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Quiet Sun Ellerman Bombs (QSEBs) are key indicators of small-scale photospheric magnetic reconnection events. Recent high-resolution observations have shown that they are ubiquitous and that large numbers of QSEBs can be found in the quiet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Aditi Bhatnagar , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Jayant Joshi

Ellerman bombs (EBs) with significant H$\alpha$ wing emissions and ultraviolet bursts (UV bursts) with strong Si IV emissions are two kinds of small transient brightening events that occur in the low solar atmosphere.We numerically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Yajie Chen , Jun Lin

Ellerman bombs are transient brightenings in the wings of H-alpha 6563 {\AA} that pinpoint photospheric sites of magnetic reconnection in solar active regions. Their partial visibility in the 1600 {\AA} and 1700 {\AA} continua registered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Gregal J. M. Vissers , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten

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

Quiet-Sun Ellerman bombs (QSEBs) are small-scale magnetic reconnection events in the lower atmosphere of the quiet Sun. Recent work has shown that a small percentage of them can occur co-spatially and co-temporally to ultraviolet (UV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Aditi Bhatnagar , Avijeet Prasad , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Jayant Joshi

Ellerman Bomb-like brightenings of the hydrogen Balmer line wings in the quiet Sun (QSEBs) are a signature of the fundamental process of magnetic reconnection at the smallest observable scale in the solar lower atmosphere. We analyze high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Jayant Joshi , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez

Magnetic reconnection in the deep solar atmosphere can give rise to enhanced emission in the Balmer hydrogen lines, a phenomenon referred to as Ellerman bombs. To effectively trace magnetic reconnection below the canopy of chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 L. Rouppe van der Voort , M. van Noort , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez

Ellerman bombs are short-lived brightenings of the outer wings of Halpha that occur in active regions with much flux emergence. We point out fads and fallacies in the extensive Ellerman bomb literature, discuss their appearance in various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Robert J. Rutten , Gregal J. M. Vissers , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Peter Sütterlin , Nikola Vitas

By use of the high-resolution spectral data and the broadband imaging obtained with the Goode Solar Telescope at the Big Bear Solar Observatory on 2013 June 6, the spectra of three typical photospheric bright points (PBPs) have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-21 Q. Hao , C. Fang , M. D. Ding , Z. Li , W. Cao

We use observations of quiet Sun (QS) regions in the H$\alpha$ 6563 \AA, Ca~{\sc ii} 8542 \AA\, and Fe~{\sc i} 6302 \AA\ lines. We observe brightenings in the wings of the H$\alpha$ and Ca~{\sc ii} combined with observations of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 J. Shetye , S. Shelyag , A. L. Reid , E. Scullion , J. G. Doyle , T. D. Arber

We examine 3He-rich solar energetic particles (SEPs) detected on 2023 October 24-25 by Solar Orbiter at 0.47 au. The measurements revealed that heavy-ion enhancements increase irregularly with mass, peaking at S. C, and especially N, Si,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 R. Bucik , G. M. Mason , S. M. Mulay , G. C. Ho , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber , J. Rodriguez-Pacheco

In this article we present examples of a wider study of space-time correlation of electron precipitation event of the Van Allen belts with the position and time of occurrence of strong (M>6.5) earthquakes. The study is based on the analysis…

Geophysics · Physics 2010-12-17 G. Anagnostopoulos , V. Rigas , E. Vassiliadis

We aim to investigate the temperature enhancements and formation heights of impulsive heating phenomena in solar active-regions such as Ellerman bombs (EBs), ultraviolet bursts (UVBs), and flaring active-region fibrils (FAFs) using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 J. M. da Silva Santos , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , S. M. White , J. Leenaarts , G. J. M. Vissers , V. H. Hansteen

Aims. We aim to explain line formation of He I D3 and He I 10830 {\AA} in small-scale reconnection events. Methods. We make use of a simulated Ellerman bomb (EB), present in a Bifrost-generated radiative Magnetohydrodynamics (rMHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 T. Libbrecht , J. P. Bjørgen , J. Leenaarts , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , V. Hansteen , J. Joshi

Small-scale Brightenings (SBs) are commonly observed in the transition region that separates the solar chromosphere from the corona. These brightenings, omnipresent in active region patches known as "moss" regions, could potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Bhinva Ram , Tanmoy Samanta , Yajie Chen , Alphonse Sterling , Jayant Joshi , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Vaibhav Pant

We present here 55 short period PCEBs containing a hot WD and a low-mass MS. Based on the photometric data from ZTF DR19, the light curves are analyzed for about 200 WDMS binaries with emission line(s) identified from SDSS or LAMOST…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Lifang Li , Fenghui Zhang

Eclipsing binaries (EBs) play an important astrophysical role in studying stellar properties and evolution. By analyzing photometric data in the LAMOST Medium-Resolution Survey field, RA: $23^h$$01^m$$51.00^s$, Dec:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Jing-Yi Wang , Kai Li , Xiang Gao , Di-Fu Guo , Li-Heng Wang , Dong-Yang Gao , Ling-Zhi Li , Ya-Ni Guo , Xing Gao , Guo-You Sun

Extreme high-synchrotron peaked blazars (EHSPs) are rare high-energy sources characterised by synchrotron peaks beyond 10$^{17}$ Hz in their spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Their extreme properties challenge conventional blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 M. Láinez , M. Nievas-Rosillo , A. Domínguez , J. L. Contreras , J. Becerra González , A. Dinesh , V. S. Paliya

Solar small scale microwave bursts (SMBs), including microwave dot, spike, and narrow band type III bursts, are characterized with very short timescales, narrow frequency bandwidth, and very high brightness temperatures. Based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Baolin Tan

Observations of recurrent explosive events (EEs) with time scale of 3-5 minutes are reported. These EEs have been observed with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and have a spatial dimension of $\sim1.5"$ along the slit. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-14 G. R. Gupta , Durgesh Tripathi