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High spatial resolution observation of an emerging flux region (EFR) was done using a vector magnetograph and a H-alpha Lyot filtergraph with Domeless Solar Telescope at Hida Observatory on October 22, 2006. In H-alpha wing images, we could…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Watanabe , R. Kitai , K. Okamoto , K. Nishida , J. Kiyohara , S. UeNo , M. Hagino , T. T. Ishii , K. Shibata

Ellerman bombs are short-lived brightenings of the outer wings of Halpha that occur in active regions with much flux emergence. We point out fads and fallacies in the extensive Ellerman bomb literature, discuss their appearance in various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Robert J. Rutten , Gregal J. M. Vissers , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Peter Sütterlin , Nikola Vitas

Ellerman bombs are transient brightenings of the extended wings of the solar Balmer lines in emerging active regions. We describe their properties in the ultraviolet lines sampled by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 Gregal J. M. Vissers , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten , Mats Carlsson , Bart De Pontieu

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are small brightening events in the solar lower atmosphere. By original definition, the main EB's characteristic is the two emission bumps in both wings of chromospheric lines, such as H$\alpha$ and Ca II 8542 {\AA}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 C. Fang , Q. Hao , M. D. Ding , Z. Li

Magnetic reconnection in the deep solar atmosphere can give rise to enhanced emission in the Balmer hydrogen lines, a phenomenon known as Ellerman bombs (EBs). It is most common to observe EBs in the H-alpha and H-beta lines. High quality…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 L. Rouppe van der Voort , J. Joshi , K. Krikova

Ellerman bombs are regions with enhanced Balmer line wing emission and mark magnetic reconnection in the deep solar atmosphere in active regions and quiet Sun. They are often found in regions where opposite magnetic polarities are in close…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , J. Joshi , V. M. J. Henriques , S. Bose

UV bursts and Ellerman bombs are transient brightenings observed in the low solar atmospheres of emerging flux regions. Observations have discovered the cospatial and cotemporal EBs and UV bursts, and their formation mechanisms are still…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Lei Ni , Yajie Chen , Hardi Peter , Hui Tian , Jun Lin

Recent observations by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) have revealed pockets of hot gas ($\sim$2--8$\times$10$^{4}$ K) potentially resulting from magnetic reconnection in the partially ionized lower solar atmosphere (IRIS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-21 Hui Tian , Zhi Xu , Jiansen He , Chad Madsen

Flux emergence is ubiquitous in the Sun's lower atmosphere, where the emerging magnetic flux can reconnect with the pre-existing magnetic field. We investigate plasmoid formation and the resulting multi-thermal emissions during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Robert Cameron , Hardi Peter , Yajie Chen , Jun Lin

This paper validates 3D simulation results of electron beam melting (EBM) processes comparing experimental and numerical data. The physical setup is presented which is discretized by a three dimensional (3D) thermal lattice Boltzmann method…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Regina Ammer , Matthias Markl , Vera Jüchter , Carolin Körner , Ulrich Rüde

High-resolution imaging-spectroscopy movies of solar active region NOAA 10998 obtained with the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope show very bright, rapidly flickering, flame-like features that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hiroko Watanabe , Gregal Vissers , Reizaburo Kitai , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten

Magnetic reconnection in the deep solar atmosphere can give rise to enhanced emission in the Balmer hydrogen lines, a phenomenon referred to as Ellerman bombs. Recent high quality H$\beta$ observations indicate that Ellerman bombs are more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Jayant Joshi , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

Context. Ellerman bombs (EBs) are short-lived emission features, characterized by extended wing emission in hydrogen Balmer lines. Until now, no distinct signature of EBs has been found in the He I 10830 {\AA} line, and conclusive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tine Libbrecht , Jayant Joshi , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Jorrit Leenaarts , Andrés Asensio Ramos

We describe a new quiet-Sun phenomenon which we call "Quiet-Sun Ellerman-like Brightenings" (QSEB). QSEBs are similar to Ellerman bombs (EB) in some respects but differ significantly in others. EBs are transient brightenings of the wings of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten , Gregal J. M. Vissers

Ball lightning is an impressive natural electromagnetic phenomenon occurring in atmosphere under suitable circumstances. Its origin, composition and stability issues are a matter of debate, due to presence of many evidences still…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-15 Daniele Funaro

The generic question is considered: How can we determine the probability of an otherwise quasirandom event, having been triggered by an external influence? A specific problem is the quantification of the success of techniques to trigger,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 A. J. Webster

We present an in-depth analysis of a newly proposed correlation function in visibility space, between the E and B modes of the linear polarization, hereafter the EB-correlation, for a set of time-averaged GRMHD simulations compared with the…

Quiet-Sun Ellerman bombs (QSEBs) are small-scale magnetic reconnection events in the lower atmosphere of the quiet Sun. Recent work has shown that a small percentage of them can occur co-spatially and co-temporally to ultraviolet (UV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Aditi Bhatnagar , Avijeet Prasad , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Jayant Joshi

The origin of prompt emission in GRBs is not yet well understood. The simplest and most popular model is Synchrotron, Self-Compton (SSC) emission produced by internal shocks inside an ultra-relativistic jet. However, recent observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Houri Ziaeepour , Brian Gardner

We use observations of quiet Sun (QS) regions in the H$\alpha$ 6563 \AA, Ca~{\sc ii} 8542 \AA\, and Fe~{\sc i} 6302 \AA\ lines. We observe brightenings in the wings of the H$\alpha$ and Ca~{\sc ii} combined with observations of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 J. Shetye , S. Shelyag , A. L. Reid , E. Scullion , J. G. Doyle , T. D. Arber