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We study non-LTE inversions of the Ca II infrared triplet lines as a tool for inferring physical properties of the quiet Sun. The inversion code is successful in recovering the temperature, velocity and longitudinal magnetic flux density in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Pietarila , H. Socas-Navarro , T. Bogdan

Context: Sunspot penumbrae harbor highly structured magnetic fields and flows. The moving flux tube model offers an explanation for several observed phenomena, e.g. the Evershed effect and bright penumbral grains. Aims: A wealth of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. N. Mueller , R. Schlichenmaier , G. Fritz , C. Beck

A big challenge in solar and stellar physics in the coming years will be to decipher the magnetism of the solar outer atmosphere (chromosphere and corona) along with its dynamic coupling with the magnetic fields of the underlying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno , E. Landi Degl'Innocenti

When interpreting spectropolarimetric observations of the solar atmosphere, wavelength variations of the emergent intensity and polarization translate into information on the depth stratification of physical parameters. We aim to quantify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 C. J. Díaz Baso , I. Milić , L. Rouppe van der Voort , R. Schlichenmaier

The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP) has been developed for the third flight of the SUNRISE balloon-borne stratospheric solar observatory. The aim of SCIP is to reveal the evolution of three-dimensional magnetic…

The goal is to compare the intricate details of the magnetic and flow fields around two solar pores, where one is part of an active region and the other is an isolated pore, with a secondary goal of demonstrating the scientific capabilities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Meetu Verma

High levels of horizontal magnetic flux have been reported in the quiet-Sun internetwork, often based on Stokes profile inversions. Here we introduce a new method for deducing the inclination of magnetic elements and use it to test magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 S. Jafarzadeh , S. K. Solanki , A. Lagg , L. R. Bellot Rubio , M. van Noort , A. Feller , S. Danilovic

The coexistence of motions on various scales is a remarkable feature of solar convection, which should be taken into account in analyses of the dynamics of magnetic fields. Therefore, it is important to investigate the factors responsible…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-15 O. V. Shcheritsa , A. V. Getling , O. S. Mazhorova

The magnetic and velocity fields in sunspots are highly structured on small spatial scales which are encoded in the Stokes profiles. Our aim is to identify Stokes profiles in a sunspot which exhibit spectral characteristics that deviate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Rohan Eugene Louis , Shibu K. Mathew , A. Raja Bayanna

Response functions to perturbations in the temperature, pressure, microturbulent velocity, and magnetic intensity were calculated for the Stokes parameter profiles of the lines Fe I 525.06, 525.02 and Fe II 614.92 nm. The procedure proposed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-13 V. A. Sheminova

In this paper we propose an inversion strategy for the analysis of spectropolarimetric measurements taken by {\em Hinode} in the quiet Sun. The spectropolarimeter of the Solar Optical Telescope aboard {\em Hinode} records the Stokes spectra…

We present high-resolution and multi-line observations of a C2-class solar flare, occurred in NOAA AR 12740 on May 6, 2019. The rise, peak and decay phases of the flare were recorded continuously and quasi-simultaneously in the Ca II K line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Rahul Yadav , C. J. D. Baso , J. de la Cruz Rodr'iguez , F. Calvo , R. Morosin

We present observations of a solar plage in the millimeter-continuum with the ALMA and in the Ca 8542 and Na 5896 spectral lines with the Interferometric BIdimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). Our goal is to compare the measurement of local gas…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Ryan Hofmann , Kevin Reardon , Ivan Milic , Momchil Molnar , Yi Chai , Han Uitenbroek

To investigate the penumbral plasma flow on a small scale, spectropolari- metric data of sunspots recorded by HINODE was used. Maps of Doppler velocities were created by evaluating the bisector in the line-wing, thereby visualizing the flow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-17 Morten Franz , Rolf Schlichenmaier

Using the multi-instrument observations, we make the first simultaneous imaging and spectral study on the null point of a fan-spine magnetic topology during a solar flare. When magnetic reconnection occurs at the null point, the fan-spine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Shuhong Yang , Qingmin Zhang , Zhi Xu , Jun Zhang , Ze Zhong , Yang Guo

Magnetic field measurements in the upper chromosphere and above, where the gas-to-magnetic pressure ratio $\beta$ is lower than unity, are essential for understanding the thermal structure and dynamical activity of the solar atmosphere.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 R. Ishikawa , A. Asensio Ramos , L. Belluzzi , R. Manso Sainz , J. Stepan , J. Trujillo Bueno , M. Goto , S. Tsuneta

Recent observations with the HINODE satellite have found abundant horizontal magnetic fields in the internetwork quiet Sun. We compare the results on the horizontal fields with ground-based observations. We obtained 30 sec-integrated data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. A. R. Beck , R. Rezaei

The extended wings of the Ca II H and K lines provide excellent diagnostics of the temperature stratification of the photosphere of the Sun and of other cool stars, thanks to their LTE opacities and source functions and their large span in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. A. Sheminova

Poynting flux generated by random shuffling of photospheric magnetic footpoints is transferred through the upper atmosphere of the Sun where the plasma is heated to over 1 MK in the corona. High spatiotemporal resolution observations of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 L. P. Chitta , M. van Noort , H. N. Smitha , E. R. Priest , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

The solar atmosphere is a dynamic environment, constantly evolving to form a wide range of magnetically dominated structures (coronal loops, spicules, prominences, etc.) which cover a significant percentage of the surface at any one time.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 R. Erdélyi , A. Hague , C. J. Nelson