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The solar chromosphere is a transition layer between the cool, dense photosphere and the hot, rarefied corona. This boundary region plays a key role in regulating energy transport and structuring the magnetic field throughout the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 M. Kriginsky , J. Leenaarts , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , S. Danilovic , O. Andriienko

The heating of the chromosphere in internetwork regions remains one of the foremost open questions in solar physics. In the present study we tackle this old problem by using a very high spatial-resolution simulation of quiet-Sun conditions…

Low-lying loops have been discovered at the solar limb in transition region temperatures by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). They do not appear to reach coronal temperatures, and it has been suggested that they are the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Tiago M. D. Pereira , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Viggo H. Hansteen , Bart De Pontieu

The detection of Earth-like planets with the radial-velocity method is currently limited by the presence of stellar activity signatures. On rotational timescales, spots and plages (or faculae) are known to introduce different RV signals,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 M. Cretignier , A. G. M. Pietrow , S. Aigrain

We have analysed the Ca-K images obtained at Kodaikanal Observatory as a function of latitude and time for the period of 1913 - 2004 covering the Solar Cycle 15 to 23. We have classified the chromospheric activity into plage, Enhanced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Pooja Devi , Jagdev Singh , Ramesh Chandra , Muthu Priyal , Reetika Joshi

The composition of plasma in the solar corona is characterised by the First Ionisation Potential (FIP) bias, and is thought to be the result of a ponderomotive force acting in the chromosphere to separate ionised from neutral plasma.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Éabha Power , David M. Long , Teodora Mihailescu , Laura A. Hayes

Observations of the emission at radio, millimeter, sub-millimeter, and infrared wavelengths in the center of the solar disk validate the auto-consistence of semi-empirical models of the chromosphere. Theoretically, these models must…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Victor De la Luz

The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the logarithmic millimeter continuum gradient observed using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) may be used to estimate optical thickness in the solar atmosphere. We discuss…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Andrew S. Rodger , Nicolas Labrosse , Sven Wedemeyer , Mikolaj Szydlarski , Paulo J. A. Simões , Lyndsay Fletcher

Waves and oscillations are important solar phenomena, not only because they can propagate and dissipate energy in the chromosphere, but also because they carry information about the structure of the atmosphere in which they propagate. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yi Chai , Dale E. Gary , Kevin P. Reardon , Vasyl Yurchyshyn

Accurately assessing the balance between acoustic wave energy fluxes and radiative losses is critical for understanding how the solar chromosphere is thermally regulated. We investigate the energy balance in the chromosphere by comparing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 J. M. da Silva Santos , M. Molnar , I. Milić , M. Rempel , K. Reardon , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez

Context. It is known that Alfv\'en and magnetoacoustic waves both contribute to the heating of the solar chromosphere and drive plasma outflows. In both cases, the thermalization of the wave energy occurs due to ion-neutral collisions, but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-24 M. Pelekhata , K. Murawski , S. Poedts

Broad-band images of the solar chromosphere in the Ca II H&K line cores around active regions are covered with fine bright elongated structures called bright fibrils. The mechanisms that form these structures and cause them to appear bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Sepideh Kianfar , Jorrit Leenaarts , Sanja Danilovic , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Carlos José Díaz Baso

Recent advances in observational performance and numerical simulations have revolutionised our understanding of the solar chromosphere. This concerns in particular the structure and dynamics on small spatial and temporal scales. As a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-01 Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm

Solar plages, which are bright regions on the Sun's surface, are an important indicator of solar activity. In this study, we propose an automated algorithm for identifying solar plages in Ca K wavelength solar data obtained from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-17 Sarvesh Gharat , Bhaskar Bose , Abhimanyu Borthakur , Rakesh Mazumder

We analyze a grid of radiative hydrodynamic simulations of solar flares to study the energy balance and response of the atmosphere to nonthermal electron beam heating. The appearance of chromospheric bubbles is one of the most notable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-22 Aaron Reid , Bogdan Zhigulin , Mats Carlsson , Mihalis Mathioudakis

Context: The mechanism behind the heating of the solar chromosphere remains unclear. Friction between neutrals and charges is expected to contribute to plasma heating in a partially ionised plasma (PIP). Aims: We aim to study the efficiency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 M. M. Gómez Míguez , D. Martínez-Gómez , E. Khomenko , B. Popescu Braileanu , M. Collados , P. S. Cally

Solar chromosphere consists of a partially ionized plasma, which makes modeling the solar chromosphere a particularly challenging numerical task. Here we numerically model chromospheric waves using a two-fluid approach with a newly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 B. Popescu Braileanu , V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko , A. de Vicente

Context: On 2022 May 4, an M5.7 flare erupted in the active region NOAA 13004, which was the target of a coordinated campaign between GREGOR, IRIS, Hinode, and ground-based instruments at the Ond\v{r}ejov observatory. A flare kernel located…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 M. García-Rivas , J. Kašparová , A. Berlicki , M. Švanda , J. Dudík , D. Čtvrtečka , M. Zapiór , W. Liu , M. Sobotka , M. Pavelková , G. G. Motorina

Chromospheric differential rotation is a key component in comprehending the atmospheric coupling between the chromosphere and the photosphere at different phases of the solar cycle. In this study, we therefore utilize the newly calibrated…