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We present the results obtained by analyzing high spatial and spectral resolution data of the solar photosphere acquired by the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter at the Swedish Solar Telescope on 6 August 2011, relevant to a large sunspot…

Penumbral filaments and light bridges are prominent structures inside sunspots and are important for understanding the nature of sunspot magnetic fields and magneto-convection underneath. We investigate an interesting event where several…

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We present a seismological method to probe the solar atmosphere above sunspot umbrae with three-minute oscillations. Our technique allows us to estimate both the vertical distance between atmospheric layers and the wave-propagation speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 A. S. Deres , S. A. Anfinogentov

High-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of active region NOAA 11271 were obtained with the spectro-polarimeter on board Hinode to analyze the properties of an anomalous flow in the photosphere in a sunspot penumbra. We detect a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Rohan E. Louis , Christian Beck , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

In the immediate sunspots' vicinity -- their superpenumbra -- 3-minute line-of-sight (LOS) velocity oscillations dominate in the photosphere and chromosphere. Oscillations of similar periods are also registered in the transition region and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Andrei Chelpanov , Nikolai Kobanov

In this study we combine the multiwavelength ultraviolet -- optical (Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO) and radio (Nobeyama Radioheliograph, NoRH) observations to get further insight into space-frequency distribution of oscillations at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Y. Kolobov , N. I. Kobanov , A. A. Chelpanov , A. A. Kochanov , S. A. Anfinogentov , S. A. Chupin , I. I. Myshyakov , V. E. Tomin

Context. The height structure of 3-min oscillations over sunspots is studied in the context of the recently discovered effect of height inversion: over the umbra, the spatial location of the maximum of chromospheric 3-min oscillation power…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-11 N. I. Kobanov , D. Y. Kolobov , S. A. Chupin , V. M. Nakariakov

Sunspots are concentrations of magnetic field on the visible solar surface that strongly affect the convective energy transport in their interior and surroundings. The filamentary outer regions (penumbrae) of sunspots show systematic radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 M. Rempel , M. Schüssler , R. H. Cameron , M. Knölker

A light bridge is a magnetic intrusion into a sunspot, it interacts with the main magnetic field and excites a variety of dynamical processes. In the letter, we studied magnetic connectivity between a light bridge and coronal loops rooted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Yuhu Miao , Libo Fu , Xian Du , Ding Yuan , Chaowei Jiang , Jiangtao Su , Mingyu Zhao , Sergey Anfinogentov

Solar chromospheric observations of sunspot umbrae offer an exceptional view of magneto-hydrodynamic wave phenomena. In recent years, a wealth of wave signatures related to propagating magneto-acoustic modes have been presented, which…

We report on the spatial distribution of magnetogram oscillatory power and phase angles between velocity and magnetogram signals as observed with the Michelson Doppler Imager. The dataset is 151.25 arcsec times 151.25 arcsec containing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Norton , R. K. Ulrich , R. I. Bush , T. D. Tarbell

We processed magnetograms that were obtained with the Michaelson Doppler Imager onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO/MDI). The results confirm the basic properties of long-period oscillations of sunspots that have previously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-15 V. I. Efremov , L. D. Parfinenko , A. A. Solovev , E. A. Kirichek

Solid evidence of magnetic reconnection is rarely reported within sunspots, the darkest regions with the strongest magnetic fields and lowest temperatures in the solar atmosphere. Using the world's largest solar telescope, the 1.6-meter…

Light bridges (LBs) are bright lanes that divide an umbra into multiple parts in some sunspots. Persistent oscillatory bright fronts at a temperature of $\sim$$10^5$ K are commonly observed above LBs in the 1400/1330 \AA~passbands of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Fuyu Li , Yajie Chen , Yijun Hou , Hui Tian , Xianyong Bai , Yongliang Song

We used high-resolution observations from the New Vacuum Solar Telescope and the Solar Dynamics Observatory to carry out a detailed multiwavelength analysis of the fine structures in the flare ribbon of a C3.9-class flare on 22 April 2021.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Tianyuan Chen , Xiaoli Yan , Zhike Xue , Jincheng Wang , Zhe Xu , Liheng Yang , Yadan Duan , Yian Zhou , Zongyin Wu , Qifan Dong , Guotang Wu , Xinsheng Zhang

Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process crucial for heating the solar corona and generating the solar wind, but resolving and characterizing it on the Sun remains challenging. Using high-quality data from the…

High spatial and temporal resolution images of a sunspot, obtained simultaneously in multiple optical and UV wavelengths, are employed to study the propagation and damping characteristics of slow magnetoacoustic waves up to transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , T. Van Doorsselaere , G. Verth , R. J. Morton , V. Fedun , R. Erdelyi , D. J. Christian

Light bridges (LBs) are among the most striking sub-structures in sunspots, where various activities have been revealed by recent high-resolution observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). According to the variety…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Yijun Hou , Ting Li , Shuhong Yang , Shin Toriumi , Yilin Guo , Jun Zhang

I report observations of unusually strong photospheric and chromospheric velocity oscillations in and near the leading sunspot of NOAA 10781 on 03 July 2005. I investigate an impinging wave as a possible origin of the velocity pattern, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 C. Beck