanoflares in wavelengths emitted in the solar corona (such as in hard X-rays, soft X-rays, and EUV wavelenghts), we focus here on impulsive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Markus J. Aschwanden , Nived Vilangot Nhalil

Context. The carbon monoxide (CO) molecular line at around 46655 A in solar infrared spectra is often used to investigate the dynamic behavior of the cold heart of the solar atmosphere, i.e., sunspot oscillation, especially at the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 D. Li , X. Yang , X. Y. Bai , J. T. Su , Z. J. Ning , W. Cao , Y. Y. Deng

Dynamics of hot chromospheric plasma of solar flares is a key to understanding of mechanisms of flare energy release and particle acceleration. A moderate M1.0 class flare of 12 June, 2014 (SOL2014-06-12T21:12) was simultaneously observed…

Solar convection is visible as a net blueshift of absorption lines, which becomes apparent when observing quiet Sun granulation. This blueshift exhibits variations from the disc centre to the solar limb due to differing projection angles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 M. Ellwarth , B. Ehmann , S. Schäfer , A. Reiners

We present observations of distinct UV spectral properties at different locations during an atypical X-shaped flare (SOL2014-11-09T15:32) observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). In this flare, four chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Y. Li , M. Kelly , M. D. Ding , J. Qiu , X. S. Zhu , W. Q. Gan