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Short-lived (100s or less), sub-arcsec to a couple of arcsec size features of enhanced brightenings in the narrowband images at the $\mathrm{H_{2V}}$ and $\mathrm{K_{2V}}$ positions of the Ca II H and K lines in the quiet Sun are known as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Harsh Mathur , Jayant Joshi , K. Nagaraju , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Souvik Bose

Below 1 mHz, the power spectrum of helioseismic velocity measurements is dominated by the spectrum of convective motions (granulation and supergranulation) making it difficult to detect the low-order acoustic modes and the gravity modes. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-31 S. Lefebvre , R. A. Garcia , S. J. Jimenez-Reyes , S. Turck-Chieze , S. Mathur

In this paper, we study the properties of solar granulation in a facular region from the photosphere up to the lower chromosphere. Our aim is to investigate the dependence of granular structure on magnetic field strength. We use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Kostik , E. Khomenko

We employ time sequences of images observed with a G-band filter (4305{\AA}) by the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board of Hinode spacecraft at different latitude along solar central me-ridian to study vorticity of granular flows in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-02 A. A. Pevtsov

We show that the motions of supergranules are consistent with a model in which they are simply advected by the axisymmetric flows in the Sun's surface shear layer. We produce a 10-day series of simulated Doppler images at a 15-minute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 David H. Hathaway , Peter E. Williams , Kevin Dela Rosa , Manfred Cuntz

The influence of the convective structure of the solar photosphere on the shifts of spectral lines of iron was studied. Line profiles in the visible and infrared spectrum were synthesized with the use of 2-D time-dependent hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 V. A. Sheminova , A. S. Gadun

Observations of the solar surface reveal the presence of flows with length scales of around $35$ Mm, commonly referred to as supergranules. Inferring the sub-surface flow profile of supergranules from measurements of the surface and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Jishnu Bhattacharya , Shravan M. Hanasoge

Fluid and solute transfer in X-junctions between straight channels is shown to depend critically on the junction angle in the Stokes flow regime. Experimentally, water and a water-dye solution are injected at equal flow rates in two facing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mario Cachile , Laurent Talon , Juan M. Gomba , Jean-Pierre Hulin , Harold Auradou

We have developed an inversion procedure designed for high-resolution solar spectro-polarimeters, such as Hinode/SP or DKIST/ViSP. The procedure is based on artificial neural networks trained with profiles generated from random atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Hector Socas-Navarro , Andres Asensio Ramos

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

This thesis can be framed in a more general concept designated as "High resolution in solar physics". The first part of the thesis is dedicated to the topic of high-resolution observations and image restoration. It begins with a theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-02 S. Vargas Dominguez

Context. The spatial power spectrum of supergranulation does not fully characterize the underlying physics of turbulent convection. For example, it does not describe the non-Gaussianity in the horizontal flow divergence. Aims. Our aim is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Vincent G. A. Böning , Aaron C. Birch , Laurent Gizon , Thomas L. Duvall , Jesper Schou

The spectral window, containing Fraunhofer lines formed in the solar photosphere, around the magnetically sensitive Cr I lines at 5780.9, 5781.1, 5781.7, 5783.0, and 5783.8 \r{A}, with Land\'e g-factors between 1.6 and 2.5, is explored. The…

Granular convective motions reach into the lower solar atmosphere, typically causing photospheric spectral lines to exhibit a differential line shift. This Doppler shift to shorter wavelength is commonly known as convective blueshift. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Franziska Stief , Johannes Löhner-Böttcher , Wolfgang Schmidt , Tilo Steinmetz , Ronald Holzwarth

Given its unchallenged capabilities in terms of sensitivity and spatial resolution, the combination of imaging spectropolarimetry and numeric Stokes inversion represents the dominant technique currently used to remotely sense the physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 Francisco A. Iglesias , Alex Feller

Quantitative thermodynamical, dynamical and magnetic properties of the solar and stellar plasmas are obtained by interpreting their emergent non-polarized and polarized spectrum. This inference requires the selection of a set of spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 A. Asensio Ramos , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , A. Pastor Yabar

Aims: to investigate the evolution of plasma properties and Stokes parameters in photospheric magnetic bright points using 3D magneto-hydrodynamical simulations and radiative diagnostics of solar granulation. Methods: simulated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-21 R. L. Hewitt , S. Shelyag , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

We investigated the horizontal and the vertical component of the Evershed flow (EF). To this end, we computed average Stokes V profiles for various velocity classes in penumbrae at different heliocentric angles. Our results show that for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-16 Morten Franz , Rolf Schlichenmaier

This work aims to constrain the physical nature of umbral dots (UDs) using high-resolution spectropolarimetry. Full Stokes spectra recorded by the spectropolarimeter on Hinode of 51 UDs in a sunspot close to the disk center are analyzed.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 T. L. Riethmueller , S. K. Solanki , A. Lagg

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the statistical properties of solar granulation in the photosphere and low chromosphere up to 650 km. We use velocity and intensity variations obtained at different atmospheric heights from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Kostik , E. Khomenko , N. Shchukina