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Recent observations of sunspot's umbra suggested that it may be finely structured at a sub-arcsecond scale representing a mix of hot and cool plasma elements. In this study we report the first detailed observations of the umbral spikes,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 V. Yurchyshyn , V. Abramenko , S. Kosovichev , P. Goode

The observed features of the radio sources indicate complex propagation effects embedded in the waves of solar radio bursts. In this work, we perform ray-tracing simulations on radio wave transport in the corona and interplanetary region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 PeiJin Zhang , ChuanBing Wang , Eduard P. Kontar

We present a detailed theoretical analysis of the local radio emission at the lower part of the solar atmosphere. To accomplish this, we have used a numerical code to simulate the emission and transport of high frequency electromagnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. De la Luz , J. -P. Raulin , A. Lara

We analyse sunspot oscillations using Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) slit-jaw and spectral data and narrow-band chromospheric images from the New Solar Telescope (NST) for the main sunspot in NOAA AR 11836. We report that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Valentyna Abramenko , Ali Kilcik

The sunspot penumbra is a transition zone between the strong vertical magnetic field area (sunspot umbra) and the quiet Sun. The penumbra has a fine filamentary structure that is characterized by magnetic field lines inclined toward the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-02 I. N. Kitiashvili , A. G. Kosovichev , N. N. Mansour , A. A. Wray

The presence of magneto-acoustic waves in magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere is well-documented. Applying the technique of solar magneto-seismology (SMS) allows us to infer the background properties of these structures. Here, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 N. Freij , I. Dorotovic , R. J. Morton , M. S. Ruderman , V. Karlovsky , R. Erdekyi

We present observational evidence for the presence of MHD waves in the solar photosphere deduced from SOHO/MDI Dopplergram velocity observations. The magneto-acoustic perturbations are observed as acoustic power enhancement in the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-10 S. Zharkov , S. Shelyag , V. Fedun , R. Erdélyi , M. J. Thompson

The Alfv\'{e}n speed and plasma beta in photospheric bright points observed by the Broadband Filter Imager (BFI) of the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board the \textit{Hinode} satellite, are estimated seismologically. The diagnostics is…

Internal gravity waves have been observed in the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, on Mars and Jupiter, and in the Sun's atmosphere. Despite ample evidence for the existence of propagating gravity waves in the Sun's atmosphere, we still do not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Daniele Calchetti , Stuart M. Jefferies , Bernhard Fleck , Francesco Berrilli , Dmitriy V. Shcherbik

We search for signatures of high-frequency oscillations in the upper solar photosphere and low chromosphere in the context of acoustic heating of outer stellar atmospheres. We use ultraviolet image sequences of a quiet center-disk area from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. G. de Wijn , R. J. Rutten , T. D. Tarbell

We observe and characterize the scattering of acoustic wave packets by a sunspot, in a regime where the wavelength is comparable to the size of the sunspot. Spatial maps of wave traveltimes and amplitudes are measured from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-04 Z. -C. Liang , L. Gizon , H. Schunker

Solar observations from millimeter to ultraviolet wavelengths show that there is a temperature minimum between photosphere and chromosphere. Analysis based on semi-empirical models locate this point at about 500 km over the photosphere. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Victor De la Luz , Miguel Chavez , Emanuele Bertone , Guillermo Gimenez de Castro

Over the past number of years, great strides have been made in identifying the various low-order magnetohydrodynamic wave modes observable in a number of magnetic structures found within the solar atmosphere. However, one aspect of these…

aims: We aim to provide an estimate of the minimum temperature of the quiet solar chromosphere. methods: We perform a 2D radiation-MHD simulation spanning the upper convection zone to the lower corona. The simulation includes non-LTE…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jorrit Leenaarts , Mats Carlsson , Viggo Hansteen , Boris V. Gudiksen

We present results derived from the analysis of spectropolarimetric measurements of active region AR12546, which represents one of the largest sunspots to have emerged onto the solar surface over the last $20$ years. The region was observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 M. Stangalini , S. Jafarzadeh , I. Ermolli , R. Erdélyi , D. B. Jess , P. H. Keys , F. Giorgi , M. Murabito , F. Berrilli , D. Del Moro

In this work we use solar observations with the ALMA radio telescope at the wavelength of 1.21 mm. The aim of the analysis is to improve understanding of the solar chromosphere, a dynamic layer in the solar atmosphere between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 R. Brajša , D. Sudar , I. Skokic , A. O. Benz , M. Kuhar , A. Kobelski , S. Wedemeyer , S. M. White , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Temmer , S. H. Saar , C. L. Selhorst

The solar photosphere provides us with a laboratory for understanding turbulence in a layer where the fundamental processes of transport vary rapidly and a strongly superadiabatic region lies very closely to a subadiabatic layer. Our tools…

For the first time, we report a large-scale wave that was observed simultaneously in the photosphere, chromosphere, transition region and low corona layers of the solar atmosphere. Using the high temporal and high spatial resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yuandeng Shen , Yu Liu

The conversion of fast waves to the Alfven mode in a realistic sunspot atmosphere is studied through three-dimensional numerical simulations. An upward propagating fast acoustic wave is excited in the high-beta region of the model. The new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Felipe

Results of numerical 3D simulations of propagation of acoustic waves inside the Sun are presented. A linear 3D code which utilizes realistic OPAL equation of state was developed by authors. Modified convectively stable standard solar model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. V. Parchevsky , A. G. Kosovichev