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Penumbral microjets (PJs) are transient narrow bright features in the chromosphere of sunspot penumbrae, first characterized by Katsukawa et al (2007) using the \CaII\ H-line filter on {\it Hinode}'s Solar Optical Telescope (SOT). It was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Ronald L. Moore , Amy R. Winebarger , Shane E. Alpert

Penumbral microjets (PMJs) are short-lived, jet-like objects found in the penumbra of sunspots. They were first discovered in chromospheric lines and have later also been shown to exhibit signals in transition region (TR) lines. Their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ainar Drews , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

We present the results of multi wavelength, co-spatial and near co-temporal observations of jets above a sunspot light bridge. The data were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board Hinode, the Interface Region Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-12 Lokesh Bharti

Observations with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) have revealed numerous sub-arcsecond bright dots in the transition region above sunspots. These bright dots are seen in the 1400\AA{} and 1330\AA{} slit-jaw images. They are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 H. Tian , L. Kleint , H. Peter , M. Weber , P. Testa , E. DeLuca , L. Golub , N. Schanche

Penumbral Microjets (PMJs) are short-lived jets found in the penumbra of sunspots, first observed in wide-band Ca H-line observations as localized brightenings, and are thought to be caused by magnetic reconnection. Earlier work on PMJs has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-07 Ainar Drews , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

We study the polarization signals and physical parameters of penumbral microjets (PMJs) by using high spatial resolution data taken in the Fe I 630 nm pair, Ca II 854.2 nm and Ca II K lines with the CRISP and CHROMIS instruments at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 S. Esteban Pozuelo , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , A. Drews , L. Rouppe van der Voort , G. B. Scharmer , M. Carlsson

Recent high-resolution observations reveal that subarcsecond bright dots (BDs) with sub-minute lifetimes appears ubiquitously in the transition region (TR) above sunspot penumbra. The presence of penumbral micro-jets (PMJs) in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tanmoy Samanta , Hui Tian , Dipankar Banerjee , Nicole Schanche

Sunspot observations in chromospheric spectral lines have revealed the existence of short-lived linear bright transients, commonly referred to as penumbral micro-jets (PMJs). Details on the origin and physical nature of PMJs are to large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Ainar Drews

We use coordinated observations with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) to identify the disk counterpart of type II spicules in upper-chromospheric and transition region (TR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-04 L. Rouppe van der Voort , B. De Pontieu , T. M. D. Pereira , M. Carlsson , V. Hansteen

Using high-resolution transition region (TR) observations taken by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission, Tian et al. (2014b) revealed numerous short-lived subarcsecond bright dots (BDs) above sunspots (mostly located in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Na Deng , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Hui Tian , Lucia Kleint , Chang Liu , Yan Xu , Haimin Wang

We present the results of high resolution co-temporal and co-spatial photospheric and chromospheric observations of sunspot penumbral intrusions. The data was taken with the Swedish Solar Telescope (SST) on the Canary Islands. Time series…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 L. Bharti , S. K. Solanki , J. Hirzberger

Sunspot chromospheres display vigorous oscillatory signature when observed in chromospheric diagnostics like the strong Ca II lines and H-alpha. New high-resolution sunspot observations from the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope show the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez

We investigated three fan-shaped jets observed above sunspot light bridges or nearby sunspot regions. The study aimed to explore the dynamics and physical properties of jets' features that appear as blob-like structures at the tips of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Heesu Yang , Maria S. Madjarska , EunKyung Lim , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Klaus Galsgaard

Evidence is beginning to be put forward that demonstrates the role of the chromosphere in supplying energy and mass to the corona. We aim to assess the role of chromospheric jets in active region dynamics. Using a combination of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. J. Morton

Context. Penumbral microjets are elongated jet-like brightenings observed in the chromosphere above sunspot penumbrae. They are transient events that last from a few seconds to several minutes and are thought to originate from magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 A. Siu-Tapia , L. R. Bellot Rubio , D. Orozco Suárez , R. Gafeira

Two types of active region feature prominent at transition region temperatures are identified in Hinode/EIS data of AR 10938 taken on 2007 January 20. The footpoints of 1 MK TRACE loops are shown to emit strongly in emission lines formed at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. R. Young , G. Del Zanna , H. E. Mason , G. A. Doschek , J. L. Culhane , H. Hara

Sunspot light bridges (LBs) exhibit a wide range of short-lived phenomena in the chromosphere and transition region. In contrast, we use here data from the Multi-Application Solar Telescope (MAST), the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Rohan E. Louis , Shibu K. Mathew , A. Raja Bayanna , Christian Beck , Debi P. Choudhary

High-resolution observations of dynamic phenomena give insight into properties and processes that govern the low solar atmosphere. We present the analysis of jet-like phenomena emanating from a penumbral foot-point in active region (AR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-09 Llŷr Dafydd Humphries , Erwin Verwichte , David Kuridze , Huw Morgan

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission provides high-resolution observations of the chromosphere and transition region. We try to determine whether the light walls exist somewhere else in active regions besides light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Y. J. Hou , T. Li , S. H. Yang , J. Zhang

$\delta$-sunspots are known to be favourable locations for fast and energetic events like flares and CMEs. The photosphere of this type of sunspots has been thoroughly investigated in the past three decades. The atmospheric conditions in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Carolina Robustini , Jorrit Leenaarts , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez
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