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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

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. Recent high quality H$\beta$ observations indicate that Ellerman bombs are more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Jayant Joshi , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

Ellerman bombs are bright emission features observed in the wings of H$\alpha$, usually in the vicinity of magnetic concentrations. Here we show that they can also be detected in the Ca II infrared triplet lines, which are easier to…

Ultraviolet (UV) bursts and Ellerman bombs (EBs) are small-scale magnetic reconnection events taking place in the highly stratified, low solar atmosphere. It is still not clear whether UV bursts have to be generated at a higher atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Lei Ni , Guanchong Cheng , Jun Lin

UV bursts and Ellerman bombs are transient brightenings observed in the low solar atmospheres of emerging flux regions. Observations have discovered the cospatial and cotemporal EBs and UV bursts, and their formation mechanisms are still…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Lei Ni , Yajie Chen , Hardi Peter , Hui Tian , Jun Lin

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

Ellerman bombs (EBs) and UV bursts are both small-scale solar activities that occur in active regions. They are now believed to form at different heights in the lower atmosphere. In this paper, we use one-dimensional radiative hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-09 Jie Hong , Ying Li , M. D. Ding , Qi Hao

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are brightenings in the H$\alpha$ line wings that are believed to be caused by magnetic reconnection in the lower atmosphere. To study the response and evolution of the chromospheric line profiles, we perform radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jie Hong , Mats Carlsson , M. D. Ding

Ellerman bombs (EBs) seem to be a part of a whole spectrum of phenomena that might have the same underlying physical mechanism, but with observed characteristics which pose a considerable challenge to models. The aim of this study is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-17 S. Danilovic

Magnetic reconnection in the deep solar atmosphere can give rise to enhanced emission in the Balmer hydrogen lines, a phenomenon known as Ellerman bombs (EBs). It is most common to observe EBs in the H-alpha and H-beta lines. High quality…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 L. Rouppe van der Voort , J. Joshi , K. Krikova

We study the H$\alpha$ and Ca II 8542 \r{A} line spectra of four typical Ellerman bombs (EBs) in active region NOAA 11765 on 2013 June 6, observed with the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph installed at the 1.6 meter New Solar Telescope at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-12 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Ying Li , Cheng Fang , Wenda Cao

Ellerman bombs (EBs) have been widely studied in recent years due to their dynamic, explosive nature and apparent links to the underlying photospheric magnetic field implying that they may be formed by magnetic reconnection in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 C. J. Nelson , E. M. Scullion , J. G. Doyle , N. Freij , R. Erdélyi

We describe a new quiet-Sun phenomenon which we call "Quiet-Sun Ellerman-like Brightenings" (QSEB). QSEBs are similar to Ellerman bombs (EB) in some respects but differ significantly in others. EBs are transient brightenings of the wings of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten , Gregal J. M. Vissers

Ellerman bombs (EBs) have been widely studied over the past two decades; however, only recently have counterparts of these events been observed in the quiet-Sun. The aim of this article is to further understand small-scale quiet-Sun…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 C. J. Nelson , N. Freij , A. Reid , R. Oliver , M. Mathioudakis , R. Erdélyi

The term "ultraviolet (UV) burst" is introduced to describe small, intense, transient brightenings in ultraviolet images of solar active regions. We inventorize their properties and provide a definition based on image sequences in…

The properties of Ellerman bombs (EBs), small-scale brightenings in the H-alpha line wings, have proved difficult to establish due to their size being close to the spatial resolution of even the most advanced telescopes. Here, we aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-09 C. J. Nelson , J. G. Doyle , R. Erdelyi , Z. Huang , M. Madjarska , M. Mathioudakis , S. Mumford , K. Reardon

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) are short-lived and compact structures that are observed well in the wings of the hydrogen H-alpha line. EBs are also observed in the chromospheric CaII lines and in UV continua. H-alpha line profiles of EBs show a deep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Arkadiusz Berlicki , Petr Heinzel

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are observable signatures of photospheric small-scale magnetic reconnection events. The reliable automatic detection of EBs would enable the study of the impact of magnetic reconnection on the Sun's dynamics. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 I. J. Soler Poquet , C. J. Díaz Baso , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , G. J. M. Vissers

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