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Bright points (BPs) are small-scale, dynamic features that are ubiquitous across the solar disc and are often associated with the underlying magnetic field. Using broadband photospheric images obtained with the Visible Broadband Imager at…

We present results of two-hour non-interrupted observations of solar granulation obtained under excellent seeing conditions with the largest aperture ground-based solar telescope - the New Solar Telescope (NST) - of Big Bear Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Valentyna Abramenko , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Philip Goode , Ali Kilcik

Context. Bright points (BPs) are small-scale, magnetic features ubiquitous across the solar surface. Previously, we have observed and noted their properties for quiet Sun regions. Here, we determine the dynamic properties of BPs using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Peter H. Keys , Mihalis Mathioudakis , David B. Jess , Duncan H. Mackay , Francis P. Keenan

High resolution G-band images of the interior of a supergranulation cell show ubiquitous Bright Points (some 0.3 BPs per Mm^2). They are located in intergranular lanes and often form chains of elongated blobs whose smallest dimension is at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Sanchez Almeida , I. Marquez , J. A. Bonet , I. Dominguez Cerdena , R. Muller

We have investigated properties of photospheric Bright Points (BPs) observed in an Active Region during its decay phase and in a quiet Sun region. We have analyzed two sets of photospheric observations taken with IBIS (Interferometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 S. Criscuoli , D. Del Moro , F. Giorgi , P. Romano , F. Berrilli , I. Ermolli , B. Viticchié , F. Zuccarello

Context. High-resolution observations of the solar photosphere reveal the presence of fine structures, in particular the so-called magnetic bright points (MBPs), which are small-scale features associated with strong magnetic field regions…

Context. Small-scale bright features in the photosphere of the Sun, such as faculae or G-band bright points, appear in connection with small-scale magnetic flux concentrations. Aims. Here we report on a new class of photospheric bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Flavio Calvo , Oskar Steiner , Bernd Freytag

Magnetic elements on the quiet sun are buffeted by convective flows that cause lateral motions on timescales of minutes. The magnetic elements can be observed as bright points (BPs) in the G band at 4305 {\AA}. We present observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Nisenson , A. A. van Ballegooijen , A. G. de Wijn , P. Sutterlin

Various parameters describing the dynamics of G-band bright points (GBPs) were derived from G-band images, acquired by the Dutch Open Telescope (DOT), of a quiet region close to the disk center. Our study is based on four commonly used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-20 M. Bodnárová , D. Utz , J. Rybák

Magnetic Bright Points (MBPs) are among the smallest observable objects on the solar photosphere. A combination of G-band observations and numerical simulations is used to determine their area distribution. An automatic detection algorithm,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. J. Crockett , M. Mathioudakis , D. B. Jess , S. Shelyag , F. P. Keenan , D. J. Christian

We detected 2.8 bright points (BPs) per Mm$^2$ in the Quiet Sun (QS) with the New Solar Telescope (NST) at Big Bear Solar Observatory; using the TiO 705.68 nm spectral line, at an angular resolution ~ 0.1'' to obtain 30 min data sequence.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Aleksandra Andic , J. Chae , K. Ahn , P. R. Goode , W. Cao , V. Yurchyshyn , V. Abramenko

The expansion with height of the solar photospheric magnetic field and the plasma flows is investigated for three isolated bright points (BPs). The BPs were observed simultaneously with 3 instruments at the GREGOR telescope: (1) filtergrams…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Christoph Kuckein

Magnetic bright points are small-scale magnetic elements ubiquitous across the solar disk, with the prevailing theory suggesting that they form due to the process of convective collapse. Employing a unique full Stokes spectropolarimetric…

Bright small-scale magnetic elements found mainly in intergranular lanes at the solar surface are named bright points (BPs). They show high contrasts in Fraunhofer G-band observations and are described by nearly vertical slender flux tubes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 T. L. Riethmüller , S. K. Solanki

Context. Magnetic bright points (MBPs) are dynamic, small-scale magnetic elements often found with field strengths of the order of a kilogauss within intergranular lanes in the photosphere. Aims. Here we study the evolution of various…

G-band bright points (GBPs) are regarded as good manifestations of magnetic flux concentrations. We aim to investigate the relationship between the dynamic properties of GBPs and their longitudinal magnetic field strengths. High spatial and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Yunfei Yang , Qiang Li , Kaifan Ji , Song Feng , Hui Deng , Feng Wang , Jiaben Lin

We present a visual determination of the number of bright points (BPs) existing in the quiet Sun, which are structures though to trace intense kG magnetic concentrations. The measurement is based on a 0.1 arcsec angular resolution G-band…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-16 J. Sanchez Almeida , J. A. Bonet , B. Viticchie , D. Del Moro

We present simultaneous spectropolarimetric observations of four visible and three infrared spectral lines from the VTT (Tenerife), together with speckle-reconstructed filtergrams in the G band and the CaII H line core from the DOT (La…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-02 C. Beck , L. R. Bellot Rubio , R. Schlichenmaier , P. Suetterlin

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 determine the number density and area contribution of small-scale inter-granular calcium-II bright G-band structures in images of the quiet Sun as tracers of kilo-Gauss magnetic flux-concentrations. In a 149" x 117" G-band image of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-23 Burkart Bovelet , Eberhard Wiehr
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