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A rich spectrum of molecular hydrogen (H$_2$) emission lines is seen in sensitive observations from the far ultraviolet (FUV) channels of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) during flare activity in solar active region NOAA…

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A triplet of subordinate lines of Mg II exists in the region around the h&k lines. In solar spectra these lines are seen mostly in absorption, but in some cases can become emission lines. The aim of this work is to study the formation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Tiago M. D. Pereira , Mats Carlsson , Bart De Pontieu , Viggo Hansteen

Whilst the most dynamic solar active regions (ARs) are known to flare frequently, predicting the occurrence of individual flares and their magnitude, is very much a developing field with strong potentials for machine learning applications.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 M. B. Korsos , R. Erdelyi , J. Liu , H. Morgan

The Mg II h&k lines are powerful diagnostics for studying the solar chromosphere. They have become particularly popular with the launch of the IRIS satellite, and a number of studies that include these lines have lead to great progress in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-21 Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Jorrit Leenaarts , Andrés Asensio Ramos

To extract the information that the Mg II NUV spectra (observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph; IRIS), carries about the chromosphere during solar flares, and to validate models of energy transport via model-data comparison,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Graham S. Kerr , Mats Carlsson , Joel C. Allred

Near-ultraviolet spectroscopic data obtained with the HST STIS instrument on the dMe flare star YZ Canis Minoris (YZ CMi) were analyzed. Flare and quiet intervals were identified from the broadband near-UV light curve, and the spectrum of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Suzanne L. Hawley , Lucianne M. Walkowicz , Joel C. Allred , Jeff A. Valenti

Solar flares involve impulsive energy release, which results in enhanced radiation over a broad spectral range and a wide range of heights. In particular, line emission from the chromosphere can provide critical diagnostics of plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Fatima Rubio da Costa , Lucia Kleint , Vahé Petrosian , Alberto Sainz Dalda , Wei Liu

In this study we extract the deep features and investigate the compression of the Mg II k spectral line profiles observed in quiet Sun regions by NASA's IRIS satellite. The data set of line profiles used for the analysis was obtained on…

The polarization of the Mg II h and k lines holds significant diagnostic potential for measuring chromospheric magnetic fields, which are crucial for understanding the physical processes governing the energy transport and dissipation in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Hao Li , Tanausú del Pino Alemán , Javier Trujillo Bueno

The Mg II k \& h line intensity ratios can be used to probe the characteristics of the plasma in the solar atmosphere. In this study, using the observations recorded by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS), we study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Soumya Roy , Durgesh Tripathi

The Mg II k emission line is a good indicator of the level of chromospheric activity in late-type stars. We investigate the dependence of this activity indicator on fundamental stellar parameters. To this purpose we use IUE observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Cardini

Observations by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) in the Mg II h & k spectral lines have provided a new diagnostic window towards the knowledge of the complex physical conditions in the solar chromosphere. Theoretical efforts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Alberto Sainz Dalda , Bart De Pontieu

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph(IRIS) with its high spatial and temporal resolution brings exceptional plasma diagnostics of solar chromospheric and coronal activity during magnetic reconnection. The aim of this work is to study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Reetika Joshi , Brigitte Schmieder , Akiko Tei , Guillaume Aulanier , Juraj Lörinčík , Ramesh Chandra , Petr Heinzel

Dynamics of hot chromospheric plasma of solar flares is a key to understanding of mechanisms of flare energy release and particle acceleration. A moderate M1.0 class flare of 12 June, 2014 (SOL2014-06-12T21:12) was simultaneously observed…

The Mg II h and k lines are among the strongest in the near-ultraviolet solar spectrum and their line core originates in the upper chromosphere, just below the transition region. Consequently, they have become one of the main targets for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 David Afonso Delgado , Tanausú del Pino Alemán , Javier Trujillo Bueno

The Chromospheric Lyman Alpha Spectropolarimeter (CLASP) observed the Sun in H I Lyman-{\alpha} during a suborbital rocket flight on September 3, 2015. The Interface Region Imaging Telescope (IRIS) coordinated with the CLASP observations…

Observations from the \textit{Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph} (\textsl{IRIS}) often reveal significantly broadened and non-reversed profiles of the Mg II h, k and triplet lines at flare ribbons. To understand the formation of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Yingjie Zhu , Adam F. Kowalski , Hui Tian , Han Uitenbroek , Mats Carlsson , Joel C. Allred

Although large volumes of solar data are available for study, the vast majority of these data remain unlabeled and are therefore not amenable to supervised machine learning methods. Having a way to accurately and automatically classify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Sergey Ivanov , Maksym Tsizh , Denis Ullmann , Brandon Panos , Slava Voloshynovskiy

We have developed an algorithm to identify solar spicules in the first ever systematic survey of on-disk spicules exclusively using Mg II spectral observations. Using this algorithm we identify 2021 events in three Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-11 Vicki L. Herde , Phillip C. Chamberlin , Don Schmit , Souvik Bose , Adrian Daw , Ryan O. Milligan , Vanessa Polito

Recent high-cadence flare campaigns by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) have offered new opportunities to study rapid processes characteristic of flare energy release, transport, and deposition. Here, we examine high-cadence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Juraj Lörinčík , Vanessa Polito , Graham S. Kerr , Laura A. Hayes , Alexander J. B. Russell