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We present conspicuous activities of plasma ejections along a light bridge of a stable and mature sunspot in NOAA 8971 on 2000 May 02. We found the ejections both in the H-alpha (10^4 K) images obtained with the Domeless Solar Telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ayumi Asai , Takako T. Ishii , Hiroki Kurokawa

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

High-resolution observations of the solar chromosphere and transition region often reveal surge-like oscillatory activities above sunspot light bridges. These oscillations are often interpreted as intermittent plasma jets produced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Jingwen Zhang , Hui Tian , Jiansen He , Linghua Wang

A sunspot acts as a waveguide in response to the dynamics of the solar interior; the trapped waves and oscillations could reveal its thermal and magnetic structures. We study the oscillations in a sunspot intruded by a light bridge, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Ding Yuan , Robert W. Walsh

Chromospheric brighten and H$\alpha$ surge are the evident and common phenomena along sunspot light bridge. In this paper, a coronal jet ejects from sunspot light bridge is presented. Using the data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Suo Liu

We analyse a sequence of high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of a sunspot taken at the 1-m SST, to determine the nature of flux emergence in a light bridge and the processes related to its evolution in the photosphere and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Rohan E. Louis , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez , Hector Socas-Navarro , Ada Ortiz

Recent observations of sunspot light-bridges have shed new light on the fact that they are often associated with significant chromospheric activity. In particular chromospheric jets (Shimizu et al. 2009) persisting over a period of days…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 S. Matthews , D. Baker , S. Vargas Domínguez

We investigate the properties of a sunspot light-bridge, focusing on the changes produced by the impact of a plasma blob ejected from a C-class flare. We observed a sunspot in active region NOAA 12544 using spectropolarimetric raster maps…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 T. Felipe , M. Collados , E. Khomenko , S. P. Rajaguru , M. Franz , C. Kuckein , A. Asensio Ramos

We report a different type of three-minute chromospheric oscillations above a sunspot in association with a small-scale impulsive event in a light bridge. During our observations, we found a transient brightening in the light bridge. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Donguk Song , Jongchul Chae , Hannah Kwak , Ryouhei Kano , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Yong-Jae Moon , Eun-Kyung Lim , Jeongwoo Lee

Light bridges, the bright structures that divide the umbra of sunspots and pores into smaller pieces, are known to produce wide variety of activity events in solar active regions (ARs). It is also known that the light bridges appear in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Mark C. M. Cheung

We investigate the processes that lead to the formation, ejection and fall of a confined plasma ejection that was observed in a numerical experiment of the solar corona. By quantifying physical parameters such as mass, velocity, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. Zacharias , H. Peter , S. Bingert

Solar Optical Telescope onboard Hinode observed a sunspot (AR 11836) with two light bridges (LBs) on 31 Aug 2013. We analysed a 2-hour \ion{Ca}{2} H emission intensity data set and detected strong 5-min oscillation power on both LBs and in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ding Yuan , Valery M. Nakariakov , Zhenghua Huang , Bo Li , Jiangtao Su , Yihua Yan , Baolin Tan

Light bridges (LBs) are relatively bright structures that divide sunspot umbrae into two or more parts. Chromospheric LBs are known to be associated with various activities including fan-shaped jet-like ejections and brightenings. Although…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Eun-Kyung Lim , Heesu Yang , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Jongchul Chae , Donguk Song , Maria S. Madjarska

A light bridge is a prominent structure commonly observed within a sunspot. Its presence usually triggers a wealth of dynamics in a sunspot, and has a lasting impact on sunspot evolution. However, the fundamental structure of light bridges…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Song Feng , Yuhu Miao , Ding Yuan , Zhongquan Qu , Valery M. Nakariakov

We report the discovery of supersonic downflows in a sunspot light bridge using measurements taken with the spectropolarimeter on board the Hinode satellite. The downflows occur in small patches close to regions where the vector magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rohan Eugene Louis , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

We developed an automated procedure for the identification of transient brightenings in images from the X-ray telescope on-board Hinode taken with an Al Poly filter in the equatorial coronal holes, polar coronal holes, and the quiet Sun…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Subramanian , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle

Context: Solar pores are small sunspots lacking a penumbra that have a prevailing vertical magnetic field component. They can include light bridges at places with locally reduced magnetic field. Like sunspots, they exhibit a wide range of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Sobotka , M. Švanda , J. Jurčák , P. Heinzel , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli

We present the results of multi wavelength, co-spatial and near co-temporal observations of jets above a sunspot light bridge. The data were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board Hinode, the Interface Region Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-12 Lokesh Bharti

Recent high resolution spectropolarimetric observations from Hinode detected the presence of supersonic downflows in a sunspot light bridge (Louis et al. 2009). These downflows occurred in localized patches, close to regions where the field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-21 Rohan E. Louis , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

Based on the \emph{Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph} observations, we study the response of a solar sunspot light wall to external disturbances. A flare occurrence near the light wall caused material to erupt from the lower solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang , Robert Erdélyi
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