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Sunspot penumbrae show high-velocity patches along the periphery. The high-velocity downflow patches are believed to be the return channels of the Evershed flow. We aim to investigate their structure in detail using Hinode SOT/SP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michiel van Noort , Andreas Lagg , Sanjiv Tiwari , Sami Solanki

Solar pores are strongly magnetized regions lacking a photospheric penumbra and characterized by predominantly vertical magnetic fields. We present a multi-line study of flashes in a solar pore using high-resolution observations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Sandeep Dubey , Christian Beck , Rahul Yadav , Tobias Felipe , Shibu K Mathew

Ubiquitous small-scale vortices have recently been found in the lower atmosphere of the quiet Sun in state-of-the-art solar observations and in numerical simulations. We investigate the characteristics and temporal evolution of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 S. -H. Park , G. Tsiropoula , I. Kontogiannis , K. Tziotziou , E. Scullion , J. G. Doyle

We study the evolution of a small-scale emerging flux region (EFR) in the quiet Sun, from its emergence to its decay. We track processes and phenomena across all atmospheric layers, explore their interrelations and compare our findings with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 I. Kontogiannis , G. Tsiropoula , K. Tziotziou , C. Gontikakis , C. Kuckein , M. Verma , C. Denker

Aims. Moreno-Insertis et al. (2018) recently discovered two types of flux emergence in their numerical simulations: magnetic loops and magnetic sheet emergence. Whereas magnetic loop emergence has been documented well in the last years, by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 C. E. Fischer , J. M. Borrero , N. Bello González , A. J. Kaithakkal

We analyzed spectropolarimetric data from the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope to investigate physical properties of small-scale magnetic cancellations in the quiet Sun photosphere. Specifically, we looked at the full Stokes polarization…

We study supersonic Evershed downflows in a sunspot penumbra by means of high spatial resolution spectropolarimetric data acquired in the Fe I 617.3 nm line with the CRISP instrument at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope. Physical observables,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Sara Esteban Pozuelo , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez

Universal small-scale solar activity in quiet region are suggested to be a potential source of solar wind and the upper solar atmosphere. Here, with the high-resoltion 174 \AA~imaging observations from the Solar Orbiter/Extreme Ultraviolet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 Yadan Duan , Hechao Chen , Zhenyong Hou , Zheng Sun , Yuandeng Shen

In a previous work, we reported on the discovery of supersonic magnetic upflows on granular cells in data from the {\sc Sunrise}/IMaX instrument. In the present work we investigate the physical origin of these events employing data of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. M. Borrero , V. Martinez Pillet , W. Schmidt , C. Quintero Noda , J. A. Bonet , J. C. del Toro Iniesta , L. R. Bellot Rubio

Small-scale magnetic flux emergence in the quiet Sun is crucial for maintaining solar magnetic activity. On the smallest scales studied so far, namely within individual granules, two mechanisms have been identified: emergence in tiny…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 S. M. Díaz-Castillo , C. E. Fischer , F. Moreno-Insertis , S. L. Guglielmino , R. Ishikawa , S. Criscuoli

Small bipolar magnetic features are observed to appear in the interior of individual granules in the quiet Sun, signaling the emergence of tiny magnetic loops from the solar interior. We study the origin of those features as part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-05 F. Moreno-Insertis , J. Martinez-Sykora , V. H. Hansteen , D. Muñoz

The study of spatial and temporal scales on which small magnetic structures (magnetic elements) are organized in the quiet Sun may be approached by determining how they are transported on the solar photosphere by convective motions. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 F. Giannattasio , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli , L. Bellot Rubio , M. Gosic , D. Orozco Suarez

We study the quiet Sun magnetic fields using spectropolarimetric observations of the infrared and visible Fe I lines at 6301.5, 6302.5, 15648 and 15653 A. Magnetic field strengths and filling factors are inferred by the simultaneous fit of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Itahiza Dominguez Cerdena , Jorge Sanchez Almeida , Franz Kneer

Recently, there have been some reports of unusually strong photospheric magnetic fields (which can reach values of over 7 kG) inferred from Hinode SOT/SP sunspot observations within penumbral regions. These superstrong penumbral fields are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-30 A. Siu-Tapia , A. Lagg , M. van Noort , M. Rempel , S. K. Solanki

We present the results from first spectropolarimetric observations of the solar photosphere acquired at the Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer. Full Stokes profiles were measured in the Fe I 630.15 nm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 B. Viticchié , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli , L. Bellot Rubio , A. Tritschler

A new Stokes inversion technique that greatly reduces the effect of the spatial point spread function of the telescope is used to constrain the physical properties of umbral dots (UDs). The depth-dependent inversion of the Stokes parameters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 T. L. Riethmüller , S. K. Solanki , M. van Noort , S. K. Tiwari

Upflows at the edges of active regions (ARs) are studied by spatially and temporally combining multi-instrument observations obtained with EIS/Hinode, AIA and HMI/SDO and IBIS/NSO, to derive their plasma parameters. This information is used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 K. Vanninathan , M. S. Madjarska , K. Galsgaard , Z. Huang , J. G. Doyle

The chromosphere above active regions (ARs) on the Sun hosts magnetized supersonic downflows. Studies of these supersonic downflows help to decipher the magnetic fine structure and dynamics of the chromosphere. We perform a statistical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 K. Sowmya , A. Lagg , S. K. Solanki , J. S. Castellanos Durán

We analyze spectropolarimetric data taken with the Hinode spacecraft in quiet solar regions at the disk center. Distorted redshifted Stokes $V$ profiles are found showing a characteristic evolution that always follows the same sequence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Carlos Quintero Noda , Basilio Ruiz Cobo , David Orozco Suárez

Studying the emergence of magnetic fields is essential for understanding the physical mechanisms behind various phenomena in the solar atmosphere. Most importantly, the emerging fields offer valuable insights into how energy and mass are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Milan Gošić , Viggo H. Hansteen , Alberto Sainz Dalda , Bart De Pontieu , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort