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Quasi-periodic disturbances have been observed in the outer solar atmosphere for many years now. Although first interpreted as upflows (Schrijver et al. (1999)), they have been widely regarded as slow magnetoacoustic waves, due to observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Kiddie , I. De Moortel , G. Del Zanna , S. W. McIntosh , I. Whittaker

Sunspot penumbrae show high-velocity patches along the periphery. The high-velocity downflow patches are believed to be the return channels of the Evershed flow. We aim to investigate their structure in detail using Hinode SOT/SP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michiel van Noort , Andreas Lagg , Sanjiv Tiwari , Sami Solanki

We analyze a solar active region observed by the Hinode CaII H line using the time-distance helioseismology technique, and infer wave-speed perturbation structures and flow fields beneath the active region with a high spatial resolution.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Junwei Zhao , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Takashi Sekii

We detect rapid downflows of 150-217 km/s in IRIS Si IV 1402.77 nm measurements of an X9-class solar flare on 2024 October 3rd. The fast redshift values persist for over 15 minutes from flare onset, and can be split into two distinct stages…

High-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of active region NOAA 11271 were obtained with the spectro-polarimeter on board Hinode to analyze the properties of an anomalous flow in the photosphere in a sunspot penumbra. We detect a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Rohan E. Louis , Christian Beck , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

We study the temporal evolution of downflows observed at the lateral edges of penumbral filaments in a sunspot located very close to the disk center. Our analysis is based on a sequence of nearly diffraction-limited scans of the Fe I 617.3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Esteban Pozuelo , L. R. Bellot Rubio , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez

We investigate the evolution of the horizontal flow field around sunspots during their decay by analysing its extension and horizontal velocity around eight spots using SDO/HMI Doppler maps. By assuming a radially symmetrical flow field,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-19 Hanna Strecker , Nazaret Bello González

We study the evolution of the flows and horizontal proper motions in and around a decaying follower sunspot based on time sequences of two-dimensional spectroscopic observations in the visible and white light imaging data obtained over six…

We have shown previously that SOHO/UVCS data allow us to detect active region (AR) outflows at coronal altitudes higher than those reached by other instrumentation. These outflows are thought to be a component of the slow solar wind. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 L. Zangrilli , G. Poletto

Coronal upflows at the edges of active regions (AR), which are a possible source of slow solar wind, have been found to connect with dynamics in the transition region. To infer at what scale transition region dynamics connect to AR upflows,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Hui Fu , Zhenyong Hou , Ziyuan Wang

Aims. We analyse SUMER spectral scans of a large sunspot within active region NOAA 10923, obtained on 14-15 November 2006, to determine the morphology and dynamics of the sunspot atmosphere at different heights/temperatures. Methods: The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-22 L. Teriaca , W. Curdt , S. K. Solanki

We present a series of numerical sunspot models addressing the subsurface field and flow structure in up to 16 Mm deep domains covering up to 2 days of temporal evolution. Changes in the photospheric appearance of the sunspots are driven by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Matthias Rempel

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark structures descending towards post-reconnection flare loops observed in extreme ultraviolet or X-ray observations and are closely related to magnetic reconnection during solar flares. Due to the lack…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Guangyu Tan , Yijun Hou , Hui Tian

Context. Recent discoveries of intensity correlated downflows in the interior of a sunspot penumbra provide direct evidence for overturning convection, adding to earlier strong indications of convection from filament dynamics observed far…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. B. Scharmer , V. M. J. Henriques

Slow magnetoacoustic waves with a 3 minute period are upward-propagating waves traveling through the density-stratified umbral atmosphere. The decreasing density causes their amplitude to increase, developing into nonlinear waves through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Y. Sanjay , S. Krishna Prasad , R. Sych , P. S. Rawat

Bright EUV sunspot plumes have been observed in eight out of eleven different sunspot regions with the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer -- CDS on SOHO. From wavelength shifts we derive the line-of-sight velocity, relative to the average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. Brynildsen , P. Maltby , P. Brekke , T. Fredvik , S. V. H. Haugan , O. Kjeldseth-Moe , O. Wikstol

We observed quiescent coronal loops using multi-wavelength observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on 2016 April 13. The flows at the footpoints of such loop systems are studied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Yamini K. Rao , Abhishek K. Srivastava , Pradeep Kayshap , Bhola N. Dwivedi

Despite their somewhat-frequent appearance in EUV imaging of off-limb flares, the origins of Supra-Arcade Downflows (SADs) remain a mystery. Appearing as dark, tendril-like downflows above growing flare loop arcades, SADs themselves are yet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Ryan J. French , Maria D. Kazachenko , Teodora Mihailescu , Katharine K. Reeves

Upflows at the edges of active regions (ARs) are studied by spatially and temporally combining multi-instrument observations obtained with EIS/Hinode, AIA and HMI/SDO and IBIS/NSO, to derive their plasma parameters. This information is used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 K. Vanninathan , M. S. Madjarska , K. Galsgaard , Z. Huang , J. G. Doyle

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