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The study of spatial and temporal scales on which small magnetic structures (magnetic elements) are organized in the quiet Sun may be approached by determining how they are transported on the solar photosphere by convective motions. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 F. Giannattasio , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli , L. Bellot Rubio , M. Gosic , D. Orozco Suarez

We present high-cadence observations and simulations of the solar photosphere, obtained using the Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere imaging system and the MuRAM magneto-hydrodynamic code, respectively. Each dataset demonstrates a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. B. Jess , S. Shelyag , M. Mathioudakis , P. H. Keys , D. J. Christian , F. P. Keenan

Context. High-resolution observations of the solar photosphere reveal the presence of fine structures, in particular the so-called magnetic bright points (MBPs), which are small-scale features associated with strong magnetic field regions…

Besides their own intrinsic interest, correct interpretation of solar surface magnetic field observations is crucial to our ability to describe the global magnetic structure of the solar atmosphere. Photospheric magnetograms are often used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-29 Gordon J. D. Petrie , Irina Patrikeeva

The solar chromosphere is heated to temperatures higher than predicted by radiative equilibrium. This excess heating is greater in active regions where the magnetic field is stronger. We aim to investigate the magnetic topology associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 J. M. da Silva Santos , S. Danilovic , J. Leenaarts , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , X. Zhu , S. M. White , G. J. M. Vissers , M. Rempel

Supergranulation is characterized by horizontally divergent flows with typical length scales of 32 Mm in the solar photosphere. Unlike granulation, the size of which is comparable to both the thickness of the radiative boundary layer and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Jean-Francois Cossette , Mark Peter Rast

Using numerical simulations of the magnetised solar photosphere and radiative diagnostics of the simulated photospheric models, we further analyse the physical nature of magnetic photospheric intergranular vortices. We confirm the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-10 S. Shelyag , V. Fedun , R. Erdélyi , F. P. Keenan , M. Mathioudakis

It is a well-known result that the power of five-minute oscillations is progressively reduced by magnetic fields in the solar photosphere. Many authors have pointed out that this fact could be due to a complex interaction of many processes:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Stangalini , F. Giannattasio , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli

Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the surface layers of the Sun intrinsically produce a predominantly horizontal magnetic field in the photosphere. This is a robust result in the sense that it arises from simulations with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-15 O. Steiner , R. Rezaei , R. Schlichenmaier , W. Schaffenberger , S. Wedemeyer-Böhm

The presence of turbulent phenomena in the outer solar atmosphere is a given. However, because we are reduced to remotely sensing the atmosphere of a star with instruments of limited spatial and/or spectral resolution, we can only infer the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-12 Scott W. McIntosh , Christian Bethge , James Threlfall , Ineke De Moortel , Robert J. Leamon , Hui Tian

Periodic oscillations at 338 nHz in the Earth frame are observed at high latitudes in direct Doppler velocity measurements. These oscillations correspond to the $m=1$ high-latitude global mode of inertial oscillation. In this study, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Stephan G. Heinemann , Zhi-Chao Liang , Laurent Gizon

To understand the physics of sunspots, it is important to know the properties of their magnetic field, and especially its height stratification plays a substantial role. There are mainly two methods to assess this stratification, but they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Horst Balthasar

It is widely accepted that solar active regions including sunspots are formed by the emerging magnetic flux from the deep convection zone. In previous numerical simulations, we found that the horizontal divergent flow (HDF) occurs before…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Toriumi , K. Hayashi , T. Yokoyama

Observations of quiet Sun from the Solar Optical Telescope/Spectro-Polarimeter (SOT/SP) aboard the Hinode spacecraft would reveal the magnetic characters of the solar photosphere. By making use of the deep mode observations of three quiet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Chunlan Jin , Jingxiu Wang , Meng Zhao

Magnetic reconnection at small spatial scales is a fundamental driver of energy release and plasma dynamics in the lower solar atmosphere. We present observations of a brightening in an active region, captured in high-resolution data from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 J. M. da Silva Santos , E. Dunnington , R. Jarolim , S. Danilovic , S. Criscuoli

In the solar atmosphere the twist parameter $\alpha$ has the same sign as magnetic helicity. It has been observed using photospheric vector magnetograms that negative/positive helicity is dominant in the northern/southern hemisphere of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. K. Tiwari , P. Venkatakrishnan , K. Sankarasubramanian

We use the first publically available data from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) to track magnetic connections from the solar photosphere into the corona. We scrutinize relationships between chromospheric magnetism and bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Philip Judge , Lucia Kleint , Roberto Casini , Alfred de Wijn , Tom Schad , Alexandra Tritschler

Sunspots and active regions observed on the solar surface are widely believed to be manifestations of compact predominantly-toroidal magnetic field structures (``flux tubes") that emerge by magnetic buoyancy from the deeper interior of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Bhishek Manek , Nicholas Brummell

To explore the magnetic flux dispersion in the undisturbed solar photosphere, magnetograms acquired by Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) were utilized. Two areas, a coronal hole area (CH) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-07 Valentina Abramenko

Context: Observations indicate that the `quiet' solar photosphere outside active regions contains considerable amounts of magnetic energy and magnetic flux, with mixed polarity on small scales. The origin of this flux is unclear. Aims: We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Voegler , M. Schuessler