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In the immediate sunspots' vicinity -- their superpenumbra -- 3-minute line-of-sight (LOS) velocity oscillations dominate in the photosphere and chromosphere. Oscillations of similar periods are also registered in the transition region and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Andrei Chelpanov , Nikolai Kobanov

We report on observations of highly-varying Si IV 1402.77 line profiles observed with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) during the M-class flare from 2022 January 18 at an unprecedented 0.8 s cadence. Moment analysis of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Juraj Lorincik , Vanessa Polito , Bart De Pontieu , Sijie Yu , Nabil Freij

We present observations of the quiet solar photosphere in the \ion{Fe}{1} lines at 6302 \AA where at least four different spatial locations exhibit upwards-directed supersonic flows. These upflows can only be detected in the circular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Socas-Navarro , R. Manso

A giant solar filament was visible on the solar surface from 2011 Nov. 8-23. The filament stretched over more than half a solar diameter. Multiwavelength data from the SDO instrument AIA (171, 193, 304, and 211\AA) were used to examine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 A. Diercke , C. Kuckein , M. Verma , C. Denker

Many sunspots are surrounded by a radial outflow called the moat flow. We investigate the moat flow at two different heights of the solar atmosphere for a sunspot whose magnetic properties were reported in the first paper of this series. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Balthasar , K. Muglach

Following the eruption of a filament from a flaring active region, sunward-flowing voids are often seen above developing post-eruption arcades. First discovered using the soft X-ray telescope aboard Yohkoh, these supra-arcade downflows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sabrina L. Savage , David E. McKenzie , Katharine K. Reeves

The temporal variation of the horizontal velocity in subsurface layers beneath three different types of active regions is studied using the technique of ring diagrams. In this study, we select active regions (ARs) 10923, 10930, 10935 from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. Jain , R. W. Komm , I González Hernández , S. C. Tripathy , F. Hill

We present the results obtained by analyzing high spatial and spectral resolution data of the solar photosphere acquired by the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter at the Swedish Solar Telescope on 6 August 2011, relevant to a large sunspot…

Persistent plasma upflows were observed with Hinode's EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) at the edges of active region (AR) 10978 as it crossed the solar disk. We analyze the evolution of the photospheric magnetic and velocity fields of the AR,…

We analyze the effect of a sunspot in its quiet surroundings applying a helioseismic technique on almost three years of Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) observations obtained during solar cycle 24 to further study the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 M. Cristina Rabello-Soares , Richard S. Bogart , Philip H. Scherrer

Solar active regions are associated with Evershed outflows in sunspot penumbrae, moat outflows surrounding sunspots, and extended inflows surrounding active regions. The latter have been identified on established active regions by various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 N. Gottschling , H. Schunker , A. C. Birch , B. Löptien , L. Gizon

Hydrodynamic simulations of granular convection predict the existence of supersonic flows covering ~3-4% of the solar surface at any time, but these flows have not been detected unambigously as yet. Using data from the spectropolarimeter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 L. R. Bellot Rubio

We propose a novel methodology to identity flows in the solar atmosphere and classify their velocities as either supersonic, subsonic, or sonic. The proposed methodology consists of three parts. First, an algorithm is applied to the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 E. Philishvi , B. M. Shergelashvili , S. Buitendag , J. Raes , S. Poedts , M. L. Khodachenko

High-resolution observations of dynamic phenomena give insight into properties and processes that govern the low solar atmosphere. We present the analysis of jet-like phenomena emanating from a penumbral foot-point in active region (AR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-09 Llŷr Dafydd Humphries , Erwin Verwichte , David Kuridze , Huw Morgan

Recent numerical simulations of sunspots suggest that overturning convection is responsible for the existence of penumbral filaments and the Evershed flow, but there is little observational evidence of this process. Here we carry out a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. R. Bellot Rubio , R. Schlichenmaier , K. Langhans

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark, teardrop-shaped features descending upon flare arcades. They are thought to be the results of magnetic reconnection, but the detailed formation mechanism of SADs and their relationship to flare energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Jianchao Xue , Yang Su , Hui Li , Xiaozhou Zhao

Downflows on the solar surface are suspected to play a major role in the dynamics of the convection zone. We investigate the existence of the long-lasting downflows whose effects influence the interior of the Sun and the outer layers. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-05 T. Roudier , M. Švanda , J. M. Malherbe , J. Ballot , D. Korda , Z. Frank

Extreme UV (EUV) and X-ray loops in the solar corona connect regions of enhanced magnetic activity, but they are not usually rooted in the dark umbrae of sunspots because the strong magnetic field found there suppresses convection. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , P. R. Young

Ubiquitous small-scale vortices have recently been found in the lower atmosphere of the quiet Sun in state-of-the-art solar observations and in numerical simulations. We investigate the characteristics and temporal evolution of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 S. -H. Park , G. Tsiropoula , I. Kontogiannis , K. Tziotziou , E. Scullion , J. G. Doyle

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are dark, sunward-moving structures above the arcade of flare loops. Naturally they are considered to be associated with outflows resulting from magnetic reconnection at the vertical current sheet beneath the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Zichao Yang , Rui Liu