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Penumbral Microjets (PMJs) are short-lived jets found in the penumbra of sunspots, first observed in wide-band Ca H-line observations as localized brightenings, and are thought to be caused by magnetic reconnection. Earlier work on PMJs has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-07 Ainar Drews , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Sunspot observations in chromospheric spectral lines have revealed the existence of short-lived linear bright transients, commonly referred to as penumbral micro-jets (PMJs). Details on the origin and physical nature of PMJs are to large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Ainar Drews

Penumbral microjets are short-lived, fine-structured and bright jets that are generally observed in chromospheric imaging of the penumbra of sunspots. Here we investigate their potential transition region signature, by combining…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 Gregal J. M. Vissers , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Mats Carlsson

Penumbral microjets (PJs) are transient narrow bright features in the chromosphere of sunspot penumbrae, first characterized by Katsukawa et al (2007) using the \CaII\ H-line filter on {\it Hinode}'s Solar Optical Telescope (SOT). It was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Ronald L. Moore , Amy R. Winebarger , Shane E. Alpert

Context. Penumbral microjets are elongated jet-like brightenings observed in the chromosphere above sunspot penumbrae. They are transient events that last from a few seconds to several minutes and are thought to originate from magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 A. Siu-Tapia , L. R. Bellot Rubio , D. Orozco Suárez , R. Gafeira

We study the polarization signals and physical parameters of penumbral microjets (PMJs) by using high spatial resolution data taken in the Fe I 630 nm pair, Ca II 854.2 nm and Ca II K lines with the CRISP and CHROMIS instruments at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 S. Esteban Pozuelo , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , A. Drews , L. Rouppe van der Voort , G. B. Scharmer , M. Carlsson

Recent high-resolution observations reveal that subarcsecond bright dots (BDs) with sub-minute lifetimes appears ubiquitously in the transition region (TR) above sunspot penumbra. The presence of penumbral micro-jets (PMJs) in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tanmoy Samanta , Hui Tian , Dipankar Banerjee , Nicole Schanche

Sunspot chromospheres display vigorous oscillatory signature when observed in chromospheric diagnostics like the strong Ca II lines and H-alpha. New high-resolution sunspot observations from the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope show the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez

We present data of 10 penumbral microjets (PMJs) observed in H\alpha, Ca II 8542 \AA, and Fe I 6302 \AA line pair with the Swedish 1 m Solar Telescope (SST) with CRISP and Ca II K with SST/CHROMIS in active region NOAA 12599 on the 12th…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 D. Buehler , S. Esteban Pozuelo , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , G. B. Scharmer

$\delta$-sunspots are known to be favourable locations for fast and energetic events like flares and CMEs. The photosphere of this type of sunspots has been thoroughly investigated in the past three decades. The atmospheric conditions in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Carolina Robustini , Jorrit Leenaarts , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez

We investigated three fan-shaped jets observed above sunspot light bridges or nearby sunspot regions. The study aimed to explore the dynamics and physical properties of jets' features that appear as blob-like structures at the tips of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Heesu Yang , Maria S. Madjarska , EunKyung Lim , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Klaus Galsgaard

With the recent advent of the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST), advanced image processing techniques, as well as numerical simulations that provide a more realistic view of the chromosphere, a comprehensive understanding of chromospheric…

We investigate the dynamics of and the relations between small-scale penumbral and photospheric features near the outer penumbral boundary: penumbral grains (PGs), dark penumbral fibrils, granules, and photospheric G-band bright points. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Bonet , I. Marquez , R. Muller , M. Sobotka , A. Tritschler

We investigate the dependence of penumbral microjets inclination on the position within penumbra. The high cadence observations taken on 10 November 2006 with the Hinode satellite through the \ion{Ca}{ii} H and G--band filters were analysed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Jurcak , Y. Katsukawa

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

A recent study using {\it Hinode} (SOT/FG) data of a sunspot revealed some unusually large penumbral jets that often repeatedly occurred at the same locations in the penumbra, namely at the tail of a penumbral filament or where the tails of…

We present the results of high resolution co-temporal and co-spatial photospheric and chromospheric observations of sunspot penumbral intrusions. The data was taken with the Swedish Solar Telescope (SST) on the Canary Islands. Time series…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 L. Bharti , S. K. Solanki , J. Hirzberger

We use H$\alpha$ imaging spectroscopy taken via the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) to investigate the occurrence of fan-shaped jets at the solar limb. We show evidence for near-simultaneous photospheric reconnection at a sunspot edge…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-22 A. Reid , V. M. J. Henriques , M. Mathioudakis , T. Samanta

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

Penumbral filaments and light bridges are prominent structures inside sunspots and are important for understanding the nature of sunspot magnetic fields and magneto-convection underneath. We investigate an interesting event where several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Y. J. Hou , T. Li , S. H. Zhong , S. H. Yang , Y. L. Guo , X. H. Li , J. Zhang , Y. Y. Xiang
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