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The differential rotation plays a crucial role in the dynamics of the Sun. We study the solar rotation and its correlation with solar activity by applying a modified machine learning algorithm to identify and track coronal bright points…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Zahra Shokri , Nasibe Alipour , Hossein Safari

Coronal bright fronts (CBFs) are large scale wavefronts that propagate though the solar corona at hundreds of kilometers per second. While their kinematics have been studied in detail, many questions remain regarding the temporal evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 David M. Long , Edward E. DeLuca , Peter T. Gallagher

Our aim is to identify and trace the X-ray Bright Points (XBPs) over the disk and use them as tracers to determine the coronal rotation. This investigation will help to clarify and understand several issues: whether (i) the corona rotates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Kariyappa

Coronal jets are ubiquitous, collimated million-degree ejections that contribute to the energy and mass supply of the upper solar atmosphere and the solar wind. Solar Orbiter provides an unprecedented opportunity to observe fine-scale jets…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 D. Nóbrega-Siverio , R. Joshi , E. Sola-Viladesau , D. Berghmans , D. Lim

Recent analysis of high-cadence white-light images taken by the Solar-Terrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) near solar maximum has revealed that outflowing density structures are released in an ubiquitous manner in the solar wind. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Léa Griton , Rui F. Pinto , Nicolas Poirier , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Michaël Lavarra , Alexis P. Rouillard

Light bridge (LB) jets offer a unique window into small-scale eruptive phenomena within sunspots, the Sun's strongest magnetic environments; however, their generation mechanism remains a subject of debate. Using high-resolution observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Yadan Duan , Xiaoli Yan , Yuhang Gao , Jincheng Wang , Zhe Xu , Yongyuan Xiang

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

The sub-arcsec bright points (BP) associated with the small scale magnetic fields in the lower solar atmosphere are advected by the evolution of the photospheric granules. We measure various quantities related to the horizontal motions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-28 LP. Chitta , A. A. van Ballegooijen , L. Rouppe van der Voort , E. E. DeLuca , R. Kariyappa

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

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…

Context. The Sun shows an activity cycle that is caused by its varying global magnetic field. During a solar cycle, sunspots, i.e. extended regions of strong magnetic fields, occur in activity belts that are slowly migrating from middle to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-25 D. Utz , R. Muller , S. Thonhofer , A. Veronig , A. Hanslmeier , M. Bodnárová , M. Bárta , J. C. del Toro Iniesta

Bright points (BPs) are ubiquitous, small-scale energetic events with multithermal signatures, typically observed in the chromosphere and linked to both photospheric structure and coronal composition. Their evolution is influenced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Llŷr Humphries , Huw Morgan , David Kuridze

Waves have long been thought to contribute to the heating of the solar corona and the generation of the solar wind. Recent observations have demonstrated evidence of quasi-periodic longitudinal disturbances and ubiquitous transverse wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Threlfall , I. De Moortel , S. W. McIntosh , C. Bethge

Peculiar motion of the solar system, determined from the dipole anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR), has given a velocity $370$ km s$^{-1}$ along RA$=168^{\circ}$, Dec$=-7^{\circ}$. Subsequent peculiar motion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Ashok K. Singal

Our aim is to investigate the intensity oscillations in coronal X-ray Bright Points (XBPs). We analysed a 7-hours long time sequence of the soft X-ray images obtained on April 14, 2007 with 2-min cadence using X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on-board…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Kariyappa , B. A. Varghese

Here, we present several examples of unusual evolutionary patterns in solar coronal loops that resemble cross-field drift motions. These loops were simultaneously observed from two vantage points by two different spacecraft: the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Sudip Mandal , Hardi Peter , James A. Klimchuk , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta

In this paper, with a survey through the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) data from 1996 to 2009, we present 11 events with plasma blobs flowing outwards sequentially along a bright coronal ray in the wake of a coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hong-Qiang Song , Xiang-Liang Kong , Yao Chen , Bo Li , Gang Li , Shi-Wei Feng , Li-Dong Xia

We investigate the chromospheric counterpart of small-scale coronal loops constituting a coronal bright point (CBP) and its response to a photospheric magnetic-flux increase accompanied by co-temporal CBP heating. We used co-observations…

Using long-term X-ray observations, we present the short-term and long-term X-ray variability analysis of the ultra-fast rotating active star AB Dor. Flaring events are common in X-ray observations of AB Dor and occupy a substantial portion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-01 Gurpreet Singh , Jeewan C. Pandey

Coronal loops are building blocks of solar active regions. However, their formation mechanism is still not well understood. Here we present direct observational evidence for the formation of coronal loops through magnetic reconnection as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Zhenyong Hou , Hui Tian , Hechao Chen , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Zhenghua Huang , Xianyong Bai , Jiansen He , Yongliang Song , Lidong Xia