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Ellerman bombs (EBs) are tiny brightenings often observed near sunspots. The most impressive characteristic of the EB spectra is the two emission bumps in both wings of the H$\alpha$ and \ion{Ca}{II} 8542 {\AA} lines. High-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Z. Li , C. Fang , Y. Guo , P. F. Chen , Z. Xu , W. Cao

Solar ultraviolet (UV) bursts are small-scale compact brightenings in transition region images. The spectral profiles of transition region lines in these bursts are significantly enhanced and broadened, often with chromospheric absorption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-07 Yajie Chen , Hui Tian , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Tanmoy Samanta , Linghua Wang , Jiansen He

Polar brightening (PB) observed at microwave frequencies serves as an important probe to study the thermal and magnetic properties in the Sun's polar regions. Building on earlier studies that linked microwave PB to polar faculae,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Rohan Bose , Anshu Kumari , Vaibhav Pant , Srinjana Routh , Divya Paliwal , M. V. Sunil Krishna

A single case study of a CBP in an equatorial coronal hole with an exceptionally large size is investigated to extend our understanding of the formation of mini-filaments, their destabilisation and the origin of the eruption triggering the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Maria S. Madjarska , Klaus Galsgaard , Duncan H. Mackay , Kostadinka Koleva , Momchil Dechev

Since the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) began recording ~ 1 TB of data per day, there has been an increased need to automatically extract features and events for further analysis. Here we compare the overall detection performance,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-05 Cis Verbeeck , Paul A. Higgins , Tufan Colak , Fraser T. Watson , Veronique Delouille , Benjamin Mampaey , Rami Qahwaji

We present the first observations of chromospheric swirls using the Hydrogen-alpha Rapid Dynamics camera and Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere imaging instruments at the Dunn Solar Telescope. These vortices contribute to heating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Oana Vesa , Juie Shetye , Erwin Verwichte

Brightenings observed in the solar extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) images are generally interpreted as signatures of micro- or nanoflares occurring at the transition region or coronal temperatures. Recent observations with the Extreme Ultraviolet…

We present results of two-hour non-interrupted observations of solar granulation obtained under excellent seeing conditions with the largest aperture ground-based solar telescope - the New Solar Telescope (NST) - of Big Bear Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Valentyna Abramenko , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Philip Goode , Ali Kilcik

Observations with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) have revealed numerous sub-arcsecond bright dots in the transition region above sunspots. These bright dots are seen in the 1400\AA{} and 1330\AA{} slit-jaw images. They are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 H. Tian , L. Kleint , H. Peter , M. Weber , P. Testa , E. DeLuca , L. Golub , N. Schanche

The solar corona is host to a continuous flow of propagating disturbances (PD). These are continuous and ubiquitous across broad regions of the corona, including the quiet Sun. The aim of this paper is to present an improved, efficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Huw Morgan , Marianna Korsos

Sausage waves have been frequently reported in solar magnetic structures such as sunspots, pores, and coronal loops. However, they have not been unambiguously identified in photospheric bright points (BPs). Using high-resolution TiO image…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-23 Yuhang Gao , Fuyu Li , Bo Li , Wenda Cao , Yongliang Song , Hui Tian , Mingzhe Guo

Context. Recent observations by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board Solar Orbiter have characterized prevalent small-scale transient brightenings in the corona above the quiet Sun termed campfires. Aims. In this study we search…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Yajie Chen , Damien Przybylski , Hardi Peter , Hui Tian , F. Auchère , D. Berghmans

Coronal holes (CH) are regions of open magnetic field lines in the solar corona and the source of fast solar wind. Understanding the evolution of coronal holes is critical for solar magnetism as well as for accurate space weather forecasts.…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Amr Hamada , Timo Asikainen , Ilpo Virtanen , Kalevi Mursula

{Chromospheric evaporation is a key process in solar flares that has extensively been investigated using the spectroscopic observations. However, direct soft X-ray (SXR) imaging of the process is rare, especially in remote brightenings…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Q. M. Zhang , H. S. Ji

The SDO EUV observations have revealed interesting characteristics of warm coronal emissions, which peak soon after the hot coronal X-ray emissions peak during a flare and then sometimes peak for a second time hours after the X-ray flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Thomas N. Woods

Using UV spectra and SJIs from the IRIS, and coronal images and magnetograms from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we present the new features in a quiescent filament channel: subarcsecond bright points (BPs) and quasi-periodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Ting Li , Jun Zhang

The focussing optics of NuSTAR have enabled high signal-to-noise spectra to be obtained from many X-ray bright Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and Galactic Black Hole Binaries (BHB). Spectral modelling then allows robust characterization of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-29 A. C. Fabian , A. Lohfink , E. Kara , M. L. Parker , R. Vasudevan , C. S. Reynolds

We present first science observations taken during the commissioning activities of the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission. SPICE is a high-resolution imaging spectrometer…

We use time-series ultraviolet full sun images to construct limb-synoptic maps of the Sun. On these maps, large-scale, long-lived coronal streamers appear as repetitive sinusoid-like arcs projected over the polar regions. They are caused by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jing Li