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Observations of the Sun in the visible spectral range belong to standard measurements obtained by instruments both on the ground and in the space. Nowadays, both nearly continuous full-disc observations with medium resolution and dedicated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-30 Michal Švanda , Jan Jurčák , David Korda , Jana Kašparová

The Ca II H & K lines are strong chromospheric diagnostics that can be used to determine the temperature stratification and magnetic structure of the solar atmosphere. The Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) offers…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Sneha Pandit , Sven Wedemeyer , Mats Carlsson

We report observations of solar spicules at millimeter wavelengths (mm-$\lambda$) using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). These are supplemented by observations in optical (O), ultraviolet (UV) and extreme ultraviolet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 T. S. Bastian , C. Alissandrakis , A. Nindos , M. Shimojo , S. M. White

The precise mechanisms that provide the non-radiative energy for heating the chromosphere and the corona of the Sun and other stars are at the focus of intense contemporary research. Observations at submm/mm wavelengths are particularly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 R. Liseau , V. De la Luz , E. O'Gorman , E. Bertone , M. Chavez , F. Tapia

The intensity of radiation at millimeter wavelengths from the solar atmosphere is closely related to the plasma temperature and the height of formation of the radiation is wavelength dependent. From that follows that the slope of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Henrik Eklund , Mikolaj Szydlarski , Sven Wedemeyer

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will be a valuable tool for observing the chromosphere of our Sun at (sub-)millimeter wavelengths at high spatial, temporal and spectral resolution and as such has great potential to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Sven Wedemeyer , Tim Bastian , Roman Brajsa , Miroslav Barta , Masumi Shimojo

We present a new solar radio imaging system implemented through the upgrade of the large single-dish telescopes of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), not originally conceived for solar observations. During the…

In this work we use solar observations with the ALMA radio telescope at the wavelength of 1.21 mm. The aim of the analysis is to improve understanding of the solar chromosphere, a dynamic layer in the solar atmosphere between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 R. Brajša , D. Sudar , I. Skokic , A. O. Benz , M. Kuhar , A. Kobelski , S. Wedemeyer , S. M. White , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Temmer , S. H. Saar , C. L. Selhorst

In this paper we present simulated observations of massive self-gravitating circumstellar discs using the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA). Using a smoothed particle hydrodynamics model of a $0.2M_{\odot}$ disc orbiting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Cossins , G. Lodato , L. Testi

High-resolution observations of the solar chromosphere at millimeter wavelengths are now possible with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), promising to tackle many open problems in solar physics. Observations from other ground and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 João M. da Silva Santos , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Jorrit Leenaarts

The ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey, ACES, has mapped $\gtrsim1000$ square arcminutes at 3 mm toward the center of our Galaxy. ACES provides the first large-scale, high-resolution ($\sim2.5$") view of the central $\sim200$…

We measured the center-to-limb variation of the brightness temperature, $T_b$, from ALMA full-disk images at two frequencies and inverted the solution of the transfer equation to obtain the electron temperature, $T_e$ as a function of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 C. E. Alissandrakis , S. Patsourakos , A. Nindos , T. S. Bastian

We present the first observation of a solar prominence at $84-116$ GHz using the high resolution interferometric imaging of ALMA. Simultaneous observations in H$\alpha$ from Bia{\l}kaw Observatory and with SDO/AIA reveal similar prominence…

We present the estimation of the solar observation with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). For both the quite Sun and the Sun with radio bursts, when pointing directly to the Sun, the total power received by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Lei Qian , Zhichen Pan , Hongfei Liu , Hengqian Gan , Jinglong Yu , Lei Zhao , Jiguang Lu , Cun Sun , Jingye Yan , Peng Jiang

We present four daytime thermal images of Europa taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array. Together, these images comprise the first spatially resolved thermal dataset with complete coverage of Europa's surface. The resulting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Samantha K. Trumbo , Michael E. Brown , Bryan J. Butler

The Atacama Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) remains unparalleled in sensitivity at radio frequencies above 35 GHz. In this paper, we explore ALMA's potential for narrowband technosignature detection, considering factors such as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Louisa A Mason , Michael A Garrett , Kelvin Wandia , Andrew P V Siemion

We model sunspot brightness temperature in the wavelength range 0.3-10mm using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) single-dish measurements together with other instruments. Our modeling idea starts from an existing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 F. Matković , R. Brajša , A. O. Benz , H. -G. Ludwig , C. L. Selhorst , I. Skokić , D. Sudar , A. Hanslmeier

We report the results of the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the solar chromosphere on the southern polar limb. Coordinated observations with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) are also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Takaaki Yokoyama , Masumi Shimojo , Takenori J. Okamoto , Haruhisa Iijima

ALMA will become fully operational in a few years and open a new window on primordial galaxies. The mm and submm domain is privileged, since the peak of dust emission between 60 and 100 microns is redshifted there for z= 5-10, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Combes

The continuum intensity at wavelengths around 1 mm provides an excellent way to probe the solar chromosphere. Future high-resolution millimetre arrays, such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), will thus produce valuable input for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Wedemeyer-Boehm , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Steffen , J. Leenaarts , B. Freytag