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Light walls, as ensembles of oscillating bright structures rooted in sunspot light bridges, have not been well studied, although they are important for understanding sunspot properties. Using the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Robertus Erdélyi , Yijun Hou , Xiaohong Li , Limei Yan

With the high-resolution data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, we detect a light wall above a sunspot light bridge in the NOAA active region (AR) 12403. In the 1330 A slit-jaw images, the light wall is brighter than the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yijun Hou , Jun Zhang , Ting Li , Shuhong Yang , Leping Li , Xiaohong Li

Based on the \emph{Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph} observations, we study the response of a solar sunspot light wall to external disturbances. A flare occurrence near the light wall caused material to erupt from the lower solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Robert Erdélyi

High-resolution observations of the solar chromosphere and transition region often reveal surge-like oscillatory activities above sunspot light bridges. These oscillations are often interpreted as intermittent plasma jets produced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Jingwen Zhang , Hui Tian , Jiansen He , Linghua Wang

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

Context. An analysis of the oscillations above sunspots was carried out using simultaneous ground-based and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observations (SiI 10827A, HeI 10830A, FeI 6173A, 1700A, HeII 304A, FeIX 171A). Aims. Investigation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 N. I. Kobanov , A. A. Chelpanov , D. Y. Kolobov

Light bridges, the bright structures that divide the umbra of sunspots and pores into smaller pieces, are known to produce wide variety of activity events in solar active regions (ARs). It is also known that the light bridges appear in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Mark C. M. Cheung

Context: Solar pores are small sunspots lacking a penumbra that have a prevailing vertical magnetic field component. They can include light bridges at places with locally reduced magnetic field. Like sunspots, they exhibit a wide range of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Sobotka , M. Švanda , J. Jurčák , P. Heinzel , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli

Context. The height structure of 3-min oscillations over sunspots is studied in the context of the recently discovered effect of height inversion: over the umbra, the spatial location of the maximum of chromospheric 3-min oscillation power…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-11 N. I. Kobanov , D. Y. Kolobov , S. A. Chupin , V. M. Nakariakov

Light bridges (LBs) are bright lanes that divide an umbra into multiple parts in some sunspots. Persistent oscillatory bright fronts at a temperature of $\sim$$10^5$ K are commonly observed above LBs in the 1400/1330 \AA~passbands of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Fuyu Li , Yajie Chen , Yijun Hou , Hui Tian , Xianyong Bai , Yongliang Song

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 present conspicuous activities of plasma ejections along a light bridge of a stable and mature sunspot in NOAA 8971 on 2000 May 02. We found the ejections both in the H-alpha (10^4 K) images obtained with the Domeless Solar Telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ayumi Asai , Takako T. Ishii , Hiroki Kurokawa

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 report a different type of three-minute chromospheric oscillations above a sunspot in association with a small-scale impulsive event in a light bridge. During our observations, we found a transient brightening in the light bridge. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Donguk Song , Jongchul Chae , Hannah Kwak , Ryouhei Kano , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Yong-Jae Moon , Eun-Kyung Lim , Jeongwoo Lee

High-cadence optical observations of an H-alpha blue-wing bright point near solar AR NOAA 10794 are presented. The data were obtained with the Dunn Solar Telescope at the National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak using a newly developed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. B. Jess , R. T. J. McAteer , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan , A. Andic , D. S. Bloomfield

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

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…

A light bridge is a prominent structure commonly observed within a sunspot. Its presence usually triggers a wealth of dynamics in a sunspot, and has a lasting impact on sunspot evolution. However, the fundamental structure of light bridges…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Song Feng , Yuhu Miao , Ding Yuan , Zhongquan Qu , Valery M. Nakariakov

Recent observations of the solar photosphere revealed the presence of elongated filamentary bright structures inside sunspot umbrae, called umbral filaments (UFs). These features differ in morphology, magnetic configuration, and evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 S. L. Guglielmino , P. Romano , B. Ruiz Cobo , F. Zuccarello , M. Murabito

Delta ($\delta$) sunspots sometimes host fast photospheric flows along the central magnetic polarity inversion line (PIL). Here we study the strong Doppler shift signature in the central penumbral light bridge of solar active region NOAA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Jiayi Liu , Xudong Sun , Peter W. Schuck , Sarah A. Jaeggli , Brian T. Welsch , Carlos Quintero Noda
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