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We studied bright umbral dots (UDs) detected in a moderate size sunspot and compared their statistical properties to recent MHD models. The study is based on high resolution data recorded by the New Solar Telescope at the Big Bear Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Kilcik , V. B. Yurchyshyn , M. Rempel , V. Abramenko , R. Kitai , P. R. Goode , W. Cao , H. Watanabe

Coronal holes are the darkest and least active regions of the Sun, as observed both on the solar disk and above the solar limb. Coronal holes are associated with rapidly expanding open magnetic fields and the acceleration of the high-speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Steven R. Cranmer

Small-scale magnetic fields in the solar photosphere can be identified in high-resolution magnetograms or in the G-band as magnetic bright points (MBPs). Rapid motions of these fields can cause magneto-hydrodynamical waves and can also lead…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Utz , A. Hanslmeier , R. Muller , A. Veronig , J. Rybák , H. Muthsam

An application of active contours without edges is presented as an efficient and effective means of extracting and characterizing coronal holes. Coronal holes are regions of low-density plasma on the Sun with open magnetic field lines. As…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 L. E. Boucheron , M. Valluri , R. T. J. McAteer

The sky brightness is a critical parameter for estimating the coronal observation conditions for solar observatory. As part of a site-survey project in Western China, we measured the sky brightness continuously at the Lijiang Observatory in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 M. Y. Zhao , Y. Liu , A. Elmhamdi , A. S. Kordi , X. F. Zhang , T. F. Song , Z. J. Tian

Localised transient EUV brightenings, sometimes named `campfires', occur throughout the quiet-Sun. However, there are still many open questions about such events, in particular regarding their temperature range and dynamics. In this…

Various solar features can be seen on maps of the Sun in the mm and sub-mm wavelength range. The recently installed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is capable of observing the Sun in that wavelength range with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 R. Brajša , D. Sudar , A. O. Benz , I. Skokić , M. Bárta , B. De Pontieu , S. Kim , A. Kobelski , M. Kuhar , M. Shimojo , S. Wedemeyer , S. White , P. Yagoubov , Y. Yan

{We report on the first of a series of studies on coronal bright points investigating the physical mechanism that generates these phenomena.} {The aim of this paper is to understand the magnetic-field structure that hosts the bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 K. Galsgaard , M. S. Madjarska , F. Moreno-Insertis , Z. Huang , T. Wiegelmann

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

Magnetic Bright Points (MBPs) are among the smallest observable objects on the solar photosphere. A combination of G-band observations and numerical simulations is used to determine their area distribution. An automatic detection algorithm,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. J. Crockett , M. Mathioudakis , D. B. Jess , S. Shelyag , F. P. Keenan , D. J. Christian

Our aim is to search for atmospheric g-mode oscillations in UV network, UV bright points and Uv background regions. We have analysed a 6-hours of time sequence of ultraviolet (uv) images obtained on May 24, 2003 in 1600A continuum under…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-23 R. Kariyappa , L. Dame

The solar corona is full of dynamic phenomena, e.g., solar flares, micro flares in active regions, jets in coronal holes and in the polar regions, X-ray bright points in quiet regions, etc. They are accompanied by interesting physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Shin-nosuke Ishikawa , Tomoko Kawate , Shinsuke Imada , Taro Sakao

Preflare activities contain critical information about the pre-cursors and causes of solar eruptions. Here we investigate the characteristics and origin of a group of broadband pulsations (BBPs) in the decimetric-metric wavelengths, taking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Maoshui Lv , Baolin Tan , Ruisheng Zheng , Zhao Wu , Bing Wang , Xiangliang Kong , Yao Chen

The smallest extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) brightening events that were detected so far, called campfires, have recently been uncovered by the High Resolution EUV telescope (HRIEUV), which is part of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on…

Context: The atmosphere of the quiet Sun is controlled by photospheric flows sweeping up concentrations of mixed polarity magnetic field. Along supergranule boundaries and junctions, there is a strong correlation between magnetic flux and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. E. Innes , A. Genetelli , R. Attie , H. E. Potts

In this paper, we report the observed temporal correlation between extreme-violet (EUV) emission and magneto-acoustic oscillations in a EUV moss region, which is the footpoint region only connected by magnetic loops with million-degree…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Parida Hashim , Zhenxiang Hong , Haisheng Ji , Jinhua Shen , Kaifan Ji , Wenda Cao

The solar surface and atmosphere are highly dynamic plasma environments, which evolve over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Large-scale eruptions, such as coronal mass ejections, can be accelerated to millions of kilometres per…

The solar corona is the origin of very dynamic events that are mostly produced in active regions (AR) and coronal holes (CH). The exact location of these large-scale features can be determined by applying image-processing approaches to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-19 Saeid Arish , Mohsen Javaherian , Hossein Safari , Ali Amiri

Coronal loop oscillations are common phenomena in the solar corona, which are often classified as decaying and decayless oscillations. Using the high-resolution observation measured by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Dong Li , David M. Long

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